Prologue
(Before she forgot, she made one final request: to remember the ache.)
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“I don’t want to forget how it felt.”
She whispered it into the dark, breathless, back arched against steel.
His fingers didn’t stop moving. They circled the hollow between her hips like they had lived there in another lifetime. Like muscle memory that had nothing to do with memory at all.
> “You won’t,” he said.
His voice was low. Controlled. The kind of voice that made women kneel before they even realized they’d dropped.
> “You’ll forget everything else. Names. Words. Faces.
But your body… your body will remember me.”
She opened her eyes, barely.
The Mirror Room flickered red above them — sensors recording every sigh, every spike, every surrender.
“I want to forget everything,” she whispered. “Except the ache.”
> “Why?”
“So I know it was real.”
She gripped the edges of the chair as he pushed deeper into her, slow and unforgiving. His breath touched her jaw like a dare.
> “That ache will ruin you.”
“Good.”
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They say the brain protects you from trauma.
But what if the trauma is pleasure?
What if the touch that unravels you is the one you begged for?
What if forgetting him was the only way to survive?
And what if your body… doesn’t cooperate?
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When she opened her eyes again, she was alone.
The sensors had shut down.
The mirror was dark.
Her thighs still trembled.
And in her own handwriting, left beside her naked shoulder on the chair, was a note:
> “When I wake up, don’t tell me his name.
If I ask — tell me I was never touched.
If I moan in my sleep — don’t listen.
If I beg — don’t believe me.
And if I start to feel again…
Undo.”
