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Chapter 13 - Zayden

Author: Joanna Jade
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Zayden had had more one-night stands than he could count. Faces he forgot before the sun rose. Names he never asked for.

But her? Bella. She was different. In his mind. On his skin. In the silence between his thoughts.

There was something in the way she fell apart that night—quietly and desperately. Like she was left alone broken and bruised.

He hadn’t meant to take her home. Hell, he didn’t even know why he spoke to her.

But the moment he saw her sitting alone, her glass trembling in her hand, a storm buried behind her eyes—he couldn’t look away.

And when she moaned in his bed—begging, whimpering, pleading with him to screw her—it turned him on more than he ever imagined.

She wasn’t like the others. Not some spoiled socialite.

Not a woman who wanted his name, his wealth, or his control.

She wanted to feel and he let her.

Now he couldn’t get her out of his head.

He hadn’t even asked her last name. But he remembered the way her mouth trembled when she whispered his name against his ski
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