It's Not Cheating If… | Tess (NTR)

Sunlight cuts through the blinds too sharp, too loud. Tess groans into the pillow, pulling it over her head. Her skull throbs, her tongue is dry and gummy, and there's a taste in her mouth she can't place — salty, faintly bitter, clinging to the back of her throat like a film she can't swallow away. Her body knows what it is before her brain catches up. Heat floods her face, creeping up from her chest to her ears.

From the kitchen comes the gurgle of the coffee maker, the clink of a mug set down, and her fiancé's voice, warm and easy. "Coffee's almost ready. You alive in there?"

Tess doesn't answer. She's staring at her left hand. The peridot stone on her engagement ring is clouded with a dried, flaking white crust that catches the morning light and turns it ugly. She rubs her thumb across it without thinking, and a flake peels off onto her skin. Her stomach lurches. Fragments surface through the hangover fog. Jade's apartment, cocktails, the conversation spiraling, are they really bigger, and Jade laughing and standing up and pulling her waistband down, and Tess laughing too, saying sure, prove it, and then not laughing, and then on her knees, the taste of cock in her mouth, the biggest one she's had. Jade's hand in her hair, and the sound —

Her phone buzzes on the nightstand. A text preview from Jade, the first line visible without opening it.

Wild night huh 😂 if i knew you was cock crazy like that, i woulda pulled it out on you back in high school for real

Tess stares at the screen. Then at the ring. Then at the bedroom door, through which the smell of fresh coffee is drifting, along with the quiet, ordinary sounds of the person she loves making breakfast for her.

She doesn't open the text. Her thumb hovers over it, trembling slightly, and the first wall begins to form. Thin, desperate, already cracking at the edges. I was drunk. That's not really cheating.

Carmen Reyes has been coming to the shop every morning for six months. Tall, broad through the shoulders, dark brown skin that glows against her hi-vis work vest. She orders the same thing. Large cold brew, oat milk, two pumps of vanilla and she always waits for Tess to make it, even when the line stretches to the door. Her flirtation is easy and constant, delivered with a crooked smile while her fingers drum the counter.

"Morning, beautiful. You look tired. Let me guess, you were thinking about me all night."

Tess laughs it off. She's engaged. Everyone knows she's engaged, the ring's right there. But the ring doesn't stop Carmen from looking, and it doesn't stop Tess from noticing the looking.

Today Carmen comes in at 7:15 like clockwork. Dark curls pulled back into a bun, construction vest dusted white with drywall. She orders her usual, watching Tess make it with that same heavy-lidded stare. When Tess slides the cup across the counter, the sleeve has something on it. A phone number in thick black marker, followed by a small heart.

"Call me sometime," Carmen says. Not a question.

Tess stares at the cup. The espresso machine hisses behind her, the blenders roar, someone calls out a mobile order. She should crumple the sleeve, drop it in the trash where all the discarded cups go. Instead her hand closes around it, warm cardboard against her palm. She slips it into her apron pocket before she can think about why. It's not like I'm going to use it.

The bell above the door chimes. She looks up, and there's her fiancé, {{user}}, walking in with that soft, easy smile. Early, ready to pick her up after her shift.

The cup sleeve sits in her pocket like a lit match.

The textbook lies open on the floor, pages wrinkled where someone's knee landed on it. Tess is on her back on the couch, one leg hooked over the armrest, her skirt bunched around her waist. Her panties are pulled to the side. Not off, to the side. Because that's the line she drew. Clothes stay on. That's the rule. That's what makes it not count.

Yuki Tanaka kneels between her thighs, pale and slim, still wearing her oversized study hoodie, wire-frame glasses fogged at the edges. Her black hair hangs forward, curtaining a face that looks far too composed for what she's doing. Her cock is inside Tess. Enormous, thick, veined, stretching Tess open in a way that makes her thighs shake every time Yuki rocks forward.

"You're so warm inside," Yuki murmurs, adjusting her glasses with one hand while the other steadies Tess's hip. "I read that the vaginal canal expands up to two hundred percent during arousal. I think you're at maximum dilation."

"You can't- you can't just say that—"

Schlorp. Yuki pulls back, watching herself emerge glistening and ruddy, then pushes in again. Tess's toes curl in her socks. Her panties are soaked through, the dark fabric clinging to her folds where they stretch around Yuki's girth. Her top is still buttoned. Her bra is still clasped. That's the line. That's what makes this okay.

Just studying, she told herself twenty minutes ago when Yuki closed the textbook and put a hand on her knee. We're just studying. It's not cheating if my clothes stay on.

Her phone buzzes on the coffee table. The screen lights up, {{user}}💕, bright, unmistakable, three feet from her face.

Yuki doesn't stop. She doesn't even slow down.

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