SA
n't blink. He wasn't even looking at me anymore. He kept look
me I did something this reckless was when I too
lly, "You have no idea
"I know exactly what I'm
really understood why everyone feared Ocean Stark. He didn't eve
fore. And my heart refused to stop rac
ck my emplo
f the word Fuck. Heat crawled up my neck to
I swear... Just this once. Let's be like two strangers who j
move, but I coul
k to my eyes. I could almost fe
space there was between us. My breath hitched as I tried to look away, bu
And I don't do scandals. Go to bed, hug your pillow, an
pping too close to fire. The crown of
ulse? I could see it beating
sh further, "Unless you're scared you can't mat
urn a shade darker, and something
rk wrapped his fingers around my neck and
ed. Whatever cold professionalism lived in it during office
lready been burne
ewhere between Jace's bedroom floor and this hotel room. Some part of me that had decide
a long moment. Somet
t and I felt my own heartbeat betray me. "You k
no urgency at all, which was so
me?" He said through clenched teeth, like a lion whose ego was
d, and he leaned in slowly until there was almost no space left between us. I could feel the heat coming off him
ed me harder into the wall, "When I fuck, I don't stop because you cry. I don't stop because you can't take it. I stop when I'm
hing turn
wist until the thought of anyone else feels wrong. I'll become t
, his breath hot
ou to know that before you make this decision, b
ath ca
is fingers tightened on my throat. "
ow, the rational part of me was dead. All
," I blurted out the dare,
the back of my neck, and he crushed his lips again
rry you made
*
EA
u
, hot nerd-looking girl out of my line of si
ion and deemed my office the right place to i
cock forgot what dignity was. Always jerking
ck memories that had been torme
etting married to a man whose head I could put a b
felt toward her. I bu
cost me my legacy. Since then, I'd drawn a hard line. No mixing
n front of me, desperate, trembling, asking for the one thing my body had always craved? That was a t
rn her down.
have been th
table. I had a flight the next day. I had a rule I shouldn't ignore, and I had exactly enough scotch
d. And my control - usual
question. Understood?" I warned her, and sh
arted out and licked the movem
dered, "
d gi
sted like heat and salt and bad decisions. Her
u
er. She seemed so fragile, the crown o
est of my senses. She was panting. Her small, plump lips were re
" Don't ever wear
s lethal. Big blue, almond eyes. Inn
line of her hip - and what I felt made me curse against her lips. Those loose skirts and gowns she w
ps that filled my grip, a body c
almost
tugging desperately. And when s
y screamed to stay pressed to hers, but I needed space. Nee
and fell in rag
and watched her fingers shake as she reached for the hem of that oversized shirt. God. Who th
he floor. The s
ts that did it's best to cover every corner of her ass
something I'd choose fo
Any man alive would kill to have th
ower lip, staring at her. My
pped into something d
but one look from me, and she dropped all that hesitation. And the moment
es. Head bowed, hair slid
goose-pimpled, chest rising and falling as sh
ing away from her. My palms flatten
crawl
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