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Chapter 9: Dangerous Intrusions and Sweet TemptationsSERA'S POVBreaking into William Harlow’s estate was child’s play. Ethan’s investor was a paranoid man with a taste for young women and Cuban cigars—distractions that left his guards sloppy. I’d slipped through the side gate wearing a cleaner’s uniform, a feather duster in hand and knives hidden in the folds of my coat. I didn’t need Leon’s permission. I didn’t need his damn guidance. I was Sera Carter—no, Arianna Vale now—and I knew how to destroy men like Harlow without anyone’s help.The office was dark, curtains drawn. I moved with calculated ease, searching for the files—documents that would confirm his laundering activities for Ethan. The plan was simple: grab evidence, plant a bug, vanish before anyone noticed.But nothing ever stayed simple for long.I heard them before I saw them. Heavy boots. Muffled shouts. Too many for me to fight alone.I tried the window. Locked.Shit.I darted behind the velvet drapes, heart steady,
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Chapter Three: A Fire She Can’t ExtinguishSERA’S POVI should leave.I know that.Every rational thought in my head is screaming at me to walk away before I do something I can’t take back.But Raven is too close now, her breath warm against my skin, her scent—something dark and intoxicating—wrapping around me like a drug I can’t resist.She smirks, tilting her head as her fingers graze the inside of my wrist. The touch is barely there, but it sets off a chain reaction beneath my skin, spreading heat through me like wildfire.“You’re shaking,” she murmurs, her voice dripping with amusement.I swallow hard. “I should go.”Her hand slides up my arm, slow, deliberate. “Then go.”But we both know I won’t.Not when my body is betraying me.Not when the air between us is charged with something I don’t understand.She leans in, her lips just a breath away from mine.“You don’t want to go, Sera.”Her voice is silk and sin, and when she trails her fingers down my waist, I let out a soft, shaky
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