Silver bangles.
Silver rings.
Her appeal was palpable as she closed the door slowly behind her. In this space the professor-student label was non-existent. There was no title. No rules. Just two adults who were attracted to each other with nothing but space and opportunity between them.
Silas tilted his head slightly, his gaze low but locked in, then nodded toward her with a motion so smooth it almost looked like a dare.
“Come here.”
He was already leaned back on the loveseat, one arm draped over the back, legs wide, body relaxed… but every part of him waswatching. Her eyes locked on him and didn’t shift. She didn’t laugh. Didn’t flinch. Didn’t ask for permission. And that…That made his pulse quicken under the surface of his skin. She walked toward him slowly, but not like she was teasing him. It was like she was taking what she’d already claimed, and shedidn’t need permission. Instead of taking the chair that was a short distance away, Nuri took the seat beside him, closing any and all space between them.
Silas raised a brow—lowkey caught off guard. He wasn’t used to being approached with boldness. He was used tobeing the one who led.However, Nuri didn’t wait to be led, she leaned into his presence as if she owned the moment. He took another drink like his pulse hadn’t picked up the second her thigh brushed his. PARTYNEXTDOOR’sSomebody Loves Meleaked through the speakers setting the atmosphere.
“You a long way from home all by yourself, ain’t you?” Silas said, his voice smooth, but laced in curiosity as he turned toward her.
A slow curve formed on Nuri’s lips. “I’m a big girl. I like to get away from all the noise and familiarity,” she replied. “Sometimes, I just wanna feel free.”
Silas lifted his glass to his lips but never took his eyes off her.
“If I knew you’d be in here moving like this, I would’ve been coming out a lot more often.” She laughed softly, the sound low and intimate.
“What’chu drinkin’ tonight?” Silas asked, ready to get her a drink.
“Casamigos and pineapple juice, but I’m good.”
“You a dangerous woman, you know that?” He said lowly, licking his lips.
“Why you say that? I didn’t come to hurt a soul… just to have a good time.”
Silas’ eyes narrowed slightly, staring at her lips as they moved. “Oh yea? What kind of good time you tryna have, Nuri?”
She didn’t answer.
Didn’t need to.
She moved… Letting the silence say more than her mouth ever could. The song switched like clockwork as Lil’ Durk’sHome Bodycrept through the overhead speaker, the bass low and erotic. Nuri rose slow, smooth, never breaking eye contact. One hand slid across his chest, the other down her thigh then she turned, and settled right into his lap.
No hesitation.
No fear.
No games.
She rolled her hips to the rhythm, her body speaking louder than any reply could’ve. Every move was calculated. Controlled. Every shift in her waist told him she’d been thinking about this, too. Silas let his hands rest on her hips, gripping gently.
Didn’t guide. Didn’t push.
Just held. Let her lead.
Let herteach.
Because at that moment, there wasn’t a single lesson he could give her. Shit, if this was what losing control looked like, Silas didn’t wanna win. He leaned back, lips parted, eyes low.Damn.Nuri was his student on paper, but Silas was the one being schooled. Silas let his hands rest on her waist.
The way Nuri moved on his lap had Silas seeing life from a different lens. Shit had clarity now. Like the fog had lifted and every answer to every question he never asked was sitting right there in the sway of her hips. Nuri had him, and not in the cliché, caught-up kind of way. She had him reconsidering restraint. Rethinking logic. He’d been deprived, and was questioning how he’d gone so long without tasting her essence. There was no doubt the way she moved, there had to be pleasure stitched into her DNA.
As the last bassline of the song slipped into silence, Nuri’s hips slowed, rolled one final time, and landed her right back against his chest. Silas smacked her ass. Then leaned in, his lips brushing her ear, voice like gravel dipped in syrup.
“You trust me?”
