Chapter EIGHT
Summer
I kept sobbing, my chest heaving as the raw humiliation of what I had just confessed began to sink in.
I hated myself for losing control like this.
Why the hell did I just spill my deepest, most embarrassing secret to a complete stranger?
A man I had literally met today. But the crushing weight of reality was too heavy to carry.
This was it. Everything was over, and I was going to die with nothing but regrets.
“Summer…” he said quietly, trying to catch my eye. “Did you… Did you ever even try? Like, did you try and it just never happened for you, or did you completely avoid it altogether?”
At first, I didn’t want to answer him. I wanted to bite my tongue, pull my walls back up, and pretend I was the fearless girl from before. But looking at the heavy iron chains locked around my ankle, I realized I had absolutely nothing left to lose.
“I tried,” I choked out, a loud sniffle escaping my nose as fresh tears spilled over my cheeks.
“Of course I tried. But… but I obviously did something wrong. I didn’t know what I was doing.
I never got anywhere close to an orgasm.
Every single one of my friends, everyone I know, they talk about it like it’s the most natural thing in the world.
But I have no clue what it feels like. And now, I never will. ”
“Hey, look at me. Don’t say that. Maybe… maybe we can find some kind of solution to this.”
A bitter laugh burst from my throat, and I snapped my head up to glare at him.
“A solution?! Are you insane? What kind of solution do you think we’re going to find down here, Dominic?
What, do you think the mafia guards are going to come down these stairs and graciously take care of my needs before they shoot us? !”
“No, obviously not,” Dominic muttered. “I was thinking of something completely different. But… forget it. It’s stupid. I shouldn’t have even brought it up.”
“No, you started it,” I demanded. “Finish your thought. If you have an idea, just say it. What were you thinking?”
Dominic swallowed hard, his eyes dropping down to his lap for a split second before locking onto mine with a heavy, intense gaze.
“Look… There is one thing we could try. Purely just to help you. If this really is our last day on earth, and if this is honestly that important to you… Then I’m willing to do it.”
I stared at him, my mind racing.
“Just say it, Dominic! I swear, I cannot believe you’re making me beg for the rest of your sentence right now. Just tell me what you’re talking about!”
“Okay. Look at the situation, Summer. I am completely handcuffed to this iron pipe behind my back. I can’t move an inch away from this wall. But you? Your hands are tied together, but only one of your legs is chained to that radiator. You have some room to move.”
I blinked, trying to calculate the length of the heavy iron chain attached to my ankle. “And? What does that have to do with anything?”
“If you can stand up and slide over here,” his voice dropping into a low, raspy murmur that sent a strange shiver straight down my bare spine, “if you bring yourself close enough to me… I can reach you with my mouth.”
“Your… your mouth? What do you mean? This makes absolutely no sense.”
Dominic shifted uncomfortably against the hot pipes. Beneath his lap, I could see that my proximity and the sheer nature of the conversation were causing his erection to build right back up, thick and completely unavoidable.
“You know what? Forget it,” he muttered quickly, shaking his head and looking away, clearly growing more embarrassed by the second.
“Just forget I said anything. It’s a terrible idea anyway.
You’re already furious with me because of my biology, and honestly, this is just torturing me.
If you come any closer, with how packed the tension is in this room, I wouldn’t even be able to control myself.
I’d probably just end up coming from absolutely nothing. ”
My eyes popped open even wider, staring at him in utter disbelief. “Wait… what?! Are you serious right now? Is that even possible? You can just… do that from nothing?!”
The sheer unfairness of it hit me like a physical blow. I felt a sudden, frustrated pout pulling at my lips. “I have spent my entire life trying to figure out how to feel it, and I’ve never gotten anywhere. And you’re sitting there telling me you can experience it from literally nothing?!”
“It’s not nothing, Summer,” Dominic groaned. “Look at you. You are incredibly beautiful, you’re completely naked, and the situation between us right now is so suffocatingly intimate that my mind is running wild. It’s just triggering a biological chain reaction in my body, okay?”
I sat there, my mind completely tangled up. My heart was pounding fiercely against my ribs as I tried to process everything he was saying, trying to translate his words into a concrete picture.
“Okay… let me get this straight,” I whispered as I tried to understand the mechanics of what he was proposing. “So, if I stand up, and I walk over to you… Then what happens? Am I supposed to… sit down on your lap? On your… your dick?”
“No! No, absolutely not,” Dominic corrected immediately. “That is not what I meant at all, Summer. I am not trying to take your virginity. That’s not what this is about. I was just thinking… I could give you a simple, clean orgasm. Just with my tongue.”