Chapter 66: I Never Said I Was Done With Pleasure
"They thought I'd calm down. Get softer. Grow out of it. What they didn't understand was—pleasure was never the phase. It was the point." — Mistress Staci
There's a myth about women like me.
That we burn brightly for a while— and then settle.
That power is a costume. That lust is performance. That pleasure must be traded for peace.
They don't understand.
Pleasure is my peace.
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We still fuck like we're trying to memorize each other.
She still moans when I take control, still growls when I let her take it back.
We've become fluent in each other's thresholds.
Sometimes she begs. Sometimes I do.
We both know how to draw out a touch until it becomes a confession.
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One night, after a dinner party, she pulled me into the hallway before we'd even closed the front door.
"You wore that dress on purpose."
"Of course I did."
She dropped to her knees—right there, still in heels—and kissed my thigh through the slit.
"Say you still want me."
I didn't need to.
She already knew.
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We own toys now.
Good ones. Luxurious. Wicked.
There's a drawer that makes guests blush and makes her eyes sparkle.
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But sometimes it's just her hand on my lower back in the kitchen. Or the way she bites my shoulder when I win an argument.
Sometimes it's her saying, "I want to make you ache, not because I'm dominant— but because you're the only thing that's ever undone me."
And I let her.
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I'm not chasing novelty.
I'm just not done feeling.
And I refuse to pretend I am.
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So yes—
We still leave bruises. Still cry out. Still whisper filth into the spaces between tenderness.
Because I never said I was done with pleasure.
And I never will be.
Chapter 67: The Day I Felt Most Alive
"It wasn't a milestone. It wasn't planned. But everything we were—every spark, every breath, every thrill—was there. And I've never forgotten how it felt." — Mistress Staci
We didn't plan anything.
It was supposed to be an ordinary Saturday. Groceries. Laundry. A walk, maybe.
Instead, we stayed in bed until noon. Not out of laziness— but because she kept finding reasons to touch me.
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First it was just her head on my stomach, reading aloud from some article that annoyed her.
Then her mouth, sliding south as punctuation.
Then both of us laughing as we tangled in the sheets, the kind of laughter that only comes from utter comfort—and hunger.
By the time we finally made it downstairs, we were glowing. No makeup. No clothes. No hurry.
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She dared me to go out for lunch with nothing under my coat.
I said yes.
We sat on the patio of a little Italian place, eating pasta and sipping wine while the sun warmed my thighs—and her hand stayed just barely out of view.
She whispered things that made my cheeks flush.
And when the waiter complimented my smile, she said:
"She gets like that when she's very well fed."
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That afternoon, we went shopping.
Vintage dresses. Perfume. A pair of heels I didn't need, but bought because she knelt to buckle the strap and kissed my ankle in the dressing room.
"You're the fantasy I didn't know I could live," she whispered.
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We came home and cooked barefoot. She fed me olives with her fingers. I kissed her with sauce on my lips. We danced in the kitchen like fools.
Then we fucked like queens.
Long. Hot. Ridiculously loud.
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That night, I lay in bed, her leg hooked over mine, our skin still slick, the scent of wine and candle wax in the air.
She was half-asleep, but I wasn't.
I stared at the ceiling and thought:
"This is the happiest I've ever been. Not just pleased. Not just in charge. Alive."
And I didn't know it then— but that would be the last night I would fall asleep knowing he was somewhere in the world still breathing.
Chapter 68: The Call
"It was a Tuesday. I answered the phone with wet hair, half-laughing about something she'd just said. And then everything... stopped." — Mistress Staci
The voice on the phone didn't know who I was.
A polite woman. Firm, professional.
She gave me the basics. Time. Location. Cause.
Single car. Rural road. Rain-slicked. He died on impact.