The Favor

*Author's note: Trying a new story/style/category to see if my writing is better received. Open to feedback, as always, as I find my feet here*

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Chris didn't know exactly when things had shifted between them, but lately, silence had taken on a new weight. It wasn't that Emma had grown distant, not exactly. She still kissed him good morning. Still folded his shirts the way he liked. Still curled into his side at night. But there was something quieter in her touches now. A pause, a breath held too long, a question left unasked in the stretch between her fingers and his skin. The difference wasn't loud, but it was present. Like the hum of a light left on in another room.

Their house, a modest two-story tucked into a quiet neighborhood just outside the city, was the kind of place you built a life in. Creaky floors, sun-warmed hardwood, chipped baseboards from moving day. Chris had sold homes like it for years, but none had the soul of this one. None held the weight of shared laughter echoing off kitchen walls, or the memory of a thousand quiet mornings and loud nights. Emma's art was everywhere - framed posters, clean lettering, delicate watercolors hung in corners that might've otherwise stayed bare. It was a house that told their story. But lately, Chris wasn't sure which chapter they were in.

They'd met in college - a drunken art crawl that neither of them had really wanted to attend. Emma had been standing outside a gallery, rolling her eyes at a sculpture made of rusted bedframes, when Chris made a comment about it looking like something that might fall and kill a hipster. She'd laughed. Not politely, but deeply - and he'd felt something unlock in his chest right there on the sidewalk.

She was studying design. He was in business, with no real plan. She'd been the one with purpose, with vision. He liked how unafraid she was of her own ambition. She liked how calm he made her feel. They'd moved in together after just a year, married two after that. It wasn't impulsive and it just made sense. They fit. They always had.

In the beginning, their sex had been the kind that broke furniture. Wild, experimental, shameless. Emma had an unfiltered mouth in bed, and Chris had never minded being guided - rougher, deeper, faster, right there. He loved giving her what she wanted. Needed. Even when it was a little dark. Especially when it was dark.

But time wore things differently. Good things. Even great ones. Ten years later, they had routines, shared bank accounts, a kitchen full of clean appliances, and sex that was still warm... but no longer reckless. Chris wasn't sure when it had changed. He only knew he could feel it every time she looked past him instead of at him.

She was still his. Still chose him, every day. Lately, there was something else in her smile. A flicker. A hunger. Like she'd remembered something her body missed, and wasn't sure how to ask for it again.

That night had been unremarkable on the surface. Wine. Takeout. A half-watched movie flickering across the living room wall. They lay tangled on the couch like they always did, her legs over his lap, his hand absentmindedly tracing circles on her bare thigh. Emma wore a worn, oversized T-shirt. It was one of his, faded and soft, and a pair of black sleep shorts that barely clung to the swell of her hips. Her skin still drove him crazy. The way she shifted without thinking, the peek of her inner thigh when she tucked one leg beneath the other. Familiar. Dangerous.

Chris was no Adonis - tall, broad-shouldered, with a strength that came more from years of lifting boxes than lifting weights. His face was honest, his blue eyes too quick to give away whatever he felt. People said he looked like someone you'd trust with your secrets. Emma used to tell him she liked that about him. That he didn't try to impress her, that he just was. And still, after all this time, she could make him hard with just a look. A shift of her hips. A flicker of something wicked in her eyes.

"I read something today," she said, voice low and offhanded, like she was testing the waters.

Chris glanced at her. "Yeah?"

Emma didn't look up. Her fingers traced slow, lazy circles on his thigh. "About couples trying new things."

He smirked. "Like hiking?"

"Sexually," she said, and just like that, the air between them changed.

Chris felt his body still beneath her, breath catching. He waited, heart ticking up as if he'd been caught staring. Emma's fingers kept moving - the kind of touch that wasn't entirely innocent, not anymore.

"What kind of new things?" he asked, quieter this time.

She finally looked up. Her eyes held a spark, something mischievous laced with tension. "Watching. Being watched. Maybe... sharing."

It wasn't the word alone that made him stiffen under her. It was the calm way she said it - like it had been on her tongue for a while now. Like she'd practiced saying it out loud.

