LOGINChapter 178: Olive's POVI sank to my knees on the plush carpet, without thinking twice, my heart was racing as the soft fibers pressing into my skin as I looked up at Zane standing above me, and something about the position, the submission of it, the vulnerability, made heat pool low in my belly."Hands behind your back," Zane commanded, his voice dropping into that rough register that made my thighs clench together automatically.I obeyed, clasping my hands behind me and arching my back slightly, and I watched as his eyes darkened when the position pushed my chest forward."Fuck," he breathed, one hand coming up to cup my jaw, his thumb tracing across my bottom lip. "You look so goddamn perfect like this. On your knees for me. Ready to take whatever I give you."He unbuckled his belt slowly, deliberately, the leather sliding through the loops with that distinctive sound that made my breath catch, and then his pants were open and he was pulling his cock out, thick and hard and alread
Chapter 177: Olive's POVI walked into the room and my eyes widened as everything came into focus slowly, like my brain needed extra time to process what I was actually seeing.At first there was nothing, just darkness and shapes I couldn't quite make out, until I blinked and the room became clearer, sharper, more real than anything I'd expected.The walls were painted in deep wine red, almost burgundy, the kind of color that looked black in certain lighting but glowed rich and dark when the dim overhead lights hit it at the right angle, and something about that color made my stomach flip with a mixture of anticipation and nervousness I couldn't quite name.The bed dominated the center of the room, massive, draped in black silk sheets that looked obscenely expensive, with a headboard made of dark wood that had two sets of leather cuffs hanging from it, positioned exactly where someone's wrists would be if they were lying spread out beneath them.My breath caught.I'd walked into sex s
Chapter 176: Olive's POVThe weight of Cole's words hit me harder than I wanted to admit, settling somewhere deep in my chest where I couldn't quite shake them loose no matter how hard I tried.I knew I should be angry, still enraged, possibly ready to file for a restraining order against him the second tomorrow morning came, but his words had cut deeper than I'd expected, had planted questions in my mind that I didn't want to examine too closely.But Zane had been so fast to stop that distraction, had somehow made me redirect all that anxious energy toward the unsettling mixture of anxiety and excitement that was now brewing inside me, toward whatever he was about to show me that I was so desperately looking forward to and so terrified of at the same time."Where are we heading?" I finally broke through the silence in the car, watching from my periphery as his eyes glanced at me before slowly, deliberately, his hand came to rest on my thigh.His palm pressed firmly against my skin th
Chapter 175: Zane's POVThe plan was never to fuck Olive Monroe when I saw her at the club tonight, but plans changed the second I watched that sadistic bastard Cole approach her.I knew Cole was up to no good—he had never been up to any good, not from the moment he'd walked into Olive's life and spent years systematically breaking her down piece by piece.Not I was any better.And I'd tried to go easy on him, had restrained myself from using every resource at my disposal to destroy him completely, could have terminated every single one of his pathetic little games and made him fall just as quickly as he'd risen, but because he'd somehow stolen my sister's heart, I couldn't.But watching him from across the club trying to manipulate Olive, trying to twist words to fit his favor, trying to plant seeds of doubt about me in her mind, was enough to make me want to blow his fucking head off.And the second my lips crashed against hers in front of everyone, in front of Cole, in front of the
Chapter 174: Olive's POVThe tiny little deal we had, the changing of the locks, was somehow tied to this Cole’s current revelation."So instead you kept it secret," I said bitterly. "Just like you kept Cole watching us secret. Just like you've kept so many things secret.""I was trying to protect you," Zane said quietly."By lying to me?" I challenged. "By making decisions about my life without my input? By treating me like I'm too fragile to handle the truth?""You're right," Zane admitted. "I fucked up. I should have told you about the cameras the second I found them. Should have let you decide how to handle it instead of making that choice for you."I looked at Cole, who was standing there with his arms crossed, clearly waiting for this to somehow work in his favor."You're disgusting," I said to him, my voice cold. "You violated me in ways I can't even fully process right now. And you're standing there acting like you had any right to do what you did.""I was protecting you—" Col
Chapter 173: Olive's POV"Zane," I managed to say again, my voice coming out stronger this time even though my entire body was shaking, my mind racing with questions I wasn't sure I wanted answered.He looked breathtaking, infuriatingly, devastatingly beautiful in that leather jacket that fit him perfectly, his dark hair slightly messy like he'd been running his hands through it, his jaw tight with barely controlled anger as he stared at me like I was the only person in this entire club who mattered.And I hated that even now, even after what Cole had just told me, even with all the uncertainty and hurt and confusion swirling through my head, my body still responded to him like it always did, heart rate spiking, breath catching, every nerve ending suddenly hyperaware of his presence."How did you—" I started to ask, then stopped because it didn't matter how he'd known I was here, didn't matter how he'd found me. "You knew Cole was in my apartment that day."It wasn't a question. It wa
CHAPTER 26: OLIVE’S POVMy father's wife.I shouldn't have clicked on them. I knew better. But my thumb moved on its own, opening the app and navigating to the burner account I'd created six months ago just to keep tabs on them. On the life my father had built without me.The first photo was of my
Chapter 25: OLIVE’s POVMy phone screen was dark. Still dark. Had been dark for three days straight except for the notifications I actually didn't want.I pressed the power button again just to make sure, watching the time flash: 6:47 PM. The battery icon mocked me at ninety-three percent. Fully ch
Chapter 23: COLE’s POVThe bag swung back, and I hit it again. Harder. My knuckles were raw inside the gloves, but I didn't stop. Couldn't stop.‘Thwack. Thwack. Thwack.’Olive screaming Zane's name was on loop in my head. Over and over. That look on her face when she'd seen me at the arena—like I
Chapter 30: OLIVE's POVHis mouth devoured mine like I was the last fucking thing he'd ever taste, and his body—god, his body—pressed hard against me, those muscles I'd seen in the magazine now solid and real, crushing against my breasts through the thin fabric of my dress.I couldn't breathe. Didn'







