LOGINCHAPTER 13Luca was in a good mood.That was the thing I couldn't get used to. He moved through the house lighter than he had in weeks — phone to his ear, making calls, laughing at something someone said on the other end. Wedding logistics. Guest lists. The name of a florist his mother had used. The machinery of it had started turning and he was feeding it happily, like a man who had won something and intended to enjoy the winning.I watched him from the doorway of the study and felt the walls moving inward.I had said yes in front of Elder Maren. Pack law was now in motion. There was no graceful exit from what I had set in motion in that sitting room — just forward, and forward, and forward into a life I had chosen with my mouth while every other part of me had been screaming something different.Xavier had not been in the same room with me since he walked out.Two days of nothing. No hallway appearances. No hand at my lower back. No eyes finding mine across the kitchen. He moved thr
CHAPTER 11The kitchen felt too small after Luca walked out.Xavier's hand stayed on my lower back for one second longer than it should have — warm, heavy, deliberate — and then he pulled it away. I didn't look at him. I set my coffee cup down without drinking from it and went straight upstairs. Locked the door. Sat on the edge of the bed.And didn't move for a long time.I turned everything over until my head ached with the weight of it. Luca was a cheat. I'd watched him with my own eyes — bent some girl over the back of the couch, laughing, calling me frigid, announcing to a stranger that I was just a prop he planned to keep on a shelf after the wedding. He didn't love me. He probably never had. Whatever this engagement was, it had never been what I told myself it was.But I wasn't clean either.I had let Xavier touch me in this house. In his bed. Against his wall. I had come on his mouth while Luca slept forty feet away. I was wearing Luca's ring when Xavier pushed inside me, and I
CHAPTER 10The car ride back from the gala was silent and suffocating.I sat between them — Luca on my left, Xavier on my right — wedged in the back seat like something they both owned and neither wanted to admit to. The red dress was ruined. Wrinkled at the hem. Stained on the inside where no one could see. The fabric clung to my thighs and every time the car hit a bump in the road, I felt the reminder of what I'd done — what we'd done — leaking slowly, warm and inescapable.Luca was drunk. His hand sat high on my thigh, fingers pressing in hard enough to bruise. Every few minutes he tilted toward me and pressed his mouth to my neck — right over the fresh marks Xavier had left. He could smell it. He knew something had shifted, even through the whiskey clouding his senses. He just hadn't said it yet. His silence felt more dangerous than his rage.Xavier sat like a monument on my other side. Black suit. Cold face. Still as carved stone. But his hand rested on the seat behind me, and ev
CHAPTER 9I stood in front of the mirror at 7:40 p.m. staring at the woman looking back at me. The dress Xavier sent was blood red. Backless. Cut so low in front my tits were barely held in place. The fabric clung to every curve like it was painted on. Thigh-high slit on the left side that showed my entire leg when I moved. No bra. Tiny black thong that barely covered anything. Heels so high I felt them in my calves.I looked like pure sex. Expensive. Dangerous. Forbidden.My phone buzzed on the dresser.Xavier: Come downstairs. Now.I took one last breath and walked out of my room. My hips swayed in the dress. The slit flashed my thigh with every step. Cum from this morning still sat inside me. My pussy throbbed with every movement.Luca waited at the bottom of the stairs. His mouth fell open when he saw me. Eyes wide. Hungry. He stepped forward fast and grabbed my waist.“Fuck, Zara,” he breathed. His hands slid down to my ass and squeezed hard. “You look like you want to get fucked
CHAPTER 8I sat at the long dining table at 7:30 a.m. pushing cold eggs around my plate. The fresh bite mark on my neck burned under the high collar of my shirt. Xavier’s cum from last night was still leaking out of me slowly, even after the shower. Every time I shifted in the chair, I felt it. Sticky. Claimed.Luca sat directly across from me. He hadn’t stopped staring. Jaw clenched. Eyes drilling into my collar like he could burn through the fabric. Xavier sat at the head like a king, scrolling through reports on his phone. Calm. Untouchable.“Sleep well?” Luca asked. The question had teeth.“Yeah,” I lied. My voice came out rough. “Fine.”Under the table, Xavier’s foot pressed against my ankle. Then slid higher. His sock rubbed my bare skin, then pushed between my thighs. Pressed right against my pussy through my thin pants. Slow circles. I gripped the edge of the table.My phone buzzed in my lap.Xavier: Spread.I opened my legs wider. His foot rubbed harder. Right on my clit. I w
CHAPTER 7I stepped out of the black car at 9:15 p.m. with two suitcases and a sick feeling in my gut. The estate looked bigger at night. Lights glowed along the long driveway. The same gardens where I’d first seen Xavier in daylight now felt like walls closing in.A staff member took my bags without speaking. He led me upstairs to the east wing. My room was at the very end of the hallway. King bed. Dark wood furniture. Big windows facing the garden. The room to my left was Luca’s. I could hear music coming through the wall. Xavier’s master suite was one floor directly above me. I knew the layout wasn’t random.I unpacked in silence. Folded clothes into drawers. Hung up the black dress that still smelled like sex and cum from the pack house. My body ached. Bruises on my hips. Bite marks on my breast and neck hidden under fresh makeup. My pussy felt swollen and sore every time I moved. I took a quick shower but the hot water didn’t wash away the memory of Xavier’s cock or his cum leaki
CHAPTER 5I lasted exactly seventy-two hours.Seventy-two hours of staring at my phone until my eyes burned. Seventy-two hours of my mother blowing it up with wedding dress fittings and guest list updates. Seventy-two hours of Luca sending me stupid texts like "can't wait to make you mine" while I
CHAPTER 4I couldn't move.That's the thing nobody tells you about shock — it doesn't feel like shock. It doesn't announce itself. One second you're standing at the edge of a pool at a party you didn't want to attend, and the next second the world has rearranged itself into something you don't have
CHAPTER 3I don't want things.Wanting is a weakness I cut out of myself a long time ago, somewhere between the first man I buried and the last one who made the mistake of thinking I had limits. What I do instead is decide. I see something. I assess it. I take it or I leave it, and either way I sle
CHAPTER 2 The elevator doors closed and I still didn't know his name. He didn't ask for mine either. The suite was on the top floor — the kind of room that costs more per night than most people make in a week. Floor to ceiling windows. The city spread out below us like something that didn't ma







