LOGIN“Ja…cob, what's the problem? what are you doing?” I stammered, He was standing close to me, much closer than how friends were supposed to be. “The problem is today is the last day of our stay in this hell hole, and probably the last day we will see each other,” he said, his voice dark. “I…we can call, or maybe visit…” I was saying when his lips crashed on mine, sealing my heart. ******************** Alex, after spending his long vacation in a camp, returns to his boring and quiet life as the weird kid in the neighbourhood where he was bullied and maltreated. Heartbroken for three years after parting with his only friend, he continued his lonely life as the shunned nerd until he went to college. But on his first day in college, rumors fly about the arrival of a hot, mysterious new student, the heir to the powerful Rufus Corporation. But who would have thought that the mysterious hot guy was his first kiss? The person he had sleepless nights for. But Jacob has changed, now going by the name Andrian, a ruthless, dangerous, powerful figure from the strongest family in town. Acting Indifferent, as if Alex doesn't even exist. From first love to bitter enemies, what will he do when the boy of his dreams becomes his fiercest rival and arch enemy? That was hellbent on making his life miserable. Alex's world is further thrown into chaos when conspiracies about his origin as heir to another powerful corporation, the Davidson and his father's death surfaces, pointing toward the Rufus family. This is a thrilling story of hate, love, betrayal, and discovery
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Le vernissage de la Fondation Moréac baigne dans une lumière dorée et un bruit de cristal. Je me fonds mal dans ce décor. Ma robe noire, simple, est une armure contre le luxe ostentatoire qui m'entoure. Je suis là pour une œuvre, une seule. « Érosion n°7 ». Une masse de béton fissuré d’où jaillit du cuivre vivide. On me présente, l'artiste prometteuse. Les sourires sont des masques, les compliments, des cartes de visite échangées.
Et puis, je le vois.
Il est adossé au mur, légèrement en retrait, observant la foule comme s’il étudiait un spécimen rare et légèrement décevant. Costume sombre, coupé à la perfection. Une gravité qui semble peser sur ses épaules, l’air de porter un poids invisible. Son regard croise le mien une seconde, un éclair gris et direct, avant de se détourner. Un inconnu. Un de plus. Mais quelque chose dans son isolement, dans cette intensité silencieuse, accroche mon regard et refuse de le lâcher.
L'orage gronde au-dehors, promesse d’un déluge. La conversation autour de moi tourne à l’insipide. Je m’échappe, cherchant l’air moins conditionné du jardin d’hiver. C’est là qu’il me rejoint, sans un mot, venant se poster près de la baie vitrée, à moins d’un mètre. La tension entre nous est palpable, un champ magnétique absurde né de ce seul regard échangé.
— Votre sculpture, commence-t-il sans préambule, la voix plus grave, plus usée que ne le laissait supposer son apparence lisse. Elle dérange.
Je tourne la tête vers lui, surprise qu’il ait parlé, qu’il ait remarqué l’œuvre, qu’il soit là.
— C’est son but. Montrer la beauté de ce qui se brise.
— Le béton ne se brise pas par beauté, rétorque-t-il, les yeux fixés sur la pluie qui commence à fouetter les vitres. Il se fissure sous la pression. C’est un échec de structure.
— Ou une libération de force contenue, lançai-je, le défi dans la voix, piquée par son ton définitif.
Nos regards s’accrochent enfin. Son iris est d’un gris ardoise, intense. Il y a là une intelligence froide, mais aussi une lassitude profonde, une fissure justement, à peine visible. L’orage éclate enfin. Des trombes d’eau s’abattent sur les vitres, isolant soudain notre bulle de silence du bruit du monde.
La panne est soudaine, totale. Les lumières s’éteignent, plongeant la serre dans une pénombre bleutée, seulement déchirée par les éclairs. Un murmure de surprise monte de la galerie principale. Ici, plus un bruit. Juste le tambourinement violent de la pluie et notre respiration, trop perceptible.
— On dirait que nous sommes pris au piège, murmure-t-il, et je perçois une pointe d’ironie dans sa voix.
Il n’a pas bougé, mais l’espace entre nous semble avoir rétréci, aspiré par l’obscurité. Je peux sentir le léger parfum de son savon, une odeur propre et coupante, citron et pierre. L’électricité dans l’air n’est plus seulement celle de la tempête.
— Ça ne vous dérange pas ? Le noir ? dis-je, pour dire quelque chose, pour rompre le sortilège qui s’épaississait.
— Je travaille dans la lumière la plus crue qui soit. Le noir… c’est un changement. Un soulagement, parfois.
Un éclair zèbre le ciel, illuminant son visage en une fraction de seconde. Des traits fermes, une mâchoire tendue. Désirable, malgré tout. Ou à cause de tout. À cause de ce silence, de cette gravité, de cette façon de se tenir à distance tout en étant irrésistiblement présent. La rationalité, le contrôle qu’il dégage, tout en moi veut les faire craquer.
Je ne sais pas qui fait le premier pas. Peut-être est-ce moi, poussée par un vent fou. Peut-être est-ce lui, cédant à une faille soudaine. Nos bouches se rencontrent dans la pénombre avec une violence qui me coupe le souffle. Ce n’est pas un baiser, c’est une collision. Un exutoire à tout ce qui n’a pas été dit depuis cinq minutes. Ses mains se referment sur mes hanches, l’emprise sûre et chaude d’un homme qui sait ce qu’il veut, même dans l’égarement. Je m’accroche à ses épaules, sentant la force contenue sous la laine fine de son costume. Le goût de lui est café, nuit, et une amertume étrangement excitante.
