Chapter: Chapter 160DAMIENOn the second morning she wakes before me.I can hear her moving through the villa, then I hear the soft slide of the terrace doors, and then nothing but the sea. I lie there for a moment staring at the ceiling, my hand on the warm space where she was, and make a decision that I've technically already made but have been carrying around for three weeks like something fragile.I get up, and walk towards where she is.She's standing at the railing with coffee in her hands, her hair is loose, and she is also wearing one of my shirts with nothing else. The coast spread out below her in the early morning like a liquid gold, this looks something that shouldn't be real. She doesn't hear me come out. I watch her for a moment, enjoying the stillness that she gives off when she doesn't know she's being observed, when there's no crisis to manage or performance to give, it is like she's just herself inside her own skin.I've loved her longer than I've admitted it. Even to myself.I go bac
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Chapter: Chapter 159ELARA I wrap my legs around his waist and pull him deeper. He shifts us so I’m straddling him, while still joined. Bracing my hands on his strong thighs, I start to ride him slowly, in deep rocks that let me take every inch of him. Each time I sink down, he fills me to the root. I lean forward, pressing my breasts to his chest, and suckle his nipple again, licking and tugging him while I grind on his cock. Damien’s hands roams my body. He cups my breasts, kneading the soft weight, and teaseing my nipples with feather-light circles before drawing one into his mouth. He sucks deeply, flicking his tongue, and grazing his teeth on my nipples, switching from one to the other until I’m gasping and trembling. The pleasure builds up slowly, and inevitably. My walls flutter harder around him in rhythmic pulses milking his length with every glide. His fingers slip between us to find my clit, rubbing it in slow, firm circles that match the rhythm of my hips. When I come it’s quiet and dev
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Chapter: Chapter 158DAMIEN I didn't tell her where we're going. She has asks twice in the car to the airport, but gets nothing both times, and eventually settles into her seat with an expression she wears when she's decided that demanding information is less interesting than waiting for it. Arms crossed, with one brow slightly elevated and the ghost of a smile she won't give me yet. I've learned to read her the way you learn a city...not from a map but from walking it until the streets make sense in your body. Hayes loads the bags and I hand her a glass of wine the moment we board and she looks at me. "Are you bribing me?" "I'm softening you." "For what?" "The flight time." She takes the wine. "How long?" "Long enough to finish that." She looks out the window at the tarmac sliding past and I watch her let it go....the question, the control, the constant low-level vigilance she's carried for months. By the time we're airborne she's asleep with her head against my shoulder, her wine half finish
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Chapter: Chapter 157ELARA I recieved my mother's calls on Thursday evening, two hours after their therapy appointment. I'm at my desk working on the foundation proposal when the phone rings and I look at her name on the screen and let it ring twice before I answer. Not out of cruelty, just because I need the two seconds to decide who I'm going to be in this conversation. "Mom." "Hi, sweetheart." Her voice is different. "We went to the therapist today." "How was it?" She pause. "Hard. It was hard." She exhales slowly. "She asked us to talk about patterns. In our family. How we responded to conflict, who we protected and who we expected to manage." There is another pause, longer. "Your name came up a great deal." I don't say anything. "I want to see you," Mom says. "In person. Your father too. We're not asking for anything ...we're not asking you to forgive us or pretend or go back to the way things were. We just want to see you." Her voice tightens slightly, still she sounds like she controlled her
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Chapter: Chapter 156ELARAWe left the inn and got back to the penthouse just after midnight.Hayes drops us at the entrance, and take the car around, all of a sudden it's just the two of us in the elevator, our shoulders touching. The air is filled with silence, all through the drive I had shut my eyes pretending to rest, I simply don't know how to answer Damien's question both the one he asked and the one he hasn't asked. But here standing with him I can't keep runing away from it.The penthouse is exactly as we left it.I drop my bag by the door. Toe off my shoes and stand in the middle of the living room trying to breathe in fresh air and dispel my worries.Damien watches me from the entryway, still in his coat."Say it," I tell him."Say what?""Whatever you're holding back."He's quiet for a moment. Then: "I want to know how you are. Answer me truthfully, not the one you've been giving everyone else today."I consider lying. Not maliciously...just the reflexive self-sufficiency I've spent years perf
