Dirty Little Secret

Dirty Little Secret

Author: Riley Hart Listening Length: 7h 47m

James I’m forty years old, a tenured professor with investments, property, and a 401k. But what I crave is to submit. To hand over control to Colton. We met on an app. His needs matched mine. It was only supposed to be once, then twice. No commitment, so I don’t feel bad cutting contact. Then my world implodes when I...

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Chapter Thirty-Three

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Colton and I shoot out of bed. We’re dressed and have slept with the door unlocked. It hadn’t felt right for anything else. I wanted to be accessible if either of the kids needed me.

“What do you mean, he’s gone?” Colton asks, but I’m already heading out of the bedroom and toward theirs. I don’t know why, why I have to see for myself, but I do.

The door is open, light on, Nash’s bed empty, blankets pulled up so it’s neatly made. Nash made his bed. Despite how many times I’ve asked him to, Nash has never made his bed. A sharp pang lands in my chest, tears stinging my eyes as I lean against the wall, looking at it.