เข้าสู่ระบบ“Don’t fall in love with me, Keona. Take it from me, you’ll regret it.” “And if you fall for me?” “Then God help me, Keona, because I’ll burn the world down before I ever let you go…” *** Everyone envied Keona Cromwell. After all, she was married to Hardin Cromwell, the youngest trillionaire in the country and CEO of Cromwell Holdings. To the outside world, she was the luckiest woman alive with a beautiful home, a handsome husband, and an adorable daughter. But only Keona knew the truth. For six years, Hardin had never celebrated her birthday. He never remembered their anniversary. He never defended her against his verbally abusive family. Even worse, he spent more time with his childhood sweetheart than his own wife. But still, she stayed. She hoped for a change. Then one heartbreaking moment changed everything. Her own daughter reached for Hardin’s childhood sweetheart and called her, “mommy.” That single word was enough to destroy the last piece of Keona’s heart. She served Hardin divorce papers, determined to walk away with her dignity intact. Everyone believed Hardin did not care. After all, he only tolerated Keona. He never loved her. But the moment she disappeared, he quietly ordered; “Double my wife’s security. Anyone who dares to hurt her answers to me.” As Keona rebuilds her life, Hardin discovers that the woman he treated like a nuisance is the one person who ever truly loved him. Now the cold billionaire who never begged anyone only has one goal: to make his ex-wife fall in love with him again. Too bad Keona has already stopped looking back.
ดูเพิ่มเติม“Hardin, please slow down… fuckk!!”
My palms press weakly against my husband’s broad shoulders, pleasure numbing my brain as he slams into my swollen pussy harder and faster.
His thick, fat cock stretches my walls with every brutal thrust, the wet, sinful slap of skin on skin echoing in the quiet morning light.
I should be pushing him away, but my hips lift off the mattress on their own, greedily meeting him thrust for thrust even as the words tumble out of me;
“Please, Hardin. I can’t t-take it… mm-hm! Faster!”
Somewhere at the back of my mind, it registers that I sound like a desperate slut. But I’ve long since passed the point of caring.
One more savage snap of his hips and I shatter, my pussy clenching hard around him as a broken cry tears from my throat.
Hardin follows a second later with a low, sexy growl that has my toes curling, burying himself to the hilt and flooding me in hot pulses. After what feels like an eternity, he collapses on top of me, heavy and spent.
For one blissful second, I bury my nose in his neck and breathe in his delicious Old Spice scent like a starved woman.
I want to stay like this forever. I really wish we could stay like this forever.
But I know my husband. I know even the slightest movement might remind him that he’d rather be anywhere else in the world than here with me.
My gaze drifts towards the heavy draperies as I force myself to remain still.
I barely breathe. I don’t dare shift an inch, terrified that if I do, Hardin will remember himself and pull away.
It’s our sixth anniversary and for once, I’m letting myself believe that maybe, things could be different.
Maybe Hardin will stay. Maybe he’ll hold me a little tighter and finally whisper the words I’ve longed to hear for the past six years.
Maybe he’ll finally tell me he loves me.
The thought barely marinates when Hardin suddenly stirs. My arms fall to the bed and I watch helplessly as he starts to roll off me, his jaw already tightening with irritation? Anger? These days, I can barely tell.
A desperate whimper slips past my throat and I lurch forward without thinking, my fingers closing around one of his huge biceps in a frantic attempt to stop him.
Hardin freezes. Then, finally, those dark grey eyes settle on me.
Have you forgotten what today is? I want to ask. But I still have a few scraps of dignity left, so I just settle for whispering; “where are you going?”
He lifts one brow, that familiar look of impatience already settling over his face.
“I have an important board meeting in the next thirty minutes.”
Something inside me finally cracks and tears spill down my cheeks before I can hold them back.
“I thought you said you were free today.” I choke out, hating how pathetic I sound. “You said we could spend time together. Don’t you remember?”
For a moment, Hardin doesn’t respond.
His dark eyes remain fixed on my tears, slowly tracing the wet tracks down my cheeks.
Then, as if a switch had been flipped, his expression hardens and his lips press into a thin line.
“I don’t have time to lie around all day, Keona. I have work to do. Maybe next time.”
He tries to leave again but I hang on tighter, unwilling to let him go just yet.
“Please, Hardin?” My voice comes out small. “I don’t wanna be alone today.”