Last Updated: 2026-04-09
Chapter: Chapter 155ELARAMorrison's team moves on towards the house at 7:43 PM.It's quiet and coordinated and fast. Two officers to the back, two to the side, Morrison herself at the front door with her badge already out.She knocks."Elena Blake. This is Detective Sarah Morrison, NYPD. I have a warrant for your arrest. Please open the door."Silence.Then, from inside, I hear a laughter a sound I recognize even from twenty feet away.The door opens.Elena stands in the doorway looking like she's been expecting company for dinner. She's wearing jeans and a cream-colored sweater, her dark hair is loose around her shoulders, and she looks so much like me that the officers nearest to her visibly startle.She looks at Morrison. Then past her, scanning until she finds me in the shadows at the edge of the drive.And she smiles."You actually came," she says, and her voice carries perfectly in the quiet evening air. She sounds almost delighted. "I wasn't sure you would.""Elena Blake," Morrison begins, "you a
Last Updated: 2026-04-07
Twisted Obsession: My Billionaire Husband Regrets Losing Me
For two years, Isabella Crane played the perfect wife to New York billionaire Ethan Sinclair.
Elegant, obedient and invisible.
Their marriage was nothing more than a contract designed to save her family from financial ruin, and Ethan made sure she never forgot it. He gave her his last name, his penthouse, and his rules, but never his heart. While the world envied her glamorous life, Isabella spent every night alone, watching her husband give the attention that should have been hers to another woman.
Then she discovers she’s pregnant.
With twins.
And on the same night she realizes Ethan had secretly planned to end their marriage early, Isabella decides she’s done begging to be seen. She files for divorce, disappears without a trace, and starts over with a new career, a new apartment, and a secret powerful enough to destroy the cold billionaire who never truly looked at her.
But Ethan Sinclair was never supposed to lose control.
When his quiet, forgotten wife suddenly vanishes from his life, the emptiness she leaves behind begins tearing apart the carefully constructed empire around him. And when he discovers the truth months later...that Isabella left carrying his children...obsession replaces indifference.
Now the man who once ignored her wants back into her life.
Back into her home and into her heart.
But Isabella refuses to become the invisible wife he abandoned.
Ethan will have to prove he deserves more than a second chance. Because this time, loving her won’t be enough. He’ll have to see her.
Before another man does.
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Chapter: Chapter 43ISABELLA'S POV"Still married and fighting about it," Esme sings. "Imagine that."I turn all the way around to look at her. I her still leaning on the back of the sofa with her glass of water, looking less concern and not sorry for eavesdropping. She's clearly enjoying herself."You were eavesdropping on us at the door.""Well I was walking to the kitchen. It's not my fault you two yell." She shrugs. "Honestly, Bella, it explains so much. You live separately, don't want to talk about him with me, though when we got you stayed in the same room, but you guys were never like loving couples. You even flame up at the sight of me close to him. Though the way he looks at you is confusing. I told my Mom the information we got was wrong, you weren't really divorced. But she did not believe me.""So you and your mother came here because you thought I was divorced. So what was your plan? To take the position of his wife or lover? Why are you guys always wanting what you don't own?""I don't know
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Chapter: Chapter 42ISABELLA'S POVWhen I get to the hospital my father is awake and alone, thankfully. For once, Aunt Lottie isn't crowding the place."Papa," I call out, and kiss his forehead. "You look better.""I feel like something is being slowly stolen from me," he says, his voice dry.I let out a laugh in spite of myself, but the humor doesn't last. He watches me for a moment before asking, "How are my grandchildren?""They are doing what they do best.""Good." He's quiet for a moment, watching me. "You look tired.""I'm fine.""You're not. Your cousin hasn't gone home, right.""No.""I thought as much."I sit down. Something about the way he's looking at me makes me worry. He's got a look I remember from when I was small and I'd done something wrong, and he was giving me a chance to say it first."Isabella," he calls out. "Ask Ethan if there's anything he hasn't told you."I go very still. "Why would you say that?""I'm only saying. Ask him.""Papa, did he say something?""Ask him, first I beliv
