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SINFUL AWAKENING

SINFUL AWAKENING

Romance
last updateLast Updated : 2026-03-23
By:  RICHOngoing
Language: English
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Dark Romance

Dominant

Affair

Jade Mercer has spent nine years building her marketing firm on precision, discipline, and the deliberate decision to be underestimated. She walks into rooms and lets people assume she is the least dangerous person in them. Then she uses it. It has worked perfectly. It has also cost her everything warm and alive in herself that had nothing to do with ambition. Dominic Crest is the kind of man empires are built around and people are destroyed by. Ruthless, magnetic, and carrying a past he has weaponised into motivation, he has never wanted anything he did not eventually take. When Jade walks into his boardroom and refuses to look at him, he decides he wants her before she has finished her second slide. What begins as a single reckless Tuesday afternoon becomes something neither of them have language for. Jade discovers, one undone night at a time, that she has been starving herself of her own hunger for years, and that Dominic is the first person who has ever looked at her and seen exactly what she was hiding beneath the competence and the careful dresses. But Dominic's world is not clean. His past is populated with dangerous people, buried debts, and a woman from his history who does not accept endings. As Jade falls deeper into his orbit, the line between desire and destruction begins to blur in ways that could cost her everything she built. Sinful Awakening is a story about a woman who stopped apologising for her appetite. About power and who really holds it. About the specific madness of wanting someone who is genuinely bad for your carefully constructed life, and choosing them anyway, with both eyes open and no intention of stopping.

