House Rules

House Rules by Macrig

Obviously, Riley represents something else too. Something important.

She is someone you are actually allowed to sleep with. No contract clause, no Charlotte, no consequences. Just a normal person, a normal situation, a normal potential outlet for weeks of accumulated frustration that has reached levels that are starting to feel geological.

The problem is not wanting to blow it by coming across as desperate — which, objectively, you are, but there is no need to advertise it. So you play it carefully. Slow. Friendly but not too friendly. Interested but not obviously starving.
It helps that she keeps sending selfies.

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