He didn’t kiss me. He stripped me. Held my gaze. Watched me tremble while his shadow swallowed the light. He pinned me to the wall, breath at my throat. “You belong to me now. When you beg, I’ll ruin you. Slowly.” I was sold at midnight to the highest bidder. A billionaire with a voice like smoke and eyes carved from stone. He took me to his penthouse. Locked the doors. Laid down rules. No speaking. No escaping. No touching unless I begged. Now I eat from his hand. And break his rules just to see him burn. And he watches. Always. Eyes dark. Voice low. Control absolute. He swears he doesn’t want me.But the way he looks at me? Like I’m the secret he’s been hunting his whole life. Like he’s one breath away from shattering and dragging me down with him. He isn’t my savior. He’s the devil I can’t stop dreaming about. And I just whispered a name he vowed never to hear again. But the devil has secrets. And so do I.
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I don’t believe in love. Love is for the weak, for the soft, for the ones who need something to cling to when the world takes everything else away. It is a distraction, a leash around the throat, a reason to crawl instead of kill, and I have no use for it. I don’t need reasons. I don’t need anyone. People call me the Devil. I never asked for the name, but I wear it because names carry weight, and weight is power. If there’s one thing I have always valued above everything else, it is weight, whether it is the weight of gold in my hand, the weight of silence when a man realizes he is about to die, or the weight of fear pressing down on a room the moment I walk in. That night, I didn’t come to the auction to watch and stair at asses and breast I didn’t come here for pussy. I came for information. But then she stepped on stage and turned a thousand heads. She possessed a beauty meant for a goddess or maybe she was one. She stepped in barefoot. Hands bound in front of her like an offering. The slip they shoved her into was thin enough to show the curve of her nipples, the line of her thighs, the soft dip of her stomach. Her skin was pale under the spotlight, almost glowing, and her hair clung to her face like it had been dragged through tears. Every man in the room leaned forward. Predators smelling fresh prey. But none of them saw what I saw. Not just innocence. Not just fear. A body made to be fucked, ruined, owned. My cock hardened instantly, brutal and unrelenting. She looked too untouched for this place, too raw, and it made me want her even more. I wanted to be the first. The only. Her lips parted like she was about to cry, but no sound came out. That silence was louder than any scream. And it snapped something in me. “Five million,” I said. My voice didn’t rise. It cut. The auctioneer stuttered. A ripple went through the crowd gasps, disbelief, then silence. Men turned to look at me, then quickly away. They knew better. No one outbids the Devil. I stood, straightened my cufflinks, and walked out like I’d just bought a glass of wine instead of a girl. She was mine now. Whether she wanted it or not. They delivered her an hour later to My suite 60th floor at the top of Obsidian was glass and shadow, whiskey in my hand, city at my feet. I didn’t turn when the door opened. I felt her before I saw her. Shallow breaths. Small steps. The heavy silence of someone who’s already seen too much. “Leave us,” I said. The guards dropped her wrists and vanished. She didn’t cry. Didn’t speak. Just stood there, slip clinging to her curves, chest rising too fast. Rope burns circled her wrists, angry red against soft skin. I walked toward her, slow, measured, like a predator closing distance. She didn’t move. Didn’t flinch. Interesting. I pulled my knife, sliced the ropes clean. The fabric fell away. Her skin bloomed under the blade’s kiss. I ran my thumb along the mark, and she stiffened, but didn’t pull back. “What’s your name?” Her lips parted. A whisper. “Aria.” I let it roll through me. Soft. Fragile. Breakable. Her eyes dropped instantly. Good girl. “Water.” I pointed to the glass waiting on the table. She hesitated. “You don’t hesitate with me.” She obeyed. Fingers trembling on the glass, throat flexing as she swallowed. I watched her tongue flick over her lips, and my cock throbbed against my slacks. “Shower,” I said. “End of the hall.” She turned. The slip rode higher, exposing the curve of her ass through the thin fabric. My jaw tightened. The door closed behind her. Water started. Steam hissed into the hall. Her clothes were left behind. The slip. White cotton panties. I bent, picked them up, rubbed the fabric between my fingers. Still warm from her body. And I slid them into my pocket. No reason. No excuse. I didn’t try to sleep. The city was black glass and neon below me, alive with noise, but none of it mattered because she was here now. In my bed. In my world. I left the suite and went down the corridor that no one else ever walked. Behind a steel door, I kept the room that belonged only to me. Not a dungeon, not chains, nothing so obvious. Just shadow, and glass, and silence sharp enough to cut the air. One wall was a mirror. From her side, it was nothing but her reflection. From mine, it gave me everything. Aria. She lay curled beneath sheets she hadn’t chosen, in a room she didn’t own, her breathing shallow, her body shifting restlessly like even in sleep she couldn’t escape me. The robe had slipped, baring the curve of her shoulder, the dip of her spine, the long pale line of her legs. My cock hardened instantly. I sat in the leather chair facing the mirror, loosened my tie, poured whiskey I didn’t taste. I let my eyes drink her in until every inch of me burned. She looked untouched. Fragile. Breakable. Mine. I wanted to be on that bed, pressing her down, splitting her open until she cried with it. I wanted to bury myself so deep inside her that her body would never forget me. But I don’t fuck without begging. I don’t take what isn’t surrendered. I don’t need to. I make women crawl, and when they think they can’t crawl any further, I make them crawl again. So I sat there, hand unzipping my slacks, cock heavy in my palm. I stroked slow, steady, never breaking my gaze from the girl trembling on the other side of the glass. Her lips parted in her sleep. A sound escaped her, soft, a half-moan, half-sob, and I nearly spilled right then, just from that broken little sound. “Beg for me,” I whispered, voice low enough the glass swallowed it whole. She shifted in the sheets, the fabric sliding higher on her thighs. My fist tightened around my cock, my