Last Updated: 2026-11-03
Chapter: Chapter 41ISABELLA'S POVIt is the third day of our stay here and Esme has insert herself in everything.She now knows Liam wants his toast cut in triangles and Lila wants hers in squares. Even how Lila won't sleep without the hall light on. She knows the bath rule, the cartoon rule, and which cutlery they both prefer.She is always in my face, so when I walk into their room to get the kids ready for bedtime and find Esme already there, sitting on the little bed with Lila in her lap I see red. She is even reading a book to her in the voice I use."Mommy!" Lila says. "Esme is reading me a story.""I see that clearly." "I just wanted to help," Esme answers in defense immediately, acting as though I am about to attack her. She remains sitting. "You looked so tired at dinner.""I'm fine. I'll take it from here.""It's no trouble. We're having fun.""Esme."She looks up, smiling innocently, but her eyes aren't. I know that look. It's the one that says go ahead, make a scene in front of the baby.B
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Chapter: Chapter 40ISABELLA'S POVAfter searching for benefit in anyway she can get, Aunt Lottie stays for lunch and when we finished eating, she annouces loudly to the hearing of everyone that she is going to the hospital to sit with my father. After saying so she sighs and repeat the same sentence while sneakily looking at Ethan, clearly hoping to get Ethan's reaction or attention. But when he did not pay her any attention she stands grab her bag, kiss the kids Liam reluctantly allows her kiss his hair while looking at her with suspicion. When she walks to the door, Esme stands and walk into her room stating that she needs to rest, as she is still tired.Aunt Lottie looks at me with expectation clearly in her eyes, but I did not make any move to send her off. Seeing this she walks out a huff.By the evening as the nanny place the twins in the bath, the penthouse finally goes quiet. They had been playing and raising hell through out the day so the peace is welcomed. I go into Ethan's room and he's sta
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Chapter: Chapter 39ISABELLA'S POV"Answer it if you want," I say.Esme looks shocked by my response. She looks down at the phone, then at me. I think she expected me to grab it or beg her not to.So she lets it ring until it goes to voicemail and the screen goes dark."Huh," she says."What?""Nothing. I thought you'd stop me, I'm surprised you didn't.""I'm not going to stop you. You'll tell her anyway."Hearing that she picks her phone up and types something with her thumbs. I can't help but watch her face while she does it. She's angry, I can see that. Her jaw is tight and she won't look at the twins. But under her anger there's something else. Her mouth keeps turning up at one corner. She knows something her mother doesn't, and she likes it.She hits send and puts the phone face down on the counter."You should eat," she says to Liam, in a voice that's almost normal. "You need breakfast.""Mommy says toast makes you stronger," Liam tells her."Does she.""With butter."Mrs. Sue sets a plate in front
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Chapter: Chapter 38ISABELLA'S POVEthan carries my bag into his bedroom and I immediately follow him while making sure to lock the door behind us."I'll take the sofa," he says."No." I blurt out immediately without second thinking."Isabella, it makes sense. Moreover I wouldn’t want to encroach in your much needed space and...""If she sees you on that sofa in the morning, she'll have something to spin and a story to tell to my aunt." I replied him while keeping my voice down. "She'll know for sure that we're pretending. She'll say something for sure and I don’t want that to happen, I'm not going to give her that satisfaction."He looks at me in surprise. "You really care that much what she thinks?""I care about what she says. And who she says it to." I put my bag on the chair. "You sleep in the bed. I will also sleep in the bed. We act like it's normal. That's all.""Okay.""Okay."I sit on the edge of the mattress and realize my hands are shaking. So I press them between my knees."She heard Lila's v
Last Updated: 2026-10-18
Twisted Obsession: The Billionaires Unclaimed Bride
I thought I knew betrayal when I caught my fiancé's balls-deep in another woman.
