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EPILOGUE II

Author: Scarlett Cyn

Last Updated: 2025-11-25 00:43:57

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Dorian grins at me, totally naked, his clothes discarded on the floor. "It's the first photo ever taken of us."

It's that photo. The one of Dorian and I that caused all of the problems. Dorian and I, standing in the front yard of my father's house in Washington, D.C.

Facing off and giving each other the finger.

That photo was plastered all over the internet.

"I got a copy of the original from the reporter who shot it," Dorian says. "Told him it was a memento."

"I can't believe you," I say, laughing. It's ridiculous, yet in a very Dorian way, it's so thoughtful. I'd have never remembered that that was the first photograph taken of us.

"I know," he says. "I'm so romantic."

I turn to him, my named body pressed against his. A thrill rushes through me at the feeling of his skin on mine. His lips on mine, his hands traveling across my body, send electricity through me. "You are," I murmur, as he takes me to the bed.

When he runs his palm over my breasts and down my stomach, I arch my b

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Step Too Far: Ruined By Him CHAPTER 42
DelaneyWe sit across from each other in a crowded izakaya in Shibuya, after passing a million little bars and restaurants that showcase plastic versions of their foods in the windows. Marcus sips his beer and laughs, his eyes crinkling at the edges, and the sound is infectious. He's relaxed, for the first time in weeks, and I finally feel calm, away from Chelsea and work and the hotel and everything. The izakaya is crowded, yet it feels like Marcus and I are the only two people in the room."You love it here," Marcus says."Yeah," I tell him. "I was here for a semester. Not in Tokyo, really. I mean, I traveled, but I was mostly down south. Just enough time to fall in love but not enough time to really let the little things start to annoy me, you know?"Marcus sips his beer and looks at me. "Kind of like us."My heart practically stops and I take a long gulp of my chu-hi, a drink made from soda and shochu, but tastes dangerously just like plain soda. "You do plenty of things to annoy
Step Too Far: Ruined By Him CHAPTER 44
DelaneyThe knock on the door in the morning startles me. When I answer, my hair plastered to the side of my face, no one's there. I barely slept last night, gutted over what happened. I wonder if Chelsea is on her way back to Texas already, the bearer of such fantastic fucking news that my father will probably have a coronary.I need to call my father. I don't know how to explain any of it. I really can't face him.And I can't face Marcus, either.How can things go from being so high to crashing down so low in a matter of minutes? Last night with Marcus, I was happy. I was deliriously, irrepressibly, recklessly happy. A part of me knew it wouldn't last, just like part of me this morning longs to go to Marcus, to tell him that it doesn't matter, that we shouldn't give a shit what anyone else thinks.Except it's Marcus, the guy who doesn't spend time with women outside the bedroom. The guy who doesn't date. Perpetual manwhore, always risk-taking, never-going-to-grow-up Marcus. And the
Step Too Far: Ruined By Him CHAPTER 43
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Step Too Far: Ruined By Him Chapter 41
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Step Too Far: Ruined By Him CHAPTER 40
MarcusIt's been a whirlwind couple of weeks in Japan...I don't even know where the hell we've been, to be honest. The first week I was too jet-lagged to notice much of anything, and content to just be told where to go and what to do. Photo shoots, interviews, appearances, one right after the other. I shot some television commercials, but I don't even know what the products were. Cologne, I think – nothing bike-related. And an ad for one of those little canned coffee drinks. It's all a blur.And in the middle of that blur is Delaney. Always Delaney. I'm still hooking up with her, sneaking into her hotel room at night after Chelsea has gone to bed. The sex hasn't changed – it's still as hot as hell. That in and of itself is a fucking miracle. I've never had so much sex with one girl.The thing is, it's bugging me.I want – shit, I don't know what I want. I want to be around Delaney all the damn time. I can't get enough of her laugh, or the way she blushes when I embarrass her, which is
Step Too Far: Ruined By Him CHAPTER 39
DelaneyI'm stuck on a flight to Japan with Marcus and Chelsea. Not that this is awkward or anything. At all.Chelsea has been sweet as pie to me, but I'm pretty sure she wants me dead. I think she suspects Marcus and I are up to something, and that's definitely true. We've been sneaking around like a couple of hormonal teenagers. The truth is, I can't get enough of him. I find myself wanting him all the time, and that fact is starting to scare me a little bit.The flight itself hasn't been terrible. We have first class suites, so I put up the privacy partition on mine as soon as we took off, and I didn't have to even think about Chelsea and how she glared at me from the other side of the aisle when Marcus got into the suite next to mine. It's almost like she doesn't exist. The seat converts into a bed, and I'm lying here on my laptop looking at the schedule, but I'm preoccupied with thoughts of Marcus.Marcus says he wants us to be more than just a one night stand. But is it only bec

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