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The elevator doors had barely closed behind me when my phone buzzed with an unknown number.I stared at the screen as I stepped onto my floor, thighs still slick from Lucian’s latest claiming in his office.Unknown:Ms. Harper, this is Derek Voss. Enjoyed our brief introduction earlier. I’d like to discuss a potential marketing collaboration for the Meridian project. Coffee tomorrow? My treat. – DVMy stomach twisted. How did he get my nChapter 36The darkness in the panic room was absolute.Two gunshots had just shattered the silence.Then… nothing.Only the sound of my own ragged breathing and the metallic tang of blood in the air.I pressed myself against the cold steel wall, heart slamming so hard I thought it would burst. Lucian’s black shirt clung to my sweat-damp skin, his dried cum still marking my thighs from our last desperate moment together.I couldn’t see anything.I couldn’t tell who had fired.Who had fallen.A low, wet cough broke the silence.Then a voice weak, rasping, but unmistakably Lucian’s.“Princess… are you hurt?”Relief crashed over me so violently I almost collapsed.“Lucian!” I cried, scrambling forward on my hands and knees through the darkness.My hands found warm, sticky blood first.Then his body.He was on the floor, leaning against the wal
Chapter 35 The panic room was a steel coffin. Dim red emergency lights cast everything in a hellish glow. The thick door was locked, but I could hear them outside heavy boots, muffled voices, the low whine of cutting tools against metal. Derek Voss’s men were already inside the house. The automated voice had gone silent. Power was completely gone. Only the backup battery kept the panic room lights flickering. I sat huddled in the corner, knees to my chest, Lucian’s black shirt wrapped around me like a shroud. His scent still clung to the fabric smoke, leather, and the faint trace of sex. He was dead. I kept repeating it in my head, but it wouldn’t sink in. The man who had carried me to his penthouse that first night, who had called me “princess” while he ruined me, who had whispered “I love you” with his cock buried deep inside me was lying in a pool of blood on a
Chapter 34The safe house was silent except for my broken sobs.Eight minutes.That was all the time left before the full video dropped the one where I was on my knees, calling Lucian “Daddy,” moaning while he fucked me senseless in his office.Eight minutes before the world saw me as the CEO’s office whore.Eight minutes before Derek Voss started killing the people I loved.I curled tighter on the cold floor, Lucian’s black shirt soaked with my tears, his dried cum still on my thighs like a cruel reminder of the last time he had claimed me.He was gone.Shot twice.The feed had cut to black after the second gunshot.Derek’s final message still glowed on my phone:“He’s dead. The video drops in 8 minutes. Now it’s just you and me, little whore.”I couldn’t breathe.Lucian the man who had ruined me so beautifully, who had whispered “I love you” while buried deep inside me, who had taken bullets to protect Ryan and me was dead.Because of me.My phone buzzed again.Another video from
Chapter 33The countdown on my phone hit 00:12:47.Twelve minutes and forty-seven seconds until the full video dropped.I stood frozen in the middle of the safe house, Lucian’s black shirt barely covering me, his dried cum still on my thighs, while the man I loved walked out the door alone to face Derek Voss.He hadn’t even let me say goodbye properly.The last thing he did was kiss me hard, look me in the eyes, and say:“Stay here. Do not leave this house for any reason.”Then he was gone.I sank to my knees on the cold floor, sobbing uncontrollably.My mother was tied up with a knife at her throat.Ryan was still a hostage.The entire world was about to see me on my knees calling Lucian “Daddy” while he fucked me in his office.And Lucian injured, bleeding, running on pure rage and love had just walked straight into the lion’s den.My phone buzzed.Another message from Derek Voss.I opened it with shaking hands.It was a live video feed.The camera showed Lucian entering a dimly l
Chapter 33The countdown on my phone hit 00:12:47.Twelve minutes and forty-seven seconds until the full video dropped.I stood frozen in the middle of the safe house, Lucian’s black shirt barely covering me, his dried cum still on my thighs, while the man I loved walked out the door alone to face Derek Voss.He hadn’t even let me say goodbye properly.The last thing he did was kiss me hard, look me in the eyes, and say:“Stay here. Do not leave this house for any reason.”Then he was gone.I sank to my knees on the cold floor, sobbing uncontrollably.My mother was tied up with a knife at her throat.Ryan was still a hostage.The entire world was about to see me on my knees calling Lucian “Daddy” while he fucked me in his office.And Lucian injured, bleeding, running on pure rage and love had just walked straight into the lion’s den.My phone buzzed.Another message from Derek Voss.I opened it with shaking hands.It was a live video feed.The camera showed Lucian entering a dimly l
Chapter 33The countdown on my phone hit 00:12:47.Twelve minutes and forty-seven seconds until the full video dropped.I stood frozen in the middle of the safe house, Lucian’s black shirt barely covering me, his dried cum still on my thighs, while the man I loved walked out the door alone to face Derek Voss.He hadn’t even let me say goodbye properly.The last thing he did was kiss me hard, look me in the eyes, and say:“Stay here. Do not leave this house for any reason.”Then he was gone.I sank to my knees on the cold floor, sobbing uncontrollably.My mother was tied up with a knife at her throat.Ryan was still a hostage.The entire world was about to see me on my knees calling Lucian “Daddy” while he fucked me in his office.And Lucian injured, bleeding, running on pure rage and love had just walked straight into the lion’s den.My phone buzzed.Another message from Derek Voss.I opened it with shaking hands.It was a live video feed.The camera showed Lucian entering a dimly l
Chapter 22Lucian’s words hung in the air like a death sentence.“And I’m going to make him bleed for it.”He was still buried deep inside me, his thick cock twitching with the aftershocks of his release, but the tenderness from moments ago had vanished. In its place wa
Chapter 21Lucian’s face was a storm cloud ready to unleash hell.He stood over the café table like a predator who had just scented blood, his midnight-blue eyes locked on the two printed photos lying between us. The blurry images of me bent over the conference table and pressed against the office
Chapter 20My heels clicked too loudly across the marble lobby as I stepped out of the elevator, heart hammering against my ribs.I shouldn’t be doing this.Lucian had explicitly told me to stay on my floor. To let him handle Derek Voss. But the threat in that last text
Chapter 19The penthouse felt different now that my suitcase sat unpacked in Lucian’s massive walk-in closet.I woke the next morning tangled in black silk sheets, Lucian’s heavy arm draped over my waist, his morning erection pressed hot and insistent against my ass. His cu







