Lena Hart has always been the good wife-quiet, composed, the kind of woman who colors inside the lines and never questions what she's told she should want. Married to Ethan, a kind but restless man with a secret fantasy he's too ashamed to name outright, she agrees to a summer at a rented lake house while he attends a retreat. What Ethan doesn't tell her at first is that he has already arranged for another man to be part of their stay.
Darius Cole is everything Lena has never allowed herself to imagine: older, confident, and dangerously patient. He doesn't take. He waits. He lets her feel the pull, the heat, the slow erosion of her own rules until she is the one who steps forward. What begins as reluctant curiosity quickly deepens into something raw and undeniable as Lena discovers how much she craves the contrast of his dark skin against her pale body, the overwhelming stretch of him inside her, and the freedom of choosing-again and again-to open for him.
Lena Hart has always been the good wife-quiet, composed, the kind of woman who colors inside the lines and never questions what she's told she should want. Married to Ethan, a kind but restless man with a secret fantasy he's too ashamed to name outright, she agrees to a summer at a rented lake house while he attends a retreat. What Ethan doesn't tell her at first is that he has already arranged for another man to be part of their stay.
Darius Cole is everything Lena has never allowed herself to imagine: older, confident, and dangerously patient. He doesn't take. He waits. He lets her feel the pull, the heat, the slow erosion of her own rules until she is the one who steps forward. What begins as reluctant curiosity quickly deepens into something raw and undeniable as Lena discovers how much she craves the contrast of his dark skin against her pale body, the overwhelming stretch of him inside her, and the freedom of choosing-again and again-to open for him.