Chapters tagged teasing

by Levantin

Chapter 24

Ever since Loona had forbidden me to come, every touch sat right under the skin. No date. No "why." Just the sentence, quiet, casual, as if she were asking for the salt: "You don't come until I allow it." After that she had stroked my head like a dog that had stayed sitting. That...

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Chapter 28

The following two weeks felt like walking a razor’s edge. My alarm went off every morning at five-thirty. Squats, push-ups, pull-ups on the bar that Loona had installed above my doorframe. After that came the steps—ten thousand a day, meticulously tracked via an app with login d...

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Chapter 48

The apartment door swung open, and Loona stepped inside with swift strides. “Nadja! So great you’re already here,” she called out in high spirits, slipping off her jacket and walking toward us with an open, genuine smile. Passing by, she draped an arm warmly around my shoulders....

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Chapter 76

The days leading up to midweek slipped by in a haze. Every morning just after six, my alarm dragged me from sleep, the initial shock always identical: the biting cold of the stainless-steel collar driving into my pubic bone. At the gym, her routine me through squats and wa...

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Chapter 78

The Berlin U-Bahn ride felt like an endless journey through a feverish tunnel. Every stride along the platform, every descent onto the hard plastic seats drove the stainless-steel ring straight through stiff denim into my pubic bone. The chill of the metal had long since surrende...

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Chapter 82

The house hung above the city like a concluded sentence. Behind the heavy drapes, only a slender golden ribbon of the evening remained, cutting across the rug and tracing the edges of the furniture without warming them. Emma had prepared the room before anyone arrived: the silk s...