登入AURIELLE I stared at her in shock. Sophia’s words had sucked out the air in my lungs, I couldn’t form a single reply. "I am sure you remember what happened?" She watched my face and smiled. “I’ll wait for your decision in three days’ time. Be fast about it.” She turned and walked out. The door closed behind her. I still hadn’t moved when Dominic’s voice came from the study doorway. “Who was that?” “Sophia, it was nothing important." I tried to laugh out the fear in my voice. "Are you sure?" I nodded, and Dominic’s eyes lingered on my face before he nodded. “We’ll deal with her later. Right now we’re going public.” “Public how?” “We will have a ress conference tomorrow morning, I’m telling the truth about the paternity tests, about Elena’s lies, and I’m announcing the adoption before anyone else does it for us." "Okay.” I agreed. We didn’t get the chance to prepare in peace. By the next afternoon Elena had filed for emergency custody, citing emotional distress. The court date
AURIELLE Dominic didn’t look at me. He turned straight to the three men at the table. “Get out now. I am speaking to all of you. Whatever papers you’re holding, leave them. Whatever money you were promised, forget it. If any of you sign a single line after tonight I’ll make sure every account you touch freezes before morning.” One of the men stood. “Mr. Frost, we had an agreement—” “You made a mistake. Don't make me more angry than I already am." They gathered their folders without another word and walked out. The notary followed. Caleb stayed seated until Dominic’s eyes landed on him. “You too.” Caleb rose slowly. “You’re making a scene over nothing.” “I’m making a scene over my wife sitting at your table. Get out of this building.” Caleb left to my shock. Dominic’s hand closed around my wrist. He pulled me out of the chair, down the hallway, into the elevator, and straight to the car. He never spoke, not even once. “Dominic, will you just listen?” I tried once I
AURIELLE I was still in my room the next morning when my phone rang. I answered without looking at the screen. “Hello?” “I’m waiting for you.” Caleb’s voice made me sit up straight. “Waiting for me where? I don’t understand.” “I texted you last night. Told you it was time.” “I didn’t get any texts from you. I checked twice this morning. There’s nothing from your number.” “Doesn’t matter. The deal we signed is ready. I need you here to close it. You’re presenting. You’re the one who makes this look clean.” “What deal, Caleb? You never said anything about closing tonight. You said it was small. You said it was paperwork.” “It is small, you saw it yourself. It is time, and I'll be here waiting. Private office on the east side. I’ll send the address. Be here in forty minutes.” I stared at the wall. “You’re serious.” “Dead serious. This closes now or it doesn’t close at all. I need you to walk in, present the numbers, and sign. You’re the face they trust.” “Can't I just repay y
DOMINIC The hospital doors closed behind us with a soft click. Neither of us spoke as we walked to the car. I opened her door, waited until she was inside, then I pulled out of the lot and onto the main road before I finally opened my mouth.“She called him a bastard,” I said. “Right there in the hallway. Loud enough for everyone on the floor to hear.”Aurielle stared straight ahead. “That was crazy.” Aurielle turned to look at me. “You heard Elena's confession. And still you stood there. You didn’t say a word to her.”“What was I supposed to say? That she was a liar? That she used a child as a weapon? She already knew what she was.” I glanced at her. “Nothing, after all the boy was standing right there. He doesn’t need to watch his mother get dragged out of a hospital by security.”I exhaled hard through my nose. “His mother. She doesn’t deserve that title.”Aurielle’s voice stayed even. “No, she doesn’t.”“She lied for days. She forged papers. She tried to convince everyone that
AURIELLE A loud scream tore through the mansion. Dominic and I sat up almost immediately."What was that?" I asked, my heart dropped. We both covered up properly and ran toward the sound, my heart hammering in my chest. When we reached the sitting room, we saw Elena with a twisted leg and a few drops of blood.“Elena!” Dominic shouted as he burst into the sitting room. She was on the floor, curled up and holding her stomach, groaning in pain. “What happened? Are you okay?”Elena looked up at me with tears streaming down her face. “Someone pushed me. Wait, scratch that." She turned to look at me with disgust. "You pushed me, Aurielle. You wanted to kill my baby, you're jealous of the one I’m carrying. You said I didn’t deserve him. You said I was in your way.”I froze, staring at her. “That isn’t possible. I couldn’t have pushed you. I wasn’t even near this room.”Elena clutched her stomach tighter, her voice shaking. “I felt hands on my back. It was you. I swear it was you. Why won
AURIELLE I scrambled onto the bench, knees sliding against the cool leather."Don't be shy, arch it for me." Dominic growled.My forehead dropped down like I'd done it a thousand times. I hadn't. But my body obeyed every instruction. That instant obedience that came not from fear but from hunger."Wider," he said, tapping my inner thigh with two fingers. "I said knees apart. Don't make me repeat myself."I shuffled, opening myself more. The clamps still dangled between my legs, the plug still nestled inside me. I felt so exposed, so wet and flushed already. His hand ran down my spine, and the tremble rippled through my muscles under his touch."Look at you," he murmured, circling a thumb over the base of my spine. "Soaked. Shaking. And I haven't even touched you properly yet.""Then touch me," I breathed into the leather.He chuckled, low in his chest. "Demanding. You know what I do to demanding little sluts?""Please—""Please what?" He pressed his palm flat against my ass and squee
AURIELLE"Aurielle?" Came Victor's voice at my door five minutes later. I didn’t answer him. I could already hear the impatience in his voice."Oh, come on, you’re being dramatic. So what if I called another woman's name? At least let me finish first!""Are you kidding me right now?!" I roared at h
AURIELLE I knew something was wrong the moment I saw her. “Good morning ma’am,” she greeted me as I made my way to my old office. Now, Victor’s office. I watched a female employee scurrying away from Victor’s office, dressed in a pencil skirt that barely skimmed her thighs. Her eyes flicked tow
AURIELLE Of all the people, of all the streets, of all the cars in this entire city, it had to be this one? Like a total idiot, I gawked at the person standing in front of me, the guy from the website. My face was so hot that I was surprised it didn't set off a fire alarm. "I'm not dealing
AURIELLE All of my self restraints leaped out of my head and straight through the open windows.This man kissed me like a drowning man, and I could tell that he wasn't holding back. My hands found his shirt and his hands found my waist, pulling me in with a certainty that made my knees genuinely u







