The Affair
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Clive didn’t look up, but his pen stilled. “Go to sleep, Joshua.”
Joshua slinked closer, robe slipping to reveal a collarbone dusted with Dion’s fading marks: “Can’t. Dion’s in Dubai. The bed’s too… cold.”
Clive: “You’re playing a dangerous game.”
Joshua trailing a finger down Clive’s tie: “Games are only dangerous if you lose.” His toe brushed Clive’s calf under the desk. “Remember that summer in Nice? When you taught me to swim? You held me so tight I thought I’d drown.”
Clive answered hoarsely: “You were a kid.”
Joshua’s lips grazed Clive’s ear: “I’m not a kid anymore.”
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- Part 1 of The Affair
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Joshua’s world was enveloped in a suffocating darkness, his senses overwhelmed by the feel of silk against his skin. The panic clawed at his chest, a living thing, claustrophobic and suffocating. Time became an abstract concept in that void, lost to the rhythm of his own heartbeat.
His mouth tasted of champagne and fear, memories of Dion’s opulent gala fracturing in his mind. The last clear image: Clive’s stormy gaze across the champagne-soaked crowd, Dion’s possessive hand at his back.
Footsteps circled him, deliberate and predatory. Voices, distorted by modulators, taunted with chilling familiarity: "Lesage Jr. has trained him well." Calloused hands mapped his body, contrasting with manicured touches that mocked Dion’s signature bergamot cologne. Every brush of skin was a violation, every whispered threat a promise of darker games.
Who’s really behind the silk and shadows? The answer pulsed in the dark, as dangerous as the hands now peeling away his last defenses.
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- Part 2 of The Affair