LOGINFor one heartbeat I thought Aegis had found LyX burning a hole in my pocket and everything was finished but Micheal didn’t flinch.
He caught my wrist in one smooth, unbreakable grip, yanked me against his chest. “Don’t,” he said, low and lethal, his lips brushing my ear. “Move.” His other hand was already moving, thumb flying across his phone. My panic spiked ;police, cuffs, prison.But the red washed away with a single silent command. Golden city light flooded back in. The danger didn’t leave the room It transferred. From the screens straight into the space between our bodies.He dropped the phone which accidentally hit the marble floor and cracked but that was the least he could worry about. His eyes locked on mine, black and blazing. He dragged me so close I felt the thunder of his heartbeat through his shirt, turned me, tied my hands with the silk tie lying on the sofa. Memory slammed into me.I was sixteen. He was older .One stolen night in his childhood bedroom while the house slept. He’d kissed the bruises on my ribs, whispered no one would ever hurt me again. Then he’d laid me on sheets that smelled like summer rain and teenage secrets, spread my thighs with shaking hands, and took my virginity so gently I cried into his mouth. Before morning I went home before he woke up.. By nightfall he was gone. No note. No trace. Just gone. Until tonight. His grip tightened, thumb pressing the frantic pulse under my jaw.Tears burned my eyes. “I thought you left because I wasn’t enough.” A broken sound tore out of him. He spun me, slammed my front to the cold glass, kicked my boots apart so wide my thighs burned. The city glittered thirty-nine floors below, but all I felt was him, heat, fury, heartbreak. His belt hissed free. The leather whispered once against his palm, then snapped around my wrists, binding them tight at the small of my back. His bite made me gasp. “Say it,” he snarled against my ear, teeth scraping. “Say you’re mine. Say it like you did when you were sixteen and begging me to ruin you.” “I’m yours,” I sobbed. “I was always yours, Micheal, even when you left me.” He made a wounded sound and ripped my shirt off. My bra snapped in half, tossed aside. Cool air hit my skin; my nipples turned to diamonds against the glass.His palm cracked across my ass, sharp, perfect sting. I cried out, arched into it. Again. Again. Each slap blooming fire until I dripped down my thighs, pain and pleasure braided so tight I couldn’t tell them apart. He dropped to his knees behind me, spread my cheeks with rough hands, and buried his face between my thighs from behind. No warning. Just wet, filthy, open-mouthed worship spearing deep, nose pressed to my clit, eating me like he was trying to drink ten lost years in one savage gulp. I screamed his name, wrists jerking against the belt, boots slipping as my legs tried to close. He pinned one thigh higher against the glass, opened me wider, and kept devouring until I came so hard my vision blacked out and tears streamed down my face. He rose, chest heaving. Zipper rasped. The blunt, scalding head of his cock nudged my entrance. “Look at me,” he demanded, voice shredded. I turned my cheek to the glass. His eyes were wet. “I never stopped loving you,” he said, and slammed into me in one brutal thrust. The stretch stole my breath, thick, unforgiving, perfect. He didn’t give me time to adjust. He fucked me like punishment and prayer combined, deep, punishing strokes that rattled the glass and drove the air from my lungs. Every thrust slammed my bound wrists higher between my shoulder blades, arching me until my breasts dragged across the window, nipples screaming from the cold. His hand fisted my hair, wrenched my head back so he could bite down on my neck hard enough to bruise, hard enough to mark. “Feel that?” he snarled, hips snapping so hard my teeth clacked. “That’s ten years of missing you. Ten years of hating myself for leaving.” I sobbed his name, pussy clenching around him, tears dripping off my chin onto the marble far below. He pulled out abruptly. I whimpered at the loss only to be spun, shoved down until my knees hit the cold floor. He freed his cock, angry, flushed, dripping with us, and painted my lips with it. “Open.” I did. He fed himself into my mouth slow, reverent, eyes locked on mine as tears rolled down my cheeks. I took him deep, gagging, drooling, tasting us and every broken promise. When he pulled free, strings of spit connecting us, he hauled me up, spun me again, bent me over the back of the leather couch, wrists still bound, face pressed to cool hide. Then he took me from behind, back shots so deep I felt him in my soul.Each thrust jolted through my entire body, hips slamming against my ass, the wet slap of skin echoing like gunshots. One hand gripped the belt like reins, the other snaked around to rub my clit in ruthless circles. “Come for me, baby,” he growled, voice cracking with emotion. he “Come while I fill you up and never let you go again.” I shattered, sobbing, screaming, pussy gushing around him so hard it splashed his thighs. He followed with a broken roar, burying himself to the root and spilling inside me in thick, endless pulses, hips jerking as he emptied ten years of longing into my body. He didn’t pull out. He collapsed over me, chest heaving against my bound arms, lips brushing the tears on my cheek. “I’m sorry,” he whispered, voice raw. “I’m so fucking sorry I left. But I’m never leaving again.” He untied my wrists with shaking hands, massaged the red marks, then turned me and kissed every tear, every bruise, every inch of skin he’d marked. When he finally carried me to his bed, still buried inside me, still leaking down my thighs, he laid me down like I was something holy and breakable. Against my lips he made a new vow, quiet, fierce, unbreakable: “You’re home now, Layla. And this time, I burn the whole world before I ever let you go.” And just as I started to coil around him,the digital watch on my wrist lit