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AURORA

"Present your breasts."

Marco's cool grey eyes were anything but hungry as he slowly drank in my naked body that made me flinch. As always, the man was impeccably dressed and that too in a made-to-measure Brioni suit, having just returned from a tedious three-hour meeting. His squared jaw was shaved this evening, and his hair looked perfectly messy in a finger-raked style.

I was tempted to reach out and run my fingers through them just to relish the velvet touch.

"And keep your eyes on me as you do, Aurora," he added on with his earlier vicious command.

I felt mutinous from within. It wasn't fair for him to be so immaculately dressed while keeping me bared and exposed. Every inch of my body was touched and kissed and marked by him.

I wore this man every day on my skin.

Marco knew that I wasn't embarrassed to shed my clothes in front of him or shied away from his touch, so to intensify my humiliation and maintain the balance of power exchange between us, he'd often employ the