LOGIN"You make it sound like I did something wrong?" Niklaus says with a sly smile before stepping back to avoid the punch I swing at him. His hand grabs my wrist tightly before he spins and presses me back on his desk, with my upper body facing him. His hips press against my parted legs. "Really...Luci, I missed you like crazy. How can you say such harsh things to me?" He says with a pout. Wait…wait, what is that pressing against me? "You crazy b*stard." I all but scream the words, but the manic excitement in his eyes doesn't waver as he forces his hips against me. Eight years ago, novice recruit Lucien Sinclair had the perfect partner and brother-in-law anyone could ask for; everything vanished in the blink of an eye when the 'perfect' man, Niklaus Heinrich, turned out to be the perfect devil, an arms dealer masquerading as the perfect CEO to the largest company in Ferndale. What happens when the two are forced to work together again? {This is a stand-alone book}
View MoreMaya is being nice to me, which is normally the first sign something is wrong.“Luci, try this.”She lifts a small pastry from the silver tray passing between us and places it directly on my plate before I can tell her that I am already eating.“You’ve barely touched anything.”She adds on when I eat something other than what she has served me in the ‘meet the in-laws’ gathering Niklaus insisted we attend.“I’ve eaten enough.”I say because even Niklaus keeps giving me food. Since when did I become a baby bird?Her smile remains perfectly pleasant.But that could have also been because of the gifts we walked in with: flowers for Vincenzo’s mother, an expensive bottle of scotch for his father, wine older than Maya and an engagement gift Niklaus’s secretary selected himself.She gestures with her eyes that I should eat what she has given me, despite my full comment, and when she doesn’t relent, I take a small bite.“Mm… it's good.”Ugh, I don’t like powdered sugar.“Really? I'm so glad
The bathroom door clicks shut, and I step out. The hotel towel is soaked at the hem and dripping onto the carpet.The room looks… different.The table is in the centre. I remember dragging it against the wall to get it out of the way, but now it's in the middle, and it's covered in food.I didn't order anything. A bottle sits in an ice bucket, sweating condensation onto the coaster.The TV is on. The opening credits are running, a noir-looking show if I'm not wrong.The cushions are off the couch, scattered on the floor like someone was supposed to sit among them."What's this?"I ask, running a smaller towel through my hair.Niklaus is on the edge of the couch, in just his pyjama bottoms."My Luci isn't in the mood for a date."He says."So I asked the front desk to bring date things here.""Right."I say with a short laugh, because I don't know what to do with the scene in front of me.Niklaus turns to me then gestures to the food."Eat."It's only when he says this that I feel the
Maya's cup rattles when she sets it down. The ring of it against the saucer runs a second longer than it should. She flattens her hand over the rim to stop it, and the ring is gone.There is nothing but a pale band on her finger where the ring Niklaus had given her sat for years. Not even her new engagement ring from the man she loves ‘with all her heart’."Will you attend, or not?"She asks, cutting through every emotional process I was going through.Love my ass, there is nothing soft about her gaze."Attend as your brother or as Lucien Heinrich?"She swallows.Her eyes go past me to the window, out at the park across the road with its greying grass and its bandstand nobody uses."Everyone knows you're a Heinrich now."A scoff gets out of me before I can stop it.How is she always this disappointing?My head rests on the backrest of my chair."Answer?"She presses, and I sigh."Yeah. Sure, Maya. I'll be there."She stands, takes her bag off the seat, and looks down at me from the en
The shower is already running when I wake up fully.It cuts off while I'm still sitting on the edge of the bed, and the bathroom door opens, allowing Niklaus to come out with a towel knotted at his hip and water dripping off his hair onto his shoulders.Steam follows him into the room and hangs there, grey on grey.He crosses to the wardrobe without looking at me and takes out a shirt, lays it flat on the bed, then the jacket, then the trousers, one piece at a time.His scent is no longer dominantly mine.What the hell...Why do I keep... ugh-To distract myself from my thoughts, I go around the room collecting last night’s clothes scattered on the floor before the maid calls us down for breakfast.The marks on my ribs have gone a deeper pink overnight. There is also a new one low on my hip, over the bone, that aches when I bend."I'm leaving the estate today."I say as I move busily.Niklaus has one leg in his trousers. He stops, then finishes. As if he only needed the break to plan
"Your alpha?"I repeat the words that were thrown at me so carelessly; if it wasn’t for the tears teetering in her eyes, I would have pushed her body aside and walked to a hotel.What the hell does she mean by her alpha? I almost died on the day I fought Heinrich after he betrayed me.He was my forc
Niklaus Heinrich‘Disgusting.’That was the first thought to fill Niklaus's head as he passed Lucien's sister, whose desperate green eyes watched his frame as he returned to the car."Nik...Nikky!"She called to him using his nickname, a nickname that he had only permitted Lucien to use, but he nev
What?"I repeat—this is my third time saying ‘what’. I am certain I resemble a parrot, yet if that is the case, shouldn’t they change the contents coming out of their mouths?"Haaaa....what exactly are you saying what to, Agent?"The deputy commissioner asks, bringing forth his irritation. If ‘Dire
"Ow... gently, Maya."I fuss at my younger sister as she holds my head to examine the bandages tied tightly."What the hell were you doing? How did you get this banged up? You are good at fighting, aren't you?"She asks, her brows furrowed so low that a crease forms against her make-up.My forefing
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