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CHAPTER 188: ANGRY SEX
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OWNED IN THE DARK CHAPTER 190: GHOSTS
MATHEW The leather couch in that rundown club felt stiff beneath my back when I opened my eyes.For a second, I didn't know where I was.The room was quiet except for the faint hum of the neon sign outside. The red light spilled through the frosted window, painting everything in tired shades of red. My head pounded, my muscles ached, and the smell of Ciara still clung to my skin..rain, whiskey, eucalyptus, and something that had always belonged only to her.I sat up.Her jacket lay on the floor.The spare shirt she'd packed was gone.So was she."Damn it."I scrubbed both hands over my face before standing. Every joint protested. My shoulder was stiff where she'd slammed me into the mirror earlier, and fresh scratches burned across my neck.She had waited until I finally relaxed.Then she disappeared without waking me.I couldn't even decide whether to be furious or impressed.Probably both.By the time I reached the security wing of the North Shore estate nearly forty minutes later,
OWNED IN THE DARK CHAPTER 189: COCKROACH
CIARA The hotel room was quiet except for the steady patter of rain against the windows.Mathew's jacket still lay across the bed where I'd dropped it. It carried the familiar smell of him, tobacco, and the cologne he always wore. For a long moment, I simply stared at it, trying to slow the frantic rhythm of my breathing.The last hour replayed in fragments through my mind.The argument.The anger.The sex that had followed.Neither of us had spoken much afterward. We hadn't needed to. Sometimes the only way Mathew knew how to quiet the storm inside him was to hold on until it passed.I picked up my phone and called Adam. “Hey baby..how are you today? Mama will come for you soon. Be a good boy and just stay at home. Do not go anywhere without guards and don't accept food or anything else from strangers.I crossed the room and reached into my briefcase for the spare blouse I always kept for emergencies. The black silk felt cool against my skin as I buttoned it carefully, smoothing awa
OWNED IN THE DARK CHAPTER 188: ANGRY SEX
MATHEW I walked calmly into the strip club. I didn’t leave my coat at the door. The heavy, armored wool jacket stayed slung over my shoulders as I moved past the front podium. The bouncer took one look at my face and immediately stepped out of my way.I hadn’t called Louis. I hadn't tipped off Collins. When the tracking array on my dashboard showed her getting into this place."Back corridor," a gravelly voice muttered to my left. It was the manager, a former dock foreman who still owed his maritime security clearance to the Diamond estate. He didn't look me in the eye. He just pointed a scarred finger toward a heavy, padded door marked Private Lounge 4. "She told the girls to clear out. She’s alone, Mathew. She’s been in there twenty minutes."I didn't thank him. My leather boots left damp, dark tracks on the industrial carpet as I strode down the narrow hallway. The muffled, rhythmic thumping of the main stage music grew more distorted, turning into a dull, aggressive heartbe
OWNED IN THE DARK CHAPTER 187: TAUNT AND FORGIVENESS
CIARAThe weather looked calm and cool, cheery and lively just like I felt today. I stepped up to the prison gates then showed my pass before walking inside.The prison smelled like bleach, steel, and regret.I'd expected something colder.Something darker.Instead, it was painfully ordinary.Gray walls.Gray floors.Gray uniforms.Funny how monsters always ended up in ordinary places.I signed the visitor log with a name that wasn't mine anymore.The guard checked my identification twice before nodding toward the security gate."Five minutes," he said."I won't need that long."The metal detector hummed as I walked through.Every door behind me locked with a heavy iron clang.Each one sounded final.Permanent.I liked that.By the time I reached the visitation room, my pulse hadn't changed once.I wasn't nervous.I wasn't angry.I thought I would be.Instead...I felt strangely empty.The guard opened the door."She's waiting."I stepped inside.Eleanor Diamond sat alone behind the r
OWNED IN THE DARK CHAPTER 186: JUSTICE
MATHEW The federal courtroom in Zurich felt cold, dark mahogany walls surrounded the room, swallowing every sound until even breathing seemed too loud. Sunlight filtered through the tall windows, muted by thick gray clouds, painting everything in shades of silver. It wasn't warm or comforting. It made the entire room feel like a place where hope came to die.I sat in the front row without moving.The wooden bench dug into my back, but compared to everything else, it barely registered. My left shoulder and right collarbone were still wrapped beneath my tailored charcoal suit. Every breath reminded me they hadn't healed. A sharp ache settled deep into the fractures whenever I inhaled too deeply, forcing me to breathe slowly.Ciara had done that.Two weeks later, my body still carried her mark.Beside me, Carlista sat with perfect posture, her silver hair pulled into a neat knot. She looked as intimidating as ever, but every few minutes her hand drifted unconsciously to her stomach.Eve
OWNED IN THE DARK CHAPTER 185: ARREST
CIARA The observation gallery overlooking the Imperial Trust was silent enough for me to hear the rain tapping against the vaulted glass roof.The building smelled of polished stone, old paper, and expensive history. The kind of place where fortunes had been built, protected, and quietly stolen for generations.I sat alone in the shadows of the third-floor gallery, dressed in a slate-gray wool coat that still carried the crisp scent of new fabric. One leg rested over the other while my boot tapped lazily against the iron railing.Below me, bankers drifted across the marble floor in tailored suits, speaking in hushed voices beneath towering pillars and bulletproof glass partitions. The entire place looked more like a cathedral than a bank.Forty-eight hours earlier, I'd emptied every account Eleanor Diamond had ever hidden.Every estate.Every offshore trust.Every private investment.Every diamond reserve.Everything she had spent decades collecting had disappeared with a handful of
OWNED IN THE DARK CHAPTER 5: THREAT
CIARAMaggie's eyes narrowed as she took in our dishevelled state-mud-caked shoes, rain-soaked clothes, and the undeniable scent of sex clinging to us like a second skin. I instinctively stepped back, crossing my arms over my chest as if that could hide the evidence of our encounter."Well, isn't t
OWNED IN THE DARK CHAPTER 4: ARGUMENT
CIARAMaggie's eyes narrowed as she took in our dishevelled state-mud-caked shoes, rain-soaked clothes, and the undeniable scent of sex clinging to us like a second skin. I instinctively stepped back, crossing my arms over my chest as if that could hide the evidence of our encounter."Well, isn't t
OWNED IN THE DARK CHAPTER 3: FORBIDDEN FRUIT
I began pacing around. "Go check out Ciara's movement, and if she's recently made new friends. "Damn .. I need to fix this fast." What did you find?""She's just recently started seeing Tony. She's not made new friends, and she just got out of the hospital."I still go very still at the word hosp
OWNED IN THE DARK CHAPTER 2: ABORTION?
CIARA"You are pregnant.""I beg your pardon?""You're pregnant, Miss.""How could I possibly be pregnant? I'm on the pill, and I take the morning-after pill every time despite my IUD. There is no way those test results are accurate."The doctor stares at me for a while "Do you have your pills with
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