I thought I'd hit rock bottom when that woman turned out to be my TWIN SISTER.
But the real knife in my back? He was her boyfriend first. For eight months, she fed him every secret about me—my fears, my dreams, my insecurities—so he could seduce me, make me fall in love, and destroy me when it hurt the most.
Why? Because she's always hated that I'm successful. That I'm respected. That people love me for who I am, not what I look like.
So there I was-promoted, engaged, happy—walking into my fiancé's apartment to celebrate... only to find him f*cking my sister against the wall while she smirked at me over his shoulder.
"Surprise, sister. He was always mine."
I should've gone home. I should've cried. Should've been the victim they wanted me to be.
Instead, I walked into the most exclusive bar in New York and caught the attention of the most dangerous man in the city.
Dante Ashford.
Billionaire. My ex-fiancé's boss. Sex personified. And currently getting pleasured by a beautiful blonde in the VIP lounge—while staring directly at ME.
He said my name while another woman's mouth was on him.
Then he dismissed her with one cold word: "Leave."
When I demanded to know how he knew who I was, he smiled like the devil making a deal.
"I know everything about you. Your cheating fiancé and backstabbing sister. I know exactly how to make them pay."
His offer was simple: Marry me. Destroy them. I'll give you power, wealth, and revenge.
My response shocked us both: "I'll marry you. But first... take me. Tonight."
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Chapter: Chapter 124ARIAHe's quiet for a few seconds before responding. "We will arrange a visit. With full security, strict conditions, and a time limit.""You'd hate every second of it.""Yes. But it wouldn't be about me."I love him for that. For the willingness to put his own protective fury aside if I need something that conflicts with it."Not yet," I say. "I need to think. And we need to verify the diagnosis." I sit up, something shifting in me. "And we need to deal with the whoever that got a access to my calendar and whoever helped Vivienne orchestrate last night.""It is already in progress." Dante stands, moving back toward where Hazel is stirring. "Viktor has a full team on the calendar breach. IT security is auditing system access going back six months.""And Isabelle Laurent?""She is being monitored. She left the gala after delivering the envelope, went directly to her apartment. There has been no further contact with anyone connected to Vivienne that we can identify." Viktor speaks from t
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Chapter: Chapter 123ARIAThe morning comes in gray and quiet.Hazel wakes at 6 AM, announcing herself with the cheerful indiscriminate energy of someone who doesn't understand jet lag, emotional exhaustion, or the concept of sleeping in. Dante gets her before I can even move, returning fifteen minutes later with a fed, changed, fully operational baby who is delighted to see both her parents in the same room."Dada," Hazel announces, patting his face with her both hands."Yes. Dada's home." He catches her wandering fingers before they reach his eye. "Careful, love.""Mama." She turns to me with equal enthusiasm, reaching across the bed."Hi, sweetheart." I take her, settling her between us. She immediately begins a comprehensive inspection of my hair, my necklace, the buttons on my pajama top.This is what Vivienne will never have.Not because she couldn't have...she could have built a life, found love, created something real if she'd chosen differently. But she spent every resource she had trying to take
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Chapter: Chapter 122DANTEMy phone explodes the moment I turn it on at JFK.Viktor: There are significant developments. Call me before you speak to Mrs. Ashford.Seven messages from Viktor, all variants of the same instruction.I call him from the jet bridge, moving fast through the terminal."Talk," I say when he answers.He immediately starts talking. From the envelope, to Laurent, to the calendar access, and then the text messages.By the time he finishes, I'm in the car, burning through traffic towards home."Why didn't you call me mid-flight?""There is nothing you could have done. Mrs. Ashford is safe, the situation is contained, and I didn't want you to spend five hours in a metal tube fifty thousand feet up unable to act." His voice is steady. "Boss, she's safe. But you need to know...she and Vivienne exchanged texts tonight.""Vivienne has a phone?""Contraband. We're working on tracing it, but prison contraband phones are burners, gone before we can track them usually." Viktor pauses. "But what
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Chapter: Chapter 121ARIA'S POV"Yes. Fine. I just..." She pauses like she is trying to find words fill in...Sarah is perpetually efficient, never uncertain. "I ran into something at the office this evening. I was working late and I found something in your calendar system.""What kind of something?""An appointment. Scheduled two weeks from now, under your name. A meeting with Vivienne Sinclair's attorney at a private address." There is another pause. "Aria, you didn't schedule this. I manage your calendar. I would know."Cold settles over me despite the warm car."Someone accessed my calendar system.""Yes. And scheduled a meeting as if it were you." Her voice is tight. "Aria, whoever did this has your login credentials. Or access to the system that bypasses them.""Can you trace where the access came from?""I've already flagged it for IT security. They're looking at it now." There is a pause. "But Aria, if someone can access your calendar, they might be able to access other things. Email, contacts..."
