MasukHe is a billionaire and a vampire, she is just a student struggling to make ends meet. They both meet and two worlds collide. Mia Sanderson has to work two jobs to make ends meet. She doesn't really care about love and men, all she wants is one thing - to work as a project manager in D.B, the biggest estate management company in the city. Damien Black is a silent billionaire, nobody knows D.B is owned by him. He's the strongest vampire in his clan and the leader. Nobody knows about the existence of vampires though. He has everything he has ever wanted but one, a woman to call his own. Now they're both being threatened by an unknown person. They both fall in love but is their love strong enough to withstand the secrets he holds? Also, will they be able to find the source of the threats?
Lihat lebih banyakAs I rush out the door, I grab my coffee cup and take a sip, feeling the warmth of the liquid spreading through my body.
Today's not starting out great for me. Traffic on the streets of New York is a bitch. My exams start at 9:00am and it's 8:20 am already.By the time I make it into the school premises, I have just 15 minutes to get to the exam hall.As I walk through the crowded halls of my university, I feel my heart racing with nervousness. I have to do well on these exams if I want to have any chance of landing a good job after graduation.I glance at my wristwatch - a gift from my best friend- seven minutes more. On this thought I feel a sharp pain in my head as I bump into someone."Oh my goodness! I'm so so sor…" I say as I look at the victim of my clumsiness and then I see his face.Dammmn!It should be illegal to look this hot.He is tall, with broad shoulders and a lean build that speak of athleticism.His chiseled jawline is accentuated by a hint of stubble, and his piercing blue eyes seem to stare right through me.His dark hair is styled in a messy yet perfect way, and his lips, gooshh his lips, they looked like they were made for one purposes; to kiss or be kissed.I can't help but feel a little breathless as I take in his appearance.He is dressed casually, but somehow manages to make a simple t-shirt and jeans look like they were made for a fashion magazine.I can feel my cheeks flush as I realize I have been staring, and I quickly look away, feeling both embarrassed and captivated all at once."Maybe next time you might want to watch where you're going and avoid colliding into strangers," he says in a voice I feel everywhere.What he says makes me pissed though. I mean, yeah I did bump into him but he should have moved away if he was so watchful and so I tell him that."Mr. Watchful. Maybe I bumped into you but if you were watching, you would have seen me and moved out of my way.""For someone who was short of words just seconds ago, you sure got a mouth on you," he says.I hate him instantly. Handsome guys are the same, egoistic jerks. My father is one of them."I wasn't short of words."He scoffs and says, "You were literally drooling."The audacity!"If you think I'm going to stand here and listen to you accuse me of things I didn't do simply because you're hot, you had better think again," I say and stomp away.I know, I know, that was dumb, but I had to get out of there.I can't help but think of him as I make my way to class.Students suddenly begin to rush past me and I remember I'm late and check how many minutes I have left.I'm one minute late, fuck!Damien's POVIt's been a minute since she left, but I'm still standing in the same position in shock.Not shock at her words, okay, that was a bit shocking, but I was partially at fault for our collision but, shock at her body.She's not short, she should be about 5.5 ft tall which is perfect for my 6.3 ft height. I'd still be taller than her in heels.With how tight that skirt is on her hips, I wonder what kind of shape would be under it if exposed.Now her face, it was her face that truly took my breath away.Her features were strikingly beautiful, with high cheekbones, full lips, and a perfectly sculpted nose.Her skin was smooth and flawless, with a healthy glow that made her look radiant.Her eyes were the most captivating feature of all: a bright, sparkling green that seemed to change color in the light. They were framed by long, dark lashes that fluttered when she blinked, and they shone with a warm, inviting light despite her obvious displeasure.I shake my head in a bid to clear my head as I walk to where I parked my car. I've never felt that way towards a woman.I know it's not strange for a normal human, but that's the thing, I'm not human. I'm a vampire and I've been alive for 199 years.I've read a lot of books and heard a lot of stories and facts about vampires. I wonder where humans got those facts and stories from.What usually confuses me is how the humans got to know about my kind but do not believe we exist. Strange right?I sight my car and I'm not even surprised to see students posing in front of it for pictures, it's an Aston Martin afterall. It's one of my least expensive cars but not everyone is a billionaire, right.Yeah, I'm a billionaire. I'd be really dumb to have lived almost two centuries and not made that much money.I press the fob with me and they all scamper away. My phone vibrates as I get into the car.It's an email from an acquaintance inviting me to a charity event for people fighting against cancer. I'm supposed to even give a speech.I hate these events; a gathering of rich men showing off their money, and their pompous botox-faced wives showing off their jeweleries, designer clothes and bags.They can just ask us to donate the money