(Trigger Warning: This chapter contains explicit content and is intended for mature readers.)
His words hung in the air between us, raw and needy. I froze, my heart hammering against my ribs as I processed what he was asking.
"I... I've never done that before," I admitted, my voice barely a whisper.
Orion's eyes darkened further. "I'll guide you."
A war raged inside me. Part of me wanted to run from the room, to escape this intimacy with a man who had shown me nothing but cruelty. Yet something else—something primal—wanted to see him come undone by my touch.
"Please, Sera," he begged, his usual arrogance replaced by desperation. "I need you."
Those three words—so simple yet so powerful—broke something in me. How many times had I longed to hear him say that? Even now, knowing it was just the potion talking, it affected me.
"Okay," I said softly.
