INICIAR SESIÓNSable's POV:I have been packing for hours. My bags are by the door. The baby's things are in the car. Everything is ready.He sees the bags and his face contorts. Something flickers in his eyes, something that might be fear or might be anger or might be the desperate realization that he is about to lose the last person who is willing to tolerate him."You are not leaving me," he says, grabbing my arm. His grip is too tight and his fingers digging into my skin. "You are the only one I have got. You and my daughter. You are not leaving with my child."I look at him. His face is red. His eyes are wild. He looks like a cornered animal, lashing out because he does not know what else to do.I feel nothing, not fear or any pity. Not even disgust anymore. Just a cold certainty that this man is nothing to me, has never been anything to me, and I am done pretending otherwise."The baby is not even yours," I say.His grip loosens. His face goes pale."What?""I was pregnant and I pinned it on
KIER'S POV:Sable gives birth to a daughter on a rainy Tuesday in March.I am in the waiting room when I get the call, pacing back and forth, drinking terrible coffee from a vending machine, trying to pretend that I am excited, that I am happy, that this is the fresh start I have been waiting for.But I am not excited. I am not even happy. I am just tired.When the nurse finally takes me to see the baby, I stand over the bassinet and look down at this tiny creature with her red hair and her pale skin and her little clenched fists. She is beautiful, I suppose. All babies are beautiful, in the way that all new things are beautiful, full of potential and promise and the hope of a better tomorrow.But I feel nothing.I look at this child, this daughter, this person who is supposed to be my legacy, my continuation, my second chance at being a father. And there is nothing there. No love. No joy. No connection. Just a hollow emptiness where something should be, an ache that I cannot fill no
SABLE'S POV:I watch Kier from across the room and I feel nothing.He is sitting in his chair, staring at nothing, a glass of whiskey in his hand even though it is only three in the afternoon and he didn't go to his company today. He has been drinking more and more lately, and it shows. His face is puffy. His eyes are bloodshot. His hands shake when he reaches for his glass.This is not the man I seduced at that charity gala three years ago. That man was powerful and confident and rich. That man had a future. That man could give me the life I deserved.This man is now a shadow of himself. A failure.I think about the day I decided to pursue him. I had done my research. I knew about his wife, Celestine Smith, a nobody with no family and no connections and no money. I knew about his father's death, about the empire he had inherited, about the billions of dollars that were now under his control. I knew that he was vulnerable, lonely, desperate for someone to see him, really see him, the
Kier's POV:I stand up slightly, pushing my chair back, and grip her head with both hands. “Open your throat for me, baby.”Then I fuck her face.I thrust into her warm, willing mouth with deep, steady strokes, using her like a toy. She gags loudly every time I push past her gag reflex, tears streaming down her cheeks and mixing with the spit dripping onto her tits. But she doesn’t pull away. She takes it, moaning, humming, looking up at me with that desperate, adoring expression that always makes me feel a little less like a failure for a few minutes.“Gosh, your mouth feels so fucking good,” I rasp, hips snapping faster, you see now, this is why cheated on Celestine. “Just like that. Take it all.”Saliva runs down her chin in messy strings. Her mascara is smudged. Her red hair is tangled in my fists. The sounds are pornographic, wet glucking, choking, my low grunts. I fuck her face harder, chasing the release I need so badly. Her throat squeezes around me rhythmically as she swallow
Kier's POV:Sable is another problem.She is getting bigger now, her belly swollen with the child that is supposed to be my fresh start, my second chance, my opportunity to be the father I never had. But she is also getting more demanding, more possessive, more difficult to be around.She shows up at my office unannounced, waddling through the door with her hand on her back, complaining about the heat and the traffic and the fact that I did not answer her texts quickly enough. My assistants look at her with barely concealed disdain. My business partners raise their eyebrows when they see her. She is not polished or sophisticated or discreet as before when I knew her. She is loud and demanding and embarrassing.But she is also good at certain things.The door clicks shut behind her and I’m already leaning back in my chair, loosening my tie. The stress of the day, of the week, weeks even, sits like lead in my chest. Celestine’s latest move had gutted another major client. Everything was
KIER'S POV:FEW DAYS LATER:My life is falling apart and I do not know how to stop it.The business is struggling which is the polite way of saying it is hemorrhaging money, losing clients, falling apart at the seams. I do not understand what is happening. I have always been good at this, always been able to close deals and charm investors and keep the ship moving forward even when the waters were rough. But now nothing is working. Every deal I try to make falls through at the last minute. Every client I try to keep gets poached by someone offering better terms, better service and better something. My stock price is in freefall. My board is muttering about a vote of no confidence. My lawyers are calling me with bad news every single day.It takes me a while to figure out what is happening. Too long, probably. I am so busy trying to put out fires that I do not stop to ask who is lighting them. But then I see her name on a contract, on a deal, on the lips of a client who tells me that t







