Therapy With My Stepmom — Episode 1: Then Tell Me to Stop

Hook first: a therapist, a client, and a kiss neither of them is allowed to want. Every Thursday at 7 p.m. Cole takes the chair by Riley's fire. He started coming to talk about Richard, who went cold on him after the divorce. Now he keeps coming for her. She has heard every secret he carries. He holds exactly one about her: she smells like rain.

Tonight his fingers worry a little purple heart keychain, the only warm gift Richard ever gave him. Riley reads him in one look and says he is still waiting for something. "Maybe I'm waiting for something else." Time is up and they rise at the same second. She tries to hold the line, "Not you. Not here," and he moves into her space with a dare: "Then tell me to stop." Silence. Then her mouth on his. Episode 1 of Therapy With My Stepmom ends with the one boundary she swore she would never cross simply gone.