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Adetula Redcross
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His Ruin, Hers To Steal

His Ruin, Hers To Steal

I gave a stranger my panties on a plane. Not because I'm reckless. Not because I do things like this. But because Damien Cross looked at me like I was something worth destroying himself over, and I wanted to be devoured. Four hours at 30,000 feet. That's all it took for him to unravel every careful thread of the life I'd built. One look. One touch. One whispered promise that I was his. Then he vanished. No calls. No texts. Just a breaking news report showing him married to someone else, while I stood in a hotel bathroom staring at a positive pregnancy test. Six years later, I've rebuilt myself. I'm a mother. A success. I've learned to survive without him. Until he walks into my photoshoot and recognizes the birthmark he once traced with his tongue. He says he never stopped looking for me. That his marriage was a cage he's finally escaped. That the twin boys I've been raising alone are his sons, and he wants his family back. But Damien Cross is a man who deals in empires and enemies. Someone close to him wants me gone. The threats start. The danger escalates. And I realize that loving Damien means walking into a war I never signed up for. He says he'll burn the world down to keep us safe. I'm terrified he means it. Some men are worth the fall but men are the wreckage. But Damien is both.
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Chapter: CHAPTER 7
Morgan POV"Mom!"I jolted awake, disoriented for a moment before two small bodies crashed into me."Mom, look! Look!" Timothy was bouncing on the seat, pointing frantically out the window."It's the Statue of Liberty!" Tanner pressed his face against the glass, leaving a smudge. "We learned about her in school!"I blinked the sleep from my eyes and leaned over to see what had them so excited.There she was. The Statue of Liberty rising from the water, her torch held high against the blue sky.New York.We were really here.The familiar skyline came into view as the plane descended. Buildings stretched toward the clouds. The city sprawled out below us, massive and overwhelming and full of memories I'd spent six years trying to forget.My chest tightened.The last time I'd seen this view, I'd been naive, pregnant, and heartbroken. Flying away from the man who'd shattered me.Now I was flying back.With his children.Children he didn't know existed."Mommy, are you okay?" Tanner's small
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-02-07
Chapter: CHAPTER 6
Morgan POVI found myself shutting the hairdryer, and put the phone closer to my ear. “Hey, hey. Kathy calm down. What happened? Tell me everything.” I cooed. "Okay," she said, slower now but still frantic. "Okay. So a company sent an email. A really big company. Saying they wanted to book you for a campaign. And I was looking at the contract and somehow…I don't even know how it happened…but I accidentally hit accept and now it's confirmed and they've already sent the welcome packet and—""Kathy." I kept my voice calm even though confusion was starting to turn into concern. "Just tell me what company it is. We can figure this out.""Sterling and Vale Corporation."The name meant nothing to me. I frowned."Who?""They're this massive international corporation. Morgan, they're huge. Like, they work with every major brand you can think of. Fashion. Cosmetics. Luxury goods. They coordinate campaigns across dozens of companies.""Okay..." I still didn't understand why she sounded so pani
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-02-04
Chapter: CHAPTER 5
~Morgan POV~SIX YEARS LATER"Not again…" I muttered under my breath the moment a scream ripped through the living room. For a split second, I considered grabbing my trusty baseball bat, the Mass of Destruction, because with my kids, you never truly knew.But then the insults started flying."It's mine, you chicken head!""No, YOU'RE the chicken head, stink breath!""No, you're the potato brain!""No, it's you!""Uh-uh. It's you!""MOMMY! Timothy just called me a wacko head!""No I didn't!""Yes you did!""You said it first!""Did not!""Did too!"I closed my eyes, inhaled, and reminded myself that these were the kids I fought for. The kids I loved with every exhausted cell of my body.My twin boys. Timothy and Tanner. Professional chaos creators and part-time terrorists of peace.And it was only eight in the morning.I dragged myself out of bed, my body protesting every movement because three hours of sleep wasn't enough. But motherhood didn't care about sleep schedules or personal n
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2026-02-03
Chapter: CHAPTER 4
Morgan POV Matured Audience The world had narrowed to the space between his sheets, to the scent of his skin and the crushing weight of a need so profound I felt like dying.I was on all fours, my body bowed and trembling. The air was cold on my heated skin, but the fire he stoked within me was an inferno.He brought his palm to my skin for the nth time. I had lost count with all pleasure clouding my mind. "Ahhhhh...!" The sound tore from my lips. The sting had my body begging for me as I pushed back against the digits in me. He had his fingers buried. They were long and thick pressing against my core, delving into the wet, aching heat of me. It was too much. We'd been like this for the past hour. Him using my body like an instrument tuned solely to his touch, and I gracefully accepting each chord he pulled in me. “Damien, too much…” I pleaded, tears pouring my eyes. I couldn't count how long I'd been begging. I wanted the release he was so desperately prevented me from having.
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-10-18
Chapter: CHAPTER 3
Morgan POV It had been a day since Damien.Twenty-four hours since I'd done the craziest thing of my entire life on that plane. Since I'd slipped my panties into his hand and fled.Twenty-four hours since I'd looked back and seen him breathing in my scent, his eyes dark with a promise that had haunted me ever since.I should have been exploring. That's what people did when they came to New York for the first time, right? Times Square. Central Park. The Statue of Liberty. All the tourist traps I'd dreamed about visiting since I was a kid.Instead, I was lying in my hotel room, staring at the ceiling, replaying that moment over and over until I could barely breathe.The look on his face. The shock, then the raw, predatory want. The way he'd held my underwear like it was a prize. This was insane.I didn't obsess over men. Didn't let them consume my thoughts until nothing else existed.But Damien was weirdly different. Why? I didn't know. I didn't know why the bare thought of his name m
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-10-18
Chapter: CHAPTER 2
~Morgan POV~"You don't s—" I laughed out loud, the sound bursting from me before I could stop it.Damien's joke had been so unexpected, so perfectly timed, that I couldn't hold it in. My hand flew to my mouth, but the damage was done."Shhhhh!"The sharp hiss came from across the aisle. The older woman from earlier was now glaring daggers in our direction as her finger pressed to her lips like we were kids.I bit my lip, trying to swallow the rest of my laughter. However, Damien didn't even try to look sorry.He turned toward the old woman and winked. Her eyes went wide. Then they narrowed into slits. Her face flushed red, going from pale to tomato in seconds. She looked like she might spontaneously combust right there in her seat."It seems granny wants us to behave," Damien murmured, his voice low enough that only I could hear. The amusement in his tone made my stomach flip.I pressed my hand harder against my mouth, another laugh threatening to escape."You're terrible," I whisper
Terakhir Diperbarui: 2025-10-18
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