LOGINIt happened without a warning, without giving me time to think or even decide. One minute, I was sitting on a barstool, feeling this stranger’s warmth, my body growing heated from his warmth, his words, and then the next, I was all over him–me, not him–grabbing his hair and slamming my lips on his, kissing him in front of the whole bar where everyone could see. I didn’t have a single care in the world.
He kissed me back, groaning into my mouth and grabbing my ass. I jumped, wrapping my legs around his waist.
“Take me somewhere,” I muttered against his lips. “Somewhere private.”
He groaned his agreement into my mouth, already moving, but he had to break the kiss so he could see where he was going. I wasn’t happy with that, so I kissed his neck, his jaw, and his throat.
“Isabella,” he breathed, and we both froze.
I raised my head and looked at him, still unable to see clearly.
“I didn’t tell you my name.”
“You did,” he muttered as he kept walking.
I tilted my head. “I… did?”
“Yes, beautiful.”
He put me down, gesturing behind me. “Enter?”
A question, I noticed, like he didn’t know if I still wanted this.
I entered without hesitation, and he followed, grunting to the driver, “Drive.”
Before the driver even started the car, he was on me, kissing me again, more rough, more eager.
“All the years I’ve spent dreaming of this, imagining what it’ll feel like to touch you, doesn't come close to the real thing.” He bit my neck, and I moaned softly. “Nothing beats the real thing.”
“What are–”
He kissed me, biting my tongue, and I moaned deeply, pressing myself harder against him.
We reached whenever we were going, and that was when we finally broke the kiss, our lips swollen and mine throbbing, but I wanted more. God, I NEEDED more. I barely remembered him carrying me up a flight of stairs, but I remembered when we stepped into a room, and he placed me on the bed like I was an egg. I remembered him trailing kisses over any bare skin he could find, and I remembered thinking to myself as he stood up and towered over me, “I wish I could see his face.”
But I know I won't be able to do that until I've sobered up. That’s the con of drinking alcohol for me.
I couldn’t see his face, but I could see his eyes because they were such bright, vibrant green.
“Tell me if you really want this or not,” he said in a low, rough voice as he slowly took off his jacket. “Tell me, and I’ll stop. I don’t want you to have regrets in the morning.”
“I’m definitely going to have regrets.” He froze. “I’m sleeping with a stranger, ain’t I? While I have a husband.”
He resumed taking off his clothes. “A stranger. A husband.”
His jacket and shirt came off, leaving him in his pants, which then came off, followed by his underwear.
God, I wanted to see him so badly.
“I know you can’t see me,” he said, and my eyes went wide. “So come touch me, Isabella. Come feel me.”
“How did–”
“Questions will be asked in the morning, beautiful. Come here.”
Yes. Yes, questions will be asked in the morning.
So I sat up and moved to him. He grabbed my hand softly and placed it on his chest. When I felt the hard muscles and smooth skin, I shuddered, my hand moving with urgency. It passed through his chest and his abs, then went lower. I gasped when I felt it, and he groaned.
“Undress me,” I breathed as I stroked him and he moved his hips, thrusting into my hand. “Hurry.”
In seconds, I was naked, and he had me on my back with my legs spread while he was positioned between my legs. No words were said after that, just our rough breaths and my moan when he slowly inserted himself into me.
It was the tip, just the tip, but I felt the burn, the stretch. He was large, thick, and long, and I knew I was about to have a wild night.
He pushed into me, inch by sweet inch, until he was buried deep in me, my walls stretching to take him, and when he was fully in, they clenched around him.
He moaned loudly, without restraint, shivering against me, and his dick pulsed in me.
“Bella,” he breathed as he moved, and we both moaned.
He started slowly, pulling out until just his tips remained before he pushed back in, slowly, taking his time, letting me feel every inch of him. I felt him throb and pulse, I felt his warmth. Everything. I felt everything, and it was all going to my head. I felt like I was floating in clouds.
He pressed that sweet spot in me every time he thrust, and when my insides quivered, he would shiver and moan so deliciously.
Slowly, he picked up pace, slamming in harder and faster. He was touching places in me I never thought a man could touch, hitting those places in me over and over until I was a shivering, moaning mess. I wrapped my arms around his neck, locking my legs around his waist to keep him in place.
He kissed me, deeply, his tongue tangling with mine, sucking.
His thrusts became faster, rougher, and my moans grew higher.
“Fuck…” he moaned as he pulled back, grabbing my legs and placing them on his shoulders. This new position made him go deeper.
I saw stars.
My moans became gasps, my breath coming fast and short, my body shaking.
When I came, I came with a sharp cry, my eyes squeezed tight, my body shaking so hard, I thought I was convulsing.
When my climax took its course, my body went limp, and everything went dark.
***
My head was pounding so hard that it felt like someone was in there, beating a drum. And that was what dragged me from sleep. When I opened my eyes, I hissed, shutting them.
Bright. It was so bloody bright. I gave my eyes time to adjust, and when they finally did, I opened them again. I looked around, taking it all in, wondering how I got home. But the more I looked, the more this place looked unfamiliar. I sat up immediately, but I regretted that when a sharp pain made itself known in my waist and between my legs.
My eyes went wide.
“What… what happened?”
I looked around the room, but it was just me.
