“How do you feel, sweetheart?” Adrian asked in between the work out session.
Amelia’s head was pushed backwards as she moaned under his sweet torture. “Jesus! It feels like heaven.”
Adrian smirked. Her boobs were jumping with his every thrust. He pinched her nipples.
“Oops….” Amelia cried out in pleasure.
Adrian moved closer to her body and took one of the nipples in his mouth, sucking it mercilessly while kneading the other one like dough. His free hand was caressing her hair. Ameila’s hand stopped at his hair, taking them in her grip and pulling him more into her.
Her moans weren’t h
The door burst open.Amelia flinched at the sound, heart pounding against her ribs like a trapped bird. Her eyes strained in the low light, unsure if what she was seeing was real.Not Sophie. Not the guard.Adrian.His silhouette cut through the red haze like a blade. Tactical gear clung to his frame, eyes wild with fury, jaw clenched tight enough to crack. He stormed in, gun raised, and dropped the guard before the man could even react. The body hit the floor with a hollow thud. His chest heaved, eyes wild, frantic like a man starved for air who’d just broken the surface."Amelia," Adrian said, the word rough and desperate, like it had been
The scent of paint and old wood still lingered in the air when Amelia stepped out of the gallery’s back entrance, Adrian right beside her. The streets were empty, moonlight pooling on the cobblestone like silver spilled from the sky. Sophie was gone, secured by Marcus’s men but her last words echoed in Amelia’s mind like a riddle.Sophie’s expression still burned into Amelia’s memory, equal parts fury and something worse. Resignation. Like Sophie knew something they didn’t.“You think you’ve started the game. But I already played my hand.”Adrian reached for Amelia’s hand, fingers interlacing with hers. “It’s done,” he said.But A
The moment Amelia stepped into the server room, she knew something was wrong. The air inside the server room was colder than expected, refrigerated, dry, humming with quiet menace. The cold, metallic hum of machinery should have been the only sound, but her instincts screamed otherwise.Amelia’s eyes swept the walls lined with steel racks and blinking blue lights. Every step forward felt like threading a needle through a tripwire.Adrian moved ahead, crouching at a terminal. “This is it,” he muttered, pulling a slim black device from his jacket pocket and inserting it into a port. “Marcus said we have three minutes, tops. This is too easy,” he murmured.“Exactly,” she whispered.
The photograph trembled slightly in Amelia’s hand. There she was. The familiar face. Smiling. Unbothered. Alive.“Sophie!” Her voice cracked at the edges.Adrian nodded slowly, his gaze never leaving her. “Taken three nights ago. Outside a building owned by one of Voss’s shell companies in Zurich.”She hadn’t seen that face in what felt like a lifetime, yet here she was captured in grainy surveillance footage, slipping out of a nondescript sedan. Her hair was shorter now, a pixie cut framing a face that once wore fragility like silk. But in this photo, she looked different. Sharper. More dangerous.Adrian watched her closely as she stared at the image, the weight of what it
The day began like any other day at Black Empire. The sun cast its golden hue over the city skyline, and the office buzzed with the usual energy of ambition and purpose.Amelia, poised and focused, reviewed quarterly reports, her mind sharp despite the monotony of numbers. Adrian, ever the vigilant CEO, moved through meetings with calculated precision, his demeanor calm but his thoughts elsewhere. Yet, beneath the surface, subtle shifts hinted at deeper undercurrents.The day unfolded with meetings and strategic discussions, the usual rhythm of corporate life. Amelia chaired a session with the marketing team, dissecting campaign metrics and exploring new initiatives. Her analytical mind and creative insights drove the conversation forward, inspiring her team to think beyond conventional boundaries.
The morning unfolded like a perfectly choreographed ballet inside Black & Rowe headquarters.Sunlight cut across the high-rise glass walls, painting streaks of gold across the gleaming floors of the executive level. The air smelled faintly of espresso, ambition, and expensive leather, mingling in that very specific scent found only in offices where billions moved like chess pieces. The glass structure shimmered like a promise of power, perfection, and absolute control. Inside, the hum of a regular workday had already begun.Amelia stepped off the elevator with a soft ding, her heels tapping against the marble floor as she walked toward her office. She looked composed, hair in a sleek high ponytail, navy pantsuit tailored to precision, and her expression calm but alert. She offered a warm smile to Lina, the executive floor assista
Adrian closed the door behind him, slowly.“Say it again,” he whispered.Amelia tilted her head. “Say what?”“That you couldn’t sleep without me.”She arched her brow. “I never denied it.”His voice dropped. “Say it anyway.”She stepped closer, fingers sliding up his chest. “I couldn’t sleep without you.”Adrian’s eyes darkened. “Good.”He lifted her in one smooth motion, carrying
The morning after the break-in didn’t begin with screaming alarms or encrypted threats. It began with sunlight streamed through the floor-to-ceiling windows of the penthouse, painting golden streaks over the plush ivory rug. For the first time in weeks, there was no urgency in the air, no emergency calls, no encrypted messages blinking with warnings. Just sunlight. And the soft hum of the city waking up.Amelia stretched like a cat, limbs tangled in soft sheets, the scent of Adrian still fresh on the pillow beside her. She blinked groggily, then rolled over, expecting the bed to be empty again. But it wasn’t.He was still there. Flat on his back, hair a mess, one arm draped over his eyes like the sunlight was personally attacking him.“You’re still here?” she murmured, voice low and lazy.Adrian moved his arm and looked at her, squinting. “I was held hostage by the bed.”She grinned. “Should I call fo
Amelia woke before the sun. The early hours of morning bled into the penthouse like a reluctant truth. The skyline shimmered with false serenity, but inside the walls of glass and steel, war was being waged, not with guns or threats, but with code, manipulation, and the quiet, crushing weight of obsession.Adrian was gone from the bed, his side of the sheets already cool. She rolled into the space he’d left, burying her face into the faint trace of his scent, leather, cedar, and that hint of something darker.She reached for her phone. No missed calls. No messages. And yet she felt watched.A subtle prickle on the back of her neck told her the game had shifted again.She rose slowly, tying her robe tighter. Her steps were silent on the marble floors as she padded out in