The Billionaire's Broken Vow

he edge of the armchair caught her just in time to keep her from collapsing completely.

ux empire the night he died and he was an insider as

n his pockets and his shoulders tense and his gaze locked on her

the protest rang hollow. "You're

t your father wasn't just an accountant,he was feed

, "That's not...

full stake but someone found out the night before the merger was suppose

he shouted, sprin

but didn't mo

?" she hissed with her eyes blazing. "You think dropping

ice, "I don't wan

why te

reasons will destroy you," he sai

messier and her throat tightened with tears

n front of her wasn't just a monster. He was carrying the same g

f careful not to spook her,and his hand brushed h

th his voice low. "There's

g off glass and stone and he stopped in front of a set of double doors at the far end

, vintage cameras, and Photos. Then she saw the picture of her father in suits smiling with Lucien's late father, Henri Devereux, shaking h

ching one in disbeli

r wasn't a victim,not completely,

hy did

rewarded and someone betrayed h

and reflective. "My father trusted very fe

ips,Claude,as if her father had liv

e, just then her legs gave out again and this time, she didn't resist when Lucien caught her. She buried her face in his

were still in the study and she was on the leather sofa with Lucie

what to feel,"

ave to feel

pression was unreadable, but s

tween them shrinking and his hand rested near hers on the cushion

she said, voice nearly a whispe

her slowly, then

rushing a strand of hair behind

what i

This kiss wasn't like the last one,It wasn't desperate a

g, claiming and his hand slipped to her waist pulling her agains

wn her neck, and a g

ispered, half wa

but didn't

want to know what you sound like wh

ed, every n

me," she murmured.

op me,"

the truth was, she didn'

inst her thighs. She gasped as he lifted her into his lap and lips never leaving

kissing down the column of her n

stead her hips p

his hand higher and his fingers ghosti

cie

t hers, dar

to tas

y trembling, b

with reverence and heat, drinking her in like a man dying of thirst. He kissed down her stomach and whispering her name like a vow, and when

sping and shaking beneath his mouth, it wasn't hate she felt, It was surrender. She lay breathless with the fire painting lazy shad

he said. "You're the one

rmor, just a man who looked like he didn't know how to fall in love but mi

e?" sh

n hes

use even when you hated me.

ed in satin sheets and silence with warm against his chest. Her body m

tered when she saw it. An envelope lying on the nightstand and her father's name written across it in Lucien's handwriting.

Lucien, It was from her fathe