Mag-log inElowen POV
“Thank you,” I muttered shyly, which I don't think he even heard me. His dark eyes never left my skin. “I must taste you.” My face twisted,puzzled by what he meant. Before I could push words from my lips to question him,he pulled my hips and slipped my thongs down my thighs. “Ah,” I gasped when I fell back on the bed and Rowan pushed my knees up my stomach. Cool air kissed the softest part of me,I could feel my arousal that now had an eye full of. “I think you like me”, I felt his furious breath against my slick core and tensed while grabbing fistfuls of the blanket over my head. “Good”,his tone came with a moan. Then his mouth was on me. Tasting me, licking me and devouring me,so deep and so fast. It was so wild and quick I couldn't catch my breath. Fire burning in my belly and goosebumps took over my skin. The tightness in my core was growing so fast as he swirled his tongue over my bundle of nerves repeating. Like it was his sole purpose in life to pleasure me. And it blew my mind. He removed my hands from my body,used his tongue techniques to take my right nipple in his mouth and used his right hand to play with my left nipple. He inserted two fingers into me and he started slowing and began moving fast. I felt an overwhelming emotion I had never felt before or maybe it was because I was drunk or something,I moaned his name until I felt myself released. Trying to follow Ava's guidance since she was an expert on how to suck a guy I kissed him while I stared at him. I wanted to make sure he felt the same way I did. I began with the top,as Ava instructed. I sucked it,and I could hear him groan. I was ecstatic. That meant I was on the right track. She advised me to try and take all of his cock in,but there was no way I was taking everything in. Caspian was too big. I rubbed his shaft, spreading saliva all over it and then sucked him. I moved my head in and out, quickening my pace. After that, I reached for his balls and sucked them. I heard him moan loudly this time. He yanked my hair and started thrusting into my mouth. Then he exploded into my mouth. I swallowed his cum the same way he swallowed mine and he seem astonished “Fuck,I can't wait any longer,” he rose to his full height and my legs fell. Disappointment surprised me when it reared its ugly head in my mind. He ripped away my pleasure when he stopped,and I sucked in a deep breath to calm myself down. He lifted my gaze to see him watching me. The silence continued, nothing but the sound of our soft panting filled the air between us. There was a growing tension of fire burning between us. He started undressing. Carefully peeling away each expensive price of his suit until his gloriously tan skin was exposed. I knew I was staring,but I couldn't help it. They sculpted his body like a god. Hard muscle under perfect golden skin that flexed each time he moved but it was evidence of his eager arousal that really shocked me. Straining in his pants,it looked so big, and my heart thumped wildly in my chest. The reality of the situation was weighing me down ,and I held my breath in anticipation as he pulled a condom from his wallet and removed his pants. I was scared I was about to lose my virginity and I was not even sober but I wanted this with him. It was my first time and I hoped it would be my last. My eyes narrowed in on the sight of him sheathing himself and holding his shaft. My thighs clenched to relieve some of the pressure on my core. His eyes caught sight and a devious smirk lifted the corner of his mouth. That only made butterflies to flame in my belly. When his eyes locked mine, I shivered under his gaze. Even in the darkroom I could see him so clearly with the bright lights of the city outside. I was thankful for that darkness to aid in hiding the red tinting my cheeks. “I'm going to have you now and it's going to hurt,but only for a short time.” He powered himself to bend over me at the edge of the bed. Strong hands held my hips and I stopped breathing when his erection pressed into me. Then he entered me slowly. At first,I screamed. My eyes widened,then squeezed them tight. I was taken aback and looked at him. He waited patiently for me to get used to his shaft. Instead of thrusting,he buried his face in my chest for over two minutes before sucking on my nipple. I was instantly soaked. He grabbed one of my legs and slung it over his shoulder. He began pounding in and out gently. When I realised he was going all in,I screamed once again. Our eyes were fixed in one another. He started thrusting into me hard. It felt as though his shaft was hitting my lungs. It was hard to breathe. Then he increased his pace even more. I screamed at the top of my lungs. I didn't know what to do. I tightened my grasp on him,and I heard him groan. He flipped me over and fucked me,and my ass was high l. He was mumbling,”Fuck,” and groaning. I thought he would kill me. He fucked me even harder this time. I was sobbing and enjoying it at the same time. I climbed on top of him and started riding him. He was groaning nonstop. He gripped my waist as though to encourage me. He dragged me down and put both of my legs over his shoulders and he slammed deep into me,his ass flexed. He dragged my head up higher so I could face him. He was cumming;I could tell. As he hammered harder,I became drained. I yelled his name l which echoed through the room. He came inside me, flooding me with sperm. As he inhaled,I heard him yell,”Fuck.” Then he glanced at me and kissed the top of my head. My whole body was drenched in sweat. He then asked me to get down so he could change the bedsheets. The bed had been stained with blood. He removed everything and replaced the bedcovers.Elowen PovI sat alone at that table for exactly four minutes before I stopped pretending I was going to finish