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Author: Penelope Sky
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CATO

I sat in my study on the top floor and puffed on my cigar. I wasn’t a big smoker, but every once in a while, I allowed myself the luxury. It gave my throat a break from the burn of the booze I downed all the time.

I stared out the window and kept thinking about the same woman I always thought about.

Siena.

She told me off like no one else. She threw me away like she had nothing to lose. She treated me like I was nobody, not the handsome billionaire every woman wanted in their bed. To her, I was just another guy in the crowd. All she wanted from me was a job, and now that she had it, she didn’t want anything else.

Why did that make me admire her?

Why did that make me obsess over her?

No idea.

When my cigar burned out, I had nothing else to look forward to. Lighting another was tempting, but having Siena in bed tonight was even more tempting. I didn’t want to bend my rules for anyone, but I bent them for her already.

If not, I would be fucking two women right now.

I didn’t think
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