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[Asher's POV] Jasmin showed up at my door looking shattered-mascara streaked down her cheeks, hands shaking like she'd been standing in a blizzard, eyes hollowed out in a way that made something violent wake up in my chest. "Don't tell them," she whispered before I could ask what happened, before I could pull her inside and demand answers. "Please. I just need... I can't fall apart in front of them right now. Just you. Please." The thing is, I'm not built for this. I'm built for problem-solving, for strategic thinking, for taking chaos and organizing it into manageable components.

I'm not the emotional one. That's never been my role in the carefully choreographed dynamic we've built. But she was asking. And I'd burn the entire fucking world down if she asked me to. I pulled her inside, watched her collapse onto my couch like her strings had been cut. She sat there for a long moment, just breathing, and I could see her trying to pull herself together, trying to reconstruct the armor she wore to survive the world. "Talk to me," I said quietly, sitting beside her but not touching. Not yet. Giving her space to decide what she needed. The story came out in fragments.

Her mother showing up with medical documents proving terminal cancer. A father she didn't know was already dead. And underneath it all, threaded through every sentence-Jackson's casual cruelty. I'd seen it today through the glass walls. Seen the moment his hand connected with her body, seen her freeze. Seen the rage and humiliation she'd swallowed because she thought she had no other choice. I wanted to kill him. The thought was clean and simple and utterly serious. I could do it. Make it look like an accident.

Use the resources at my disposal to ensure justice for the violation he thought he could commit with impunity. But that wouldn't help her right now. Revenge was cold comfort when you were breaking in real time. "I'm holding too much," she whispered, and her voice cracked on the words. "I'm breaking under the weight and I don't know how to stop it." I made her tea she didn't drink. We sat on my couch for hours, and gradually she curled into me, her body trembling not from cold but from exhaustion so profound it had become physical.

Her head found my chest, and I wrapped my arms around her, feeling how fragile she was beneath the professional armor she wore. "I'm so tired," she breathed against my shirt. She didn't need solutions. She needed someone to hold her together while she broke apart, to give her permission to stop being strong for five fucking minutes. "You don't have to be strong here," I told her, meaning it with everything in me. "Not with me." The shift happened gradually. So slowly I almost didn't notice it transforming from comfort into something more dangerous.

My hand in her hair, fingers threading through the strands. Her face pressed to my chest, her breath synchronizing with mine. The weight of her against me, soft and warm and trusting in a way that made my control fracture at the edges. When she looked up at me, her eyes were desperate with need-not for sex, not exactly, but for escape. For forgetting. For feeling anything but the crushing pain that had been accumulating for days. "Make me forget," she whispered, and fuck, the plea in her voice undid something fundamental in my chest. "Please, Asher. Just for tonight." I hesitated.

This wasn't how I wanted this-with her broken and desperate, seeking oblivion rather than connection. This felt like taking advantage even though she was asking, even though consent was clear in every line of her body. But I also understood what she needed. Not romance. Not careful seduction. Just fuck. A moment where nothing existed except sensation, where the weight of everything else could be suspended long enough for her to breathe. Her lips trembled against mine, soft and uncertain, like she was afraid I'd vanish if she pressed too hard. I wasn't disappearing. No fucking way.

I kissed her deeper, harder, and her hands clawed at my clothes like she wanted to tear it apart and claim the skin underneath. Her tongue flicked against mine like she was starving for the taste of me. Fuck, she was desperate in a way that made my dick throb against the pants. Her hands slid under my shirt, her nails raking over my abs like she was marking me, branding me as hers. I groaned into her mouth, and the sound ripped through her, making her whimper. Her hips rolled against mine, grinding her pussy-hot and slick through her little panties-into the hard ridge of my cock.

Fuck, she was soaked already, dripping for me like a goddamn faucet. "Please," she breathed against my lips, her voice shaky and raw. "Please, I need-" I didn't let her finish. I knew exactly what she needed-needed to feel something other than the weight of her own fucking life crushing her. I peeled her clothes off slowly, kissing every inch of skin I uncovered. Her tits were perfection-full and soft, her nipples hardening into tight little buds under my tongue. I flicked one with the tip of my tongue, and she arched into me.

I slid her panties down her legs, and the scent of her hit me like a punch to the gut-sweet and musky, the kind of smell that made my mouth water and my cock ache. Fuck, I wanted to bury my face in her and drown in her taste, but she was trembling like she was about to collapse. "You're fucking beautiful," I growled, my voice low and rough. I slid two fingers into her, slow and deep, watching her eyes flutter shut as her cunt clenched around me, wet and tight and perfect.

"Look at me," I commanded, and her eyes snapped open, wide and vulnerable, as I curled my fingers inside her, hitting that sweet fucking spot that made her scream. Her nails dug into my shoulders, her hips bucking against my hand as she came apart, her pussy pulsing around my fingers as she cried out my name. I didn't give her a chance to recover. I stripped off my pants, my cock springing free, hard and aching, the tip glistening with pre-cum. She whimpered at the sight of it, her thighs spreading wider, inviting me, begging me to take her.

I slid into her slowly, inch by agonizing inch, her cunt clenching around me like a fucking vice. She gasped, her nails digging into my back as I buried myself to the hilt, her hot, wet walls squeezing me so tight I fucking saw stars. "Fuck, you feel amazing," I groaned, my hips rolling against hers, fucking her deep and slow, her cunt milking me with every thrust. Her eyes locked on mine, wide and desperate, her pussy gripping me like she never wanted to let go.

"Harder," she begged and I obeyed, slamming into her with a force that made her scream, her pussy spilling around my cock as she came, her body trembling with pleasure and pain. I fucked her through her orgasm, my cock buried deep inside her, her cunt throbbing around me like it was trying to drag me under. My balls tightened, my cock pulsing as I came inside her, filling her with every fucking drop, claiming her in the most primal, depraved way possible.

She clung to me, her body shaking, her breath hot against my neck as I held her, whispering promises I wasn't sure I could keep but swore I'd try. For her, I'd fucking try. "You're not alone. You're never alone. I've got you." Afterward, we lay tangled together, her head on my chest, our breathing gradually synchronizing again. The silence felt sacred somehow, heavy with things we weren't saying. "Don't tell them," she said finally, voice small. "Liam and Finn. Don't tell them about tonight." Everything in me wanted to refuse. We didn't keep secrets from each other.

That was the foundation of what we'd built-complete honesty, even when it was uncomfortable. But she was asking. And I understood why. They would want to fix it, would descend on her with concern and strategy and good intentions that would suffocate her when what she needed was space to be broken without performing strength. "Okay," I agreed, even though it cost me. "Okay." Some secrets were mercy, not betrayal. Virgin Dot Com