LOGINDamien Blackwood
I frowned down at the woman lying straight in my bed, wearing nothing but lingerie.
Why does it always happen? This is no longer a coincidence.
The last time I saw a lady who was half-naked, placing her legs on top of my desk inside my office trying to get my attention, the next one was my business partner in a meeting—her legitimate daughter pulled her leg up to my dock, trying to get my attention also; another one was a girl I saw lying down on my chair.
Why are all girls the same? Why do they want to fuck me so badly?
I understand where all this is coming from: from my dad—the old man has been forcing each of them to seduce me—but I was not interested in them.
Wait, I never said I never had sex. I am still a man. I love sex, so whenever I want to, it’s just like an arrangement: you come at me and you have fun together; I satisfy you in different styles, and you satisfy me with pleasure. But no, child, I was never ready.
But it always made my dad angry and caused him to complain. He said, "Get me a child, let him have before he dies." Just look at his other friends; almost all of them have grandchildren. He normally gets jealous whenever he sees them and their grandchildren playing like kids in the garden.
I lost my wife early, so since then I have not yet married anyone else. That is what always pains my dad, which is why he always sends girls to seduce me.
I am 40 years old, lost my wife at an early age before she even had a child for me. It’s kind of shy to say my age and that I am not married again, or that I am in a serious relationship, or that I even have a girl I would call my fiancée.
Even when Dad wanted to use someone close to me to advise me to marry, I always turned them down, telling them I was not interested in any of those girls. Sometimes I call them trash because they were just after the money, not love; they were just interested in how much I was going to pay them or how much my dad would pay them.
Don't get it twisted. I have already forgotten about the lost; I was just focusing on my business. So the old man thought that the lost was really affecting me, and when I told him I was not interested, he thought I was. I was not interested in old people, so he began to send young girls to me to seduce me and promise any of them a lot of money, anyone who could seduce me and bear him a child.
But the deal was simple: I have sex with them, pay them off; it was just a one-night stand.
All my dad's efforts to make me marry and bear him a child were just in vain because I was never interested in the ones he normally sent to me.
I looked at the girl who was still lying on my bed, with her lingerie trying to seduce me.
Is this a dream? Am I getting wet in my dreams? Her voice whispered around the room.
I know my dad always sends girls, but why did he send this crazy one? Is she that desperate just to have sex with me?
I tried to reach out with my phone; maybe I should call my secretary or the receptionist. They should throw this trash out.
She should meet my dad, let him pay her the rest of the money he normally pays them whenever he sends them to seduce me.
She looked at me again, feeling sleepy and tired.
How could I lie with someone like this? No way; she is not even up to my standard. I can't lie with her.
But this girl has a body that would turn a man on: her slim waist, her perky breasts, and pointed nose, her fresh laps, her long legs, her grey eyes that sparkle, her long black hair, soft lips that are slightly parted—she is just so beautiful.
Damn it.
I found myself checking her out before I could realize it.
Am I having a wet dream? She curled her lips into a smile.
Did she hit her head when she barged in here? She was naked in my bed, trying to seduce me, and she is behaving as if this were some fantasy.
I ran my hand through my hair. Damn, I didn't want these tonight; I was not ready to have sex or sleep with anyone.
This was a mistake, another mess I didn't want to drag into.
In seconds, I was trying to reach my phone to call my secretary to come and clean this mess and settle her almost amount my dad had promised to pay her.
Before I could take a step, I felt her hands around my waist.
Please don't leave me. This is just a dream, right? This is just a dream. Even in my dreams, they still don't want me. You don't know how useless I would be if you still don't want me in my dreams. How would I be if the man in my dream doesn't want anything to do with me?
I looked at her differently; she was lying on my bed, her face pressed against my abdomen, her hands tightly around my waist. From this angle, her face was close to my hips, dangerously close to where the towel clung to my body.
Her hot breath brushed against my skin, sending an unexpected jolt through me.
Am I not attractive enough for you? Sue pulled her face backward for me to see her face very well—her grey eyes, her shiny skin, her exposing body already showing me the nipple of her breast. Why does no one want me? I am already twenty-three… she whispered as if she was afraid to say the word out loud. And I have not even had a man satisfy me; I had not even come. That asshole was my first, and he had not even satisfied me.
She bit her lips and her fingers; she reached for the towel around my hips. She pulled it down slowly, exposing more of me. Even if it was just a dream, she whispered, I will take it. I have never experienced what pleasure really looks like; I need to know what it looks like.
My gaze darkened. I didn't know whether her words or the fact that despite my frustration—despite every logical word in me screaming to stop—I was getting hard.
Fuck.
