I shouldn’t have come back. But I couldn’t stay away.
All day, I tried to shake it off. Tried to tell myself it was a one-time thing. A mistake. A beautiful, filthy mistake. But my body didn’t forget. Not the sting of his hand. Not the way my legs trembled when I came screaming into the mattress, his name never even spoken. Not the way he looked at me like I belonged to him—like I’d always belonged to him. And now I’m here. Standing outside Room 406 again. No text this time. No invitation. I just came because I wanted to be used. And when I raise my hand to knock, the door opens before I can touch it. He’s already waiting. Still dressed in black. Still calm, composed, controlled. His eyes flick down my body. I didn’t wear anything beneath the trench coat. He knows. “Take it off,” he says. I do. He lets the coat fall to the floor behind me, eyes hungry, fingers flexing. “You came back.” “I couldn’t stop thinking about it.” He smiles, but it’s the dangerous kind. Slow. Knowing. “You’re mine tonight.” “Yes, sir.” “Say it louder.” “I’m yours tonight.” “No.” He steps closer, towering over me. “You’re mine. Period.” I nod, breath hitching. “I’m yours.” “Good girl.” He walks behind me, and I feel the warmth of his body before his hand slides around my throat. He doesn’t squeeze. Just holds it. “You don’t get to leave early this time,” he murmurs against my ear. “I won’t.” “No safe words. You want to stop, you say red. Until then—” he presses harder, “—you’re mine to use.” My pussy clenches. “Yes, sir.” He spins me around, pushes me to the bed, and doesn’t give me time to think. He binds my wrists. Not with rope. With his tie. Silk. Black. Tight enough to make me feel helpless, but not enough to hurt. “You were so eager last night,” he says, voice calm as he knots it to the headboard. “Tonight, we see how eager you are when you can’t touch.” I writhe beneath him, spread wide and exposed. He stands beside the bed and slowly unbuttons his shirt. My mouth waters. His chest is hard, cut, dusted with just enough hair to make my fingers itch. But I can’t move. Can’t touch. Just lie there like the needy little whore I’ve become in less than twenty-four hours. He sees it on my face. The desperation. The surrender. “You liked being used,” he says. “Now I’ll make you crave it.” He kneels between my legs and lowers his mouth to my inner thigh. Kisses. Bites. “Please,” I beg, hips rising. “Please, I need—” “Need what?” “Your mouth. Your tongue. I need to come.” “You’ll come when I say.” Then he finally licks me. Long, slow, right up the center of my slit. I cry out, hips bucking, but his hands grip my thighs, pinning me down. He eats me like I’m his meal. Like I’m the only thing on the menu. Tongue deep. Then flicking. Then sucking hard on my clit until my vision blurs. I pant. Arch. Scream his name—no, not his name, because I still don’t know it. Just sir. Just the man who makes me forget who I am. “I’m gonna come,” I gasp. “No.” He pulls back. “Not yet.” My head thrashes. I’m shaking, soaked, pulsing. “I said not yet.” Then he moves. One swift thrust, and he’s inside me again. Fucking me rough, deep, perfect. The tie digs into my wrists as I pull against it, lost in the rhythm of his body taking mine. He grinds into me, cock thick and punishing, chest heaving above mine. “Say it.” “I’m yours,” I gasp. He slaps my breast, just enough sting to make me moan. “Louder.” “I’m yours!” He fucks me harder. “You don’t come without permission. You don’t speak unless ordered. You don’t move unless I make you.” “Yes, sir!” “Whose hole is this?” “Yours.” “Whose mouth?” “Yours!” He stops suddenly, still buried deep. I whimper, desperate for friction. “Beg.” “Please,” I whine. “Please use me. I need to come. I need you to fill me. Please, I can’t take it—” He pulls out. I cry out. Then I hear the nightstand drawer open. And something cold presses to my entrance. A toy. A plug to be exact. “Relax,” he orders. “This is mine too.” The plug slides in slowly, and I moan at the stretch. At the fullness. He takes his time, fingers slick and skilled. When it’s seated deep, he smacks my ass. “You’re ready.” I feel him push into me again, this time with the plug inside me too, making everything tighter, fuller, filthier. I scream. He pounds harder. Deeper. “You love being my toy,” he growls. “Yes, sir!” “You love not knowing what I’ll do next.” “Yes!” “You’re going to come now. On my cock. With your ass full and your wrists tied.” I explode. Screaming. Trembling. Clenching around him so hard he curses through gritted teeth and spills inside me. The bed shakes with the force of it. We collapse again, panting, covered in sweat, and I realize my thighs are sticky with more than just his cum. My own. So much of it. He unties my wrists carefully, rubbing them where the silk pressed. I lie there dazed, ruined, utterly satisfied. But he’s not done. He kneels beside the bed, one hand gripping my jaw. “You’re not leaving.” I blink up at him. “I wasn’t going to.” “I don’t just fuck.” My breath catches. “I train.” “What… what does that mean?” His smile is slow. Dangerous. “You want to be used?” I nod. “You want to be owned?” “…Yes.” “Then you come back tomorrow.” His mouth brushes my ear. “And next time… we play with toys.”Chapter FourTastes Like ObsessionArielle’s POVI wore red lipstick to see what he’d do.Dmitri had been silent all morning. No texts, no demanding calls, no “come here now” or “what the fuck are you wearing.”He was testing my patience with this distance and I hated it. So I wore a barely-there black dress, no panties, and the lipstick he hated. I drove to his office unannounced.The receptionist tried to stop me but I smiled sweetly and ignored her.His door was cracked open when I walked in. He stood at the window, back turned, suit jacket slung over the chair.“Close the door,” he said.I did.Then I locked it.His voice dropped a note lower. “What are you doing here?”“I missed you.”He turned slowly. His eyes dropped to my mouth then lower. The hem of my dress barely brushed the tops of my thighs.He stared.“You wore that to get my attention.”“I wore it because I don’t like being ignored.”His jaw clenched. “You’re playing a game you don’t understand.”I stepped forward. “Th