Chris swallowed, trying to keep his face neutral. "You think about that?"

Emma shrugged. "Sometimes. I don't think about falling in love with someone else, if that's what you're worried about. I think about you watching. About you being turned on by it."

Her hand drifted higher on his thigh, dangerously close now, the tips of her fingers grazing the hard ridge forming beneath his sweatpants.

Chris exhaled slowly, dragging his hand over his face. "Jesus."

Emma's smile widened. "That's not a no."

"It's not a yes either."

"No," she agreed, "but it's not the sound of you getting up and walking away, either."

He looked at her and in her eyes he saw something almost vulnerable beneath the confidence. Like she'd peeled back a layer of herself and was waiting to see if he could handle what was underneath.

Chris reached for her, tucking a curl behind her ear, fingers lingering against her cheek. "You've thought about this a lot?"

Emma nodded. "Not like I'm making plans or anything. It's just... sometimes when I touch myself, it's not just your hands I picture. It's your eyes."

Chris groaned, his cock pulsing beneath the fabric.

She leaned in, kissed his jaw, his neck, soft and slow. "You're hard right now. I haven't even told you the details yet."

He closed his eyes. "Then don't."

Emma bit his earlobe, just enough to make him suck in a breath. "Too late."

Chris wasn't sure who moved first, but the next thing he knew, Emma was swinging her leg over him, settling into his lap like she'd done it a thousand times - which, of course, she had. And yet tonight, it felt different. Her weight, the deliberate drag of her hips, the heat blooming beneath her shorts - it all felt amplified.

She cupped his face in both hands, looked at him for a long, loaded beat. "Say it."

Chris blinked. "Say what?"

Her lips brushed his, soft and dangerous. "Say you want it too. That you'd let me do it. That you'd watch."

He swallowed hard. "Emma..."

Her hips rolled forward again, slower this time, and the thick ridge of his cock pressed right against her center. She didn't need more wine, didn't need buildup. She needed this. Needed him wrecked. Needed him to say it.

Chris's hands slid up under her shirt, palming the warm, bare curve of her waist, the soft dip of her lower back. "I don't know what that says about me," he whispered.

"It says you trust me," she breathed. "And it says you're hard because you want someone else to see what I let you have."

Her voice was like syrup. Thick, smooth, a little dangerous.

She leaned back just enough to pull her shirt over her head and toss it aside. No bra. Her tits bounced free, full and flushed, nipples already hard. Chris groaned, burying his face between them, kissing and biting like a starving man. She gasped, fingers digging into his scalp as he sucked at her, rougher than usual, his restraint unraveling with every breath.

"You think about it too," she whispered. "You think about them wanting me. Wanting this." Her fingers slipped between them, teasing the waistband of his pants. "You think about them watching me come on your cock and knowing they'll never get to feel how good I am."

He choked on a moan, and she smiled. That same wicked, knowing smile she wore when she wanted to break him.

"I'm not gonna last," he warned, already leaking.

"Then come," she said, brushing her lips against his ear. "I'll still fuck you again after."

She freed him, fingers wrapping around the thick heat of his cock, stroking slowly. Precise. Cruel. His hips jerked and she laughed, dropping to her knees on the floor between his legs like a goddess come to collect.

Chris watched her, wide-eyed, as she licked a slow stripe from base to tip, then swirled her tongue around the head. She didn't look away. Didn't blink. Her eyes locked on his, daring him to lose it right there.

He gripped the couch cushions behind him with white knuckles as she took him deeper, her mouth hot and wet and maddening. She bobbed her head in a rhythm she knew would undo him. Wet, sloppy, just enough teeth. Her hand stayed wrapped around the base, stroking in time with her mouth, squeezing every time he twitched.

"Fuck," he gasped. "Emma, I'm..."

She pulled off with a pop and smirked up at him. "Good."

Then took him again, deeper this time, and sucked him until he came hard with a strangled groan, hips bucking. He tried to warn her again, but she moaned around him like she wanted every drop. And when he was done, she licked him clean, slow and soft like she wasn't finished.