Sophia’s POVThe house had gone completely soft by the time the music found us.No leftover wedding noise. No staff moving through distant rooms. No phones lighting up on the counters. Just a low song playing from the speaker in the corner of the sitting room, something with more warmth than structure, and the two of us left inside it. I had been about to say I was tired enough for bed. Damien had looked at me, held out a hand, and the intention changed without either of us needing to negotiate it.“Dance with me,” he said.There was no party behind the request. No photographer waiting for a framed version of the moment. No guests to perform for. Only him, standing in the middle of the quiet room like the day had finally narrowed down to this one simple ask.I took his hand.He pulled me close with careful hands, one settling at the small of my back, the other holding mine against his chest. We started moving slowly, barely more than a shift of weight from one step to the next. The mu
Damien’s POVThe phone rang just as I was starting to believe the evening might stay quiet.Sophia was at the counter with a glass of water, hair pinned loosely up, wearing one of my shirts over soft pants because the house was cool and she had claimed it without discussion. I had been watching her more than the message thread on my tablet. When Austin’s name lit the screen, the old reflex moved first—answer, assess, solve. I picked up on the second ring.“What is it?”“We’ve got a problem with the Singapore transfer,” Austin said without preamble. “The counterparties moved the window and legal is saying if we don’t respond tonight we lose the preferred position. I need you to look at the revised terms.”I listened for another few seconds while he outlined the rest. Numbers. Timing. The familiar pressure of a deal that believed it was the most important thing in the room. Across the kitchen Sophia glanced over, one eyebrow slightly raised, already prepared to lose me to the office for
It started over nothing.We were in the library he had only just begun sharing with me, late enough that the estate had gone fully quiet, a single lamp throwing warm light across the shelves. I was curled into one corner of the deep sofa with my feet tucked under me. Damien sat at the other end, jacket long discarded, sleeves pushed up, looking far too comfortable for a man the rest of the city still treated like a closed door.“You act like you’ve always known how to do this,” I said.He glanced over. “Do what?”“This.” I waved a hand between us. “Marriage. Sharing rooms. Letting someone see the unimpressive hours. You move through it like you studied the manual.”“I don’t have a manual.”“Could have fooled me.” I rested my chin on the back of the sofa, studying him. “Meanwhile I still open half your kitchen cabinets like they might judge me. Our lives before this were not the same species.”That earned a low huff of amusement. “You grew up making everything stretch. I grew up making
Damien’s POVI woke before she did and spent a full minute watching the light move across her face before I decided not to waste the day in bed.Not entirely, anyway.When Sophia finally stirred, I told her to dress for walking, not for public view. No schedule. No driver waiting at the bottom of the steps. Just the two of us and the parts of the estate I had never bothered to open for anyone else. She raised an eyebrow at the mystery of it, but she came with me anyway, one hand occasionally resting at her stomach as we moved through the quieter wing of the house.“You’re being deliberate,” she said.“I’m being selfish.” I opened a door at the end of the corridor and stepped aside. “I want you in the rooms that used to be mine alone.”The library was first.It was a long, high room with windows that caught the morning cleanly and shelves that climbed far enough to need the old rolling ladder. Most guests, on the rare occasions I had allowed any into the house, never made it past the m
Sophia’s POVI woke to the smell of coffee and warm bread.For a few seconds I didn’t move. The room was bright with late morning light, the kind that meant we had slept past every responsible hour, and the bed beside me was still warm. When I turned my head, Damien was there—not dressed for the office, not halfway out the door with a phone already at his ear. He was sitting up against the headboard in a soft T-shirt, scrolling through something on a tablet with the sound off, looking more like a man on holiday than the person the rest of the city still whispered about.On the low table near the bed sat a tray.Eggs. Toast. Fruit cut into neat pieces. A small bowl of strawberries set slightly apart from the rest, as if it had been added with intention. Two cups. No army of staff in the room. Just the tray and him and the quiet.“You ordered breakfast,” I said, voice still rough from sleep.“I did.”“And you’re still here.”He glanced over, amused. “Observant as ever, Mrs. Blackwood.”
Sophia’s POVBy the time the last car left, the quiet felt almost physical.The big rooms that had been full of music and people and the careful noise of a public wedding were emptied down to low lights and the soft movement of staff finishing the final tasks. Damien closed the door to the private suite behind us and the remaining sound of the venue dropped away at once. For a moment neither of us moved. We just stood there in the sudden stillness like people who had stepped out of weather into a sealed room.I reached up and started taking out the pins from my hair. Then the earrings. Then the necklace that had felt too delicate for how tightly I had been holding myself together most of the day. Each piece landed on the side table with a small, ordinary sound. When I sat on the edge of the bed, the weight of the hours settled all the way into my body at once.Damien watched me for a second, then crossed the room and crouched down in front of me.I expected a comment about the guest l