Nous nous séparons aussi brutalement, haletants, quand les lumières clignotent et reviennent avec un bourdonnement assourdissant. Le monde extérieur, lisse et doré, nous assaille à nouveau. Nous nous écartons l’un de l’autre, deux étrangers. Un masque de contrôle glacé retombe sur ses traits, juste une faille dans son regard, un désordre infime dans sa parfaite chevelure trahissant la folie de l’instant.
— Ceci… n’aurait pas dû arriver, dit-il d’une voix rauque, comme s’il se l’adressait à lui-même.
— Mais c’est arrivé, soufflé-je, le cœur battant à tout rompre, les lèvres encore brûlantes.
Il me jette un dernier regard, chargé d’un millier d’avertissements et d’une promesse sombre qui fait frémir mon ventre, puis tourne les talons et disparaît dans la foule qui recommence à papoter, ignorante.
Je reste là, le dos contre la vitre froide, le goût de l’inconnu encore sur mes lèvres, le tambour de la pluie en écho à mon pouls affolé. Je viens d’embrasser un homme dont je ne sais même pas le nom. Je viens d’allumer un incendie avec un parfait inconnu. Et je ne sais absolument pas si je veux en connaître davantage, ou fuir à toutes jambes.
Alex’s POV The morning light streamed through the curtains, casting a golden glow across the room. The soft sound of the distant waters gives the scene a peaceful and otherworldly atmosphere. I stirred from my sleep. My muscles screamed as I stretched myself. my body was aching in places I never knew could ache. My whole body was sore, and my back felt like it had been through a battle. but the warmth pressed against me made it all worth it. Andrian’s strong arms were wrapped around my waist possessively, as if he couldn’t bear to let me go at all. his chest continued to rise and fall gently, behind me. I turned slightly, careful not to wake him, and watched his peaceful face. He looked so different like this, no arrogance, no fierce possessiveness, no weight pulling him down, just a man completely at ease. A lazy smile spread across my lips. Last night had been…well it was a rough night. The way he touched me, the way he held me, as if I was the only thing that mattered in th
sexual content ahead ‼️‼️Alex pov “You are mine” andrian growled like an animal. I couldn’t help the ecstacy that ran through my body from his deep, possessive words. I have never thought of someone owing me before. Hell no, I don't even have such fetish, but hearing andrian say it. It brought out a lot of things in me. My heart shook, almost answering to his statement. “Yes, I am yours” I said back, matching his tempo. One time, I was standing on the beach, and the next andrian lifted me up like I weighed nothing. His hands rested on my bottom as he painfully squeezed. I gasp, the pleasure running inside me was too much to comprehend. I clung to him for dear life, as I let andrian abuse my mouth. I was completely at his mercy. A whimper escaped my lips as he trailed traces of kiss from my jaw down to my neck. My toes tingle, and everything suddenly becomes blurry to me. The stars, the genlt waves lapping against the shore, the breeze, everything stilled. As I stared at
Andrian pov “Alex!” He was whole. Alive. I wasn’t dreaming. His blue eyes met mine, and for the first time in over a year, I felt the ground would open and swallow me. His face held no atome of expression. I wanted to gauge from that, but I found nothing. only his blue eyes was fixated on me, staring at mèso intensely. It suddenly felt like the world, my surroundings, everything had disappeared, only Alex was in my world. For the past twenty minutes, neither of us had moved, neither of us had spoken. We just stood there, staring at each other like if we so much as blinked, the other would disappear. “Alex…” I repeated. Unable to form concurrent thoughts. His name was a whisper in my mind, a ghost I had never truly let go of. All this time, I had tried to delude myself, and I had moved on. But seeing him standing in front of me. All those feelings I had desperately locked off came rushing out like a dam. He was, real, standing right in front of me, looking both f
Andrian pov Today was another bright day. The sun was already getting ready to shower the island with its blissful light. It was a day of work. Another day of burying myself in work. The world had long since moved on. And so had I. Or at least, that’s what I kept trying to let myself believe. It had been over a year since I left the hospital, since I turned my back on everything, the empire, the fortune, the past. My father’s reign had crumbled into dust, his empire swallowed by scavengers. It should have mattered to me. It should have made me feel something. But it didn’t. The one thing that mattered to me most has been taken away from me by the same man who calls himself my father. Without hesitation, I came and testified in the court. That was all it took to send him to life imprisonment , for attempted murder, and involvement in drug dealing and human trafficking. Well, I was also surprised when all the evidence was dug up. I know that my father was a fraudster and a w
Alex pov It was as if everything had stopped, even time itself, had freezed. But it was more of the calm, before the storm. I mentaĺly counted down from 3,2,1… Before all hell was let loose. But the thing was that I was not there when it did. I was still in a trance, from watching andrian throw
Alex povLuke turned dramatically, motioning to the guards near the door.The door swung open again, and two large men dragged someone inside.My heart stopped.Viper.His face was bruised, blood dripping from his forehead, from all the places they had injured him. His hands were bound behind him,
ALEX’S POV Six Months Later Darkness. That was all I had known. I have lost even a sense of time. I didn’t know how long I had been here ,but I only knew that it's been a long time. Time didn’t move here. There was no past, no present, no future. Just an endless abyss where memories flickere
Andrian POV Six Months LaterThe world had moved on.People carried on with their lives, the city bustled like it always did, and Rufus' empire together with all the assets had long since been divided among greedy hands, swallowed by vultures disguised as loyal friends and business partners.Well,






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