He slumped back, panting, watching her wipe the corner of her mouth with the back of her hand.

She climbed back onto his lap, straddling him again with soaked thighs and a glint in her eye.

"You're not done," she said simply. "Neither am I."

Emma didn't wait.

She kissed him hard, open-mouthed, messy, full of want, dragging his shirt up and off while his chest still rose and fell in ragged gasps. He barely had time to catch his breath before she was grinding against him again, body slick with sweat, skin flushed and glowing. She pressed down on him with full intention, her panties clinging to the soaked heat of her cunt. Chris could feel everything. Every pulse of her clit through the thin cotton, every deliberate roll of her hips as she rutted against his softening cock, already twitching back to life beneath her.

"You're not done," she said again, her voice thick and dark and just a little dangerous. "I want you hard again. I'm not finished with you."

Chris groaned, the pressure of her against him sending another wave of arousal flooding through his bloodstream. He was already swelling between her thighs as she rocked against him, dragging her soaked pussy along his length with slow, teasing friction. He reached for her hips again, but she caught his wrist mid-air and pushed it down to the cushion beside him.

"Let me take it this time," she whispered against his mouth. "Let me show you what I'd do if it were his cock I was riding."

His entire body tensed. His cock throbbed violently at the idea. And she felt it.

Her smirk was pure fire. She shifted her hips, guided him to her entrance with one hand, and pulled her panties aside with the other. Then, with maddening slowness, she sank down onto him.

Chris groaned out loud. She was hot, slick, so tight he could barely breathe. His cock was still oversensitive from the last orgasm, but she didn't care. She took every inch, grinding into his pelvis as she buried him inside her. His hands twitched against the couch cushions, desperate to grab her, to take control - but she moved first.

She rode him like she was on stage - back straight, tits bouncing with every bounce of her hips. She stared down at him as if daring him to look away. Sweat beaded along her chest, sliding between the swells of her breasts as she picked up pace.

"You'd sit there," she said breathlessly, "and watch him stretch me open. Watch me take his cock just like this."

Chris groaned, and she slammed her hips down harder.

"I'd fuck him slow," she gasped, "just like I'm fucking you. And you'd watch my tits bounce while I moaned for it."

Her hands came up, cupping her breasts, squeezing, playing with her nipples as she rode him faster, filthier.

"You'd hear me beg him to fill me," she hissed, leaning down so her tits dragged across his chest. "Beg him to come inside. And then I'd bring that messy, ruined cunt right back to you."

Chris snarled and bucked up into her, but she held the rhythm, controlled it - grinding in deep circles that made him see stars.

"You want it," she whispered. "You'd fucking watch me break for someone else, and it would make you harder than you've ever been in your life."

Chris snapped.

With a growl, he grabbed her by the waist, sat up, and flipped her onto her back. She yelped, laughing breathlessly, but her legs spread without hesitation, dragging him back between them.

"You want to be a whore?" he growled. "Then fucking take it."

He yanked her panties down and off, tossed them aside, and shoved back into her with a force that made them both cry out. She was soaked, dripping, her cunt sucking him back in like she'd missed him for years.

"Harder," she begged, legs wrapped tight around his waist. "Fucking ruin me."

He pinned her wrists above her head with one hand and shoved one of her thighs higher with the other, opening her wide. Then he fucked her. Rough. Fast. Deep enough to knock the breath from her lungs.

"You're mine," he snarled, his hips slamming into her with punishing rhythm. "No one else gets this pussy. No one else makes you come like I do."

Emma screamed, back arched, tits bouncing wildly beneath him as her whole body shook with each impact.

"That's it," she sobbed. "Fuck me. Claim me."

Chris bent low and bit her shoulder, then her neck, then kissed her roughly, all tongue and teeth and possession. Her moans broke apart into desperate cries.

"You'd let him fuck you," he growled into her ear, "but you'd still come home to me. Because you fucking belong to me."

"Yes," she gasped. "God, yes. I'm yours."

He pulled out suddenly, and she cried out, hips chasing him, but he wasn't done.

He grabbed her hips, flipped her onto her stomach, and yanked her up onto all fours.

