Forbidden obsession ; She’ll be the death of me
Call it obsession or crazy, but Zane Jaxon had developed a disturbing attraction to his best friend’s baby sister. Alessia Bennett was not his type and never should have been. Yet the more he tried to ignore her, the more he found himself thinking about her, watching her, and wanting something he knew he could never have.
Then Alessia made the first move.
Zane finally gave in, breaking the one rule he had promised himself he would never break. His best friend’s sister was supposed to be off-limits, but that only made wanting her worse. What started as a secret attraction quickly turned into something neither of them could hide, and despite Zane’s reputation as a heartless playboy, Alessia fell for him.
She knew what everyone said about him. She knew girls never lasted long in Zane’s life. But she believed what they had was different. She believed that underneath the careless smile and endless flirtation was a side of him he had never shown anyone else.
Zane let her believe it.
Because the one thing Alessia didn’t know was that Zane had never planned on falling in love with her. He had only planned on having her. And once he had her, it was time to let her go.
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Chapter: Chapter 74: Coffee gone cold.ALESSIA’s POV. I didn’t smile back right away.The cocky little curve of his mouth threw me off more than I wanted to admit.Caleb West stayed seated like he had all the time in the world, one arm resting on the back of the chair, green eyes steady on me. Up close, he looked even more put-together than he had on the ice—still messy dark hair, still that easy posture, but the intensity in his stare was sharper now that it wasn’t focused on a puck.“You looked like you were about to drown in that mug,” he said. “Figured someone should interrupt.”I raised an eyebrow. “And that someone had to be you?”He shrugged, still half-smiling. “Lucky timing.”I glanced past him toward the rink. The noise was still there, distant now. Whistles. Skates. Coaches barking corrections. Life continuing like nothing had cracked open two days ago on a porch three thousand miles away.“You always walk up to random girls staring into cold coffee?” I asked.“Only the ones who spent the morning photographing
Last Updated: 2026-10-02
Chapter: Chapter 73: Number six.ALESSIA’s POV. The last two days were a blur. I couldn’t stop replaying that early morning on the porch—the way Zane had looked me dead in the eye and ended us. It left an ache that refused to quiet. Kendra only knew the surface of it. I still hadn’t told her everything. I wasn’t ready.I stared at the unfamiliar ceiling for a long minute before pushing myself up. Half-unpacked boxes sat on the marble floor like accusations. I walked past them and headed for the bathroom.The girl in the mirror looked like a stranger. Weak. Exhausted. Angry at herself for trusting so completely. Dark circles sat beneath my eyes. My hair was a ruffled mess, and my lips were cracked from biting them raw the night before while trying not to make a sound.I gripped the edge of the sink until my knuckles went white.Fuck.Nothing was working. My chest felt hollow, and I felt stupid for every single hope I’d allowed myself to have. I splashed cold water over my face, washed my hair, and went back to the be
Last Updated: 2026-10-02
Chapter: Chapter 72: Rearview.ZANE’s POV. I hit the gas hard. Rain slammed the windshield in thick sheets, blurring the fucking street. My hands locked around the wheel, knuckles white. My jaw was so tight it hurt. I didn’t look back. Not once. If I did—if I saw her still standing there in the middle of the lawn—I knew I’d stop. And I couldn’t fucking stop.I thought this would feel lighter. Like I’d finally put something down. Cut it clean. Be free of it before camp, before the NHL, before everything that actually mattered.It didn’t.The second her house disappeared, the weight in my chest got worse. Heavier. Like I’d just made everything ten times uglier and there was no taking it back.My own voice kept looping.It was nothing serious.A fling.You should’ve listened to them.I said that shit like I meant it. Had to. Make it ugly enough that she wouldn’t come after me. Ugly enough that she wouldn’t hope. Ugly enough that I wouldn’t either.But it was pure fucking bullshit.I knew it the second the words left
Last Updated: 2026-10-01
Chapter: Chapter 71: A Fling.ALESSIA’s POV. The first thing I saw was a big, blurry smear of white. It took me a second to realize I was looking at my ceiling, but my eyes just wouldn’t focus. A brutal hangover headache slammed into my brain, a direct punishment for all the alcohol I drank last night. Through the open window, I could hear a soft drizzle tapping against the glass. At least the weather was being quiet.I was pretty much fucking wasted yesterday, but I still remembered how Zane looked at me when he pulled away from me.Fear?No, it was definitely something else. Something I couldn’t name. It was written all over his face. I just had been so caught up in my own tipsy world that I’d failed to point that out.Then his very fucking subtle “I’m sorry” kept ringing in my head, along with the way he’d looked at me after. I tried not to think about it deeper than I wanted to.Only it became worse.I sighed and pushed myself up to take pain relievers from my drawer. The already-packed suitcases on the rugge