I stood up slowly, wincing as I moved to the bathroom, but when I passed the mirror, I paused and went back to it.
When I saw my reflection, my scream shook the glass.
I was shown to my room by a househelp, and it was grand. Grand like a room at the top of the tower where the princess was meant to feel comfortable and never leave. I showered, applied oil, dressed in my robe with nothing underneath, sat on the bed with my hands folded and resting on my lap, and I waited. Waited for my husband, waiting for him to consummate our “marriage.” I wasn’t a fool. I knew about these things and why he married me. My stomach twisted with nerves as I thought about how I was going to tell him. I would have to look him in the eye and tell him that I couldn't give him children, that I was broken. And then I will watch as disappointment fills his eyes. I would watch as the realization hit him that he had married broken goods. Why didn’t Father tell him? Why didn’t he save me from this misery? Will Alexander still want a wife if he realized she couldn’t give him what he wants? Because that’s all they want, an heir. I heard the sound of footsteps approaching, and
“Leonardo Hayes,” I repeated, looking at this stranger, before I looked at Alexander, expecting an explanation. When none was given, and he just stared at me with a bored look, I looked back at the stranger. “But you’re supposed to be–”“Out of the country?” he completed, straightening to his full height, and he was almost as tall as Alexander. “That’s what I told Alexander to tell your father.”I looked at this man, at his silver hair that fell just on top of his shoulders, tied on the top, at his black eyes that looked soft, at the crow’s feet beside his eyes that told me he smiled a lot. I looked at his lips, and there was a small smile there. He stood tall, with wide shoulders and a broad chest. He looked… young, like he was just approaching fifty. How can a man like this birth a grumpy, non-smiling Alexander?“He took after his mother,” Leonardo said softly, as if reading my mind. He scoffed. “Well, in looks only. His mother smiled, laughed, and cried a lot. Alexander is just hi
He was rough with it, with his tongue. He pressed it to my entrance, his nose pressing to my hole, and I moaned loudly, my hands itching to reach out and grab his hair, but I resisted, my hands fisted on the table. His tongue swept from my clit to my entrance, moving up and down, and I couldn't help but move my hips, slowly, rocking back on his face. His stubble was rough on my skin, somehow managing to increase the pleasure. “Oh…” I breathed, rocking back on his face as I felt his tongue between my folds. It parted them slowly, feeling them. He sucked on them, his tongue making a wet, dirty sound as he sucked both of them into his mouth. “Ah! Oh, yes!”It was incredible. What I was feeling right now was incredible. Richard has never done something like this to me before. It was always the same; on my back. But this… oh, this was good. I didn’t know a feeling like this existed. He sucked my folds roughly before he gave them one final lick, and then his tongue moved down. When I fel
The way he looked at me, the way his Adam’s apple kept bobbing every time he swallowed, it was making me think things I shouldn't.I remembered how he was that night, how he kissed like he had mastered the way of the tongue. The way he took his time, and the size of him. God, the size. “Do you want to know the way you felt that night, Isabella?”The way he asked made me know he didn't care what my answer was; he was going to say it regardless. “Why should I care?” I asked, hating how my voice came out as a whisper. It was everything about the moment. I had to remind myself he was a bastard. “You’re right,” he said. “Why should you care?”When he said nothing after that, I thought he was going to leave it at that, and for the life of me, I didn't know why I was disappointed. “You felt like you wanted to suck me dry,” he said finally, and I gasped. “The way you tightened around me, I feared you were going to snap my dick in half. You kept sucking me in like you didn’t want me to pu
I looked from Alexander to Richard. “Alexander Hayes," I answered Richard. Richard shook his head. “No, he’s–” He cut himself off as his eyes widened again. He turned to Alexander with that look, his mouth opening and closing. “You… It can’t–”"Since you’re here, I assume you’ve signed the papers,” Alexander said, his voice low, yet it carried. One look at Richard, and he clamped his mouth shut. “He was just about to,” my father spoke for the first time in a while. He turned to Richard with a glare. “Sign them.”Richard looked at me, his eyes soft, but I kept my back straight and my eyes hard, even though I was falling apart. He finally brought out a pen, and he didn’t look at me as he signed the papers. He let them drop to the ground, and the wind was cruel enough to blow them to my feet. I stared down at the papers, fighting back tears. “Good,” my father said, his voice like ice. “Now get out.”I didn’t look at him as he left. I just looked at the papers. So that was it. After
I stared at the glass in my father’s hand. Usually, I wouldn't accept a drink from my father, but my head felt like it was about to burst, so I snatched it from him and downed it in one go. “What offer?” I asked as I sat, looking up at him. He took the seat opposite me, sipping his drink slowly and taking his sweet time to answer. Finally, “A partnership with their company.”That made me sit up straight, my eyes going wide. “A… a partnership…?” My father nodded. I stared at him with my eyes still wide before I stood up and went for a second drink. Well… now I know my father will sell me out if I refuse the marriage. And I wouldn't even blame him. Partnership with the Hayes? That was enough to secure wealth for five generations to come. That was enough to leave our mark in the business world. We will be remembered as the first company to partner with Hayes Energy Corporation. That would be an unshakable legacy. And I would be the wife of Alexander Hayes, the CEO no one knows an







