Novel-novel oleh Irelyn V.

The ceiling was unfamiliar.That was the first thing.I lay there for a full second just staring at it, waiting for my brain to catch up with the rest of me. White ceiling. Dark curtains. Sheets that were too soft to be mine.Then everything came back at once.I sat up so fast the room tilted.The other side of the bed was empty. Cool to the touch when I pressed my hand against it, which meant he'd been gone for a while. His side barely looked slept in. The whole room barely looked like anyone lived in it, clean, sparse, the kind of space that didn't give anything away.I pressed my fingers against my eyes and just breathed for a second.Okay.Okay.I looked down. I was wrapped in a bedsheet, my dress from last night folded on the chair by the window. On top of it, a plain white shirt and a skirt.I stared at them.He'd left clothes out for me.Something about that small thing made my throat tighten in a way I didn't have the time or the energy to deal with. I pushed it down, got up,

The stranger didn’t say yes. He didn’t say no either.He just looked at me for two long seconds, then jerked his head toward the back of the bar. “VIP lounge. Now.”My legs felt loose from the drinks, but I followed him. The world tilted a little as we moved through the crowd. His hand landed on the small of my back. Not gentle, just firm enough to steer me. We passed a bouncer who nodded at him like they knew each other. A black curtain, then stairs, then another door.The second the door to the VIP lounge clicked shut behind us, the noise from the bar dropped to a dull thump. Dim red lights. One big leather couch. A low table. No one else.I didn’t even wait.The second we were inside, I turned and crashed into him. My hands grabbed his shirt. My body pressed hard against his. I started grinding on his thigh like I had no shame left, hips rolling messy and desperate.“Fuck…” I breathed against his chest.He let out a low chuckle, dark and mean. “Look at you. Already humping my leg l

I don't remember deciding to go to a bar.I just ended up in one.That's the only way I can explain it. One minute I was standing outside Daniel's building already heartbroken and the next, I was on a barstool somewhere loud and dim, with a glass of something that burned in front of me and no clear memory of how I got there.I drank it.Ordered another.My head was a complete disaster. Thoughts kept crashing into each other and breaking apart before I could finish them. Daniel and Sienna. Sienna and Daniel. Long before you, Nora. The Meridian files. The way he reached for his phone while he was talking to me like I wasn't even worth the full attention it took to end a relationship.You got what you deserved.I pressed my fingers against my eyes.God, why was my life a mess all of a sudden?How did my stepfather even know about Daniel? That was the part I kept snagging on.Victor Vance, sitting somewhere in his big house with his money and his people, quietly pulling strings around my

I swung the door open.I don't even remember turning the key. One second I was in the hallway and the next I was inside. The light from the bedroom was spilling out into the dark living room and I was just…..standing there.Processing.Because what I was seeing didn't make sense yet. My brain was still loading. Still trying to find a different explanation for what was right in front of me.The bedroom door was open.And Daniel wasn't alone.Sienna was on all fours on the bed, her back arched deeply, dark hair falling loose down her spine and swaying with every forceful thrust. Daniel was behind her, gripping her hips tightly as he drove into her from behind, his cock sliding in and out of her wet pussy with wet, rhythmic slaps. Her full breasts swung heavily beneath her, nipples hard, and she was moaning loudly, pushing back against him to meet each deep stroke. The scent of sex, sweat, her arousal, and his musk, hung thick in the air. Daniel's face was tense with pleasure, one hand t

I was already shutting my laptop when they blocked the door.Not one person. Two. Claire from legal and Ryan from the projects team, both standing there like they'd planned exactly where to put their feet. Like they'd been waiting for five o'clock on purpose."Nora." Claire’s voice was flat. "We need a minute."I looked between them. "I was literally just leaving —""It won't take long."What was going on?By the time they walked me back to the main floor, half the office was still there. End of day stragglers. People who should have been packing up their bags, but weren't. They were watching. Some pretending not to, which was worse.Sienna was already standing at the front.She had printed documents in her hand. She always printed things when she wanted them to feel official, real and hard to argue with."We've been made aware," she started, loud enough for the whole room, "that confidential details from the Meridian project were leaked to a competitor. The Meridian pitch. The one we