LOGIN“She should have run away… while I let her. She should have disappeared with all of these intense feelings that she evokes in me. She should have never come this close to me. Because Now…” Luciano’s eyes darkened and something snapped in him as he saw her tear her shirt away, exposing her to his naked, hungry eyes and before Luciano could even pull himself away, his body acted on his own, wrapping his arms around her waist, pulling her closer before his mouth devoured her, “…Now, there’s no going back.” “Mine…” He growled, “You’re just mine to ruin, Noora!” “I knew I should have run away from this man whose sole purpose was to hate me, wreck me, and make me fall. But here I was standing now, for him to ruin, for him to claim his ownership. Yet, why was she feelings the things that were far away from the loathing that I have for him?” “Luciano…” Noora moaned, her fingers clutching his hair as she pulled him closer, biting her lips, “You’ll never ruin me!” ……………… Noora never asked to be caught in the ruthless games of power, deception, and vengeance, yet the moment she returned home for Lucas’s engagement, her past and fate became entangled with the one man who despised her the most—Luciano. The heir to the Richardson empire, Luciano had only ever shown her cruelty, pushing her away with his cold words and scorching glares. But beneath the hatred lay something darker, something that neither of them could deny any longer. As secrets unravel and their pasts collide, their undeniable pull toward each other threatens to destroy them both. Because in this game, love isn’t just passion—it’s possession. And neither of them is willing to lose.
View More“You decide to marry a woman, make her your wife,” he said with a mirthless chuckle, “and then you decide to bring her child from another man into this house!! Into our lives!! And you call that a family?”The words felt like knives, slicing through the civility that they’d draped over the morning. The temperature in the room dropped. The air turned heavy, suffocating.The spoon in Sophie’s hand trembled, then clattered quietly onto her untouched plate. Her face had drained of color, lips parted slightly in some kind of wordless disbelief. But she didn’t look up. She didn’t meet anyone’s eyes. She sat like a statue made of shame and dust.No one moved.No one breathed.Luciano didn’t raise his voice. He didn’t have to. His tone was enough poisonous, laced with years of buried resentment.“What family is this?” he spat, contempt carved deep into his face. “This illusion you’ve built? Where we pretend to smile while hating the sight of each other?”Noora’s chest rose and fell, too fast.
Noora felt the silence tightening around her ribs like a vice. She could feel every scrape of porcelain, every delicate chime of the silverware echo in her bones like a slow, mocking countdown.She hadn’t touched her orange juice. Her fingers trembled when they grazed the cool rim of the glass, but she quickly retracted them and fixed her gaze ahead, not at Charles, definitely not at Lucas, and certainly not at the man seated beside her…Luciano Richardson.The one she wasn’t supposed to sit this close to. The one she wasn’t supposed to feel burning beneath her skin.Yet here she was, just inches away, her thigh brushing his in the subtlest way, just a single spark away from combustion. It was torture. It was maddening how close they sat and how distant they had to be from each other. The way her heart raced and the still, indifferent expression plastered across her face like a mask she couldn't breathe through.She hadn’t even looked at him once. That was the unspoken promise they ma
Noora wanted to burst out of the office like she was gasping for air, her lungs burning from the suffocating stares and accusations still echoing off the walls behind her. Her fingers tightened around the suspension notice which was crumpled now like her pride, as she reached for the door, desperate to disappear before anyone saw the tears threatening to break through.But fate had other plans.The door swung open before she could touch the handle, like it had been summoned by the drama inside. And there he was Icarus, stepping in as if chaos had sent him an invitation."My, my. This is exactly why I adore Richardson Corp," he drawled, his eyes lighting up at the scene before him.Noora trembling in the doorway. Paper clutched in her hand. The board frozen mid-shock, and Luciano coiled like a loaded weapon.Icarus’s grin was nothing short of delighted. "Every day, a fresh cup of tea. Hot and scandalous. Just the way I like it."Noora’s expression collapsed into unreadable stillness, he
The morning began like any other except that it didn’t.Luciano stepped into the building that bore his last name etched in polished glass and legacy, only to find the air... wrong. It was too quiet, too still, and too perfect.Everything was in place, too in place.The front desks didn’t hum with the usual rhythm and chatter. Even the elevators chimed softer, and the employees walking out were almost hesitant. No casual chatter, no shuffling of interns, no shuffle of paper or panicked tapping of keyboards.Luciano Richardson knew silence like this. It was when he walked in the Richardson Corp before.Wait… had he changed now?But that wasn’t the question to ponder now.This situation wasn’t peace... not after the arrival of Noora in Richardson Corp. It was the kind of silence that came before an ambush, just like he did before.His jaw twitched.Something was off.As he passed the floor, every employee seemed to vanish into thin air on sight of him, suddenly finding reasons to disapp
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