INICIAR SESIÓNKaireen's Pov His hands landed on my ass with a sharp crack that vibrated through bone before pleasure swallowed the sting whole.I bit down on my moan so hard my teeth hurt.He yanked my skirt down in one smooth pull and it pooled somewhere behind us and the cool air of the room hit my skin and then his hands were back, warm and rough and completely without apology, palming me like I was his to hold exactly this way, like the concept of asking had never occurred to him.I pressed my forehead against the door and said nothing.I was not going to give him the satisfaction. I was not going to make a single sound, not one, not after everything this evening had already taken from me in the dignity department. Kade was still somewhere downstairs with a split lip that my brother had put there for kissing me, and here I was bent over with said brother's hands on my skin and my body behaving like a traitor of the highest order."Look at you," Rowan said, low and unhurried, and his thumb trac
Kaireen's Pov "Over-entitled bastard."The words came out before I could stop them, which was how most things came out when Rowan had my wrists pinned behind my back and his mouth against my ear and his entire body pressed along the length of mine like a wall that had decided to become personal.I twisted in his grip. Not hard enough to actually get free, which was a problem I was choosing not to examine right now, but hard enough to make a point."You have no right," I said, and my voice came out less steady than I wanted it to. "Not over Kade, not over any of it. You do not own me, Rowan. You froze his accounts. You shut down his hospital. You punched him in the face on a public pavement and then dragged me up here like I am something you can just—""I'll put that mouth to better use," he said.I stopped.He said it so quietly. So completely without inflection, like he was noting the weather or confirming an appointment, that for a full second I thought I had misheard him."What di
Kaireen's Pov "You don't deserve her," Rowan said, and it came out quiet and final and underneath the coldness of it there was something that was almost pain, something that sat too close to the surface for a man who kept everything at a controlled distance. "Go back to your club. Go back to the women you keep in your penthouse. Go back to every single part of your life that has nothing to do with this one."Kade's eyes went flat,The air changed.A muscle in Rowan's jaw jumped. It was the only external thing that moved. He looked at me then, and whatever was in his eyes in that moment was complicated and real and it made my chest hurt in a way I was not expecting. "Goodnight, Kaireen.""Kade—""Get some sleep," he said simply. And then he turned and walked back to the car and the driver had the door open before he reached it and it closed behind him with a soft, expensive sound and the Mercedes pulled away from the curb and was gone.I stood there.Then I turned to Rowan.He was alr
Kaireen's Pov The punch landed before I could breathe.One second Kade was pulling back from the kiss, the next Rowan's fist had connected with the side of his face and Kade went down to one knee on the pavement with the impact of it, and I stood there for a full two seconds with my hands up and my mouth open and my brain trying to catch up with what my eyes were telling it."Rowan!" His name tore out of me like a reflex.He did not stop.He reached down and grabbed Kade by the collar of his rust shirt and hauled him upright in one motion, that effortless, terrifying alpha strength that made it look like lifting nothing, and then he slammed him back against the windscreen of the Mercedes with a crack that made the glass shudder and pressed his forearm across Kade's chest to keep him there."What the hell do you think you are doing to her."It was not a question. It was something that came from below his throat, from the part of him that was not the controlled, measured, calculating v
Kaireen's Pov.Kade was already at the car, a sleek black Mercedes that his driver had pulled around to the side street while everything was happening, and he held the door open without looking like he was doing it for show, just did it the way he did most things, quietly and without announcement. I got in. He came around to the other side and we both sat in the back while the driver pulled smoothly into traffic and the restaurant shrank in the side mirror until it was gone.For a while neither of us said anything.The city moved past the windows, shops and offices and pedestrians and the ordinary afternoon machinery of people going about lives that had not just been thoroughly derailed, and I sat with my bag in my lap and my hands folded over it and watched the streets and listened to the low sound of the engine and tried to feel something coherent.What I felt was tired.And guilty.And tired about being guilty, because the restaurant deserved it, but Kade sitting next to me with hi
Rowan's Pov I'm not leaving today."The arms went back. "Rowan—""Tomorrow morning…I need tonight."He looked at me for a long time with those eyes that saw through everything and said nothing for a moment, and then he said, "The girl is going to be your undoing.""I know," I said."She's also your—""I know, Neon."He pressed his lips together and picked up his own phone and started making the calls that needed to be made, because that was what he did, he adapted to what was and worked with it, and I turned back to the window.My phone buzzed on the desk. A text from one of the government contacts confirming the restaurant lockdown was underway. I read it, set the phone back down, and allowed myself one moment of pure, uncomplicated satisfaction about the manager who had picked my sister's card up with two fingers and smiled with only her mouth.It will be locked for Four years.I hoped she had enjoyed running her establishment.
Kaireen's PovEverything I said fell on deaf ears. Rowan slid back into the driver's seat like I hadn't just told him to get the fuck out of my life, like I hadn't made it crystal clear that I wanted nothing to do with him or his precious pack. The engine roared to life and my panic spiked."Rowan,
Kaireen’s PovI watched his eyes darken on me, the gold in them swallowing the brown until they were almost black with desire, and something shifted inside me. So this is what he wants, right? Fine. I'll give it to him. But I was going to make sure I tortured him in ways he wouldn't be able to comp
Kaireen's PovI felt something pressing against me in the darkness, something that made my body jolt awake even though my mind was still foggy with sleep. My hands were pinned above my head, Rowan's grip so strong I couldn't move even an inch, and then I felt it, something soft
Kaireen's PovI felt sick and filthy, my body aching in places I didn't know could ache, but it did nothing to douse the overwhelming sensations flooding through me. I felt owned, ruined, completely protected and safe all at the same time, and the words Rowan had poured into my ear while he fucked







