Se connecterLUCIANI stood under the freezing shower pounding on my back with my hands fisted against the glass. The sting of the water didn’t help, nothing cooled the heat clawing through me. I fucked up and there’s nobody to blame for that except me.Control has never been my weakness as I’ve spent years building a fortress around my emotions, yet she’d managed to unravel me with nothing more than a silly glare and a filthy suggestion.I lost that control.Were blowjobs ever that good, or was it just her?Was it the way she looked up at me like she was daring me and surrendering at the same time?And did it really have to be at the very cusp of my release that my brain realized it was a mistake?I nearly lost myself in her, nearly made a mistake, nearly spilled into her mouth like a desperate boy.Of course, I had followed her to the club hours ago.But when I got there and saw her on stage, lights flashing over her skin, music thundering through the room as she laughed and moved freely, somet
CORINNE“Get on your knees.”The command dropped like my high school grade. ‘No.’ My mind hissed, because there’s no way I’d willingly do something Lucian ask of me without a fight. But my body was already betraying me.I’ll regret this. I’ll wake up tomorrow and want to scream myself to an early grave, but right now? I’ll put the blame for this wanton behavior on the single shot of tequila still burning in my veins, and on the agonizing amount of horniness riding through my body.Fuck… I shouldn’t.I know I shouldn’t, but the floor met my knees with a mocking sound.Suddenly, I’m eye-level with the unmistakable tent in his trousers. My mouth went drier than a desert and it took every ounce of my fading sanity to swallow and not pounce on him.I craned my neck back to look at him only to find him already staring down at me, his dark eyes raking over my face with a hunger that looked a lot like anger.“Tell me,” he said in a voice pitched low and rough that made my core pulse. “What d
CORINNEIt was already pushing 3 am when I tiptoed my way into the house and eased the front door shut behind me slowly. I stood there for a moment, listening for movement but the entire place was drowned in darkness and still silence, a clear indication that everyone was still in bed.For the hundredth time, I was grateful the staff didn’t stay in this mansion. If they did, I would’ve had it hard trying to sneak pass a dozen watchful eyes, which would have still ended up in a disaster.I slipped off my heels and held them in my hand, padding across the marble floor in my bare feet as I crept up the grand staircase.My mind was a whirlwind of worst-case scenarios.Lucian will literally kill me if he finds out I left.Or worse, since killing would be quick, he’d probably lock me inside and throw away the key. Keep me tucked away somewhere high and unreachable like Rapunzel, except my hair isn’t nearly long enough to be useful so I’ll just be stuck waving helplessly out the window while
CORINNEI leaned my forehead against the cool glass of the Uber window, my mind a screaming mess of regret.Fuck my mouth.Honestly, just... fuck my motherfucking mouth.I still can’t believe I’d salivated at the sight of those graphs like a starving person at a buffet. One look at a struggling data and I’d just started rambling business strategy to Lucian like I was back in a boardroom in Chicago.I didn’t think for a second he believed my “roommate in college” excuse. Hell, I wouldn’t believe it myself if I were in his shoes. The look he had on his face told me he was already tearing my story apart piece by piece and at this point I’m just hoping Maya gets something before he confronts me.Trying to avoid him all day had been a nightmare. I spent the afternoon in a total frenzy, my heart jumping every time a door opened, my nerves fried from the effort of pretending I wasn’t hiding. By the time dinner rolled around, I was vibrating with a restless energy that I needed to get out of
LUCIANGeorge’s arrival handed her the escape she was desperate for.She stumbled over some half-formed excuse about checking on the boys and practically bolted from the room before I could even blink. The door hadn’t even finished closing before George was looking at me with that judgmental, silent stare of his.“What did you do to her?”I walked back to my seat with a smirk. “Why do you automatically assume I’m the one in the wrong?”“Because it’s you,” he simply said, as if that explained everything.I chose not to engage and changed the subject. “Where is Rajesh?”“He wanted some time alone with Eli,” George replied. “I took them to the playroom. Theresa is inside as well.”I nodded. “Let me know when they’re done.”“Yes, sir.” Immediately he shut the door behind him, I grabbed the document she’d been looking at, picked up my phone and dialed the head of my acquisitions team.He answered quickly. “Mr… Mr. Delacroix?”I didn’t bother with pleasantries.“How feasible is it to disma
LUCIANIt’s Saturday morning, and I’ve locked myself inside my home office under the pretense of work. Financial reports are spread across my desk, numbers lining up exactly where I want them, except my head isn’t here at all.It’s stuck on the sound of laughter drifting faintly through the hallway. Corinne’s voice and unguarded laughter rises above the boys’ as they ran around the house.The last few days have been… different. I wouldn’t go so far as to say we’re friends, but ever since she teamed up with my sons to turn my body into a coloring book with those markers, the edge has softened. We can actually talk for more than five minutes now without her looking like she wants to stab me with a fork.Of course she ran her mouth once or twice since then. First about having a chauffeur and a security detail following her around, and second about me still not willing to be buddy-buddy with fucking Charles.It’s ridiculous. Does she really not see it? Or is she just pretending to be that