to an account and have it delivered to the hospital or patients, whichever way it's done. I have to attend though, it's business too.I start my car and it growls, I look in the rearview mirror and sure enough, two guys are staring at the car with obvious lust."Money doesn't come to those who just want it, it comes to those who work for it," I say to them like they can hear me and zoom off.DAMIEN'S POVLucien doesn't laugh when I tell him. That's how I know it's serious."Say that again," he says, setting down the glass he'd been nursing since I walked into his study uninvited twenty minutes ago."The mark hasn't faded. It's been over a month.""That's not possible.""That's what I said. In a boutique. In front of Mia. Which, incidentally, is the second time in one conversation I told her something wasn't possible without explaining why, so if she wasn't suspicious of me before, she certainly is now."Lucien drags a hand down his face. In all our years of friendship, I've seen him amused, irritated, occasionally furious. I've rarely seen him this quiet."D. Marks fade on humans. Every single time. That's the whole design of it — it's meant to last exactly long enough for the bond to be recognized by both sides, then it disappears, because humans can't carry a permanent mark without it doing something to them. It's not built to stay.""I'm aware of the mechanics, Luce. I
Dating my boss in secret is, it turns out, a significant amount of work.We've settled into a rhythm without ever really discussing it — I stay professional at the office, address him as Damien only when absolutely no one's listening, and pretend I don't know exactly what his hand on the small of my back means when he walks me to the elevator "as a courtesy to a valued employee." He's a terrible liar in the way that people who are used to always getting what they want are terrible liars — not because he says the wrong thing, but because he doesn't bother trying very hard.Priya, mercifully, has not caught on. Mariam, I'm almost certain, has. She hasn't said a word, but there's a look she gives me sometimes over her coffee that says she's known since roughly week one and is simply waiting for me to admit it first.Three weeks into whatever this is, Damien picks me up from a "work dinner" — a real one, this time, with actual clients — and we swing by a boutique downtown because he wants
MIA’S POVI wake up in a bed that isn’t mine, wrapped in sheets that smell like cedar and something else I can’t name, and it takes me a full ten seconds to remember why my head is pounding like this and why I’m this naked.Oh.Oh no.Damien’s side of the bed is empty, but I can hear water running somewhere down the hall, and I use the minute alone to have a full, silent meltdown into his pillow. We had sex. I had sex with my boss. On his birthday. After I baked him a cake like some kind of unhinged Pinterest housewife.My shoulder aches, a dull, warm throb just below my collarbone, and when I twist to look at it in the mirror across the room, there’s a mark there—not quite a bruise, not quite a hickey, dark and strange at the edges. Great. Add “walking around with a hickey the size of a fist” to today’s list of problems.The bathroom door opens and Damien steps out, hair damp, sweatpants low on his hips, and every ounce of my composure leaves the building.“Morning,” he says. His voi
MIA’S POVThree weeks in and I’ve learned the rhythm of this place. Coffee before nine or don’t speak to me. Priya gossips like it’s an Olympic sport. And Damien Black finds a reason to call me into his office at least once a day, always with some file he could have just as easily emailed me.I’ve stopped pretending I don’t like it.“You’re doing it again,” Darcy says over the phone, and I can hear the smirk in her voice without even seeing her face.“Doing what?”“That sighing thing. The one you do when you’re thinking about your hot, broody, probably-secretly-a-good-guy boss.”“I do not sigh.”“Mia. You’ve sighed twice in the last ninety seconds.”I flop back onto my bed, phone pressed to my ear, and stare at the ceiling like it has answers. “It’s complicated, Dee.”“It’s not complicated. You like him, he clearly likes you, nobody’s married, nobody’s dying. Kiss the man.”“He’s my boss.”“He’s the CEO. Different rules apply to CEOs. It’s basically a movie trope at this point.”I don
For some reason, I'm nervous about seeing my face. I open my eyes slowly and what I see utters me speechless.This isn't me.This can't be me.I turn disbelieving eyes to her. "Uhn uhn, you got that right sugar. That, is what I meant by real reaction.""Darcy, what did you do?" I gasp as I stare at my r
"Come on, Mia. I've been asking you to do this for me for ages, can't you indulge me just once?"That's true though, she's been asking me to model for her for years now. She made some beautiful pieces using my measurements, and she's refused to make them for someone else so they can model the designs
I am giving myself a final look in the mirror when Darcy runs inside to announce that the car is here. She'd been peeping through the window.We are both surprised when we hear the doorbell. We didn't expect the driver to come up to the door. She goes to get the door and at the other side is none ot
Damien's POVWhen Lucien asked me to meet at his office, I didn't know his intentions. I was actually surprised because in all the years he's been teaching, he has never asked me to help with a student's employment.Lucien could stop teaching if he didn't want to, he was one of the major shareholde
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