LOGINAnd just as I begged for more he stopped he looked into my eyes and licked the finger he just took grom my wetness.
He came closer and kisses me. Then he whispered " I want you so bad but I won't take you yet...not yet." Then he stood and went to the bathroom. The next thing I heard is the rushing flow of the shower. I closed my eyes and took a deep breathe. Drake Peterson got me. And I can't deny that he already possessed me in ways I cannot define yet. The next day was a usual busy day at the company. By the end of the office hours the whole building begun to quiet. The office was quieter than it had been all evening. Only the hum of the air conditioner, the distant city lights filtering through the glass walls, and the soft shuffle of Drake’s shoes against the polished floor. I hadn’t moved from my chair since he leaned in for that kiss, and frankly… I didn’t want to. Then he pulled back—just enough to look at me properly, eyes dark and unreadable, like he was weighing something monumental. “I have something for you,” he said, voice low, smooth, dangerous. My pulse jumped. I didn’t need him to explain. I knew. From the sleek folder he slid across the desk, black and embossed with gold lettering, to the faint, intoxicating scent of him that lingered on the air, every detail screamed this is serious. “What… is this?” I asked, trying to steady my voice. My hands hovered over it. “Open it,” he said, calm but firm. Inside, crisp sheets of paper waited. Legalese, signatures, numbered clauses—but not the kind that any secretary should ever see. No. This was personal. Calculated. Dangerous. “The contract,” he said, eyes fixed on mine. “Our agreement.” My breath hitched. “Another Agreement?” I echoed, voice trembling slightly. “What kind of agreement?” He leaned on the desk, close enough that I could feel the warmth radiating off him. “The kind no one else can know about.” I blinked, trying to process the words without letting panic—or desire—take over. “You… what?” He gave me a slow, measured look. Dark, intense. “Sabrina. I want you. Exclusively. But… professionally, socially… legally… we cover everything.” I stared. My fingers hovered over the papers. My heart was hammering like a drumline. “Oh? Exclusively? You mean… like… a contract?” He nodded. “Yes. Written. Legal. Clear. Boundaries, yes. But… privileges are included in the legalities, too.” I swallowed hard. “Privileges?” A dangerous smile tugged at his lips. One corner, teasing, predatory. “You know exactly what I mean.” Heat pooled low in my belly. Every nerve ending in my body was suddenly alive, buzzing, on fire. My pulse raced. My brain? Completely fried. " Sir Drake-" "Cut the Sir" he interrupted. “Drake… this is insane,” I whispered. “Insane?” He stepped closer, close enough that I could feel his breath on my neck. “Sabrina… two years of wanting you like this… and now, finally, I can be honest without excuses. Without pretending. Without holding back. Are you insane enough to sign it?” I wanted to scream. I wanted to run. I wanted to dive into his arms and never leave. “Do I… do I have a choice?” I whispered. “Of course you do,” he said, voice low, sensual, commanding. “But the real question is… can you resist me? Can you resist everything this… contract… allows? It's better for the both of us than the first one I offered you. You'll see.” I couldn’t. I wouldn’t. And deep down, I didn’t want to. My hands trembled as I reached for the pen. My pulse was deafening. Every inch of me screamed yes. Drake’s gaze never left mine. Dark. Intense. Possessive. Obsessive. He leaned in so close I could feel his lips brush my temple. “Sign it,” he whispered. “And tonight… we start over. On my terms.” I swallowed. Heart thundering. Mind racing. And with a shaky hand, I signed my name. The moment the pen touched the paper, I felt it—the shift, the surrender, the electricity of something dangerous and irresistible. He took the folder, smiled that infuriating, heart-stopping smile, and brushed his fingers against mine as he returned it to the desk. “I warned you,” he murmured. “Once you sign… there’s no going back.” My pulse was a wildfire. My breath ragged. My body alive. And deep inside… I knew he was right. There was no going back. Drake leaned in even closer, his lips grazing my ear. “Tonight… let's make the contract finally official.” And just like that, the office became a playground for forbidden desires… and I was already lost. The elevator doors slid shut behind us, sealing me inside with him. Drake Peterson. My boss. My billionaire nightmare. And the man who now held my signature on his dangerously possessive contract. My pulse hammered in my throat as I stood rigidly beside him. The elevator hummed quietly, descending floor by floor, but all I could feel was him — heat, proximity, dominance wrapping around me like invisible hands. He didn’t touch me. He didn’t have to. His presence alone was already undoing every rule I ever lived by. “Look at me,” he ordered softly. Not loud. Not harsh. Just… absolute. I turned my head slowly, breath trembling. His eyes tracked