THE first time Arianna and Enrique met was the night she was gifted to grace his bed. When he woke up and discovered the blood on the sheets in the morning, his conscience wouldn’t silence him up. He was drunk and all he could remember was how their moans melded and the soft, responsive body under him. But she was a virgin. How could he have been so wrong? ARIANNA knew the wealthy Enrique Quiroz for a very long time. He was the only son of the plantation’s Don. She never dreamed he was the man waiting for her that night. When she had dreaded for hell in a stranger’s bed… it had been heaven. Bliss. The shocking completion of her womanhood. When she left him, she also left a part of her that only he could give back. ENRIQUE hunted for the stranger whose beautiful face haunts him every night only to discover she was right under his nose. He could have her, make her his lover. He couldn’t forget that night, how their kisses made him think only of passion and sweet wine. She has no power to resist him. He is obsessed. He can’t not have her again, and again, and again… But Arianna fought him just as much as she fought to survive her miserable life even though he promised her everything. Everything except his heart. And in the war that ensued, their hearts were ruined by love, that power that makes those who surrender win, and those who cower are set free…
view moreSilently, Arianna walked down the driveway from the gate towards the two-story rest house that seemed to tower in the darkness.
It was night, and only moonlight served as the guide to see her way.The surroundings were quiet save for the noise coming from the crickets. It was a bit cold, but she could endure it, especially as nervousness and stress had made her sweat on her walk from where she was dropped so she could go the short distance to this place.The noise of the night wasn’t enough to drown the loud thumping of her heart, though. It caused her chest to painfully constrict, the hammering organ pushing against her ribs as if wanting to escape.She could understand its predicament as she tried not to think of the hell she was expecting to endure in the next hour. She had read about this and heard the women in Madame Venus’ kitchen talk about it.Sex.They gave her all sorts of advice, only to be silenced by a ‘shh!’ from one of them a short later on. She had gotten pale because of the terror their detailed descriptions brought her. The end advice was to tell her to look at them. See them.They were happy.They could feed their families, send the little ones to school.They were surviving this cruel world somehow. The consequence if they didn’t get into this trade was too dire to tell her, and some of them had gone through this and never wanted to go back again. At least, Madam Venus very carefully picked their clients, always very private and vetted. They couldn’t hope for anything more.And it would only be just one night—nothing more—for her. She could move on with her life once this night was over. Her brother would be home. Her mother would not have to worry further about mounting dept due to her heart condition for a few more months, and they would all be okay.Except, maybe, her.Focus.Now that she was back to the present, she couldn’t help but see how she was scantily dressed in dark red silk cloth, the color of the blood that would spill tonight. She couldn’t stop herself from thinking fatalistically.Her hands were visibly shaking. She reached the bottom of the three marble steps and stopped for a moment to lift her eyes to the house... to one of the windows there where she felt a presence. A pair of unknown eyes watching her progress. But it was so dark she could barely see if curtains blocked the glass panes of that wide window. She couldn't really see if anyone was there, and she might have been imagining him.But her body shivered.Yes, Arianna was sure there was someone there. A man—the man—waiting for her to arrive.She lowered her eyes to the small porch now, dark and ominous beyond the short three steps to get up to it. She gulped the nervousness that blocked her throat.She closed her eyes and, for a moment, resisted the dizziness just waiting to engulf her. No, she couldn't get confused because she was scared. She couldn't afford to be a coward. She thought she was beyond that, had surrendered to the fact that there was no other choice. There was no other way but this.She had to save Tommy. She had to do this for her little brother. Hands clasping her stomach, Arianna finally moved. She climbed the stairs and went to the large and heavy double doors.She grabbed one of the cold, brass handles and pushed it back after a squeeze. She didn't know what to expect, but when the door opened effortlessly, she knew she had reached the point where there was no backing down and changing her mind.No turning back. No running away.She took the first step into the house.And screamed when strong hands pulled her inside the darkness.Enrique watched silently as the woman walked from the gate towards the house.
