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BELLA He told me the next morning while he poured coffee like the night before hadn’t left me walking sore and full of him. “From today you’re on a schedule,” Dominic said. “A soon-to-be-wife schedule.” Later, he dragged me down to the gym. The gym was a private floor in the building with glass and machines that looked like they’d never met sweat before me. He put me on a treadmill and stood where he could see my face and I said, “I don’t work out for men who keep me.” “You work out so you can keep up,” he said. “Forty minutes. Don’t drop the pace to spite me.” “What happens if I do?” “You find out at lunch.” I dropped the pace at minute twenty because I wanted to see if the threat held up. He didn’t raise his voice. He just reached over and stopped the machine and said, “Shoes off. Office. Now.” “It’s not one o’clock.” “It is now,” he said. “You broke the morning. We don’t wait for the calendar to catch up.” His office was high and quiet and the desk was a dark slab of wood that looked like it had never been used for anything but contracts. He shut the door and locked it and I stood there in gym clothes with my pulse still high and I said, “You can’t punish me for walking slower on a treadmill.” “I can,” he said. “Hands on the desk.” “Dominic.” “Try again.” I swallowed. “Sir. This is insane. People work on the other side of that glass.” “The glass is one way and the door’s locked,” he said. “Hands on the desk. Bend.” I put my hands on the wood because he was already behind me and his palm between my shoulder blades pressed me down until my cheek was near a stack of papers and my ass was in the air. He dragged my shorts and underwear down in one pull and the air hit me and I said, “Wait.” “You waited through breakfast. You waited through twenty minutes of obedience and then you chose to break it,” he said. “I paid for your family’s name, Bella. I paid so the men your father owed would stop circling what was left of you. You don’t get to treat the schedule like a suggestion.” “That’s not a reason to fuck me over a desk.” “It’s the only reason I need today,” he said, and I heard his belt and then he was pushing into me in one hard thrust and I cried out because I was still sore from last night and he didn’t care. He filled me to the hilt and held there with his hand in my hair. “Feel that? That’s the reminder. You eat when I say. You train when I say. You sit in this office at lunch. You’re in my bed at eleven. Say it.” “I heard you.” He pulled out and slammed back in and the desk jerked and papers slid. “Say the schedule.” “Breakfast at eight,” I gasped. “Gym at nine. Lunch here. Bed at eleven. Sir. Please.” “Please what?” “Please not so hard. I’m still aching from last night.” “Good,” he said, and he started fucking me in earnest, the wet slap of it loud in the expensive quiet. “Ache means you remember. Who paid for your name?” “You did.” “Louder.” “You did,” I said, moaning into the wood. “You paid. You bought the debt. You bought me. I get it.” “You don’t get it yet,” he said. “If you did you wouldn’t have slowed that machine to pick a fight.” He hooked an arm under my hips and changed the angle and I saw spots because he was hitting that place that made my knees buckle. “You’re going to cream on this desk. You’re going to leave a mark on wood that costs more than the apartment you came from. And you’re going to thank me for the schedule when I’m done.” “I won’t thank you.” He reached around and found my clit and rubbed in tight mean circles while he pounded into me and my mouth fell open and I was moaning without shame now, loud enough that I would’ve died if the door was thin. “You will,” he said. “I was trying to break it,” I admitted. “I wanted to see what you’d do.” “Now you know,” he said. “I bend you over and I fuck the shit out of you. Cum.” “I can’t just cum because you say so.” “You can,” he said, and he snapped his hips harder and pinched my clit. I broke with a cry, clenching around him, creaming down my thighs and onto the edge of the desk just like he promised. He didn’t stop. He fucked me through it until I was whimpering and trying to crawl forward but he dragged me back onto him. “Lunch isn’t over,” he said. “You come to this office at one every day. If you’re late I’ll have you like this before the food even hits the table. Understand?” “Yes, sir.” “Who paid for your family’s name?” “You,” I moaned. “You paid. Dominic, sir, you paid.” He groaned and slammed deep and came in me with his forehead against my spine, filling me while I was still twitching, and he stayed there a moment with his breath hot on my neck. “Eleven o’clock,” he said quietly. “Not eleven ten. Not after you wander the penthouse looking for a door that opens. In bed.” “And if I’m not tired?” “Then I’ll tire you,” he said, and he pulled out slow and I felt him leak down my thigh. He fixed my shorts like he hadn’t just wrecked me over contracts and he turned me around and thumbed a smear of mascara from under my eye. I sat in the chair opposite his desk on shaky legs and there was already food. “Eight tomorrow,” he said. “Don’t be late. I like starting the day with you at my table before I have to remind you who paid.” “Yes, sir,” I said, and it came out tired and sore and still a little defiant, which he heard, because his mouth almost curved. “Good,” he said. “Keep a little of that. It makes the desk more interesting.”CHAPTER 7BELLAHe took me to bed after the last guest left and the penthouse went quiet again, and he didn’t give me the guest room or the rules or a speech. He sat back against the headboard bare and already hard and he pulled me into his lap and I straddled him because my body knew the shape of this now, and I kissed him before he could tell me to.The kiss was deep and messy and I made a sound into his mouth when his hands gripped my ass and dragged me along his cock. I reached between us and lined him up and sank down in one slow drop that made both of us break the kiss to breathe.“Fuck,” I whispered. “You’re so deep like this.”“Then move,” Dominic said. “Ride me. I want to watch you bounce.”I put my hands on his chest and lifted and dropped and the wet slide of it punched a moan out of me. I did it again, faster, and my ass slapped down on his thighs and he cursed and grabbed my hips.“Harder,” he said. “You can take it. You’ve been taking it all day. Show me.”I rode him har
