It's early... too early. I am far from being a morning person, so I stay comfortably smothered in the duvet while I skim through the news pages on my phone.
I yawn, thinking about getting up and making a coffee when I see a notification pop up on my emails.
I touch the app, expecting it to be spam or some sort of mailing list... but it's not. It's from you.
I feel my heart begin to race with excitement as I open your email...
It started innocently enough, a quick hello and some flattering comments about some of my work that you had enjoyed online. It wasn't the first comment I'd received, but there was something about the tone of your messages and the bold questions you asked that made me want to continue the conversation.
It didn't take long for our conversation to become a little more flirty. I was thrilled to imagine you bringing yourself to an orgasm over my writing. For an erotica author, surely that's the greatest compliment?
I don't know how to picture you in my head, I know nothing at all about you, you're a complete stranger... yet you've got me glancing at my phone obsessively throughout the day as I wait to hear from you. You could be anyone... maybe you're not a stranger, but someone I've passed on the street...
I know it's wrong. I'm married, and for all I know you could be married too. I should have just thanked you for your kind words after the first email and left it like that- as I usually do... but for some reason, this felt different. You seemed genuinely interested and I found myself smiling at your words.
Your emails quickly picked up a more dominant tone as you teased information from me, your responses leading me to become more graphic with my answers. I've never met you, but over the last few days I've found myself telling you things that I've never told anyone before... things I've probably never admitted to myself before. Deeply intimate and sexual things...