Masuk~SERENA POV~"Did you know Cassian was at the restaurant with us?"The air left my lungs instantly.My mind completely short-circuited. Every muscle in my body locked up under the heavy duvet. My heart slammed against my chest so hard I was terrified he could hear it through the phone speaker.How does he know that? How could he possibly know Cassian was there?I swallowed down the thick knot of terror rising in my throat, forcing myself to look confused rather than panicked."Cassian?" I repeated, my voice high and small. "At L'Auberge?""Yes," Ryker said, his dark eyes narrowing slightly as he watched my reaction. "He was sitting at a private table in the back room.""No... I had no idea," I stammered, trying to sound completely indifferent and casual. "I... I mean, I guess I might have seen someone who looked like him when we walked past the bar, but I wasn't really paying attention. I was focused on you, Ryker. You know how I feel about him. I don't go around looking for your bro
SERENA POVI drove home through the quiet morning streets in a complete daze, my hands trembling against the leather steering wheel.I had never intended to stay at Cassian’s penthouse for the entire night. That was one of the golden rules I had promised myself I would never break. A few hours of secret passion was dangerous enough, but sleeping in his bed? Waking up wrapped in his arms while the sun came up?My mind was a tangled mess of feelings I didn't even know how to begin sorting through, and a dark, suffocating wave of guilt was fighting against a sudden, terrifying warmth in my chest. I wasn't just using Cassian for physical thrill anymore. I was falling for him. I was actually falling for my husband's brother, and the sheer reality of it frightened me down to my very soul.I pulled into the long driveway of our estate, hit the garage remote, and parked my Mercedes in its usual spot. The house was dead quiet as I stepped inside, the grand marble foyer feeling colder and e
~RYKER POV~I stared at the computer screen, the bright white background reflecting against the glass windows of my Chicago hotel suite. My breath hitched in my chest, a cold knot tightening in the pit of my stomach.A single name appeared on the screen in dark bold letters: Cassian.The room felt like it lost all oxygen. The faint hum of the air conditioner and the distant sirens echoing from the city streets below completely faded into background static.I stared at the name on the screen for a long, silent minute, my thumb frozen over the trackpad.Cassian.My own brother. The black sheep of the family line. The reckless, arrogant playboy womanizer who spent his entire life burning bridges, chasing cheap thrills, and flaunting his endless affairs in public without a single care in the world. He was the golden boy turned outcast, the brother who threw away every corporate expectation to live in absolute, shameless chaos.My head started spinning, a violent, nauseating wave of co
~RYKER POV~The quiet in my Chicago hotel room was too much. I sat on the edge of the large bed, the room lit only by the faint blue light of my laptop and the bright city lights outside the window.My eyes were glued to the screen of my phone.I updated the stealth GPS tracking app for the tenth time in five minutes. The little red dot on the map hadn’t moved. It had been sitting at the exact same location in downtown for over twenty-four hours straight.What are you doing, Serena?My chest felt tight, a dull, throbbing anger building behind my ribs. She had told me she was going to stay in bed all weekend. She had acted so sweet and soft when I kissed her goodbye in the hallway, telling me to have a safe flight. But the moment my car turned the corner, she had taken her Mercedes straight out of the driveway.A sharp knock at the suite door broke the quiet.I didn't move for a second. I had forgotten she was even coming. Weeks ago, long before I took Serena out to that dinner at L
~SERENA POV~Golden morning light poured through the floor-to-ceiling windows of Cassian’s penthouse, casting warm streaks across the silk sheets. I stirred awake slowly, every muscle in my body aching in the absolute best way possible. My skin was still sensitive from the raw, wild intensity of last night, covered in faint red marks that reminded me of every breathless moan he had pulled out of me.Cassian’s heavy arm was locked around my waist, pulling my back flush against his warm, bare chest. He squeezed me tightly, resting his chin on my shoulder and pressing a soft, lingering kiss to the side of my neck."Morning, little bird," he murmured, his voice deep, raspy, and thick with sleep."Morning," I whispered, turning my head to kiss his jawline.For nearly twenty minutes, we just stayed like that. He trailed his fingers down my spine, whispering lazy, playful comments that made me laugh into his chest. There were no demands, no cold glaring, and no suffocating expectations l
~SERENA POV~I opened for him, and he fed the head of his cock past my lips slowly at first, letting me adjust to the thick stretch. Then he pushed deeper.“That’s it… fuck, just like that. Take more.” His grip in my hair tightened. “Use your tongue on the underside… yeah, right there. Shit.”I did what he told me. I sucked harder, hollowed my cheeks, and let him guide the pace. When he started thrusting shallowly into my mouth, I moaned around him. The vibration made his hips jerk.“Fuck yes… look at you taking my cock so well.” His free hand stroked my cheek, then slid down to squeeze my breast roughly. “Deeper. Can you take it deeper for me?”I nodded as best I could and pushed forward until he hit the back of my throat. My eyes watered. He groaned loud and filthy, both hands now fisted in my hair as he started fucking my mouth in earnest, not enough to choke me, but enough that I had to focus on breathing through my nose while saliva dripped down my chin.“Goddamn, Serena, you







