INICIAR SESIÓN“Fuck…please…” He risks a nibble, sending shockwaves to my core. My back arches off the wall with a sharp moan. His hand slides between my legs, cupping my soaking panties. “Look how wet you are,” he whispers, “...shaking, and I haven’t even fucked you yet.” He strokes my clit gently first, then harder. My toes curl, hair spilling into my sweaty face. He’s breaking me, ruining me with just his tongue and fingers. I can’t speak. I can’t think. I just tremble in his arms. ********* The night I caught my fiancé cheating, something in me broke. I cried. I screamed. I drove — into the rain, into nowhere, into him. Cassian Cross. A stranger with gray eyes, a sinful mouth, and hands that made me forget my name. One night was all it took. One reckless mistake to burn away my heartbreak. Until he showed up at my mom’s wedding… As my new stepbrother. Now, Cassian won’t stop. He corners me in hallways, whispers filth at the altar, and looks at me like he still owns my body. But there’s one thing he didn’t tell me— He already belongs to someone else. A fiancée bound to him by a contract… and a secret that could destroy us both. He’s dangerous. He’s forbidden. He’s promised to another. And God help me, I still can’t stop wanting him.
Ver másCASSIAN'S POV I had spent my entire life preparing for the day Alex Cross turned on me. I just never thought that Nina would be standing in the blast radius. “He knows…I don't know how, but he knows EVERYTHING…” her voice breaks, and I feel something squeeze inside me when her eyes meet mine. “You have to do this, Cassian…your father, he—he’s—” A monster.Her breath hitches, fingers flying to her lips. I should say something, anything, but the wheels in my mind won't stop colliding, grating against my skull and sparking a sharp ache in my temples.“Cassian!” Cold fingers burn through my sleeve as she grips my arms, hazel eyes wide as they dart to the door and back to me, grip tightening.“Say something, for fucks sake!” She glances towards the door again, but I keep my jaw tight.Think, Cross.“Does he know about Vegas?” I finally ask, voice hoarse.She blinks.“What are you—”“Answer the question, Nina.” “No…but he knows about everything else after that. Where are you with this
NINA'S POV “Sloane will be your new assistant.”The silence after his words grows thicker by the second, and sitting here with his father's touch branding my skin like acid, loving Cassian Cross is beginning to feel less like a romance and more like standing in the path of an oncoming train.But fear does strange things to love. It teaches your mouth to say no while your heart claws itself bloody trying to reach for him.When he kicked his way through that door and stormed in here with fire in his eyes, he looked less like the love of my life and more like a man walking into a gasoline filled room with a freaking matchbox.My legs are numb, and so is the part of me that existed forty minutes ago…right before Alex tore it apart. “I hope I've made myself clear, son.” Alex says, and I feel him nearing me again. My skin crawls, but I keep my jaw tight, eyes glued to Cassian's glassy grey pools.Say yes. Please.Of course he will, Nina. He'll do anything for his father.He straightens up
CASSIAN'S POV The road blurs beneath me in streaks of black and white, but all I can see is Nina Donovan crying behind a pair of fucking handcuffs.I thought I knew what anger felt like until I watched Lucas walk out of Nina's apartment with her in cuffs…on fucking tv. For fucks sake, Lucas. Your own sister?My foot slams the accelerator, and I know that I should slow down or there'd be two news headlines competing for the top, but anything is better than Nina's career disappearing in quicksand.If only she'd pick up the phone. If only I didn't have to track her and feel my heart sink when I got her location. It makes absolutely no sense that she'll run to the Cross mansion for shelter even if her mom was waving a white flag.The streets blur past in a haze of pink and golden brown. The AC in the car is blasting cold air down my spine, and my grip tightens on the steering wheel like it's the only thing keeping me afloat.You better be okay, Nina.Maybe she did go there for the shel
NINA'S POV The strange thing about fear is that it changes shape…one minute it's handcuffs and interrogation rooms, the next it's your stepbrother's father calling you “peanut” like he owns a piece of your grief.I had accepted it, lapped up his grace and the family name, and now I'm sitting in the backseat of his car, wondering why the first thing I notice after getting out of police custody is that Sloane Cross won't stop twisting her wedding ring.My hands stay tucked in my lap, lip tucked between my teeth as I try and fail to keep my eyes off her.There…she's doing it again. The ring twists so hard against her finger that I'm half convinced she'll skin herself trying to get it off.Her gaze darts sideways to Alex, and I feel like I can disappear into my seat and none of them will notice.“Are you alright, Nina?” Alex asks, blue eyes finding mine in the rearview mirror. Funny how fast I stopped being ‘peanut’.“I'm fine,” I whisper, digging my nails into my thigh. “Something tel
NINA'S POV It’s strange how weddings still go on, even after someone might have died.I don't want to be here. Every nerve in my body screams to run, but I stand still.The sweet smell of flowers makes me sick to my stomach, but I'm too empty to throw up.It's Cassian's wedding day. I can't make t
NINA'S POVI feel numb. But numbness doesn't come with butterflies.I woke up this morning with a racing heart, and I hated how I longed for his voice.Vegas plays like a wicked loop in my mind, and my body is caught between wanting him and hurting from him.I knew this was doomed from the start.I
CASSIAN'S POVI always knew Nina Cross would ruin me.I just didn’t expect another man to be standing there when it finally happened.Make that two, because Lucas is walking straight towards me, halting only when he sees Nina.“Oh…Nina. You're here…” His voice trails off when his eyes fall to Nina'
NINA'S POV Two days is not enough time for a heart to stop breaking and start pretending it never did, but the world keeps spinning like I didn’t leave the man I love standing in the middle of it.Loved. Let's keep that in the past, shall we?I had ignored his emails to come in for work, but toda












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