It’s our anniversary. Don’t you remember?
The words sit on the tip of my tongue, but I can’t bring myself to say them out.
I hate how needy I sound. How needy I feel.
I hate that loving this man has reduced me to clinging to him for scraps of attention and begging him to stay.
Hardin looks down at me, and something about the way he studies my face makes me hold my breath. For one brief moment, I think he might actually reconsider.
Then his jaw clenches. And he gently but firmly pulls his arm from my grip.
“Find something meaningful to do,” he says, his tone painfully dismissive. “Don’t just lie around all day.”
I watch him leave, my heart cracking to pieces as I mourn the loss of his body against mine.
“I love you so much, Hardin,” I whisper. “It’s been six years already. What do I have to do to make you love me back?”
KEONAI’m not going to cry. I repeat it over and over like a mantra as I tiptoe into Hardin’s study later that night. Instead of sitting around crying my eyes out, I’ve decided to use that time to find proof that my husband actually betrayed my trust.I trusted him blindly. I gave myself to him for years, sacrificing my dreams to build our home. And all along, I didn’t realize I was married to the Devil himself. My teeth are gritted, venomous anger pulsing through my veins for the first time in years as I search cabinet after cabinet crammed with files. Thankfully, Hardin is meticulously organized. Just as I’m about to give up, I stumble on a file labeled “Pharmacy Purchases.”I stare at it for three long seconds, my heart thundering wildly against my ribcage.I let myself consider the possibility that maybe, just maybe, Hardin hadn’t known those pills weren’t vitamins. The bottles were labeled as vitamins, after all. It could have been an honest mistake.This is the moment I find
KEONAI’ve been in love with Hardin Cromwell since the first time I set eyes on him the day I turned eighteen. But he only married me to fulfill his grandmother’s dying wish. Eight years ago, I rescued Elizabeth Cromwell, the matriarch of the Cromwell family, from a blazing house fire. And in return, she asked her grandson and the heir to the Cromwell fortune to marry me.The first day I set eyes on Hardin, he’d just returned for vacation from Harvard business school. He was so gorgeous that for the first time in years, my heart fluttered at the sight of a man.But on our wedding day, he looked me in the eyes and told me point blank; “Don’t make the mistake of falling in love with me, Keona Manchester. Take it from me, you’ll regret it.”I should have listened to him and guarded my heart. But it was already too late.After I birthed Cora, watching the cold-hearted man I once knew transform into a loving father made me fall even deeper.Everything was going so well.I was convinced t
KEONAI hate chocolate cake, but I woke up by 5 AM to bake a double layered chocolate cake for our anniversary because Hardin is absolutely obsessed with them. I cradle the cake against my chest with one hand, a happy smile tugging at my lips as I reach for the half open door of my husband’s study.I’m just about to walk inside when Hardin’s deep baritone filters into my ears; “Keona already knows there’s nothing between us. This marriage is a mutually beneficial arrangement. She’ll be out of this house soon.”I freeze, the cake trembling in my gasp. My heart splinters at the words, each one cutting deeper than the last. Don’t cry, Keona. Don’t cry.I press my lips together, fighting the sob rising in my throat. It doesn’t work. A tiny, broken sound slips past my lips and the study suddenly falls silent. Fuck. He heard me.Before I can unglue my feet and make a run for it, the door swings open and there he is. My husband, Hardin Cromwell. CEO of Cromwell Holdings and one of th
“Hardin, please slow down… fuckk!!”My palms press weakly against my husband’s broad shoulders, pleasure numbing my brain as he slams into my swollen pussy harder and faster. His thick, fat cock stretches my walls with every brutal thrust, the wet, sinful slap of skin on skin echoing in the quiet morning light. I should be pushing him away, but my hips lift off the mattress on their own, greedily meeting him thrust for thrust even as the words tumble out of me;“Please, Hardin. I can’t t-take it… mm-hm! Faster!”Somewhere at the back of my mind, it registers that I sound like a desperate slut. But I’ve long since passed the point of caring. One more savage snap of his hips and I shatter, my pussy clenching hard around him as a broken cry tears from my throat. Hardin follows a second later with a low, sexy growl that has my toes curling, burying himself to the hilt and flooding me in hot pulses. After what feels like an eternity, he collapses on top of me, heavy and spent. For one












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