Trick of the Flesh: A Taboo Halloween Dark Romance by Ravas Izzy

Author:Ravas, Izzy
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2025-10-27T00:00:00+00:00

The house is quiet, but my brain isn’t.

I’m stretched out in bed, sheets twisted around my legs, his warmth radiating against my side. He’s already half-asleep, chest rising slow and steady, while I’m wide awake—staring at the ceiling, counting cracks in the plaster like they’re going to fix anything.

They don’t. They never do.

Because it’s not the ceiling keeping me awake. It’s me. My head. The endless fucking reel of every word, every touch, every moment that won’t stop replaying until it drives me insane.

“You’re beautiful, Caleb. Say it, say that you’re beautiful.”

“I’m not.”

“Look me in the eye when you lie like that.”

The memory hits hard enough to make me flinch. His voice was low and commanding, his hand on my chin, forcing me to meet his stare when I wanted to look anywhere but at him.

Because he knew.

That my head won’t let me believe it.

And he was right. I was lying. I lie every time I say I don’t want this, that I don’t want him. I lie to myself when I pretend I can just walk away. And maybe he can see that in me, the way I can’t stand up to him, the way my body gives me away every single time.

I roll onto my side, then back, restless. My chest feels tight.

Pathetic.

Addicted to him and the way he makes me feel.

I sigh too loud, and Miguel stirs beside me, his arm sliding heavy across my stomach, pulling me back against him. His voice is rough and low with sleep. “I can hear you thinking.”

“Sorry,” I mumble. “Go back to sleep.”

“Not until you shut that shit down.” His hand tightens, firm, grounding me in place. “Talk.”

I freeze. “I don’t… I don’t want to bother you.”

Miguel exhales, long and slow, like I’ve said something especially stupid. “You don’t bother me. Ever. Now talk, Caleb.”

My throat closes, the words sticking like glue. But the silence feels heavier than speaking, so I force them out. “…I can’t stop replaying it. All of it. The things you say to me. The things you do to me.”

“Good.” He’s so calm, so matter-of-fact. “Means it worked.”

I choke out a laugh, bitter at myself. “No, it means I’m pathetic. I can’t even separate what’s real from what’s just in my head.”

His grip shifts, fingers digging into my hip. “It’s real. Every word is real.”

I roll onto my back, staring at the ceiling again. “Even when you said I’m everything to you? You don’t mean that. You can’t.”

He props himself up on one elbow, looking down at me, his gaze shadow-dark in the low light. “I don’t say shit I don’t mean. You are everything. I don’t care if your head’s too loud to hear it—you’ll hear it from me until it sticks.”

My chest aches. I turn my face away, embarrassed at how much it hurts to hear something like that. “You’ll get tired of me. Everyone does.”

He growls, low and dangerous, and suddenly, in the blink of an eye, he’s on top of me with his weight pinning me down, his hand on my jaw, forcing me to meet his eyes.

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