Isadora

I opened the door before Athos could knock. I was naked. For the first time, I offered myself without a word, without any instruction. My skin bare, my feet bare on the cold stone floor, my eyes shining with a new confidence, born of pleasure and surrender.

Athos stopped in front of me and didn't smile. He simply looked at me as if seeing me for the first time. Something in me had changed, and he felt it.

"Today..." I whispered, my voice deep, warm, "...I don't want ...