Last Updated: 2026-09-30
Chapter: Chapter 70: Sorry.ALESSIA’s POV. I woke up on Saturday morning with a stupid grin already plastered across my face. Twenty. Officially fucking twenty. I stared at the ceiling for a second like it owed me an apology for the number changing overnight, then rolled over and grabbed my phone. Notifications were already blowing up—group chats, random people from school, old teammates, even my cousin, who only texts when it’s someone’s birthday or someone’s in the hospital. I scrolled through them one-eyed, snorting at the ones calling me ancient. Twenty felt huge and completely underwhelming at the same time, and I decided I was allowed to be a dramatic bitch about it for at least the first hour.The door slammed open before I could even finish replying.Kendra launched herself onto my bed like a damn missile, screaming something that ended in “YOU’RE OLD!” and nearly knocking the phone out of my hand.There was aggressive hugging, a pillow flying at my head, and her voice going full banshee as she announce
Last Updated: 2026-09-29
Chapter: Chapter 69: Three weeks!ALESSIA’s POV. Tomorrow was my birthday.And somehow, I was more excited about California than I was about turning twenty.Which felt slightly unhinged. Twenty was supposed to feel significant. Instead, I was on my dorm floor Friday morning, knee-deep in clothes, packing with Kendra like we were fleeing the state. Leaving in a couple of days already felt weird. The last few days with Zane had been ridiculously good, the kind of good that made everything else feel brighter, and now I was about to put an entire country between us for a few weeks. Still. California with Kendra. Birthday incoming. I was buzzing anyway.“You do realize we’re going for a few weeks, right?” Kendra held up a stack of tops like she was presenting court evidence. “Not opening a boutique in Malibu?”I snatched a black tank from her hands. “Options, Kendra. A girl needs options. What if the weather decides to be dramatic? What if I spill something? What if I just feel like changing three times in one day because
Last Updated: 2026-09-28
The wrong woman to lose
Irina Rashford appears to have a perfect life as a devoted wife and mother until betrayal shatters her world. Her husband, Tyler Rashford, and their son, Jacob Rashford, turn against her under the influence of their nanny, Karen Bason, leading to Irina being cast out of her home and stripped of her family.
Devastated, Irina divorces Tyler and rebuilds her life from scratch, reclaiming her identity as Irina Solace. Through determination and ambition, she rises into a powerful billionaire businesswoman, founding the successful empire Irina’s Radiance with support from her sister Kate Solace and her assistant Maria Bonnett.
During a business trip to New York, Irina’s life takes a dramatic turn after a chance encounter with a mysterious stranger during a night of emotional escape. The next morning, she discovers she must meet a major investor—only to realize the man is none other than Kyle George, the CEO of George & Sons Enterprise and the same man from the night before.
Now caught between her past betrayal and a dangerously intense new connection, Irina faces a future where love, power, and consequences collide.
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Chapter: Chapter 40 : The woman worth keeping.Irina Solace never imagined she would wear a wedding dress again.Not after Tyler.Not after the divorce.Not after spending years convincing herself that love was something other people got lucky enough to keep.Yet here she was.Standing in front of a floor-length mirror.Dressed in white.Trying very hard not to cry.Failing miserably.⸻“Mom.”Jacob’s voice made her turn.The moment she saw him, another tear escaped.Jacob immediately sighed.“You’re crying again.”“I am not.”“You absolutely are.”Irina laughed through her tears.“Fine.”Jacob shook his head.A smile tugging at his lips.For a moment he simply stood there.Looking at her.And suddenly she saw the little boy he used to be.The one who ran to her after school.The one who asked her to check for monsters under his bed.The one she thought she’d lost forever.⸻“You look beautiful.”The words were simple.Yet they meant everything.Because years ago there had been a time when she believed she would never hear them fr
Last Updated: 2026-06-24
Chapter: Chapter 39 : The Right Woman to Choose. Kyle immediately knew something was different. The moment Irina opened the apartment door. Something had changed. Not dramatically. Not visibly. But enough. Enough for him to notice. Because noticing Irina had become second nature. “Hey.” His voice softened. “You okay?” Irina stared at him for a moment. Then smiled. A nervous smile. The kind he rarely saw. And suddenly Kyle became concerned. ⸻ Without a word, she stepped aside. Allowing him inside. Kyle entered slowly. His eyes immediately scanning her face. Searching. Waiting. Trying to understand. “What happened?” Irina laughed softly. A laugh filled with nerves. Then she held out her hand. A small white object rested in her palm. For several seconds Kyle simply looked at it. Confused. Then realization dawned. His eyes widened. Once. Twice. Then he looked back at her. Completely speechless. ⸻ “Kyle…” His name trembled on her lips. And somehow that made everything feel more real. More terrify
