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Author: Tamara Knox
last update publish date: 2026-03-04 16:42:36

*MAXWELL*

The numbers didn't lie. I leaned back in my chair and stared at the ceiling, brainstorming ways to end this Blackbridge chaos caused by Ariana.

Contractors would start asking questions in a few days, and investors would follow suit.

One of my options was to beg her. The word alone irritated me. So I should actually walk into her office, admit I need access to capital she now controls, ask her to unfreeze what was once mine. What was the guarantee that she would grant my request. No. T
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    VICTORI can feel her walls clamping around me, milking me with every stroke. I pick up the pace, the slow grind turning into powerful pounding. I watch her face, the way her eyes rolled back, the way she gasped for air.A white-hot pressure builds in my gut, and with one final deep thrust that buries me to the hilt, I feel her orgasm crash over her again, and I follow her, erupting deep inside her in a violent release.I collapse onto her, breathless and spent, our hearts hammering against our ribs in unison.***It's past noon before either of us moves with any real purpose.Selene is stretched out on her stomach, one leg tangled in the sheet, hair everywhere. She's watching me with a lazy, satisfied expression, propped up on one elbow."You're too energetic for a man your age," she says.I roll onto my back and look at her. "I know.""Don't you have somewhere to be?""Finch knows I'm not coming in."She raises an eyebrow. "All day?""All day."She laughs, low and genuinely amused,

  • After the Divorce, My Ex Husband Came Crawling Back   198

    VICTORI grab her wrists, pulling them above her head and binding them tightly to the bedpost. She looks up at me, eyes glazed and vulnerable, completely at my mercy. I don't waste time as I lunge forward, my thick cock sliding into her soaking wet heat in one powerful thrust. She cries out, a mix of shock and pleasure, as I begin to fuck her hard. As I hammer into her, I lean down to mark her as mine. I sink my teeth into the soft skin of her neck, sucking hard until a deep purple hickey blooms. I move my mouth lower, leaving bruising marks on her breasts, her nipples. I want her body to be a map of my possession. Every thrust is deep and punishing, the sound of our flesh slapping together echoing in the room. I feel her tighten around me again, her bound hands straining against the belt as she reaches another shattering climax; her screams are music to my ears.I grip her hips and flip her onto her stomach, her ass thrust high in the air, and I spank it hard, and she cries out. I

  • After the Divorce, My Ex Husband Came Crawling Back   197

    VICTORThe document arrives by courier just after nine.Finch brings it in, already opened, because he knows I don't like wasting time on envelopes. I take it from him and flip to the last page.Her signature is there. Neat, deliberate, exactly as she writes it.I read it twice. Then I read the note tucked behind it, two words in her handwriting, quick and light.‘See you at home.’I hand it back to Finch without a word. He knows what to do with it. By the time I sit down at my desk, I've already called my lawyer to have it notarized and filed before lunch, and I've already called Finch back to give him a second set of instructions.Jewelry. Flowers. And the shares.I tell him to have the certificate issued in her name. ‘Mrs. Selene Cox.’ Not Selene Moore, and not some placeholder version of her. The full thing.He doesn't ask questions. He never does because he’s fully aware of how things work, he’s no novice.By early afternoon, I've cleared my evening, and by early evening, I've cl

  • After the Divorce, My Ex Husband Came Crawling Back   196

    SELENE"Selene! What is wrong with you, sitting in the dark like a ghost waiting to ruin someone's evening?" She presses a hand to her chest, still catching her breath. "You couldn't have told me you were coming?""I texted you."She fumbles for her phone, scrolling, and her face shifts the moment she finds it. "Oh." She pauses. "Well. You could've called."Daniel, still adjusting his shirt, gives me an easy, unbothered smile. "Selene. Good to see you." He kisses Susan's temple. "I'll be in the bedroom. Whenever you're ready."He disappears down the hallway, and Susan drops onto the couch beside me, tucking her legs under herself, all traces of the interrupted moment already gone from her face, replaced by the particular attentiveness she's had since I was a teenager showing up at her door with a problem too big for my own house to hold."So." She studies me. "You need to talk.""I can handle it.""I didn't ask if you could handle it. I asked if you need to talk." She raises an eyebro

  • After the Divorce, My Ex Husband Came Crawling Back   195

    SELENEBy the time I get to my aunt's place, I've convinced myself several times over that there's nothing to be afraid of in signing Victor's agreement.Somewhere underneath that conviction, though, a much louder part of me keeps objecting, and I keep shoving it back down every time it surfaces.After all, I'm the one who suggested marriage in the first place. Victor didn't propose it. I did, with a plan half-formed in my head and a very clear idea of what I wanted out of it, shares, security, a name that would finally put me somewhere near the top of a room instead of beside it. He agreed. I should be satisfied. But the kind of agreement he's offering isn't the one I imagined when I said the word marriage out loud.Marriage is supposed to be for better and for worse. I have no intention of cheating on him, none, not once I've committed to something on paper. But what about him? What's the actual probability that a man with Victor's status, his power, the entire weight of the Cox n

  • After the Divorce, My Ex Husband Came Crawling Back   194

    VICTORShe laughs it off, though something steadier has already returned to her voice. "I don't scare easily, Victor. Not anymore, not after Donderdam.""No," I agree. "I don't imagine you do."I study her a moment longer. "I know you, Selene. And I want you for exactly who you are, not some softer version of it. If I'm going to marry you, I want you to know me fully as well. I have no intention of hiding anything from you.”“And if we build this, whatever it becomes between us, it shouldn't be something that turns back on itself, or betrays you the way you've already been betrayed once."She's quiet for a moment, something settling into place behind her eyes, and I watch understanding move through her slowly, the way it does when someone finally sees a thing clearly instead of merely hearing it.She nods without saying any other word."Good," I say, satisfied that she understands exactly what I'm offering her, unpolished and entirely honest. "Now. I'm hungry."She laughs again, light

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