I glanced up from my phone at the knock on the front door and frowned. The neighborhood was mostly empty right now with everyone home for the winter break, and it was too early for carolers. I'd volunteered to stay behind and keep an eye on the sorority house, eager for the peace and quiet. It's not like I wanted to be stuck at home with my mother anyway.
Returning to scrolling, I gave a frustrated huff when the knocking resumed, louder and more urgent this time.
"Okay, okay. I'm coming. Jesus," I muttered, tossing my phone on the cushion next to me and getting up from the couch.
Pulling my sweater down over my hands, I reached for the knob, eyes widening when I saw my insistent visitor.
"Dadd--" I swallowed the last syllable and cleared my throat. "Dr. Dillon. What are you doing here?"
He raised a single sexy brow and heat pulsed straight to my core. God I loved that look. It usually meant I was about to get spanked or fucked. Or both. But that was before. That couldn't happen now. No matter how much my body begged for it.
"Can I come in? We need to talk."
I considered it, however briefly, and the fact that I did had me shaking my head. "I don't think that's a good idea."
He took a step forward. "You broke up with Milo and dropped my class next semester."
I swallowed at the sound of his son's name on his lips and nodded. "I did."
Another step, close enough to catch the scent of his cologne. Unable to stop myself, I inhaled it deeply into my lungs.
"Why?" he demanded, watching me closely.
"Because it was..." Wrong, I wanted to say, but stopped myself. It didn't feel wrong, but that was part of the problem. "It had just run its course. That's all."
He didn't look like he believed me. But I couldn't tell him the real reason. The real reason would probably make him hate me.
"It seemed like the two of you were pretty serious to me. If this is about what happened with--"
"It's not."
That wasn't true. It was about that. About fucking my professor and his son in a threesome that was the best sex I'd ever had, about all the lines I'd crossed and how I wanted to cross them again, even after I'd learned the truth. The truth that was best left locked inside myself.
"What aren't you telling me, Emmy?"
The nickname he'd given me in his deep voice almost undid me.
"Nothing," I lied. "It doesn't matter."
He inched closer, so close I could reach out and touch him if I wanted. But I couldn't.
"Which is it? Nothing? Or something that doesn't matter?"
I swallowed hard, warming at the way he watched my throat bob and the memory of his hand around it when I let him bend me over the desk in his office, squeezing until I couldn't breathe, until I came screaming around his cock.
"It's not important. We can't be together and now we aren't. If he asked you to come here and get me to come back to him, it won't work."
"Milo doesn't know I'm here."
I wrapped my arms around my torso and squeezed tight. "Then what do you want?"
He moved closer, chest brushing my elbows. "I want you. I don't care how wrong that might be, it's just the truth."
"We can't."
"Tell me you don't want me too." He traced a fingertip down the side of my face. "That you don't dream about my cock inside you. That you don't touch that pretty pussy and make yourself cum thinking about me."
I swallowed again and his finger dropped to my throat, circling over it lightly and raising goosebumps on my skin.
"Say you don't want me," he whispered.
"I do," I whispered back, unable to stop myself.
If I had to lie about everything else, at least I could tell him the truth about that.
"Then what's the problem? Milo will get over it. Your pussy was made for me. He'll understand."
I closed my eyes, slowly losing the battle between right and wrong. Stepping back, I eased the door closed a little more, using it as a shield between us.
"I think you should go."
He braced a hand on the doorframe, angling his body into the crack I'd left.
"Not until you tell me the truth. Tell me why we can't be together. Tell me why I can't have you every night?"
"Because you're my father!"
I slapped a hand over my mouth at my outburst as if I could shove the secret back in, the thing I wish my mother had never told me so casually over Thanksgiving. But it was out there now and no amount of wishing could make the clock spin back and erase the truth between us.
Only, he didn't look surprised or disgusted. He looked...pleased. Was that a smile?
"You only just figured that out?"
Stumbling back, he capitalized on my shock and pushed in, closing the door behind him and trapping us alone together in this big empty house. When he stalked toward me, I moved away until we crossed from the foyer into the living room and my thighs hit the back of the couch.
"You knew?"
He slid his hand up my side, brushing his thumb against the side of my breast.
"You are the spitting image of your mother when she was nineteen. I knew who you were the second you walked into my classroom."
"And you still flirted with me? You..."
I shook the memories of all the ways he'd fucked me in his cramped office over the last semester out of my head.