up . “I SEE YOU ” —AGENT MILLER ,FBI.LAYLA’S POV The memory of the night before was a live wire under my skin, humming with equal parts shame and a dark, thrilling power. I hadn’t just been with Michael in his office after dark. I had been a thief in his arms.The plan had formed in a desperate, silent flash as he’d kissed me, his hands already pulling at my clothes. His sleek, encrypted work laptop sat open on the conference table, discarded in his hurry to have me. As I climbed onto his lap, as I sank down onto him with a gasp that was only half-performance, my own pocket was within reach. While he was buried inside me, while his mouth was hot on my neck and his grip was tight on my hips, my fingers had found the zipper. I’d fumbled, breathless, for the sleek shape of Miller’s pen drive.His eyes had been closed, his head thrown back in pleasure. “Layla…” he’d groaned, the sound raw.That was my moment. My body moving over his, I’d reached past his shoulder, my arm trembling not just from the rhythm he set. The USB po
MICHEAL’S POVThe morning followed me into the office.Not the city noise or the meetings waiting on my calendar, but the memory of her. Layla taking control last night replayed without warning. The way she moved with intention, climbed onto me like she had decided something and wasn’t asking permission to feel it. There was no hesitation in her body, no uncertainty in her eyes. She rode me like chaos and certainty fused into one moment, and it stayed with me longer than it should have. I had let her lead, let her take something from me, and that shift lingered beneath my skin as I took my seat behind the desk.The office lights adjusted automatically, screens waking one by one. I was halfway through reviewing overnight summaries when the alert appeared quietly in the corner of the main display. Aegis flagged unusual after-hours activity. I didn’t react immediately. Aegis flagged things often. The system noticed patterns humans ignored, sometimes to a fault. Still, I opened the repor
NARRATOR’S POVThe question lingers in the air, soft but heavy, like smoke that won’t drift away. “Wanna talk about your mom?”Layla’s body tenses against his chest. Old hurts flare up inside her, sharp, bitter memories of loss and a lack of resources that pushed her into this dangerous game. She swallows hard.“No,” she whispers, the word rushing out too fast. “Not… not today.”Michael doesn’t push. He nods, his fingers pausing in her hair before they start stroking again, slow and warm. The silence wraps around them again, thick with things neither wants to say.But Layla can’t stay still under that quiet weight. Heat still throbs between her thighs, her skin damp and tingling, every nerve alive from everything they’ve done. The scent of sex hangs heavy in the air, sweat, skin, and something darker. She pushes herself up, letting his jacket slide off her bare shoulders. His eyes meet hers, dark, tired, but still hungry, and a fierce spark ignites in her chest. She needs to take cont
NARRATOR’S POVFifteen minutes stretch into an eternity inside his private office. Layla sits exactly where he left her, in the center of the room, hands resting loosely at her sides, her pulse still hammering from the raw brutality she witnessed in the boardroom. A fleeting thought crosses her mind: should she begin her mission the proper way now, while he’s gone? Fear clamps down hard, freezing her. Instead, she fixates on the way he looked at her just before he walked out, dark, commanding, and absolute.Don’t move.She hasn’t. Not even an inch.Every second feels deliberate, as though he’s orchestrating the silence to let the full weight of what she saw sink deeper into her bones. Letting her feel, without distraction, the unfiltered force of the man behind closed doors: powerful, merciless, magnetic.When the doorknob finally clicks, the sound cuts through the tension like a blade.He steps inside and closes the door with the same controlled precision. No hurry. The jacket was ab
NARRATO’S POVForty-five minutes later, Layla’s focus shattered when her screen dimmed slightly, and a call request flashed across it.Eleanor.Layla straightened instinctively before accepting. “Yes?”“The board meeting is ready,” Eleanor said, her voice calm but clipped. “Mr. Wade expects you in the main boardroom immediately.”Layla’s stomach tightened. “I’m on my way.”She ended the call and stood, smoothing her blazer as she exhaled slowly. Her pulse quickened as she walked, heels echoing sharply against the polished floor. This wasn’t just another meeting. This was where power gathered, where decisions were made without mercy.The boardroom doors opened into a cathedral of glass, steel, and money. A long obsidian table stretched across the room, surrounded by men and women dressed in tailored authority. Screens lined the walls, glowing with projections of financial data and security reports. The air felt heavy, charged, expectant.Michael sat at the head of the table.He didn’t
NARRATOR’S POVLayla’s eyes stayed locked on the screen as her fingers moved across the keyboard. Her heart pounded too loudly in her chest, every line of code feeling heavier today, like it carried weight beyond logic. She could feel Aegis watching,measuring every pause, every breath, every hesitation. She had just finished tagging anomalies when a slow knock echoed against the glass wall. She flinched.“Ms. Costov?”Layla looked up to see Eleanor standing outside her workspace, tablet tucked neatly under her arm. Micheal’s assistant never wasted movement; everything about her screamed precision.“Yes?” Layla replied, steadying her voice.Eleanor stepped in and placed a slim black folder on the desk. “Mr. Wade would like you to review this immediately.” Layla glanced at the cover—INTERNAL THREATS – CONFIDENTIAL—and her stomach tightened. “This is a priority,” Eleanor added calmly. “He wants your findings reported to him as soon as possible.”Layla nodded. “I’ll start now.”As Eleanor