Last Updated: 2026-06-24
Chapter: Chapter 38 : Letting Go.Tyler Rashford had never been afraid of silence.Until now.The restaurant was quiet.Elegant.Private.The kind of place where important conversations happened.And today was important.Because for the first time in years, he was sitting across from Irina with nothing left to defend.No excuses.No lies.No Karen.Just the truth.And the truth was difficult to look at.Especially when it wore Irina’s face.⸻She looked different.Not because of her clothes.Not because of her success.Not because she was now one of the most respected women in the business world.She looked different because she looked free.Tyler noticed it immediately.The tension she used to carry was gone.The sadness that once lived behind her eyes had disappeared.And somehow…That realization hurt more than he expected.Because he was forced to confront something ugly.She hadn’t become happier after losing him.She had become happier after escaping him.⸻Irina placed her coffee cup down carefully.Waiting.Pa
Last Updated: 2026-06-24
Chapter: Chapter 37 : Everything falls apart.Karen knew.The moment she walked into the dining room the next morning.She knew.Something had changed.Tyler sat at the head of the table.A cup of coffee untouched beside him.A thick file resting near his hand.Jacob sat several seats away.Silent.Detached.Not looking at her.Not speaking to her.Not acknowledging her.Karen’s stomach twisted.For years she had controlled every room she entered.Today she felt like an outsider in her own home.“Good morning.”No one answered.Not immediately.The silence was answer enough.⸻Tyler slowly closed the file.His movements calm.Measured.Far too calm.Karen would have preferred shouting.Anger.An argument.Because calm Tyler was dangerous.Calm Tyler meant he had already made a decision.“Sit.”The single word made her pulse quicken.She obeyed.⸻For several seconds nobody spoke.Then Tyler slid the file across the table.Karen stared at it.And immediately felt the blood leave her face.Private investigator reports.Financial re
Last Updated: 2026-06-24
Chapter: Chapter 36 : The son she never lost.Irina arrived twenty minutes early.Then spent those twenty minutes wondering whether she should leave.Her fingers tightened around her coffee cup as she stared through the café window.People walked by.Cars passed.Life continued.Yet her entire world felt suspended.Waiting.For one conversation.One meeting.One chance.A chance she had stopped believing she would ever get.The bell above the café door chimed.Irina looked up.And her heart stopped.Jacob.For a moment, neither moved.Neither spoke.The years between them suddenly felt tangible.Heavy.Painful.Jacob looked taller than she remembered.Older.Yet somehow, in that moment, she still saw the little boy who used to climb into her lap after nightmares.The little boy who once believed she could fix anything.The little boy she had missed every single day.“Hi, Mom.”The word nearly shattered her.Mom.Not Irina.Not a cold greeting.Mom.Irina smiled through tears.“Hi, sweetheart.”Jacob swallowed hard.Then sat down
Last Updated: 2026-06-24
Chapter: Chapter 35 : Karen’s Faults. Karen knew something was wrong the moment she walked into the house. It wasn’t the silence. The Rashford mansion had been silent for weeks now. Ever since Tyler started pulling away. Ever since Jacob stopped treating her like the center of his world. No. This felt different. Dangerous. The kind of silence that came before a storm. She set her handbag on the console table and glanced toward the living room. Jacob was sitting on the couch. Waiting. A thick folder rested on the coffee table in front of him. Karen’s stomach tightened immediately. She recognized the folder. Not because she had seen it before. But because she knew exactly what it contained. Questions. And questions were becoming a problem. “Jacob?” The teenager looked up. His expression was calm. Too calm. Karen would have preferred anger. Anger was easy to manipulate. Calm meant he had been thinking. And thinking was dangerous. “Can we talk?” Karen forced a smile. “Of course.” She sat down op
Last Updated: 2026-06-24
Chapter: Chapter 7Ryder. Practice was supposed to clear my head.It didn’t.I spent the first twenty minutes slamming pucks like they’d personally pissed me off, and Coach finally blew the whistle and told me to stop trying to kill the net. Kane skated up beside me, grinning like an idiot.“You good?”“Fine.”“You look like you want to fight somebody.”“I said I’m fine.”Kane raised his eyebrows and let it go, which was smart. I wasn’t in the mood to explain that my problem had glasses, freckles, and a mouth that kept telling me to shut up and do the worksheet.Ivy Bennett was living in my head rent-free and I hated it.After practice I sat on the bench longer than I needed to, unwrapping the tape from my wrists and replaying Tuesday in my mind. She’d told me I was doing better. Then she’d shut down the second I brought up Kane. That was the part that stuck. Not the compliment. The way her whole face changed when I said his name.I didn’t like that.I also didn’t like that I cared.Nora was waiting by