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Chapter: Chapter 120ARIAAt the two-hour mark, I find a quiet corner near the terrace doors to rest my feet and check my phone.There is three texts from Dante: How's the gala? this was sent an hour ago. Then Everything okay? Thirty minutes ago. Then Call me when you get a chance.I step onto the terrace, the night air cool against my bare shoulders, and dial his number.He answers before it even rings properly. "Hey. How are you?""I'm fine. My feet hurt and Viktor is being mysteriously ominous, but otherwise fine." I keep my voice light. "Singapore went well?""The acquisition is complete. I'm at the airport now, the boarding is in an hour.""You moved your flight up.""I wanted to get home.""Because you missed us or because of whatever Viktor isn't telling me?"There is a pause, but it is in a short time as it should be. "Both.""Dante.""Aria.""Tell me what's going on."There is another pause. Then I hear airport noise in the background, an announcements, some distant conversations, and the hollow
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Chapter: Chapter 119ARIADante leaves for Singapore Sunday morning.Hazel and I watch the car pull away from the front steps, Hazel keeps waving at him with a lot enthusiasm which is funny for someone who doesn't yet understand that waving means goodbye."Dada," she says firmly."He'll be back Wednesday," I tell her.She looks at me, then goes back to chewing her teething ring. Problem solved, as far as she's concerned.I wish I had her capacity for moving on.ARIAMonday and Tuesday pass without incident.Work is steady...Morrison Tech implementation is running smoothly, and Hartwell's Q1 campaign is performing above projections, even new client onboarding progressing well. I'm in a rhythm now, the frantic proving-myself energy of my first weeks back has settle into something more sustainable.The pregnancy is still secret beyond Dante, Dr. Chen, and apparently Sarah, who noticed I'd switched from coffee to herbal tea and simply started ordering the right thing without comment."You're going to need to
Last Updated: 2026-06-24
Chapter: Chapter 188Aeliana's POV My mother's hand found mine. I can see her mixture of relief and disappointment, relief that the traitors were dead, disappointment that they'd never face justice for their crimes. "So they're both gone," I said quietly. "The people who destroyed Silverwood, and caused us twenty years of torture...they're dead." "At the Council's hands, not ours," my father said bitterly. "They don't even have to answer for what they did." "They answered," Caelan said. "Just not to us. The Council executed them because they became liabilities. That's a kind of justice, even if it's not what we would have chosen." "It's not enough," my father argued. "It has to be enough," I said firmly, one hand on my growing belly. "Because the alternative is declaring war on the Council to avenge people who are already dead. And I'm not risking my child, this pack, or our future for vengeance against corpses." The room fell silent. My father looked like he wanted to argue, but slowly his express
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Chapter: Chapter 187Aeliana's POV "The Advisory Council was made of twelve people," Brennan added. "We've eliminated eight through various means, we either verified they died in the attack, or confirmed they were targeted by the Council rather than working with them. That leaves four potential traitors." "Do you have names?" Caelan asked. "Two are dead—killed in unrelated incidents over the past twenty years. But two are still alive." Kira pulled out a worn piece of paper covered in notes. "Councilor Meredith Ashwood and Councilor Gareth Thornvale. Both survived the attack, and both disappeared afterward, and have been impossible to track despite our efforts." "You think one of them betrayed us and is now hiding from retribution?" I asked. "We think one of them betrayed us and is now working directly for the Council," Brennan corrected. "The patterns suggest ongoing collaboration, not just a one-time betrayal. Whoever sold out Silverwood twenty years ago is probably still feeding intelligence