over me the way a storm watches the land it’s about to destroy — dark, consuming, patient in its hunger. “I told myself I’d wait until midnight,” he murmured, leaning closer, voice rough enough to scrape across my skin. “But the moment you signed that contract… you became something I can no longer resist.” My heart stuttered. “Drake—” He stepped in front of me, trapping me between his body and the elevator wall. Commanding. Massive. Irresistibly dangerous. “Say my name again,” he breathed. “…Drake.” His jaw flexed like the sound hit him somewhere deep. He braced one palm beside my head, caging me in. “Good girl.” The words melted down my spine like molten lightning. Then he tilted my chin up with just two fingers — barely touching me, yet my knees nearly buckled. “You have no idea,” he whispered, lips brushing the edge of mine without fully claiming them, “what it took to stay professional around you.” He lowered his head further, letting our breaths mix, his mouth hovering just a breath away from mine. “The way you try to look brave…” he murmured, “with your hands shaking, your lips parting, your eyes begging even when your words say nothing…” My breathing hitched. “And tonight,” he promised darkly, “I’m done pretending I don’t want you.” The elevator dinged softly — the top floor. He didn’t move. He pressed a button on the panel behind me without breaking eye contact. The elevator stopped. Paused. Locked. “Drake— what are you—” “I told you,” he said, voice dropping into something wicked, “the moment you agreed, I stop holding myself back.” He brushed his thumb across my lower lip, a slow, possessive stroke that stole the air from my lungs. “Tonight, Sabrina… we cross every line.” The air thickened with heat. Electric. Dangerous. Forbidden. His hand slid to my waist — firm, claiming — pulling me against him with a restraint that felt like the last thread of his control. “Do you want this?” he asked, low and deadly. My voice escaped before I could think: “Yes.” His breath hitched. Something dark flashed in his eyes — triumph, hunger, a promise of ruin. Then— He sank his lips to mine. Not gently. Not carefully. But with the kind of intensity that felt like he’d been starving for me for months. His kiss devoured. Claimed. Marked. My back pressed hard against the elevator wall as he deepened the kiss, mouth demanding, hands gripping my waist with a possessiveness that set my whole body on fire. I gasped into him — and he swallowed the sound with another fierce, breath-stealing kiss. When he finally tore his mouth from mine, I was trembling. “This,” he whispered against my lips, “is what crossing the line looks like.” And then— He lifted me. Just swept me off my feet like I weighed nothing, my breath breaking in shock. His mouth found my neck, slow and burning. “You signed the contract,” he murmured. “Now I get to take you the way I’ve always wanted.” My body lit up like a fuse. And in that suspended elevator, in his arms, pressed against him like he owned every inch of me— I knew there was no turning back. Not from him. Not from this. Not from the storm I willingly stepped into.“Why do you look at me like I already belong to you?”The question leaves my mouth sharper than I intend, but I do not take it back. I cannot. Not when Drake is standing in front of me like that, sleeves rolled, jaw tight, eyes locked on me as if the rest of the world has been deleted.His silence stretches, thick and suffocating.Then he steps closer.“Because you do.”My chest tightens.Arrogant. Possessive. Completely insane.And yet my pulse betrays me, racing harder the closer he gets.“Say that again,” I challenge, my voice lower now, quieter, more dangerous.His lips curve, not into a smile but something darker. Something that makes my stomach flip.“I do not repeat myself,” he says, voice steady, controlled. “You heard me.”I let out a breath I did not realize I was holding. My fingers curl against my palm, nails digging into skin just to ground myself.This is what he does.He pushes.He claims.He decides.But I am not the same girl he left behind.I step forward until there
“Try not to fall in love with them too quickly, Ms. Mendoza.”“I don’t fall in love easily anymore,” I replied, placing the velvet case gently on the glass display table. “But my designs? They demand it.”Camille’s lips curved, intrigued, not amused. That was a difference I had learned to recognize fast. Amusement meant dismissal. Intrigue meant possibility.The boutique was quiet, controlled, curated. Not intimidating like the last one. This space felt… observant. Like it was waiting to see if I deserved to exist inside it.My pulse still refused to calm down.This was it.My first real chance.Not a cold rejection. Not a polite brush off. Not a “come back when you’re someone.”This was a test.And I intended to pass it.“Open it,” Camille said, folding her arms.No wasted time.No small talk.Good.I inhaled once, steadying my hands, then flipped open the case.The room shifted.It always did.Even my team noticed it the first time. The moment my collection was revealed, something c
