She made a noise that might have wanted to be a word, but got lost on the way. I was well aware it was too early to go live, because there were still subs spilling into the chat window, and starting before the scheduled time might piss a few late arrivals off. I needed to see her body react to everything I said, though. “Be a good girl and get on that camera for me.”

A few seconds passed feeling like my chest might explode from anticipation, and then the computer screen lit up and Natalia was there in the video feed, perched on our familiar bed and wearing my favorite red bra and panties, looking straight into my soul.

“Fuck.” A growl rumbled from deep in my chest. “So fucking pretty, baby.” She had wireless earbuds in her ears that were hidden beneath the curtain of her long dark hair, but I knew they were there because a blush crept up her chest and blossomed over her cheeks. “Now do me a favor and stay nice and quiet, Tal. Try your hardest to keep that mouth shut. Don’t say a word while you do what I tell you. This is our little secret, right?”

She nodded, her top teeth sinking into her bottom lip. The pulse previously hammering in my ears shot straight down to my cock and I palmed it again, looking for some relief and finding less and less of it the longer I gazed at my fiancée.

“God, I want your mouth around me right now,” I said. “That’s what I think about when I’m working late and I’m so fucking hard that I can’t focus on anything else. Your pretty eyes looking up at me, and my hands in your hair while I shove my cock down your throat until you choke on it.”

Tally’s chest rose and fell faster and a breathy moan drifted out of her. I was stiff and swollen and there was precum gathering against the fabric of my briefs that made it hard not to move my hips looking for friction.

“Take your top off and let me see you.” Tally reached behind her to the clasp and her bra came loose; her tits dropped out in a way that made my eyes roll back. She was so devastatingly hot it would have brought me crumbling to my knees if I wasn’t already sitting. “Play with your nipples, baby. Roll your fingers over them.”

The rush from watching her trail her sharp fingernails across her chest to tug and circle the taut buds made it hard to breathe. A sigh rolled off her parted lips and graced my ears, and her head lolled back to expose her neck and her collarbones. The lighting was perfect. She was so smooth and delicate, and absolutely mesmerizing. My dick twitched against my palm and I groaned in approval.

“That’s it, sweetheart. Now pretend it’s just us, and spread your legs open for me. I’m going crazy wondering what that pussy must feel like right now. Are you wet, angel?”

“Yes,” she cried out.

My jaw clenched. “Oh, Tal, what did I tell you about keeping that fucking mouth shut? You’re supposed to be my quiet, quivering little slut right now. Since I’m not there to shut you up myself, you’re going to need to listen to me.”

Her head dipped and she nodded slowly, going from sitting on her calves to her ass, and parting her knees so that I could see the damp lace barely covering the flesh between her legs.She was slick with arousal, positively begging for a smack of my fingers or a lash of my tongue, something to touch her clit and satiate her.

“Slide your panties down your legs,” I told her. “Then I want you to put them in your mouth. See if that doesn’t teach you how to stay silent.” Her eyes widened and a rush of color tickled her skin on the live stream as heat pooled in my abdomen. I worked my wrist faster, bringing a climax within reach, while her thumbs hooked into the band, pushing her thong down and off her ankles. She hesitated for a moment, staring into the screen where she knew I was staring right back. “Now, Natalia.”

Her mouth popped open, and she shoved the thin lace between her lips, biting down on it. Every nerve in my lower half was on edge, thrumming in warning and a sweat started at my back while my cock throbbed for the touch I was denying myself.

“How does that desperate little cunt taste?”

Natalia whimpered and her gaze fell to half-mast as her hips jarred forward, searching for something to rub against. The chat window was moving too fast to read, but the audience was loving every second of the show she was putting on. I squeezed my erection as if that might alleviate any of the delicious pain and a hiss pulled through my teeth.

“You’re fucking soaked,” I said. “Touch your pussy. Show me how badly you wish I was there to take some of that ache away, baby.”

Tally speared her fingers through her core, brushing the nerves at her peak in slow circles, and a whine of satisfaction tumbled out around the lace in her mouth. She moved her hips against her hand, and dropped her middle finger down to tease her entrance and plunge inside.

Another garbledfucksnuck out of me watching her finger herself. “You look so empty without my cock inside you, Tal. I’m so hard right now wishing I was there putting every inch of me inthat tight hole where I belong. I know you’d be a perfect wife and squeeze every drop of cum out of me.”

She was nodding again, breathing hard through her nose, her eyes pinched shut and a wrinkle forming between them as her legs threatened to close around her hand. My balls drew tight, and the familiar feeling of near bliss spread through my body. I grunted out a protest. “Keep those fucking legs spread open, Tally. You’re driving me so crazy I could come just looking at you right now.Fuck.”

Natalia massaged her clit faster. The sounds of her struggling with her mouth gagged and her own euphoria building sent me over the edge. A ripple of pleasure coiled down my spine and made me go completely rigid, legs flexing, my fingers twitched against my shaft practically begging to pull my dick out and tug on it. There was no one around, there was no reason not to let go, and for weeks in our house I’d been holding back. I couldn’t. This was as much of a punishment to myself for not being there for the live as it was a reward for the both of us later when I was.

It was pure fucking torture to be watching her writhe on our bed, searching for release without me there to fuck it out of her. The room spun in a circle and my vision swam, I forced myself to refocus on the live stream. Tally’s knees were shaking, her fingers were trembling against her supple clit, she was teetering on the precipice of an orgasm and I couldn’t let that happen. She knew the rules.

“Don’t you dare fucking come, Natalia.” I sat up, pulling the chair closer to the open laptop while she struggled to fight the urge. “I’ll take care of you when I get home.”

She ripped her hand away from her core and yanked the earbuds out, tossing them on the bed and tugging the red panties out of her mouth. Tally’s pupils were still blown and her cheeks fully flushed when she slid off the edge of the bed and ended the live stream.

chapter fifteen

Mateo

13 months ago

Natalia’s bedroomwas entirely different than how I’d gotten used to seeing it. Her soft flowery sheets were usually rumpled and unkempt, her bed unmade, the mismatched throw pillows tossed hastily at the headboard—but now it was perfectly tucked with plain white sheets and two pink pillows.

The nightstands were bare, all but a box of tissues and a potted plant in the spot she kept her jewelry and her discarded hair scrunchies when she tugged them out after a long day. The place I would put my watch, or a box of condoms, a glass of water, my phone—all cleared like it was nothing but a prop. Her alarm clock was gone, the photo of her and her best friend from college nowhere to be seen. Even the pesky charging cord that stuck out of the bedframe and that I’d nearly gotten wrapped around my neck in my sleep was unplugged and put away.

It was like there wasn’t a trace of her personality left. In front of the camera, at least. Behind the tripod and the ring light all those bright-colored blankets and eclectic wall decorations were tossed on a chair and in the empty space on her desk. One halfof the room was one way, what she wanted the world to see, and behind the scenes it was something completely different.