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I’ve always loved spicy romance novels This had me thinking about my ex ...
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20 Chapters
Chapter 1: The Boardroom
The first time Jade Mercer let a man bend her over a boardroom table, it was a Tuesday.Not the kind of Tuesday anything remarkable was supposed to happen. Grey sky, burnt coffee smell in the elevator, seventeen slides on her laptop and a presentation she had rehearsed until the words stopped meaning anything. She had worn her most boring dress deliberately, the navy wrap she chose when she wanted rooms to underestimate her, and she had walked into Crest Holdings at nine fifty-eight thinking about nothing except the Valen account and whether slide eleven was redundant.She had not walked in expecting Dominic Crest.He came in late, as powerful men always do, as if punctuality were a courtesy that applied only to people with less money. The meeting was already running when the door opened and every head turned with that involuntary, embarrassing obedience. Jade kept her eyes on the screen. She was mid sentence and she did not break.She felt him looking at her from the moment he sat do
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Chapter 2: Dinner
She changed twice before leaving for the restaurant.The first outfit was a safe choice, black trousers, silk blouse, professional enough to remind both of them that they were adults with businesses and reputations. She stood in front of her mirror in it for approximately ninety seconds before taking it off.The second was a dress she had bought six months ago and never worn. Deep red, low back, the kind of cut that did not allow for anything underneath it. She put it on and looked at herself in the mirror and thought about the way Dominic Crest had pressed her against that boardroom table and taken her apart with the focused patience of a man who had never once rushed anything.She kept the red dress on.The restaurant was intimate and dimly lit, the kind of place that understood its purpose was to provide atmosphere for conversations that mattered. He was already there when she arrived, standing as she approached, and his eyes moved over the red dress with a slow thoroughness that m
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Chapter 3: The Woman at the Door
She was at his office at nine the next morning.Not Jade. Someone else entirely.Jade arrived at Crest Holdings at eight fifty-five, coffee in hand, hair down, wearing a slate grey dress that was professional enough for the world and fitted enough to remind herself of who she had decided to become. She had slept in Dominic's bed and woken to the smell of coffee already made and a man who looked at her across his kitchen like she was something he had not expected to still want in the morning light but did anyway, thoroughly and without apology.She had left his building feeling like a woman walking on new ground.That feeling lasted precisely until she stepped off the elevator on the forty-second floor and saw the woman standing at Dominic's office door.Tall. Blonde in the specific way that required maintenance and money. Wearing a cream dress that probably cost more than Jade's first car and carrying herself with the particular ease of someone who had stood in this exact hallway many
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Chapter 4: After Hours
He texted at seven forty-three.Still here.She looked at the message and then at the brief she was finalising and then at the clock. The floor had emptied an hour ago. The cleaning crew had come and gone. She was sitting in her glass office with her heels off and her hair twisted up with a pen holding it and three empty coffee cups lined up like evidence of the hours she had put in.She typed back: So am I.Three seconds.Come here.She put her heels back on. She did not question the instruction or perform reluctance about it. She had spent years moderating her own desire, packaging it into something reasonable and measured and easily explained. She was done with that. She picked up her phone and walked down the corridor to his office and knocked once and pushed the door open.He was at his desk but not working. Leaning back in his chair, jacket off, tie gone, the top two buttons of his shirt open, and he was looking at her the way he had looked at her across his kitchen that morning
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Chapter 5: The Leak
Jade found out on a Wednesday.It was Dana who brought it to her, which told Jade everything she needed to know about Dana's instincts and why she had survived four directors on this floor when people with shinier resumes had not. She came into Jade's office at eight fifteen in the morning before the rest of the team had filtered in, closed the door quietly behind her, and sat down with the particular stillness of someone carrying information they have already turned over several times before deciding to speak."I need to show you something," Dana said.She placed a printed email chain on Jade's desk. Jade read it once quickly and then again slowly, the way she read anything that mattered. It was an internal thread from three weeks ago, before Jade had joined the company, discussing the preliminary Valen strategy. Preliminary, internal, and stamped at the bottom of the thread with a distribution list that contained exactly four names.None of those names were external.And yet the thr
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Chapter 6: What Honesty Costs
He was not lying about the cooking.Jade stood in his kitchen doorway watching Dominic Crest, founder and CEO of a company worth nine figures, attempting to rescue something from a pan that had clearly passed the point of rescue several minutes ago. His jacket was gone, sleeves rolled up, and he was staring at the contents of the pan with the specific expression of a man applying boardroom logic to a culinary problem and finding the two entirely incompatible.She set her bag down on his kitchen counter."What was it supposed to be?" she asked."Pasta," he said. "It was supposed to be straightforward."She looked at the pan. "When did you last cook something?"A pause. "Define recently."She moved him aside with her hand flat on his chest and took over the pan, assessing the damage with the efficient attention she applied to everything. It was salvageable. Barely. She found olive oil and garlic in his cupboards, which were well stocked in the way of someone whose assistant did their sh
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Chapter 7: The Second Name
Dana was already at her desk when Jade arrived at seven forty-five.The floor was empty. The overhead lights were still on their low morning setting, that particular pre-business hour dimness that made the open plan feel like a different room entirely. Dana had a coffee waiting on Jade's desk, which Jade noticed and appreciated without comment, and when Jade sat down Dana came in and closed the door and placed a single printed sheet face down on the desk between them.She did not turn it over immediately."Before you see this," Dana said, "I want you to know that I verified it three times. I did not want to bring you something I was not completely certain of.""I understand," Jade said."The first name is Ryan Cole. His access logs show six instances of files being opened outside business hours over the past three weeks. Small files. Nothing dramatically sensitive on its own but cumulatively a pattern. Three of those sessions ended with print jobs sent to the floor printer at times wh
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Chapter 8: Gerald
He did not want her there.He said it plainly, which she appreciated, standing in his office on Thursday morning with his jacket already on and his face wearing the particular closed expression she had come to recognise as the one he deployed when something was going to cost him emotionally and he had already decided to pay the price alone."I will handle my father myself," he said."I know you can," she said. "That is not why I am asking to come.""Then why."She sat down in the chair across from his desk, which was a deliberate choice because standing would have made this a confrontation and she did not want a confrontation. She wanted him to hear her."Because Gerald Crest called you the same morning we found Webb's name in those logs," she said. "The timing was not accidental and you know it. Someone told him to make contact now, when the ground inside this company is already moving. That means this meeting is not a father and son conversation." She held his gaze. "It is an openin
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Chapter 9: The Financial Picture
SINFUL AWAKENINGChapter 9: The Financial PictureThe file arrived at six fifty-three on Friday morning.Jade was already at her kitchen table, hair unbound, wearing a shirt that belonged to Dominic because she had stayed again and her own clothes were folded on his bedroom chair, coffee cooling beside her laptop. She had been awake since five, running through the board meeting structure in her mind, mapping the angles, identifying the weaknesses in their position and the strengths they had not yet fully deployed.When the encrypted file landed in her inbox from the contact she had called three days ago she set down her coffee and opened it immediately.She read for forty-five minutes without stopping.By the time she reached the final page her coffee was cold and the shirt she was wearing felt insufficient armour for what she was now holding.She closed the laptop and sat for a moment in Dominic's quiet kitchen with the early morning light coming grey and thin through the windows and
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Chapter 10: Just Dinner
He chose a restaurant that was not trying to impress anyone.That was the first thing she noticed. After the week they had navigated, after the file and the attorney and Ryan Cole's young frightened face in the conference room, she had half expected him to choose somewhere that announced itself, somewhere that used environment as armour the way powerful people sometimes did when they felt exposed. A room full of the right people seeing them together, the performance of normalcy as a statement.Instead he took her to a small Italian place in a quieter part of the city that had sixteen tables and no dress code and candles in wine bottles and a menu that had not changed in twenty years because it had not needed to."My mother used to bring me here," he said, after they had sat down and the bread had arrived and he had poured the wine without consulting the list because he already knew what he wanted.She looked at him."After my father left," he said. "Friday nights. She would finish her
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