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I’m so fucked

My button-up shirt is the closest as I scurry to where it’s screwed in a ball on the floor next to his dresser Gettingon et one arh the shirtsleeve

Click

My head snaps to the sound and I see the doorknob turn

It’s a thousand degrees in here Sweat springs onto my brow My face feels like I’ve shoved it into a pizza oven as the s open and there, in the low light, I see those eyes that remind me of twin full moons and the massive form of the man whose room I’ve violated in every possible way stares down at me

He steps inside, closing the door and clicking the lock into place

Shit, he’s going to kill me

“Hi?” Ihalf on and half off, the air of the roooosebu as they rise “I just…I was…I—”

“You hat?” His voice is hard

Fuck, he’s pissed, I can see it in his locked jaw

“I’m sorry” I decide the truth, or at least part of it, is the best avenue, and I suck at lying so I s hard and expose my shame “I don’t knohat to say I have no excuse I shouldn’t be in here I shouldn’t have gone through your things, used your shower, slept in your bed…”

“Atehis knuckles slowly over his lips as he looks down at h of defeat

I may dance nearly naked at the club, but I’m no exhibitionist Besides what I do for work, I’ve never been even partially naked in front of a s feel wildly different to ht now, I’m Alice, and embarrassment washes over me like a river of shame

“You’re Goldilocks Caught sleeping in Papa Bear’s bed”

I s as he closes the space between us and I don’t try to stand Being on my knees in front of hi up at hi me on

Even as desires spins through ic bites it back He’s exactly what I would never want Rich Entitled But the tension inside of me isn’t just inheart And that’s so I’ve never felt before and don’t understand