LOGIN“You moan the same way,” Jake whispered against her throat, his voice rough with desire. “The way your body trembles… the way your nails dig into my back. I love it. …Don’t lie to me, Chloe, I’ve had you before.” Her breath hitched, heat rushing to her cheeks as his words wrapped around her like chains. She wanted to deny it, to push him away, but the scent of his hair, clean, sharp, achingly familiar, sent shivers down her spine. Something about him was the same as that night, the night blurred by heartbreak and too much wine, the night she could barely remember but could never forget. And yet… he wasn’t supposed to be the man she married. ********************************** Venice was meant to be Chloe Rodriguez’s escape, not her prison. One reckless night of heartbreak leaves her in the arms of a stranger whose touch she can’t forget. Weeks later, she’s forced into a contract marriage with billionaire heir Jake Williams Martinez, only to realize he is that same man. But Jake believes he’s marrying her twin sister, Zoe, the wild one he thinks matches the woman from that night. Bound by her sister’s lies, Chloe steps into a marriage built on deception. Yet her heart belongs to another, Jake’s younger brother, Tyler, her ex-lover, whose shadow lingers in every memory. She comes in contact with Ethan, their close family friend who takes every opportunity to to be close to her as he has feelings towards her but wouldn’t want to betray them. When a secret pregnancy threatens to unravel everything, Chloe is trapped between two brothers, two betrayals, and a devastating truth: the father of her child may be the same man responsible for her family’s ruin.
View More“This is wrong…” I whispered, though my voice betrayed me with the quiver of want. “But I want you in me more… I need you, Tyler. My body yearns for you. I shouldn’t, but I can’t stop.”
He smirked, hovering just above me, his hand sliding down my thigh, slow and teasing. “Say it again,” he murmured, voice low and wicked, “say you need me.” “I…” The words died in my throat as his lips cut me short. His mouth crashed against mine, rough, demanding, claiming me before I could finish my confession. My heart pounded wildly, my body already arching into him as though it remembered this rhythm better than my mind did. His tongue slipped into my mouth, hot and relentless, stealing my breath. His other hand slid between my legs, fingers brushing against the aching need he had already lit inside me. I gasped into his kiss, hips jerking, betraying me completely. “You’re already so wet for me,” he growled against my lips, dragging his finger along my heat, slow enough to make me tremble. “Don’t lie, Chloe. Your body always tells the truth.” A whimper escaped before I could stop it. My nails dug into his shoulders as his fingers pressed inside, curling just right, stroking until my thighs trembled. I hated how easily he undid me. Hated how much I loved it. “Tyler…” His name left my lips like a prayer and a curse all at once. He kissed the corner of my mouth, then down my throat, his lips hot against my skin. “You’re mine,” he whispered darkly. “You’ve always been mine, no matter whose ring you wear.” His words made my chest tighten. This was madness. What else could go wrong, knowing I had betrayed my husband by sleeping with his brother, and worse, my ex-lover? My mind screamed stop, but my body cried more. And the cruelest truth of all haunted me: I carried a child, and I still didn’t know whose it was. But his mouth… God, his mouth didn’t care about consequences. It trailed fire down my stomach, lower and lower, until his tongue replaced his fingers, tasting me, driving me insane. My back arched violently, a sharp cry tearing from me as his tongue moved with sinful precision. Every lick, every flick, every greedy suck shattered me further. “Please…” I moaned, gripping his hair, pulling him closer. “Please, Tyler…” He lifted his head slightly, lips glistening, eyes burning with lust and victory. “That’s it. Beg for me. I love hearing how wrong you know this is while your body begs for more.” Before I could answer, he replaced his mouth with his fingers again, thrusting deeper, curling hard until I was writhing, my body slick with sweat. My breath came out broken, my moans filling the room. And then, without warning, he spread my legs wider, positioning himself. I felt the hard press of him against me, hot and demanding. “Tyler, no…” “Yes,” he cut me off, pushing forward, sliding into me inch by inch until I was completely filled. A shudder ripped through me, my nails sinking deep into his back. The first thrust was brutal, a reminder of what we were risking, what I had already lost. But the second… the second was bliss. My walls clenched around him, pulling him deeper, my cries echoing against his groans. Every movement was a sin, every thrust dragging me closer to a dangerous edge I had no