Page 106 of Ruin Me Gently

Not just any erotica. Filthy, poetic,ruin-your-life-with-a-single-sentenceerotica.

I blinked. Then blinked again.

No way.

Lilith

You read erotica?

The dots appeared. Stopped. Started again.

Mr Stalker

??

I squinted at the phone.

Lilith

A wink face? Seriously?

Mr Stalker

I’m tryingsomething new.

Lilith

Don’t.

Mr Stalker

Sorry, is this better?

Mr Stalker

??

Oh my God.

“Lilith. What did he say? Tell me?”

I didn’t look up from the screen. “Nothing. I just said thanks.”

“Liar. Your cheeks are red.”

Groaning, I grabbed the box of chocolates and shoved it into her hands. “Here. Stuff your mouth so you can’t talk.”

She snorted but ripped the lid open anyway, andthank God,because I needed a second to breathe. To cool down.

Which was exactly how I ended up in the bathroom, locking the door behind me, pressing my hands to the sink, and staring at my very pink, very guilty cheeks in the mirror.

I was so gross.

I tried to shake it off, but I was already gone. Already spiralling back to last night. To his lips on mine, the way he’d kissed me like he was starving.

To his fingers.God,his fingers. The way they’d slid inside me so easily, so perfectly, stretching me open while his other hand had held me still. The way he’d pressed his palm against my clit, just right.

And the way he’d rasped ‘good girl.’ That’d been a first. A complete first. And it’d sent molten lava straight down my spine.

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