“Who the hell even is Mendoza?”I froze mid-step, my hand hovering over the boutique’s glass door, as the words echoed through the chic SoHo showroom. The voice belonged to a sharply dressed woman in her forties, a buyer whose reputation had built and broken careers in a single lunch meeting. She clicked her pen deliberately against her pristine notebook, the sound like a metronome counting down my professional death.I swallowed, forcing my expression into calm professionalism. “I’m Sabrina Mendoza,” I said, letting my voice steady itself even though my heart was hammering like a drum in my chest. “I represent my own line, Mendoza Luxe. I believe our pieces could complement your boutique perfectly.”Her laugh wasn’t just dismissive—it was the kind that carved spaces in your soul, that made you question your existence in front of her. “Complement?” she repeated, rolling the word as if it were sour on her tongue. “Sweetheart, you’re unknown. I don’t do unknowns. I do what sells. And I
“Do you trust me?”“I have to,” I whispered back. “Because if I don’t, this whole thing falls apart.”Aria stared at me across the cluttered worktable, gemstone tweezers frozen mid-air. Her eyes searched my face, not for doubt—but for fire.“Then stop holding back.”The words struck harder than she probably intended.I inhaled slowly, my fingers tightening around the charcoal pencil. The sketchpad beneath my hands was already crowded with half-formed ideas: sharp-edged necklaces, broken-chain bracelets, imperfect rings that looked like they had survived a war. But none of them were enough.None of them felt like me.Not yet.“Okay,” I said hoarsely. “Then I’m going to design something I’m scared to admit exists.”“Good,” Kai muttered from his station. “Fear makes better art.”Theo rolled his chair closer, eyes bright behind his glasses. “This is it. This is the collection that defines Mendoza Luxe.”The name still made my heart stutter.Mendoza Luxe.Mine.No longer Drake’s shadow. No
“You’re late.”“I know,” I said breathlessly, shoving the glass door open with my shoulder while juggling three boxes of materials. “But the supplier changed the drop-off time and—”“And you still look like you fought a dragon,” Lila finished, eyeing my smudged jeans and paint-streaked hands.“Details.”The small office smelled like fresh wood, metal dust, and ambition. Sunlight poured through the tall windows, illuminating half-built tables, scattered tools, and sketches taped messily across the walls. It wasn’t glamorous. It wasn’t polished. But it was alive.My dream had a heartbeat now.And today, I was about to bring in the people who would help keep it alive.Three chairs stood in front of my desk—mismatched, secondhand, slightly crooked. I’d spent hours arranging the space to look professional despite our limited budget. The chipped table now gleamed. The walls were freshly painted. Even the cheap coffee machine hummed optimistically.“You nervous?” Lila asked, leaning against
“So this is where I either rebuild my life… or lose myself completely.”The words slipped from my lips as I stood on the cracked pavement, staring at the row of aging buildings lining the street. My breath fogged the chilly morning air, heart thundering against my ribs. The city hummed around me—honking cars, distant sirens, the low buzz of people chasing their own dreams. But for a moment, everything narrowed to this single stretch of road.This single decision.Lila stood beside me, hands tucked into the pockets of her oversized coat, eyes scanning the neighborhood with mild suspicion. “You look like you’re about to either conquer the world or set it on fire.”“Maybe both,” I muttered.The buildings weren’t glamorous. No glass towers. No marble lobbies. Just brick walls, dusty windows, faded signs. But there was something raw and honest about this place—like it wasn’t pretending to be more than it was.And neither was I anymore.We walked slowly, s
The universe really knew how to be cruel.Last night, Drake held me like I was the only thing keeping him breathing.Today…He wouldn’t even look at me.The moment I entered the top floor, the air changed.People stared. Whispered. Turned quickly when I met their eyes.It felt like walking into a f
My chest ached—not from work, not from deadlines, but from the weight of having to do the unthinkable.I sat behind my desk, fingers hovering over my keyboard, staring at a blank document labeled: “TERMINATION OF CONTRACT.” The words mocked me. This is for her safety. I told myself. She won’t unde
The knock at the balcony door sliced through the room like a blade.Drake’s entire body went rigid—every muscle tightening as if preparing for war. His hand instantly moved behind me, pulling me just half a step behind his chest, shielding me.“Stay still,” he whispered, voice low and lethal.I swa
The city lights flickered through the glass walls of his penthouse, painting everything in shades of gold and obsidian. I stood by the door, suitcase in hand, my chest tightening like it might burst. Every fiber of me screamed to run, but every instinct screamed to stay.Drake was waiting. Not just