Chapter ThreeMine in Every WayDmitri’s POVI woke up with her curled against me, bare skin pressed to mine, her head on my chest like she’d always belonged there.She breathed slowly, lips parted, thighs still marked with the red indentations my fingers had left. She hadn’t protested once, not even when I bent her over the desk a second time last night and made her scream through another orgasm.Arielle. My ward. My problem.My fucking undoing.I stared at the ceiling, trying to rationalize what we’d done. But the more I thought about it, the less I cared. My cock stirred again just remembering the way she looked—dripping, eager, mouth filthy with need. I’d never had a woman like that.And I’d never let anyone else touch her now.She stirred. Her hand slid across my chest, down to my stomach.“Morning,” she murmured, voice husky with sleep.“You should be in your own room.”She lifted her head, eyes narrowing. “You want me to leave?”I didn’t answer.Because if I said yes, I’d be ly
Chapter TwoLines Meant to Be CrossedThe kitchen was still warm from his body.Even after Dmitri left me standing there, trembling and soaked through, the echo of his voice, the threat in it, the promise—clung to my skin like sweat. I should’ve gone back to my room. But instead, I stood there in the silk shorts and tank top, gripping the edge of the counter, replaying every word he said.You think I haven’t pictured bending you over this fucking counter?My fingers clenched tighter.I knew I was playing with fire. That he had more control than any man I’d ever met. That the cold edge in him didn’t crack easily.But I also knew desire. I’d tasted it in his breath and I’d seen it flash in his eyes before he pulled away. He was holding back because he thought he had to. Because I was still, technically, under his guardianship.One more month. Just one.But I wasn’t going to wait.I wasn’t some wide-eyed girl anymore. I was twenty. I was tired of pretending. I knew what I wanted. I wante
Chapter One I hated how much I wanted him.Even before I stepped through the door of the Volkov estate, I could already feel it — that tightness in my stomach, the electric buzz under my skin, the furious pounding of my pulse. Not from nerves. No. From heat. From the ache I hadn’t been able to scratch in two long years away.My suitcase thudded against the marble floor of the entryway. Familiar smells curled up around me — leather, oak, expensive scotch — and the tension that lived inside this house for as long as I could remember. Tension, because he was here.Dmitri Volkov.My legal guardian. My father’s best friend. The man who took over the estate when my father died and I was still too young to do anything about it. The man who never looked at me for too long, never hugged me, never said my name like it meant anything. But still haunted every single fucking wet dream I’d had since I turned sixteen.He wasn’t in the foyer. Of course not. That would be too easy.I wheeled my bag t
Chapter NineThe Fire and the FallHe kissed me like it was the last time.That’s how it started.No pretense. No warm-up. Just his mouth on mine—desperate, all-consuming, like the truth behind it was too big to breathe.And maybe it was.Because when we broke apart, the air crackled with the weight of what was coming.“I told her,” Damon said.I blinked. “Told who?”“Lila.”The blood drained from my face.“You what?”He ran a hand down his face. “I couldn’t keep lying. She asked. I told her.”My knees went weak.“What did she say?”He looked at me.And that look told me everything.“Oh my god,” I whispered. “She hates me.”“She’s angry,” he admitted. “But it’s not just that.”“She feels betrayed,” I said, throat tight. “Because I was her best friend.”“You still are,” he said sharply. “This doesn’t erase what you meant to her. Or what she meant to you.”“You don’t know that.”“I do.”I pulle
Chapter EightShe Was Here First“You’re not the first girl I’ve done this with.”That’s how he started.No warning. No softening of the blow.Just those words conveniently wrapped in steel and stabbed ruthlessly into my chest like a knife. I didn’t speak, I couldn’t. My throat felt tight, my skin flushed, but not with heat this time.With shame and jealousy.“She followed you,” Damon said. “Because she’s been waiting and watching me ever since I ended it.”I stared at him.“You… ended it?”He nodded once. “Two years ago. She didn’t take it well.”“What was her name?”“Elena.”My stomach flipped.“Elena,” I repeated. “And what was she to you?”He exhaled through his nose. “My daughter’s best friend.”I went cold. It was like being doused in ice water.“You—” My voice broke. “You fucked Lila’s best friend before me?”“Yes.”“And you thought I wouldn’t care?”“I didn’t plan on caring either,” he said, eyes dark. “But then I met you.”I laughed—it sounded sharp, bitter and ugly.“So this