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Chapter: Chapter 186Aeliana's POVAt twelve weeks pregnant, my body finally started showing visible changes beyond the constant hunger and exhaustion.My stomach, which had remained stubbornly flat despite the baby's growth, developed a small but definite curve. Not obvious to strangers, but unmistakable to anyone who knew me well."You're showing," Jolene observed during my weekly check-up. "Finally. I was starting to worry the baby was somehow growing without physical manifestation.""Is that normal?" I asked, running my hand over the small bump. "To not show until twelve weeks?""For most werewolf pregnancies, showing starts around eight to ten weeks. But your case is unusual; the baby has been consuming so much energy that your body wasn't storing anything for visible growth. Now that the pregnancy is more established, your body is finally allowing physical changes." Jolene's magical scan hummed over my abdomen. "The baby is developing beautifully. Strong heartbeat, excellent growth rate, and the mag
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Chapter: Chapter 185Caelan's POVThe king and queen were being greeted by pack members who'd heard the stories of their rescue and who wanted to meet the legendary monarchs. It was chaos, wonderful chaos, the kind that came from families reuniting and communities merging."Alpha," Marcus approached, his expression serious. "We need to discuss the integration plan for the Silverwood loyalists. Two hundred wolves is a significant addition, and we need a clear hierarchy, territory assignments, and resource allocation.""Tomorrow," I said firmly. "Tonight, we rest. We celebrate being home. We grieve the wolves we lost. Tomorrow we handle logistics."Marcus looked like he wanted to argue but nodded. "Understood. I'll have reports ready for you in the morning."As the evening progressed, pack members organized a welcome feast. Despite the losses we'd suffered, despite the uncertainty ahead, there was joy in this gathering. We'd survived. We'd won. We'd brought home wolves who'd been lost and built alliances t
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Chapter: Chapter 184Caelan's POVThe convoy returning home was unlike anything I'd ever coordinated. Two hundred Silverwood loyalists, my pack members who'd fought in the battle, the King and Queen of Silverwood, various allied wolves who'd stayed to help, and one very pregnant, very hungry Luna who kept demanding stops for food."We've been traveling for two hours," I said as Aeliana requested the third rest stop. "We're not even halfway home yet.""The baby is hungry," she said, not even apologetic. "And when the baby is hungry, everyone suffers. Trust me, you want me fed and content, not starving and irritable."She had a point. I'd witnessed firsthand what happened when Aeliana's pregnancy hunger wasn't satisfied—she became snappish, unfocused, and genuinely distressed. It was easier to stop every hour and let her eat than to deal with the consequences."Fine. Everyone, we're taking another break. Fifteen minutes."The convoy pulled over, wolves stretching their legs and taking the opportunity to shi
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Chapter: Chapter 183Aeliana's POV Afterward, lying tangled together as dawn light filtered through the windows, Caelan stroked my hair with gentle affection."Jolene said this would level off after the first trimester," he observed. "That's still six more weeks.""Can you handle six more weeks of this?" I asked, genuinely concerned. "I know I'm being demanding...""I love you," he interrupted. "And I love that you want me this much. Yes, it's intense. Yes, it can be exhausting. But I'm not complaining, Lia. This is us growing our family. Every symptom, every craving, every overwhelming need...it's all part of creating our child."I can feel his absolute sincerity. He wasn't just tolerating my pregnancy symptoms; he was embracing them as part of our journey together."I love you too," I said softly. "Even when I'm eating raw meat at four in the morning and demanding sex for the third time in twelve hours.""Especially then," he corrected with a smile.A knock on the door interrupted our moment. My mother
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