CHAPTER 6BELLAThe penthouse filled with people after eleven even though his precious schedule said I should’ve been in bed, and he told me that as the host I’d stay on his arm until he decided otherwise. I was in another dress he’d chosen, black again, and his hand found the small of my back the way it always did, and I was still tender from the desk when the elevator opened and a voice I hadn’t heard in two years said my name.“Bella?”I turned and it was Marcus, older in the face, same easy smile, and my stomach dropped because the last time I saw him I still lived in a walk-up and thought love was something you could keep if you were careful. “Marcus,” I said. “What are you doing here?”“A colleague dragged me,” he said, and he looked at Dominic’s hand on me and then back at my face. “You look different. Good different. I’ve been trying to find you since your old number died.”Dominic’s fingers pressed once against my spine. I kept my voice light because the room was full. “I mov
CHAPTER 5BELLAHe told me the next morning while he poured coffee like the night before hadn’t left me walking sore and full of him. “From today you’re on a schedule,” Dominic said. “A soon-to-be-wife schedule.”Later, he dragged me down to the gym.The gym was a private floor in the building with glass and machines that looked like they’d never met sweat before me. He put me on a treadmill and stood where he could see my face and I said, “I don’t work out for men who keep me.”“You work out so you can keep up,” he said. “Forty minutes. Don’t drop the pace to spite me.”“What happens if I do?”“You find out at lunch.”I dropped the pace at minute twenty because I wanted to see if the threat held up. He didn’t raise his voice. He just reached over and stopped the machine and said, “Shoes off. Office. Now.”“It’s not one o’clock.”“It is now,” he said. “You broke the morning. We don’t wait for the calendar to catch up.”His office was high and quiet and the desk was a dark slab of wood
CHAPTER 4BELLAI stared at him. “Here?”“Here,” he said. “You can’t just—”“I can,” he said, quiet as ever. “You came on my tongue twenty minutes ago. Now you’re going to take me down your throat and you’re going to look at me while you do it. Knees, Bella.”I went down.“Open.”I opened my mouth and he unzipped. He was already hard and heavy and he rubbed the head over my lower lip.“Wrap your hand around the base. Good. Now take what you can.”I took him in and he was thick and hot. My jaw stretched. He exhaled like he’d been holding that breath since the gala. “That’s it,” he said. “Eyes up. Don’t hide in the work.”I looked up and he pushed deeper and I gagged and my eyes watered and he pulled back just enough for me to drag air in. “I can’t,” I said, voice wrecked already.“You can,” he said. “Again.”I took him again and he threaded his fingers into my hair, not yanking, just holding me where he wanted me, and he started to move in short strokes that hit the back of my throat.
CHAPTER 3BELLA“We’re going to a charity gala tonight,” Dominic said, and he didn’t look up from his coffee when he said it. “You’ll be ready at seven.”I set my fork down. “I’m not going to a gala with you.”“You are.”“I don’t have a dress. I don’t know those people. I don’t want to stand next to you and smile like I belong on your arm.”“You’ll have a dress,” he said. “People there already know better than to ask questions I haven’t invited. And you don’t have to smile. You only have to stay where I put you.”I leaned forward. “Why would you take me out? So everyone can see what you bought?”“So everyone can see what’s mine,” he said. “There’s a difference.”“Not from where I’m sitting.”He finally looked at me and his voice stayed level. “Makeup artists will be here at four. They’re expensive and they’re discreet and they’ll make you look like you walked out of a magazine.”“And if I refuse?”“Then I’ll dress you myself.” he said. “Choose the version you can stand.”I wanted to t
CHAPTER 2BELLA I woke up in a bed that was too big and too soft and for a second I forgot where I was, and then the glass wall and the city and the quiet of a place that didn’t smell like my old kitchen all came back at once and I sat up so fast my head spun. My clothes from last night were gone and I was in a thin white shirt that wasn’t mine. I got out of the bed and went straight to the door.The handle turned. The door opened onto the same wide living room from last night, all marble and dark wood and morning light, and Dominic was already there in a black shirt with the sleeves rolled, standing by the table like he’d been waiting for me to wake up and come looking for a way out.“Good morning, Bella,” he said, and he still didn’t raise his voice.I stopped in the doorway and I pulled the shirt down over my thighs and I said, “Where are my clothes?”“Gone,” he said. “You’ll wear what I put out for you.”“That’s not a rule I agreed to.”“You didn’t agree to any of this,” he said.