"On your knees," he snapped.

She obeyed instantly, presenting herself to him. Dripping, swollen, perfect. He gripped the base of his cock, stroked once, lined up, and shoved back in with a brutal thrust that made her collapse forward with a broken scream.

"Fuck," she sobbed. "Oh my god, Chris"

He fisted a handful of her hair, yanked her head up, and leaned in until his mouth was at her ear.

"You want him to pull your hair like this?" he growled. "You want to be his dirty little slut?"

"Yes," she moaned, her voice wrecked. "But only you get to use me like this. Only you get to fuck me like you own me."

He fucked her harder, deeper, her ass slapping against his hips as he pounded into her. The wet, obscene sounds filled the room, along with her breathless begging.

"Harder, please, don't stop"

"You come for me," he snarled. "Only me."

She came like she was dying. A full-body quake, cunt clenching around him in waves, a cry torn from her throat that ended in a sob. Chris held her hips tight, fucked her through it, then slammed in deep one final time and came hard - cock pulsing, body shuddering, a low groan dragging from his chest as he spilled into her.

They collapsed in a tangle, her chest heaving, his face pressed to her back. Sweat slicked their bodies, mixing with the scent of sex, of heat, of something raw and real.

Neither of them moved.

Eventually, Chris kissed her shoulder, her neck, her hair. Still inside her. Still pulsing.

Emma turned her head, looking at him through heavy lashes.

"You needed that," she whispered.

Chris nodded. "So did you."

Emma exhaled and melted back into him, her body limp and warm against his chest. Her skin was slick with sweat, flushed and humming, every inch of her still alive with the aftershocks. Chris wrapped both arms around her and pulled the blanket over them, anchoring her to him like she might drift away otherwise.

They lay that way in silence for a while, limbs tangled, breathing slowly syncing. He pressed a kiss to her temple. She sighed and nestled deeper into him, one thigh sliding between his, her palm resting flat on the center of his chest, right over his heart.

"That was..." she murmured, trailing off.

Chris chuckled softly. "Yeah."

"I mean - fuck. That was the best sex we've had in, what, a year?"

"Maybe two," he said, half-laughing, half-serious.

Emma tilted her head back enough to meet his eyes, her expression soft. "That felt... different."

He nodded. "It was. It was real, but..." He hesitated, then smiled faintly. "It was a hell of a fantasy."

She nodded slowly, brushing her fingers along his ribs. "It felt good, letting go like that. Saying things out loud I didn't even know were in me." She looked up again. "And hearing you say them back."

Chris shifted, curling his hand around the nape of her neck. "You wrecked me," he murmured. "I don't think I've ever come that hard. And the second time..." He groaned softly, and she grinned. "You're dangerous."

Emma laughed, low and lazy. "I like being dangerous."

They lay quietly again, her fingers tracing shapes over his skin, both of them replaying the scene in their heads - her riding him, whispering filth; him pulling her hair, fucking her like he needed to leave a mark; the way she'd begged, and the way he'd answered without hesitation.

Chris cleared his throat. "You think it was just the fantasy that made it so good?"

Emma didn't answer right away.

"I think it was letting ourselves feel it," she said finally. "Not holding back. No filters. Just... doing what we wanted." She paused. "Even if it scared us a little."

He looked down at her. "Did it scare you?"

"A little," she admitted. "Not the idea of someone else. Just..." She hesitated. "How easy it was to go there."

Chris ran his fingers through her damp hair. "It was easy because we trust each other."

Emma didn't say anything to that. Not right away. She just nestled closer, letting the warmth of his body fold around hers.

Eventually, she murmured, "Do you think we'll ever actually do it?"

Chris's chest tightened - not in fear, but in anticipation. In curiosity. In something that felt dangerously like longing.

"I don't know," he said quietly. "Maybe."

Emma smiled against his throat. "I think I'd like to watch you watching me."

He didn't answer. But the image bloomed in his mind - vivid, undeniable. And when he closed his eyes, he realized something had shifted.

Maybe it had started as a game. A fantasy. A dirty, delicious script whispered between kisses.

But some fantasies don't stay make-believe for long.