strokes faster now, harder, my jaw locked against the groan that built in my chest. The orgasm tore through me like violence, brutal and consuming, my cum splattering across my hand, warm, thick, messy. I didn’t close my eyes. I didn’t let myself look away from her face. When it was over, I sat back, still hard, still unsatisfied, staring at her body curled against the pillow. This wasn’t release. It was a promise. I leaned closer to the screen, my pulse steady, cock aching, mind already running through all the ways I’d break her silence. Not tonight. Not yet. But soon. Because I didn’t pay five million to watch. I paid to own.Aria’s POV And I just sat there, helpless, the world narrowing to the point of my skin where every small thing felt amplified the distant hum of traffic, the soft click of the lock sliding into place, the faint tick of the heater until the moment itself seemed to press into me like a weight. Nothing. There was nothing I could do; not a single plan rose up inside me that had the courage to move my limbs or the voice to break the silence. I couldn’t scream; the sound lodged at the back of my throat and turned to something hard and round that would not pass. I couldn’t hit him; the idea of swinging my arms felt like borrowing someone else’s courage and returning it before it even landed. I couldn’t run; the door and the corridor and the city beyond blurred into a map I had lost the language to read. When he raised his hand I went still as wood rooted, dry, the motion happening outside of me like a film playing in another room. When he pushed me I folded inward the way paper crea
Damien’s POV It had been days. Days of silence. Aria moved through my penthouse like she didn’t exist, like a shadow clinging to the corners of my walls, brushing past my life without touching it. She ate when I told her to, slept when I told her to, breathed when I allowed it. But she didn’t speak. Not to me. Not to anyone. And it was driving me fucking insane. The first day, I told myself she was scared. After the warehouse, after seeing Mateo’s blood drying under the dull light while I stood over him like a goddamn king of the city, she went stiff and pale. I gave her space. I didn’t push. By the second day, her silence was choice. By the third, it was defiance. I’d tried everything a gentleman would even though I was never one. soft words, hard ones, threats, promises, my hands on her face, my lips on her throat, dragging out words from her like I was ripping truth from a corpse. I kissed her like I wanted to taste the lies from her mouth, but all I got was emptine
Damien’s POV It was time to finally go back to my high-rise apartment in the heart of Manhattan. Three days in that safehouse had been long enough. The walls were thick, the floors cold, and the air smelled like dust and secrets, but it wasn’t the place that made it unbearable. It was her. Aria had moved like a shadow those three days she was quiet, careful too careful. She spoke only when I asked, ate only when I ordered, slept curled up on the edge of the bed like a ghost who didn’t want to touch the living. I had questioned her, once, twice, too many times, and she gave me nothing but silence and soft words that tasted like lies. So I stopped asking. Silence tells me more than begging ever will. She sat beside me in the car now, seatbelt cutting across the gold of her dress, her hands folded too neatly in her lap. The city stretched outside the tinted glass gray streets, distant sirens, a sun that couldn’t decide if it wanted to shine. Her reflection in the window looked
Damien’s POV She stood there naked, and for a second I thought my mind was fucking with me. Skin bare, nipples tight from the cold air or maybe from fear, thighs pressed together like they could hide what I already owned. She was a freaking goddess and her nakedness always caught my attention. My office was a wreck. Drawers left open, papers scattered across the floor like a thief had torn through my world, and she was the only one here. The afternoon light was spilling in weak through the blinds, and for a moment the only sound in the room was her breath, shallow, uneven, desperate. I shut the door behind me without a sound, the lock clicking like a trigger, and her shoulders flinched when she heard it. “Interesting,” I said, my voice low, sharp, steady. “I leave you alone for a few hours, and you turn my house into a fucking playground.” She didn’t speak. Her hands hovered close to her stomach, almost covering herself but not really, because she wanted me to look. And
Aria’s POV The Clock was ticking. It was past two in the afternoon, and Damien hadn’t returned yet. My heart rate was through the roof, and I was close to a full-blown heart attack from imagining what he might have heard over that call, why he left so suddenly, and why he hadn’t come back yet. I imagined everything bad under the sun, every possible thing that could go wrong, every dark thing a man like him might do if he knew what I was hiding. What if he had caught Mateo and forced the truth out of him? What if Mateo had told him everything about me the nights I never spoke of, the reason the Riveras would rather see me dead than free? What if Damien was already on his way back, not to talk, not to ask, but to kill me or to do something worse, something that would make me wish I had died in that penthouse instead of being dragged into his world? The thought made my chest feel like it was closing in. I pressed my palm against it, felt my heart hammering wild and uneven, and tr
Aria I woke up with my heart pounding so hard it felt like it wanted to break out of my chest. My hands were cold even though the room wasn’t, and every breath I dragged in felt too thin, like the air had turned heavy while I slept. The chair in the corner was empty. The place where Damien had sat the whole night before was just shadows now. He wasn’t there. For a moment I stayed very still, clutching the rough blanket against my body like it could shield me from the sudden rush of panic crawling up my throat. My eyes moved to the door. Closed. Silent. No footsteps. No shadow sliding under it. Just stillness that felt wrong. Where was he? I pushed myself upright slowly, the wooden floor cold against my feet, the cold running up my legs until my knees shook. My heart kept hammering as my mind replayed last night bullets ripping through glass, the scream I couldn’t swallow, the Riveras’ name ringing in my head like a curse I couldn’t get rid of. And then Mateo. Always Mateo.
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