Last Updated: 2026-09-16
Chapter: Chapter 6IvyI spent the rest of Thursday pretending I wasn’t thinking about him.Which was impressive, considering I thought about him on the walk back to my apartment, while I reheated leftover rice that tasted like nothing, and again while I sat on my bedroom floor counting the money I could send my brother this month.Eat something before the next session.The nerve of him.Ryder Knox did not get to look at me like that and then act like he gave a shit whether I ate. He didn’t get to call me Jenner like it was his to use. He didn’t get to throw Kane’s girlfriend in my face like he had any right to comment on who I looked at.I stabbed my fork into the rice and muttered, “Asshole.”My phone buzzed.Unknown number:you left your highlighter.I stared at it. Then another message came in.Unknown number:it’s pink. very you.I didn’t answer. Two minutes later:Unknown number:this is Ryder. dr miller gave me your number. don’t make it weird.I made it weird by staring at the screen for a full
Last Updated: 2026-09-12
Chapter: Chapter 5RyderI couldn’t stop thinking about the way she looked at Kane.It was stupid. Completely fucking stupid. She hadn’t even smiled that big. Just a soft little “trying to” and some quiet eye contact, and somehow it sat in my chest like a rock the rest of the day. Kane had been his usual easygoing self, tossing out that “if he gets too unbearable” line like he was the good guy in the situation. Which, fine. He usually was. But I didn’t like how Ivy’s voice changed when she answered him. Softer. Less sharp. Like she didn’t have to armor up around him the way she did with me.I hated that I noticed.After the session I went straight to film review and spent the whole time half-listening to Coach while my brain kept looping the same thirty seconds. Ivy packing her bag. Ivy not looking at me. Ivy lying about eating lunch with that same tired expression she always wore. I should’ve let it go. I told myself I would.I lasted until Thursday.She showed up exactly on time again, same oversized
Last Updated: 2026-09-12
Chapter: Chapter 4IvyI almost didn’t show up to the second session.I stood outside the hockey academic room for a full minute, staring at the closed door, seriously considering turning around and telling Dr. Miller I had come down with something highly contagious. The only thing that stopped me was the number I had checked three times that morning: the tutoring payment for Ryder Knox was already sitting in my account. It was enough to cover the electricity bill and still leave a little for groceries. Walking away would mean giving that money back, and I couldn’t afford pride that expensive.So I pushed the door open.Ryder was already there this time. He sat in the same seat as before, long legs stretched out, phone in his hand, looking like he had nowhere better to be and no intention of pretending otherwise. His dark hair was still damp, and he was wearing another Westbury Hockey hoodie that somehow made him look even more like he owned the entire building.He glanced up when I walked in. That slow
Last Updated: 2026-09-12
Chapter: Chapter 3RyderI left the academic room more irritated than I had any right to be.Ivy Bennett.The scholarship girl with the oversized glasses that kept sliding down her freckled nose, the braces that flashed every time she clenched her jaw, and the stubborn little attitude that refused to fold no matter how hard I pushed. She had spent the entire hour looking at me like I was a problem she couldn’t wait to be done with, and somehow that got under my skin more than any of the girls who actually smiled when I walked into a room.I hadn’t expected that.I’d walked in ready to waste her time, maybe get a rise out of her, and then coast until the university found some other way to keep me eligible. Instead she’d sat across from me in that oversized sweater, spine straight, voice calm and sharp, correcting me like I was some lazy kid who couldn’t be bothered. Most people at Westbury laughed at my comments or rolled over the second I smirked. Ivy just stared at me like she was already calculating h
Last Updated: 2026-09-11
Chapter: Chapter 2 Ivy I sat down opposite him and opened the folder with more force than necessary, refusing to look at him for longer than a second. The hockey academic room smelled faintly of floor polish and old coffee. Afternoon light cut across the long table, catching on the edge of Ryder’s jersey. He didn’t move. He just watched me, that same lazy half-smile still stuck on his face like he had all the time in the world and zero intention of using any of it productively. “You’re late,” I said without looking up. “Am I?” His voice was slow, amused. “Didn’t realize tutoring came with a time clock.” “It comes with basic respect for other people’s schedules.” “Cute.” He stretched his long legs out under the table until the toe of his shoe nudged my chair. “You practice that line in the mirror, or does the attitude just come free with the glasses?” I finally lifted my eyes. “Do you always talk this much when someone is trying to help you pass a class, or is this a special performance for me?”
Last Updated: 2026-09-11
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