로그인LIORAÉMy stomach rumbled first, and then my eyes shot open. I had no idea how long I had slept, but it was long enough to make me hungry.I rubbed the sleep from my eyes and yawned. I threw off the covers and walked to the office. Soren was standing with his back to the room.One hand was in his pocket, and the other was holding his phone to his ear. My eyes dragged over his back, and I was about to start drooling when he turned to me.His eyes met mine as if he knew I was really standing there. He pointed to me and beckoned me over without a word while nodding to whatever the person on the phone was saying.My legs moved before my brain registered what I was doing. I wanted to stop, but I couldn’t. The thought of holding him and inhaling his scent took over my mind.He took my hand when I stood beside him and intertwined our fingers, refusing to let go. I just stood in front of him awkwardly, waiting for the call to be over while having nowhere else to look aside from his handsome f
LIORAÉI jumped out of Soren’s arms. I pulled my shirt down and cleared my throat, refusing to meet his eyes.He kept his gaze on me as he moved to his desk. He took off his jacket and hung it on the rack behind him. His muscles flexed inside the perfectly tailored black shirt he had on.I had never seen anyone look this good in a black shirt. He dropped into his seat, and my eyes followed him.“How long are you going to stare at my body?”“Uhh?” I hummed out, and by the time I looked at his face, it was too late to make up an excuse about why I was staring at him.He had caught me staring. I pulled my lips into a thin line and turned my back to him. This time, heat rose in my back as I could feel his eyes on me.I ignored it and lowered myself into my desk. I wiped down my table and looked up at him. “Mr. Vale, is there any task for today?”“Mr. Vale?” His brow raised, his lips curved at the corner as if this were amusing. “You are calling me Mr. Vale?”“We are at work. You are the b
LIORAÉSoren kept his fingers inside me. He leaned in and kissed the side of my face, small kisses, one at a time, just enough to send me reeling with pleasure.He lifted himself over me as he stared into my eyes. His hand stayed in me, circling and stroking the part that made my eyes tilt back on my head, and his name escaped from my lips in broken sounds.“Soren…” I groaned.His lips curved up in an intense smile. “Yes, baby…” he whispered. “That is it. Call my name. I only want to hear it from you.”He pushed his finger so deep, I felt my stomach buzz. I let out a strained sound, and I felt myself spill over his finger. A smile curled up on his lips as if he had finally achieved his goal.He suddenly pulled his hand away. He raised it to my lips and traced my bottom lip. My entire body was trembling so badly with his touch.I was lying to myself that I wanted him to stop, but the truth was that I now realized that I wanted this more than I cared to admit.His finger traced gently a
LIORAÉ“Is it your ex?”I wanted to say something, anything, to make Soren stop looking at me as though I had cheated on him. I hadn't known it would be Evan when I answered the call.He stared at the screen before slowly turning to me. I saw something in his eyes that I had never noticed before. His jaw tightened as he pressed the phone to his ear.His voice was low and deliberate, as though he were doing his best to intimidate the man on the other end.“You have a lot of nerve calling my woman first thing in the morning.”Evan, who had been smug and throwing his weight around, hadn't expected Soren to be standing next to me. His voice was low, but he was still delusional.“I can call her. She's my fiancée.”“Fiancée?” Soren laughed.That laugh didn't sound as though he found the situation funny. It felt more like he was mocking Evan.“Ex-fiancée,” Soren corrected. “You lost the right to call her that when you treated her like trash.”“She still belongs to me.” Evan's voice grew stro
LIORAÉ“Evan? What the hell do you want?”“Are you okay?” he asked in a concerned voice. He couldn't hide the fakeness in it, though. I blinked rapidly and let out a long sigh.“What is it to you? I have no business with you, so why should you be asking me such personal questions?” I asked, shuffling on my feet.He hummed and then paused. The line was buzzing with the electric static noise from both ends.“That's no way to talk to your fiancé,” he said.“My fiancé?” I repeated, and he grunted.Was this man living in some kind of fever dream? I had clearly ended things with him, and every one of my family's attempts to get us back together had failed.“We already broke off the engagement. How dare you…”“Lioraé, I never agreed to breaking off the engagement,” he cut me off in a calm voice.He was calm, and that made it worse. Evan was never a level-headed kind of man. All he ever did was try to have his way every time something happened.I wondered how I had been so blind to everything
LIORAÉSoren’s warm, solid body was pressed against my back, his arm wrapped securely around my waist.My eyes fluttered open, slowly at first, and then his scent filled my nose, sending my brain into panic mode.Memories from last night flooded in, one after the other. His hand holding mine, him confessing to me like he meant every word he said, and the way he made the night feel special.I had always seen the romantic side of things in movies but never gotten them myself, even when I convinced myself that I was a hopeless romantic.I was just realizing now that everything that didn’t directly inflate Evan’s ego was a waste of time to him and indirectly to me in the end.I had seen the signs but tried to avoid them, and then, in the end, it turned out to be him cheating on me so shamelessly.Soren’s grip tightened, and he pulled me closer to him. His nose nuzzled into my hair, and he took deep breaths.“You’re awake,” he declared in a half-asleep voice.I tried to act like I wasn’t,







