Page 103 of Stalker's Toy

She watches. I watch her. Every part of her is a revelation.

I love it. I fucking love it.

"We're headed downstairs," I say, watching her for a reaction.

There's this moment where I think she'll hesitate, where I think her mind will catch up to her body, but then I feel it—the drop, the surrender.

She's mine for the taking, and take her I will.

I tell her again, watching her eyes for any flicker of doubt, but there’s none.

There’s only the quick nod, the almost-smile, the yes of it all.

Without missing a beat, I guide her to the staircase.

She's caught between the fear of this place and the fascination of it, and I'm taking her right to the center, right to the deepest, darkest parts.

She thinks it's gonna tear her apart, but I know better. I know it's gonna make her whole.

The descent is slow and steady, but my heart beats fast.

Her pulse races like we're running, like we're falling, like we have nothing left to lose.

I'm obsessed with this. With her.

With the idea that I can turn the world upside down and she'll still follow.

The chaos around us is unmatched, but the tension between us is even louder.

This is it. This is the promise I've been making since day one, since minute one, since the first fucking second.

I take her further in, letting the scene explode around us, letting her feel it all.

It’s what she needs, even if she doesn’t know it yet.

We’re at the center of everything, of nothing, ofwhatever this is.

I lead her there.

I lead her closer tome.

The crowd forms a circle around us, and we’re inside it.

It’s the way we’ve always been, the way we always will be.

Right in the middle of the madness, right where we belong.

Mia looks like she's drowning, but not the kind where you die.

The kind where you breathe underwater for the first time.

Where you sputter and feel like you’re dying, but it’s the moment where you’re truly living, for the first time in your pathetic life.

It's the sexiest thing I've ever seen.

Every movement, every flicker of light and heat and flesh, it sets her on fire.

She absorbs it all, and the heat rises off her like she's burning alive.

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