LOGINRUYI WYNTER ❦I cried hard in the shower that morning.By the time I finished dressing for work, my eyes were swollen, my chest still felt painfully tight and I had no idea what I was supposed to do about Jace.I kept thinking about him. About the recording.About the way his voice had cracked when he begged to see me.I didn’t know whether I should confront Lucien about what happened to him. He had broken our deal. I had asked him not to hurt Jace, yet somehow Jace had still been dragged into whatever world Lucien lived in.But what was I supposed to say to Lucien?You broke your promise. The words alone felt ridiculous.I knew who Lucien Blackwood was. I knew what he was capable of. Confronting him would not undo what had happened to Jace. It would only put me in danger of making things worse.And besides, I was too ashamed of myself to ever go near Jace again.After everything Jenny had said, after hearing his voice, I no longer knew which part of our marriage had been real and whi
RUYI WYNTER ❦“Isn’t it?” Jenny's voice sharpened. “What about when he slept with a co-worker just so he could sell himself and get enough money to get both of you out of that mess?”I froze. Jenny stepped closer.“You wore him down with your constant nagging and your victim mentality. When he finally decided to give you space so he could regain his mental health, what did you do?”My lips parted, but nothing came out. “You left.” Her words landed like blows.“You left him without looking back. And then you shamelessly sought comfort in my lord’s arms.” My eyes stung.“You keep telling yourself you were protecting Jace. You tell yourself you were trying to save yourself from a terrible situation, but perhaps you should be honest with yourself for once. Maybe all you wanted was a soft life. Luxury. Comfort. A way out of the life you chose from the beginning.”“Stop.”“A shame,” she whispered and my chest tightened.Years of pain I had spent trying to bury began returning in waves. Th
RUYI WYNTER ❦ Morning light illuminated Lucien’s bedroom, while the beautiful songs of birds drifted through the open windows. His home was surrounded by trees and flowers, so even the air seemed different here, sweeter and cleaner than anything I was used to. Somewhere beyond the room, I could hear the gentle sound of water falling from the fountains scattered around the estate. When I finally stood up, my body felt light after yesterday night’s ordeal, and for a moment, I simply stood there taking everything in. It made me feel as though I had been trapped on a sufficient, abundant island, surrounded by everything I could ever need, while the ocean around it remained deadly. And yet, I knew I was still trapped. Lucien Blackwood was the ocean surrounding my beautiful little island. Cruel, dangerous and impossible to escape. One wrong move and I could be swallowed whole by the world he belonged to. And within that terrifying circumstance, I had found a strange kind of peace. I h
SOPHIA MORMONT I couldn’t wait to be done with work. I had already booked an appointment at the OB/GYN clinic, and the thought of finally knowing for certain made it difficult to concentrate on anything else.These past few days, Jace and I had been having sex more often than we did when we were still cat-and-ratting around the workplace. Most of the time, we hadn’t used protection, although there were moments when he suddenly insisted on it, and honestly, it bothered me. I couldn’t understand what was going on in his mind.If he was so hell-bent on protection, then why had he willingly been with me without it several times?He loved me. I had no doubt about that. But whenever he suddenly brought up protection, it still hurt somewhere deep in my heart.Jace had gone through a lot during his childhood. He once told me how people had called him a delinquent and how parents had warned their daughters to stay away from him. Jace was handsome, with that effortless charisma that naturally
RUYI WYNTER ❦I buckled under Lucien, seeking desperate friction of his bulge, his mouth insistent on her nipples, Seeing my yearning movement towards his cock, pulsing and bulging in his shorts, Lucien shoved his shorts down just enough for me, His cock sprang free, so thick, heavy, the shaft ridged with dark veins that pulsed under my greedy fingers the second I wrapped my hand around him. I stroked him slowly then increased the pace as my heart quickened, my thumb smearing the bead of precum already leaking from the swollen head.He was so hot in my palm, so rigid, and the low sound he made only made me wetter between my inner thighs, I guided him lower, pressing that blunt, slick crown right against my entrance. My pussy lips parted around him, soft and slick, and I pushed the tip inside myself with a shaky breath. The stretch burned in the best way—too much and not enough all at once. My legs trembled hard as I took him deeper, inch by slow inch, until the thick head popp
RUYI WYNTER ❦I felt a strange energy around Lucien, something soft and subtle that felt almost too similar to Hydrane. It was as though a part of me hadn’t really left Hydrangea behind at the flower shop when Enzo and Jules came for me, as though that part of me believed he had somehow been by my side all the way to Lucien’s mansion, only now he was playing Lucien.I knew it was crazy. It sounded like nothing more than wishful thinking, the kind of thought you entertained when someone had already gotten too deeply into your head. But Lucien made me crazy in ways I couldn’t explain, just as he made me feel wild and strange things I had never imagined feeling. Everything about him was foreign to me, almost like a bad habit I knew I shouldn’t be getting attached to, yet somehow I couldn’t seem to stay away from it. There was something about him that was dangerously tempting, confusing and almost sickly addictive, and the more I tried to understand what was happening inside me, the m
RUYI WYNTER❦I was back at my morning job as a florist, tending to freshly delivered flowers. I removed the beautiful roses from their roots, still wrapped in plastic nylon, and replanted them into soil pots.I was doing these continuously for about hundreds of them, as my mind completely slipped t
RUYI WYNTER ❦The towering man neared me, his hands grabbing my arms so sharp my heart stopped for a moment, he slid his sturdy leg in between my weak shaky legs from behind, spreading it farther, until I instinctively grabbed hold on a chair for support for my upper body. And when I felt Jules’ b
RUYI WYNTER ❦My legs gave out as terror swallowed everything. I squeezed my eyes shut, waiting for the pain, the darkness and the end.And then gunshots cracked through the night. I screamed. But it wasn’t my body that fell. When I opened my eyes, the men who had dragged me, all five of them, were
RUYI WYNTER ❦ “Jace ?” A low almost lifeless sound escaped my lips, unshed tears welled my eyes, The woman scrambled the moment she saw me. Her legs shook as she tugged her skirt down, hair wild, lipstick smeared across her jaw. “Jace… Jace, who the hell is she?” she hissed, eyes wide with di