power to resist. His pace quickened, our bodies slamming together in a rhythm that was both punishment and salvation. His hand gripped my thigh, holding me open, his lips crashing into mine as if he could devour the guilt out of me. I kissed him back just as fiercely, drowning in the chaos, in the heat, in the madness of what we were doing. My body betrayed every ounce of reason I had left, giving in to the pleasure I should never have tasted. And when the wave finally hit me, when I shattered completely around him, the truth stabbed deeper than his thrusts ever could. Everything seemed right. His touch, his heat, his body inside mine, everything I had longed for. But yet, everything was wrong. He was my husband’s brother. My ex-lover. The man who had broken me before. And now, even as I lay tangled in his arms, my body weak and trembling from his love, one truth burned me alive… I still felt too much for him.Jake’s POVI smiled into my phone as Adrian talked.It was fake. Practiced. The kind of smile that lived only on the surface of my face while everything underneath sharpened into something dangerous.“I’ve thought about what you said,” I told him calmly. “The split. Sixty–forty.”A pause. I could almost hear him leaning back, satisfied.“And?” Adrian asked.“And I’m willing to talk,” I continued. “Not agree. Talk.”He laughed. A low, pleased sound. “That’s progress, brother.”Brother.The word still made my skin crawl. How dare him think I’m his brother after everything he had done.“Meet me in two days,” he added. “Same place.”“I’ll be there.”The call ended.I lowered the phone slowly, my reflection staring back at me from the dark screen, eyes colder than I remembered, jaw set in stone.The game has just began, and I’mPlaying my cards well this time around.Tyler was already waiting when I entered the private office we’d secured off the hospital grounds. He looked better than he
JAKE’S POVI didn’t sleep that night. I was too worried to sleep, too scared that I might receive yet another bad news and too confused trying to calculate the next step to take. I sat in my car outside the police station long after the officers went back inside, gripping the steering wheel like it was the only thing keeping me anchored to reality. Gold’s face haunted me each time I dare to close my eyes. I could see Ethan face, his death replayed like a curse. Adrian’s voice kept echoing in my head, a reminder that all wasn’t well, his voice , calm and cruel, like destruction amused him.He wanted blood.Fine.I started the engine and drove back to the hospital.The moment I stepped into the lobby, my phone rang. Tyler.I answered immediately. “Talk to me.”“I know how to take him down,” Tyler said.I stopped walking.“What?”“I mean it,” he continued. “I’ve been making calls. Digging through old files. Adrian isn’t as untouchable as he wants you to believe.”My pulse quickened. “Wh
JAKE’S POV“ it’s fine” I said as I left Adrain boiling with anger in me. By the time I reached the hospital parking lot, my chest felt tight, as if Adrian’s words were still wrapped around my throat. Sixty percent for me. Forty for you… or I kill them all. I shook the memory off and headed inside. The hospital corridor smelled like antiseptic, steel lil E always, although this one was deeper, and fear. My fear. I checked on Chloe first. She was resting, my son asleep on her chest. Zoe was in the next room, calmer than before, though her eyes still held the kind of terror that sticks to a person’s bones. They were okay. For the moment. A nurse approached as I stepped out of Zoe’s ward. “Mr. Jake Williams… your brother Tyler is awake. He’s been transferred to private ward 3C.” I exhaled a breath I didn’t realize I’d been holding. Finally, something good. I walked down the hall, palms slightly sweating, mind racing through everything that had gone wrong. When I stepped into
CHLOE’S POVWho would have thought that. Ethan will be so short lived. He was such a genuine, caring and peaceful person, my person. I was shaking.But not from the cold. Not from the after-effects of childbirth. But from the truth that refused to settle in my chest. The reality I wish to wake up from. Ethan was dead. And Gold… Gold had been working against us. With the enemy. Against my husband. Against my family. The evening lights outside my hospital window cast long shadows across my ward, and everything felt too quiet, too still, like the calm after a storm that promised a bigger one. I pulled my hospital blanket tighter around myself, my baby boy sleeping peacefully in his crib beside me, unaware that the world around him was falling apart. My father rolled Zoe’s wheelchair into the room, his face tight with exhaustion and sadness. “I’ll only stay a few minutes,” he said softly. “I want to see my grandson again before I leave.” I nodded. Dad leaned over the little c












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