There was no hesitant step there, but slow and sure. There was a confident sway to her hips that seemed natural… full of grace. He snickered at the description he thought of.Full of grace... yeah. So much in contrast with the bloody red scrap of sheer material which was her excuse for a dress.He had to admire her for not wearing anything more in the cold of the night to cover her assets—her means of trade. And she was beautiful... what he could see of her, at least. She had fair skin, a bright contrast to the redness of the cloth that made her seem to float in the darkness. Her long hair, full and soft-looking, cascaded down her breasts and her back in soft, glorious curls.She was a beauty. Brad did promise she was going to be gorgeous.He felt heat stung his flesh as he imagined his fingers twisting strands of her hair on the pillows as he claimed her body, his cock thrusting repeatedly and satisfyingly deep into the hot, slick, and tight tunnel of her pussy. His skin started to sweat, and even he was surprised at the graphic drive of his thoughts. He looked at the glass of liquor he held in one hand. Lusting over a call girl like he was... he’d never lusted this hard and fast.He'd never needed a call girl, period.It must be the brandy.He looked down again at the approaching woman and felt satisfaction well up his chest. Well and good that for the first time in weeks, he'd felt stirring in his loins that didn't involve the bitch.After Helene dumped him for someone wealthier, Enrique lived in a swirl of anger and shock too heavy it hurt him to breathe sometimes. He couldn't believe that money was the only reason she stayed with him, and the same reason she then left him.In their eight-month-long relationship, she’d successfully hidden that part of her from him—the avaricious, materialistic part. He thought he was smart when it came to women after growing up with a mother like his mother, but nooo… how shockingly stupid he could be.He couldn't believe that the woman he had thought of dedicating his future to, the one he dreamed to get old with, was a big fake. He, Enrique Quiroz, was hoodwinked by a woman.Blindsided by a fucking bitch.Hadn’t he sworn he would never, ever be like his father?Enrique's chest filled with bitterness and anger as he continued to watch the woman who started nearing the stairs to the patio. His eyes narrowed when he saw her jerk a little as if hit by something unseen. Like she was scared. Then he smiled. Cynically.Go on, run away. Be scared. Who said life is easy? It's not going to be like that for you tonight...But she didn't run.Instead, she looked up—and stared straight at the exact spot where he stood, watching her behind the protection of his bed-room’s stained window.It wasn't just a direct stare or the perfect beauty of her face, but the vulnerability there, too, was like a spear that pierced his heart.He felt it like an emotional assault, and he barely caught the recoil of his own body, as if she had dealt a physical blow to his solar plexus, stealing his breath away.It's just a trick of the light, he reasoned. Impossible. She couldn’t even see me. It’s the brandy.When he recovered, the woman was no longer looking up. He sighed, then wondered why he did that. She was just a paid woman. He didn’t even know her.He turned and drained the remaining brandy from the glass, suddenly very impatient, hurry to get downstairs.To get to her. To take her.And conquer her.Another fucking daughter of Eve.Get this over with, he ordered himself with gnashed teeth. And get over that look on her face that looked like she was about to burst into tears. Bitches don't really cry, they crack a laugh so pure and evil that makes any self-respecting asshole cry like a baby. Get over Helene's fucking shadow. Get over them bitches.This is for you, Helene. This is for you, mother!He reached for the door, but it opened. She was already there, and soft moonlight from the outside exposed the shape of the woman's body in the gap. Heat sprung from between his thighs so fast that he almost groaned at the feeling of stretched skin as his cock instantly hardened. She was hotter nearer his eyeballs like this than when he watched upstairs. His hand reached out and pulled her in.He heard a small scream of surprise, then she caught it abruptly. Too late, the sound had triggered the awakened devil in him. He pushed the door shut with one hand while pulling her towards his hard body with the other.He raised his hand and his fingers combed through the softness of her hair. His brain registered that it was softer than he had imagined, and he grunted his approval.He slid his hand down the line of her jaw, pinched her chin and rubbed her skin with his thumb, and felt the soft fullness of her trembling lips. Oh dear… he needed to kiss her.He could hear her breathlessness, feel the frantic rise and fall of her chest as she breathe fast.He’d scared her. But he couldn't wait to know if he cared.He wanted to those lips.And he lifted her face to his for a hot, wet kiss.Arianna fought, pushing him back until it was him lying on the bed and she was pulling his socks and pants off him.“There will be no other woman,” he told her urgently as she climbed on top of him breathlessly. His hands cupped her face, his movements sure, his movements silky.“Huh,” she huffed. “That’s what husbands say to their wives on the first night, yet not all of them remained faithful to the end.”He was scowling now. “What’s with you, baby?”“See? I showed a few little teeth and you’re confused about me now?” She rolled her eyes at him.He grinned, and again, she found herself on her back, under him. As they were only on their underwear now, their exposed skin rubbed against each other, and she had more difficulty breathing.And of course, he could see this. His eyes smoldered with heat and his body started to move against hers. Yet, he remained where he was, staring down at her, his eyes remaining worried.“What is it, my love? It’s our first night together as a married cou
