LOGINRuby only wanted a better life. After catching her boyfriend with her best friend, she makes one reckless choice in a bar and wakes up marked by a man she thought she would never see again. That man is Zane Blackwood. Cold. Powerful. Dangerous. And now, her boss. What starts as a one-night mistake becomes a cage she cannot escape. Zane keeps her close, controls her days, and turns her body into part of his game. Ruby thinks she is only trapped by a wicked CEO. She is wrong. Someone from her past is watching. The friend she trusts is lying. And Zane is not keeping her for passion alone. He has a reason. A dark one. By the time Ruby learns the truth, she is already too deep to run… and Zane is already too obsessed to let her go.
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I screamed as he pushed his cock into me roughly. I tried to push him off, but he gently caught my wrist and kissed the back of my hand.
“Relax. Just breathe.”
“No… it’s too deep. It feels like it’s going to tear me apart.”
He smirked and kissed me hard, as if trying to make me forget the stretch of him inside me. Then he began moving slowly, kissing me the entire time, until the pain started melting into something warmer.
A few moments earlier…
I was going to celebrate my boyfriend Ethan’s birthday. We had been dating for two years, and I loved him more than anything. He was my light in the darkest moments.
I decided to surprise him. I went to his house without telling him, if I called ahead, it wouldn’t be a surprise anymore. Using the spare key he had given me, I let myself in and started setting everything up in the living room: his cake, a T-shirt in his favorite color, and the other gifts I had bought.
While I was arranging everything, I heard a sound coming from his bedroom.
Not just any sound.
Moaning.
I followed it, annoyed. The last time I had called him and heard something like this, he claimed it was just his friend bringing a girl over. I was starting to get tired of them ruining things.
I stopped in front of the bedroom door.
“Ahh… fuck…” a girl’s voice cried out, louder this time.
I was about to call Ethan and tell him his friends were at it again, when I heard a voice I knew too well.
“Fuck, babe… your pussy looks delicious today.”
Ethan’s voice.
There was no mistaking it.
I pushed the door open, and my heart stopped.
My boyfriend was fucking my best friend, Lisa.
“Ethan…” I whispered, covering my mouth as tears filled my eyes.
He quickly pulled out, yanked his boxers up, and rushed toward me, sweating and panicked. Lisa just sat there on the bed like she hadn’t done anything wrong.
“Babe, it’s not what you think,” he said.
I almost laughed at how pathetic that sounded.
“You told me you would wait until I was ready,” I said, trying to hold back the tears. They fell anyway.
Lisa let out a mocking laugh.
“Come on, Ruby. This is the Gen Z era, not your grandparents’ time. Ethan couldn’t wait forever. He wanted to fuck, and you should be glad I helped him out.”
I looked at Ethan, hoping, praying, he would say she had seduced him, that it was a mistake. But he just stood there, staring at the floor, too ashamed to meet my eyes.
I couldn’t take it anymore. I turned and ran out of the house.
I ended up at a bar, ordering drink after drink until the world started to blur. Until I couldn’t feel anything clearly anymore.
How could he?
I had loved him. I had been ready to give him everything. Did I really have to give him my body just to keep him?
Every time I had called and heard moaning… it hadn’t been his friend.
It had been him. Fucking my best friend.
I stood up, intending to find the bathroom, but I wasn’t walking straight. I bumped hard into someone, my face landing against a solid chest.
I looked up and met a pair of striking blue eyes.
God.
He looked like an angel who had fallen straight out of heaven.
“Are you okay?” he asked.
Even his voice was deep and beautiful.
“Wow… you’re so handsome,” my drunk self blurted out.
My hand lifted and pressed against his chest before I could stop myself.
“Are you a male model?” I asked.
He raised an eyebrow, slightly amused.
“Do I look like one?”
“You look like everything,” I said shamelessly. “Just tell me how much for the night. I can afford you.”
He smirked and gently lifted my chin so I had to look at him properly.