my wine and left instead.The valet brought my car around while I stood on the curb replaying the last hour in my head, the question still lodged somewhere behind my ribs like a splinter I couldn't work free. Is he mine. Four words, and Caspian hadn't even waited long enough to hear the answer before his entire world had apparently caved in around him.I drove home with the radio off, my hands too tight on the wheel, replaying every version of how that dinner should have ended. In one version, I told him the truth calmly, on my own terms, before he ever had to ask. In another, I never went to that dinner at all, and Noah stayed exactly what he'd always been to me. Mine. Only mine. Uncomplicated by a man who could unravel our entire life with a single phone call to his lawyers.By the time I picked Noah up from Ava's, I'd convinced myself the whole night had been some strange
Elowen Pov Ava insisted on doing my makeup, which meant I had approximately zero say in the final result."You're glowing," she said, stepping back to admire her work while I sat frozen in front of my bathroom mirror. "You never glow. Not even at Xavier's birthday when the open bar was free.""I'm not glowing. I'm sweating. There's a difference.""Keep telling yourself that." She capped the lipstick and handed it to me like a verdict. "It's just dinner, right? A conversation?""Right.""Then why do you look like you're about to walk into battle?"Because I was. Because somewhere between the boardroom and my closet, one dinner had stopped feeling like a conversation and started feeling like the first domino in a line I couldn't see the end of.Noah was already asleep at Ava's by the time I left, tucked into the guest room with Sienna's stuffed rabbit clutched against his chest because he refused to sleep anywhere without something to hold. I kissed his forehead before I left, breathed
Elowen Pov Somehow my mouth remembered how to work before the silence stretched long enough to embarrass me. "Thank you for having me," I said, and I was almost proud of how steady it came out, considering my hands were shaking around the edge of my portfolio. "I'm Elowen Bennett, founder of Bennett Design Studio, and I'm honored to present our vision for the Ashford luxury district." I made myself look away from him. I had to, or I wasn't going to survive the next twenty minutes. I turned instead to the board members flanking the table, to the woman with silver hair near the end who'd introduced herself as head of development, to the two men in identical navy suits who looked like they'd been carved from the same expensive mold. I clicked to my first slide. My voice found its rhythm the way it always did once I stopped thinking and started talking about the thing I actually knew how to do. I walked them through the concept. Open air courtyards that pulled natural light into
Elwoen Pov The name Ashford Global sat in my chest the entire ride home, heavy and warm at the same time, like a coal I didn't want to put down. Noah fell asleep before we hit the highway, his cheek pressed against the window, his mouth slightly open the way it always went when exhaustion finally caught up to him. I kept glancing at him in the rearview mirror of Xavier's car, at the soft rise and fall of his chest, and I thought about how much I still hadn't told him. About his father. About the hole in our story that I filled with half truths and gentle deflections every time he asked. "You've gone quiet on us," Ava said from the front seat, twisting around to look at me. "Just thinking." "About the project or about the mystery billionaire?" "There's no mystery billionaire, Ava. There's a shortlist and a very long shot." "Sure." She grinned like she didn't believe a word of it. "Your long shots have a way of turning into sure things. Remember the internship you swore yo
Elowen POV Four years later "Ms. Bennett, they're ready for you on board." I nodded at the airline attendant and glanced down at Noah, who was gripping my hand and staring wide eyed at the massive windows overlooking the tarmac. Five years old and still obsessed with anything that flew. He'd spent the entire flight from Milan with his face pressed to the glass, narrating every cloud like it owed him an explanation. "Are we home yet, Mommy?" "Almost, baby." My chest tightened at the word. Home. I wasn't sure this city had ever really felt like that, not completely, not since the night I woke up alone in a hotel suite that smelled like him and never saw him again. But it was the only home Noah had ever known outside of hotel rooms and rented flats in cities whose languages I was still learning, so I called it that anyway. The past three years had blurred together in a way that still didn't feel real when I tried to walk myself back through it. Paris. Milan. A six month stre
Elowen Pov My boss noticed that I was pregnant but turned a blind eye to it. I continued to work for her but as I got far along ,it became difficult and I spent more time sleeping. Once my pregnancy progressed to five months,my boss called me and said, “I'm not running a charity organisation here, Mira. I've done my best for you. I also have children to feed. I need to employ someone else to assist me because you've become round and lazy. It's not your fault; it's your condition. You shouldn't have gotten pregnant if you knew you weren't ready. I won't be the one to take care of this baby because I have my hands full and I'm not related to it in any way. Move out and look for work somewhere else.” I went on my knees and pleaded with her but she refused to change her mind. In the end ,I left with my luggage and went back to my aunt's place since I had nowhere else to go. I thought she would be loved with pity if she saw my condition. However,I was gravely humiliated. She gath