The van was ready and people climbed in. The Señor and the Chairman were in front, with the latter driving.There was a separate car for some of the usual men who casually accompanied Eric’s father—her father-in-law now. These were, of course, his bodyguards. Father and son had bodyguards whenever they were outside the hacienda. In the past ten days, she went out with Eric several times to shop or simply dine out on a date. And though there wasn’t an obvious escort, she could spot the very same men with Eric when he had to go to work loitering not too far away from them as they shopped, but surrounding them.Aside from the bodyguards, Eric bought her jewelry, new clothes, and her own laptop and gadgets.It was like the moment she accepted the marriage proposal, although she had imposed conditions, there was no doubt she had become the woman of a Quiroz.A part of her knew that insisting on being her old self would not help her transition into her new role as a Quiroz wife, so she let
The next few days were the most surreal of all the days of Arianna’s life that it even surpassed that night she first went to Eric’s private house in the back of the hacienda.Eric used his influence to get an expedited marriage license for both of them within a week and the wedding itself was performed by a judge in the garden of the house they were staying in the next day.It was private, attended only by their immediate family (minus his mother, of course) and her awe-struck childhood friends driven from the province to witness.There weren’t adults, but she was informed the Señor had the staff in the hacienda invite tenants for a catered celebration of the day in the hacienda’s function hall, unofficially confirming the news about his only son marrying his girlfriend and shutting down any dirty gossip regarding how they met. At most, it was just a malicious charge thrown at her by Eric’s mother, accusing her of seducing her son with her feminine wiles.The fact was, most believed i
“What happened this morning here between you and… oh god, I just realized… my son’s ex and my ex—”There was a short burst of a snort from Tommy before he clamped a hand to his mouth and ducked his head towards his mother’s nearest arm, and Yna hid a smile. Or tried to.Eric rolled his eyes and shook his head. “Dad, you’re traumatizing the kid.”There was a bigger snort from her brother that had him totally smacking his whole face on their mother’s back. “Hija, what I was saying,” the Señor, trying to get back on track as he tried not to grin at Tommy’s machinations, given his topic was supposedly serious, “was that what happened this morning was deplorable, and I swear that it will never happen again as long as you’re here with us in the hacienda. The same goes for your family, as they will become my family, too. But when you marry Eric, you are going to be living with him wherever he is. When it comes to your security, you have to compromise with him until, at least, you are more us
They all sat to eat then, with the Señor leading the prayer.And she was surprised when Eric and his father opened a conversation when they started eating, with the son giving sarcastic observations about something in hacienda transactions, or the father telling random memories about his son’s childhood that had them all laughing.If she or anyone else was worried that it was going to be an awkward dinner, they were very much mistaken.On the other hand, she had noticed a long time ago that father and son treated each other casually, but backed each other up quietly.She had caught Eric watching his father with respect and a bit of adoration a few times, which he would instantly hide into a sardonic countenance or an expression of serious consideration when he noticed being watched. As if anything softer would make him less grown-up.And observing and knowing them better now than before, she realized it was something Tommy used to do when he was little, doggedly following after their f
Yna started to feel excited about making love with him the moment he slipped inside the room, but she didn’t know how wet she was until he buried himself inside her, to the hilt… smooth and quick. He followed this with a self-satisfied, awed groan.“I miss that feeling so much,” she told him in an awed whisper. Then she closed her eyes and moaned when he pulled himself out to push back in again. Incredible sensations assailed her, stirring embers that heated her whole body and made her nerves pop.“Baby… you always feel like I’m sinking into heaven… so tight and hot that you make me crazy. This is going to be… my quickest…”She nodded over and over, whimpering at the next full thrusts until he was kissing her again to hold any noise they make inside their mouths. He was pacing himself now, moving his hips in such a way that she felt the most pleasure from his thrusts, and it wasn’t very long before she felt the force gathering.And before she knew it, the ball of hot pleasure imploded
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