“Are you sure you can afford me?”
Something in the way he said it sent a strange chill down my spine, but I was too drunk to care.
“Yes. So come on—two hundred? Three hundred? Five hundred?”
He smiled.
“You’ll find out soon enough.”
Then he lifted me into his arms and carried me out of the bar.
Little did I know that this one decision would ruin me forever.
Zane’s POVBy morning, Ruby was not at her desk.At first I didn’t think much. Maybe she was late. Maybe she was angry because of how I controlled her yesterday.But after one hour, she still didn’t come.I looked at the empty seat again.Then I called her number.It rang and cut.I called again.Same thing.My hand tightened on the phone.James walked in with files, then stopped when he saw my face.“What is it?” he asked.“Ruby is not here,” I said.James checked the time. “Maybe traffic.”“I called her. No answer.”He became serious and tried her number too. Still nothing.“Maybe she finally ran,” James said.I looked at him coldly.“She can’t run from me that easily.”Ruby knew what I had on her. She knew I could destroy her name, her job, and whatever little peace she had left. That was why she stayed. That was why she obeyed.So if she truly disappeared on her own, something was wrong.“Check the entrance,” I said. “Cameras too. I want to know if she came near this building toda
Ruby’s POVMy eyes opened slowly.At first, I didn’t know where I was. My head was paining me, and my mouth felt dry. I tried to sit up fast, but my body was still heavy from whatever they used on that handkerchief.I looked around.The room was small and dim. No window I could escape from. Just a bed, a chair, and a locked door.My heart started beating hard at once.“Where am I?” I whispered.Nobody answered.I checked my body quickly. My clothes were still on. My bag was gone. My phone was gone too. That made the fear worse.I stood up and walked to the door. I turned the handle.Locked.I hit the door with my palm.“Hey! Is anybody there? Open this door!”Still nothing.I hit it again harder.“I said open the door!”My voice came out rough because of all the crying I did earlier at the graveyard. My eyes still felt swollen. My head still felt heavy. But fear was stronger than all of that.I stepped back and looked around the room again. Maybe there was another way out. I checked t
Ruby’s POVFinally I took the courage to go meet Grandma at the graveyard.For some days now, I had been telling myself I would go. Every time I remembered her, my chest would pain me and I would postpone it. But today I couldn’t postpone it again. I needed to see her.I bought a flower bouquet on my way. I dressed well too. Not like I was going to a party. Just neat clothes. Grandma always liked when I looked clean. She used to say no matter how hard life is, a girl should not look abandoned.When I got to the graveyard, the place was quiet. Too quiet. My footsteps even sounded loud to my own ears. I held the flowers tight and walked until I saw her grave stone.I stopped in front of it for a few seconds. I couldn’t talk immediately.Then I bent down and placed the flowers gently on the stone.“Hi Granny,” I said, trying to smile. “I’m sorry it took me too long to visit.”I stared at her name.Just looking at it already made my throat tight.“How is it over there?” I asked. “Did you
Zane’s POVJames entered my office with a folder in his hand.I didn’t look up at first.“Talk,” I said.“I looked into the girl around Ruby,” James said. “Lisa.”That made me lift my eyes.James placed the folder on my desk.“She is not ordinary,” he said. “After she betrayed Ruby with that Ethan guy, she started moving around older rich men. One name keeps coming up.”“Who?”“Victor Lang.”I leaned back in my chair.Victor Lang. That name was not new to me.James continued.“From what I found, Lisa is working under him. And it looks like he is using Ruby to get to you.”For a moment, the office went quiet.Then I smirked.“Victor Lang,” I said slowly. “So that old rival still hasn’t learned.”James watched me carefully.“You know him.”“Of course I know him,” I said. “He has always survived by playing dirty between bigger people. If he can’t win directly, he looks for a weak point.”My fingers tapped on the desk.Ruby was still part of my revenge. The blood connected to the people t












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