LOGANThe dreadful shadows under my eyes were proof of last night’s struggle.I hissed in pain as I turned away from the mirror, a wicked ache slicing through my guts as my toothbrush slipped from my fingers. I gripped the wash basin and cussed in a string of the little Italian I’d picked up from Ashley because English wouldn’t suffice at the moment.When the pain didn’t subside, I had to wrap a hand firmly around my lower abdomen and place a hand on the wall to support myself as I practically stumbled back into my bedroom. I didn’t even get to my bed before I slumped on the carpet.The pain I felt was far too intense to stomach, and it’d kept me awake all damned night.As I remained curled up on the floor, groaning weakly as the pain grew, I wondered what could possibly be the cause. I hadn’t felt anything like it before, so the only thing I could attribute it to was that the curse was punishing me for using Scarlett’s ability to control it as a loophole.It made sense because she wa
SCARLETTI wanted to go home so bad, ugh. Home in this sense being Blake’s arms.I was counting the minutes until I was free to leave the hell hole I called a work place, watching the minute hand of the wall clock move sluggishly when my phone lit up with a notification.When I saw that it was from Blake, a huge smile graced my face. But the moment I saw the content of the message, my smile morphed into a gasp that sent heat right to my core. Blake had sent me a picture, and not just any kind, the type I could touch myself to and end up with a knee buckling orgasm.Staring back at me was a mirror picture of Blake, bare chested and holding his hardened length like he’d just been pumping it, and a seductive smile was playing on his full lips to top it all. The wet hair sticking to his forehead made him even more sumptuous.I’d never been as eager to devour anyone as I was to devour him at the moment.I had to cross my legs and press my thighs tightly together to stop the throbbing that
SCARLETTHis smile was blinding, heart melting too.“Hey beautiful,” his boyish grin remained as he crossed the cafe to meet me by the door, enveloping me in a warm hug that instantly dissolved the anger I’d been carrying earlier, “you’re here!”“I’d have come here the very second you sent me that picture,” I whispered hotly into his ear before pulling away from the embrace.Immediately, the excitement in his eyes was replaced with a familiar burning desire that I was no stranger to.Like he couldn’t help himself, he leaned forward, dipping his head like he was going in for a kiss and I had to quickly avert my face and playfully spin him around to remind him that we had an audience.Customers and employees alike, the latter being aware that we were step siblings.“My bad,” he mumbled, stifling laughter as it registered that he’d lost himself for a moment.“Come on, lover boy,” I teased, walking ahead of him and leading the way to his office while being fully aware that his eyes were g
BLAKEAs soon as I shut the door behind us, I pushed her against the window harshly, my eyes narrowing at her.Wathoni was never one to listen, her defiance was her only flaw, and one of these days, it’d mark her end at my hands. I was only counting the strikes until her cup filled up and overflowed.“I already warned you not to show up around Scarlett again, yet this is the third fucking time you’ve turned up at the cafe, lurking around her like an undertaker,” I gripped her the collar of her coat, taking in her ridiculous all black ensemble.She regarded me with a sultry smile, as though my anger somehow turned her on. But it wouldn’t be the first time, after all the angry, violent sex we’d engaged in, I knew this was her thing.“Easy, big boy, I didn’t mean to cause any trouble in your new found paradise,” she held her hands in surrender, her usual playful tone making my seriousness seem like an overreaction.“It’s about you fucking this up when we’re finally close to getting what
ALEXEver since Logan’s false allegations, I’ve been trying my hardest to put some much-needed distance between myself and Scarlett. The only reason I approached her was in a bid to help her wiggle free of Logan’s self-centred employment, and nothing else.And since she didn’t give me the time of day, it was a ridiculously easy task to maintain my distance.Yet, each time I caught sight of her, I couldn’t help but wonder if the insane magnetic force that pulled me towards her qualified as love. I didn’t want to admit that any possibility existed that I was in love with her as Logan pointed out, but the emotions she stirred in me were so foreign and overwhelming.What did any of that signify? An obsessive feeling of attraction and lust, maybe, but not love. I knew for a fact that I was incapable of falling in love, I was simply driven by my insatiable hormones.My wolf didn’t care that I was working through those emotions and trying to stay away from her until they were resolved. He wa
SCARLETTAlex’s behavior shook me to my very core.The vulnerability and desperation that he oozed of was unlike him, but somehow it didn’t make me think less of him. If any other man who I’d known to possess a domineering and commanding energy has fallen to his knees before me that way, I’d have lost every ounce of respect for him in an instant.But something somewhere forced my initial impression of Alex to remain untainted. As much as he wasn’t a gentleman or a friend in any capacity to me, I had an odd amount of respect for him because of his affiliation with a talent company I’d dreamt of working at for countless years.Still, after the sex scandal, I started to hate him, so, I put up impenetrable walls against him, but his pleas had almost torn them down.My wolf had been clawing at my insides and forcing me to defy logic and let him touch me, at least to pleasure me as proof that he was now a better man that cared to cater to my sexual satisfaction above his.However, I fought
LOGANUnlike other businessmen, I never accepted defeat no matter how impossible a goal seemed.That’s why I employed private investigators and fixers to get me into the inner circles of the billionaires I targeted to invest in my countless projects. I always made it seem like our meeting was fated and then, I swooped in and bagged them.This time, the big fish I was planning to score was a bloody rich woman who came from old money and had never worked a day in her life, yet her source of income never ran dry.She was hard to bump into, so the second I got word from a private investigator that he got me entry into a charity event under her foundation, I dropped everything and got ready to leave. I checked Ashley’s office first to see if she was available to accompany me but she was out on business so I was stuck with Scarlett’s overbearing ass.When I informed her that we’d be attending a charity event for disabled and underprivileged children, I was strangely taken aback that she qui
SCARLETTI’m sitting across a man who holds my entire heart in his palms, decidedly so.He’s somehow pulling off a light blue suit, looking like the best thing to have ever happened since the marvelous invention of chocolates.We’ve just finished having the best dinner date I’ve ever been on and now he's feeding me dessert while going on about how the interview process for a new employee at the cafe was the funniest task he's ever been saddled with.Instead of being invested in the conversation, I’m too distracted by the two tickets sitting in my purse to the all white party Ashley invited me to. The moment she suggested that I bring a date, Blake was the first person that came to mind.However, I knew that bringing him as my date would only raise suspicions and I couldn't risk ruining the beautiful thing we had blossomed into.“Let’s get out of here,” I whispered to him, my eyes sending a message that he couldn't possibly miss.“Shit, yeah,” he chuckled, smiling like a teenage boy th