βYouβre smiling at your phone again,β Cleo said, stabbing her fork through a pile of syrup-drenched waffles like it had personally betrayed her. βLet me guess. Mystery Daddy?β
I froze the mid-sip of my coffee.
βIt is him.β She gasped. βThe man who made you orgasm through a keyboard. Jesus Christ.β
I threw a piece of toast at her face. She caught it with her mouth like a gremlin.
βDonβt say it like that,β I muttered, cheeks burning.
βWhy not?β she grinned, chewing obnoxiously. βYou look like youβre blushing from the inside. Is he texting you right now? Gonna tell you when to touch your nipples next?β
βCleo!β
βWhat?β She shrugged, all innocent eyes and red nail polish. βIβm just proud of you. My little academic virgin turned emotionally damaged erotica princess.β
βIβm notββ I paused. βNever mind.β
The truth wasβ¦ she wasnβt totally wrong. Our texts had shifted. Grown deeper. More specific. More raw.
He still hadnβt told me his name. He never sent pictures. Never asked for any, either. But when he wrote, it felt like he was inside me. Mentally. Emotionally. And, well, sometimes very literally.
Later that night, curled up in my bed with a statistics textbook I wasn't actually reading, my phone buzzed.
Private Room Service: What do you crave tonight, princess?
My pulse kicked. The words rolled over my skin like silk threaded with heat. I stared at the screen, heart thudding.
Me: I donβt know. Anything?
A short pause from his side. Thenβ
Private Room Service: Be specific, princess. Do you want to be watched? Touched? Spread open and trembling for me?
The breath caught in my throat. My thighs pressed together reflexively when desire bloomed low and thick in my belly.
Me: All of it.
This time, the pause was longer. Longer still when my phone buzzed again, but this time it wasnβt a message. It was a call.
βNo caller IDβ bloomed on my phone. My heart stuttered.
I hesitated just long enough to feel the tension bloom, then answered. Nothing but silence on the other end. Dead silence.
He turned off his mic, damn it.
I opened my mouth to speak, but before I could the next message came:
Private Room Service: Donβt talk. Just let me listen.
Private Room Service: Get in bed. Now.
The command sent a shiver straight down my spine. I was already kicking off the covers and slipping out of my panties before I finished reading the next line.
Private Room Service: No toys. No panties. One hand between your legs. The other one on the phone.
Private Room Service: Follow everything I say. I want to hear you obey, princess.
Private Room Service: Tell me when youβre ready.
I was already breathless, man.
Me: Ready.
The reply came fast. Precise.
Private Room Service: Slide your fingers down. Slowly. No rush. I want you aching before you even find it.
I obeyed. My fingers trailed over my thighs, grazing heat, hips twitching, anticipation crackling like static in my skin.
Private Room Service: Now stroke. Just barely. Count to ten. Then stop.
Private Room Service: Let me hear what Iβm doing to you.
I closed my eyes, lips parting. βOne... two... three...β
I moaned softly. My body buzzed and by the time I reached βsevenβ, I was already gasping. βTenβ felt like torture. My hand froze. My body didnβt.
Private Room Service: Youβre not allowed to come. Not until I say. Not until I own it.
His words soaked into me, slow and thick like honey melting on my tongue. My hips moved on their own, needy, desperate for more.
Private Room Service: Now two fingers. Slide in. Let me feel it through the way you moan.
I arched off the bed, head pressing into the pillow as I obeyed.
Private Room Service: Faster. Fuck yourself for me.
The sound I made wasnβt human. I bit my lip to keep from crying out too loud while I kept watching at my screen, waiting for a response.
Private Room Service: Do you wish I was there, pinning you down, whispering all the filthy things Iβd do to you?
My fingers trembling uncontrollably as I quickly typed back answer without stopping fingering myself:
Me: Yes. Please.
Private Room Service: Iβd hold your wrists above your head, make you beg for every inch. Bite your shoulder until you screamed.
My legs were shaking, thighs clenched, pleasure threatening to explode. A soft moans keeps coming out of my mouth uncontrollably.
Private Room Service: Youβve been such a good girl, princess.
Private Room Service: Now come. Let me hear it.
The orgasm hit me like a crashing tide. I twisted in the sheets, mouth open in a silent scream, clenching around my own fingers as waves of heat rolled through me. I was shaking. Shattered.
And I had never felt more⦠owned.
I lay limp and wrecked, my skin damp with sweat, my fingers still trembling between my thighs. The phone was quiet now, the call ended at some pointβmaybe when I came, maybe when he decided he'd heard enough.
I didnβt even remember dropping it.
My chest rose and fell in uneven bursts, every part of me humming with aftershocks. Sleep found me tangled in the sheets, sore, spent, and still aching with the echo of his voice in my mind.
The next morning, reality was a full-on punch to the face. Seminar.
Professor Lewis in his usual black, looking like sin and judgment all in one. I submitted my essay with the usual quiet confidence, slid it onto his desk, and returned to my seat.
Twenty minutes in, he pulled it out. Unfolded it. Didnβt even try to hide the disdain on his face.
βMiss Hale,β he said coolly. βWould you mind standing?β
I blinked. βWhat? Why?β
βYou seem to be under the impression this is a diary circle and not an academic course. So I thought the class might enjoy your interpretation of Woolf and Emotional Identity.β
My stomach twisted. βIβ What was wrong with my paper?β
βItβs lazy,β he said flatly. βAnd emotionally dishonest. You used metaphors without grounding. You quoted theory without context. It reads like the first draft of a sad blog post.β
A few gasps echoed.
βThatβs not fair.β I sat straighter. βI spent hours on that paper.β
βThen perhaps next time you should spend days.β
My face flushed. βI can handle critique, Professor. But I wonβt be humiliated just because your standards are unrealistic.β
His eyes locked on mine. Cold and sharp.
βMiss Hale,β he said slowly, βif your ego is too fragile for critical evaluation, I suggest you drop my course now.β
Silence. Every eye was on me, but all I could feel was heat. Not embarrassmentβtension. White-hot, inexplicable tension.
I sat down hard, heart pounding. I hated him. And I hated that I wanted more.
Later that night, I texted myβhow Cleo is now calling himββMystery Daddyβ.
Me: Rough day. Got torn apart in seminar. My professor basically called me pathetic in front of everyone.
Private Room Service: He sounds like an idiot.
Me: Heβsβ¦ something. Brutal. Cold. I donβt know why I let him get to me.
Private Room Service: Maybe you like being torn apart.
My breath hitched before I texted back with numb fingers.
Me: Maybe I do.
There was a long pause. I bit my lip. Typed again.
Me: Why wonβt you tell me who you are?
No reply.
Me: Are you scared you couldnβt back it up in real life? That youβre all talk?
Still nothing.
Me: Or are you just hiding because you know once I see youβ¦ Iβll make you prove everything?
Sent. Read. No response.
Hours passed. Then the next day. Still nothing. I stared at my phone in bed, panic blooming like acid.
Had I ruined it? Had I scared him away?







