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Author: Joy Apens
last update Last Updated: 2025-09-25 20:27:28

Camilla

I didn’t even hear him come back in.

I had been fixing my earrings, doing one last check in the floor-length mirror, smoothing my dress, the obsidian silk clinging to every damn place it shouldn’t. I’d been trying to steady my breathing. And then I felt it. His stare.

It landed like a hand pressed between my shoulder blades. Heat pouring down my spine in response. My heart stalled, then thundered so loud I could feel it in my throat.

I didn’t turn around right away. Because I knew. I knew it was him.

I could smell his cologne. That dark, arrogant blend of cedar and spice and money.

I could feel him. When I did finally turn, just a slow pivot, eyes meeting his through the mirror, I didn’t get to breathe again.

Stephano Maddens was looking at me like I was the goddamn sun and he hadn’t seen daylight in months.

But no. No, scratch that.

It wasn’t soft. It wasn’t poetic.

It was ravenous.

His eyes slid down my body with zero subtlety. No shame, no decency. Just this long, slow rake
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  • Bred By My Billionaire Boss   Second chance

    Two officers stepped in first. Then another. Then a detective in plain clothes, middle-aged, tired eyes, the look of a man who had already dealt with one too many ridiculous rich-people crimes this week.And behind them, heels clicking, breath catching, face streaked with makeup, Isabella stumbled out of the hallway, clutching her robe around herself.“Stephy?” she gasped. “What is this? What… what’s happening?”Her eyes darted to the officers, then to me, then back again. She looked like a panicked squirrel. A very stupid panicked squirrel.The detective looked between us. “Mister Maddens?”I gave him a courteous nod, as if he were a waiter and I’d just ordered sparkling water instead of someone’s arrest.“Ah,” I said, tapping the side of my head lightly, feigning a mild forgetfulness. “There she is. I almost forgot I ordered her arrest.”Isabella’s mouth fell open.“What?” she breathed. “You…you what? Stephy, no. No. No, you can’t be serious.”She grabbed my arm. I peeled her off wi

  • Bred By My Billionaire Boss   One hour

    ~ Stephano Isabella’s HouseThe closer I got to Isabella’s gated driveway, the hotter the anger in my chest burned.This kind of anger was different. It was a low, ugly flame licking up my ribs, tightening the muscles along my jaw until it felt like I’d crack teeth. I shouldn’t have come here in person. Any sane man would have sent lawyers, security, maybe a demolition crew. But sanity wasn’t something I had much of when it came to Camilla… and especially not after what Isabella had done.The gates were wide open.Wide.Open.It felt like she was expecting me. It felt ike she thought I’d come crawling back. The nerve of this bitch. My hands tightened around the steering wheel until my knuckles blanched. She was still living here, in my house, bought with my money, with furnishings I’d picked out back when I still thought she was just a harmless, clingy distraction instead of a reckless, delusional liability.She had kidnapped the mother of my child. She had tied her to a chair. She h

  • Bred By My Billionaire Boss   Warm

    ~ CamillaI wasn’t prepared for breakfast.Not physically, not mentally, not spiritually, nothing in me was built for the shock of waking up to the smell of eggs and butter and actual coffee drifting through the penthouse like we lived in some domestic alternate universe where Stephano Maddens cooked. The Stephano I knew ordered breakfast like royalty: one text, no thanks, no acknowledgement, no eating alongside me. The idea of him cracking eggs with his own hands didn’t even exist in the same galaxy as reality.But there he was. Standing at the stove. Fork in one hand. Spatula in the other. Barefoot, shirtless, hair slightly messy in a way that shouldn't have made my heart wobble, but unfortunately did.And, the most absurd part, he was humming. Humming. I actually thought I was hallucinating. Maybe trauma came with auditory side effects.I slid into a chair, still half convinced this was some luxurious fever dream. He set a plate in front of me, then one for himself, and without ask

  • Bred By My Billionaire Boss   Don't hope

    ~ CamillaFor a long moment after he kissed me, that impossibly soft, gentle kiss that felt like it belonged in another universe, I just lay there staring at the ceiling while he drifted back to sleep beside me.And my mind… my mind did the worst possible thing it could do.It began to hope.God, the betrayal of it. I could feel it rising like warm, golden smoke inside my chest, that stupid flutter that said maybe, maybe, maybe he was changing. Maybe the rescue, the fear of losing me, the sleepless nights… maybe something in him cracked open. Maybe there was a heart tangled somewhere inside all the power and coldness of his heart. Maybe he could be different with me. Softer. Better. And the moment that thought formed, the moment I felt the first spark of warmth, another part of me, the part he had scorched over and over again, slammed the brakes so hard my breath nearly punched out of me.Stop it, Camilla. Snap out of it.You know exactly what this is. You’ve played this game before, a

  • Bred By My Billionaire Boss   Slow kiss

    ~ Camilla Two days.Forty-eight hours.It’s strange how a stretch of time so small can feel like a lifetime, or a hallucination, or a hole you stumble into and suddenly don’t know how to crawl out of. The outside world felt unreal now, like something happening underwater. The firm, Alex, Isabella, the police reports, the godawful minutes… all of it had been swallowed by this enclosed space, this penthouse that felt more like a very elegant cage than a home. Some things were exactly as they had always been. The cold, quiet aura of this room. The perfection of the sheets, the scent of expensive colognes, the architectural arrogance of the furniture. And me, I was still pregnant, still the woman who somehow managed to fall between his moods like a coin tossed into a storm drain.But Stephano… Stephano wasn’t the same. And dear lord help me, that was more terrifying than any cruelty he had shown me before.The last two nights had been a maze, and not the kind you find in children’s book

  • Bred By My Billionaire Boss   Got you

    I saw the car before Lydia even finished her sentence. A black sedan pulled up at the mouth of the driveway, rolling in too slowly for my liking. The headlights cut across the front lawn and I felt something inside me snap into a razor point.Alex.And Camilla.He had the audacity to bring her here like this. The audacity to breathe in my city after touching her. My grip on the door handle tightened until I nearly tore it off as I got out of the car.Lydia opened her door slower, calling after me, “Stephano. Slow down. Slow down.”I did not hear her. My blood was pounding in my ears. My jaw ached from how hard I was clenching it. The entire world narrowed into one single target. Alex stepped out of the driver’s side, shaky, pale as paper. Camilla climbed out on the passenger’s side. Her legs wobbled. Her eyes looked glassy. She looked terrified and too fragile and too damn small.The sight of her made something in my chest implode.I moved. Power walked straight toward them. Lydia kep

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