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(No appointments. No boundaries. Just them.)
She didn’t knock this time.
Matteo had left the door unlocked.30Please respect copyright.PENANAqr31XpHxDT
On purpose.
Because tonight wasn’t about therapy.30Please respect copyright.PENANAjkWDSYuO7g
Tonight wasn’t about permission slips or soft-spoken boundaries.
Tonight was about everything they’ve both tried to suppress.
The clinic was dark—lit only by the soft amber glow of a single lamp.
She stepped in, heart pounding so loud it echoed in her ears. She was wearing black. Simple, sleeveless, breathless black.
And him?
He was already waiting—no coat, no tie, sleeves rolled, collar undone.
He didn’t speak.
He just looked at her like he’d been starved.
“Why didn’t you book me today?” she asked, voice trembling.
“I cancelled everyone else,” he replied.30Please respect copyright.PENANA4dGJNzqiWI
“I couldn’t touch another woman… knowing how much I wanted to touch you.”
And just like that,30Please respect copyright.PENANAJ5Kb5a7csz
she was in his arms.
No gentle warnings.30Please respect copyright.PENANADaA9lh2z29
No clinical introductions.
Just heat.30Please respect copyright.PENANALc9c4svqLc
Hunger.30Please respect copyright.PENANA1gC8BW5QxL
Hands.
He kissed her like it was punishment.30Please respect copyright.PENANASzkwAS6V4R
Like it hurt to want her this much.
She kissed him back like she needed saving and he was her last breath.
Clothes didn’t come off all at once.30Please respect copyright.PENANAPolf3rpXVu
They were peeled, piece by piece —30Please respect copyright.PENANA1vMXgHsY4t
Between gasps.30Please respect copyright.PENANAt70zf7HRo9
Between moans.30Please respect copyright.PENANAKggBnMKp8F
Between the soft thud of her back against the wall and his mouth against her collarbone.
“Tell me to stop,” he murmured, voice wrecked, hands trembling as he traced her spine.
“Don’t you dare,” she breathed.
The couch became a bed.30Please respect copyright.PENANA1YTvblwncv
The air became electric.
Every touch was slow—not for teasing, but for memorizing.30Please respect copyright.PENANAfWxaeBJeiX
Every kiss left a mark—not just on skin, but on soul.
When he entered her—finally—he didn't just fill her body.30Please respect copyright.PENANApVf8RgbtR2
He broke into her silence.
And when she moaned his name,30Please respect copyright.PENANATOfEK7c1Ek
he kissed her cheek and whispered,
“You don’t belong to pain anymore.30Please respect copyright.PENANArEHKCJtT9n
You belong to me.”
They didn’t rush.
They moved like devotion.30Please respect copyright.PENANAm1RN5Ijs33
Like two people who’d been hurting for years…30Please respect copyright.PENANAgedVUe7kYC
and found each other’s cure in the form of fire.
After, they didn’t speak.30Please respect copyright.PENANAYNq9KeSILw
They just lay there—entangled.
Breathing.
She traced his jaw with lazy fingers.
“You said you’d never get attached,” she whispered.
He kissed the inside of her wrist.
“I lied.”
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