تسجيل الدخولThe messages started again at 7:12 a.m.I was still in Damien’s bed, his arm heavy across my waist, when my phone—returned to me the night before with a quiet “answer if you want, ignore if you don’t”—lit up on the nightstand. Three texts in quick succession.Aria, please call me.I know things have been distant. I need to talk to you.It’s about the divorce. And Damien.My stomach dropped so hard I felt sick.Damien’s eyes opened the second my body tensed. He didn’t ask what was wrong. He simply reached over me, picked up the phone, read the messages in silence, and set it back down facedown.“She’s escalating,” he said, voice calm and sleep-rough.“She mentioned you.”“I saw.” He rolled onto his back and pulled me with him so I was half sprawled across his chest. His fingers stroked slow paths up and down my spine. “She’s either lonely, guilty, or fishing for information. Possibly all three. Whatever it is, she doesn’t get to drag you into it alone.”I pressed my face into his neck.
The rest of the afternoon dragged like a held breath.I answered emails I barely read. I took notes in a meeting whose subject I forgot the second it ended. Every time my phone vibrated in the drawer I flinched, but I never opened it. The two unanswered messages from my mother sat there like unexploded ordnance. Through the glass Damien worked with the same lethal focus as always, but I felt his attention on me in every quiet moment—measuring, waiting.At 6:05 the floor had emptied. The intercom clicked.“Now, Aria.”I locked my computer, slipped the phone into my bag, and walked into his office. He was already standing by the windows, jacket off, sleeves rolled. The city glittered behind him in the early dark. He didn’t speak until the door was locked and I was close enough to touch.“Show me the messages.”My stomach tightened. I handed him the phone. He read the two texts in silence, jaw flexing once, then locked the screen and set the phone on his desk facedown.“She’s going to ke
I woke to the feel of his mouth on the back of my neck and the hard length of him already pressed against my ass.Morning light poured through the floor-to-ceiling windows, soft and gold. For a disorienting second I forgot where I was. Then Damien’s arm tightened around my waist, his hand sliding up to cup my breast, and everything came rushing back—the desk, the car, the way he had taken me apart last night until I couldn’t remember my own name.“Morning, baby girl,” he murmured against my skin, voice rough with sleep.I arched into him without thinking. “Daddy…”He made a low sound of approval and shifted my top leg forward, opening me. The head of his cock dragged through the slickness already gathering between my thighs. He pushed in slowly, stretching me open around the residual ache from the night before. I gasped. He filled me in one long, controlled thrust until his hips were flush against mine.“Still so fucking tight,” he muttered. “Even after I spent half the night inside y
The master bedroom was exactly what I expected from Damien Cross—vast, dark, and controlled.Floor-to-ceiling windows framed the glittering city without a single curtain to soften the view. A massive bed dominated the space, dressed in black sheets that looked expensive enough to cost more than three months of my old rent. Soft recessed lighting cast everything in warm shadow. The door clicked shut behind us with a finality that made my pulse spike.Damien didn’t rush.He walked me to the foot of the bed, turned me to face him, and simply looked. His eyes moved over my face, my mouth, the rapid rise and fall of my chest, like he was memorizing the exact second I stopped running.“Last chance,” he said quietly. “Once I start, I’m not stopping until I’ve had every part of you I’ve been denied.”I shook my head. “I don’t want you to stop.”Something fierce flashed in his eyes. He reached up and began unbuttoning my blouse with deliberate care, one button at a time, until the fabric parte
His mouth was relentless.I braced my hands on the cool surface of the desk, skirt bunched around my waist, underwear trapped around my knees, and tried not to make a sound loud enough to carry through the glass. Damien didn’t seem to care. He licked into me like he had all the time in the world and none of the restraint he’d shown the night before. One hand gripped my hip hard enough to bruise; the other held me open so he could take exactly what he wanted.“Fuck—Daddy—”The word broke out of me on a shaky moan. He growled against my skin in answer and sucked harder on my clit. My knees threatened to give. He felt it and steadied me with an arm around my thighs, never lifting his mouth. The wet, filthy sounds of him eating me filled the quiet office. Shame tried to surface. Need drowned it completely.He pushed two fingers inside me while his tongue kept working, curling them in a slow, devastating rhythm that made my vision blur. I came hard and sudden, biting down on my own wrist t
I barely slept.Every time I closed my eyes I felt his fingers again—slow, deliberate, owning every tremor that went through me. The memory of his voice saying good girl while I came around his hand kept me restless until the sky started to lighten. When my alarm finally went off I was already awake, body still humming, cheeks hot with the knowledge of what I’d let him do on that desk.I dressed carefully. A soft black blouse, a fitted charcoal skirt that hit just above the knee, simple heels. Nothing flashy. Nothing that would draw attention. Still, when I looked in the mirror I felt marked. Like anyone who looked closely enough would see the truth written on my skin.Cross Industries was already humming when I arrived. I went straight to the desk outside Damien’s office. The second I sat down the intercom clicked.“In my office. Now.”My pulse jumped. I stood, smoothed my skirt, and walked in.He was behind the desk in another perfect black suit, reading something on his tablet. He







