A VERY DIRTY SECRET 1
~MAYA POV~
My bedroom was dark.
I shut the door and leaned against it, breathing hard, trying to get my heart rate under control. My skin felt very tight.
The diamonds were warming up now, matching my body heat, feeling like they were part of me.
I reached up to take off the choker. Desperate to get the weight off. To feel like myself again.
"Leave it." the voice came from the corner.
I gasped and turned around.
Silas was sitting in the chair by the window. Just... sitting there. In the dark. Waiting for me.
He must have used the connecting door while I was running up the stairs. He was still fully dressed. Long legs spread. Hands gripping the armrests.
He hadn't turned on a single light.
"Silas," I breathed out. "You... you were just downstairs."
"I move
