Adonis“I'll be downstairs.” Lily said softly to Cora, glancing briefly at me before moving out of the room. Cora placed her book on the couch space beside her and slowly rose to her feet. Her eyes were brimming with so many emotions, and her smile was getting pretty watery. When she finally spoke, her voice sounded choked up, “My baby boy.” That was all she managed to say, before I found myself in her tender embrace. She was patting my back softly, and I thought I heard a soft sob escape her. With her hugging me right now, strong, healthy and alive hit me hard. The last time I had seen her, she was dead to the world. It was either the doctors put her in coma or death. And putting her in coma had not been guaranteed to save her. She could wake up… and she could die off from there.But she was fucking alive.And that was more than anything I could ask for. I put my hands around her shoulders and returned the hug, leaning down to r

LeilaniMy soul ached.I looked up at his beautifully shadowed hard face. “You keep giving me mixed signals, Adonis. You rejected and walked away from me. Now, you’re right here.”He looked down to meet my gaze, saying in an unwavering tone. “I care about you. I don’t care about a lot of people, but I have the maddening urge to always make sure you’re safe. That’s why I’m here. I heard the case was reopening, and I knew that could hurt you. Only for me to find out some unknown fucker was already hurting you.” He licked his bottom lip. “But I cannot give you what you want, Leilani. Love or sex. Come with me so we can talk better?”Cannot or will not?It was a choice for him. He could not control his heart, but he could decide to fuck me anytime he wants… and no matter how disgusting it was, I was married, but I will always desire the man I truly love. But no, Adonis seemed to have vowe

AdonisAll my red signal senses have been fucking alerted. Why the fuck would some creep be following me? If they were trying to get violent with me, they would have made a move by now. But no, they had been trailing after me without any sign of aggression for a while now. Fuck, I would not want to lead any fucking creep to Iris’ doorstep and I could easily speed up and lose them, but I wanted to get to the bottom of this.Usually, I’m reckless. I throw caution to the wind when normal people fucking need it most. People stay away from danger, I move towards danger. I live with danger. I attract danger. I am danger. And that’s why whoever is blackmailing Leilani with our video is fucking fucked. Just like the poor fuck trailing me with a beat ass car. They might be fucking armed, but if they wanted to kill me, they would have attempted it by now.My hand swerved on the wheel, and the car sharply turned out of the highway and down to the side of the

Leilani“The flash drive is with some tech experts, babe, and they will reveal how someone was able to manipulate that fake audio recording to sound like you.” Neil’s voice said soothingly in the air pod tucked into my ear. “It will be fine, baby.”I shook my head bitterly, leaning back against my glass work desk in my office. “All I worked for is going down the drain so fast. Although my contract was supposed to end during the event, the other benefits my brand was supposed to gain after is not even certain anymore. The hosts wants to breech the contract and even sue me for defamation. Clients are declining rapidly and terminating our agreements. Nobody wants to believe that the clip is fake.”“We will prove it, baby. But you know we can’t be sure it was Belle’s fault.”“She was left in charge of that clip. Whatever alteration that happened in that technical room falls on her shoulders. I&

LeilaniI had panicked after seeing that text. This picture was so recent. So, so recent. And the text said my wedding rings would remain on my finger for just three months. I have been married for three months. Does that mean they were about to release the video?! I was scrambling about in the bathroom, shakily throwing some pills into my mouth and gulping down water straight from the faucet. The migraine was not going away.I had no time to have a proper bathe or wash my hair, so I just jumped into the shower for like two seconds and rolled my damp hair into a rough bun at the top of my head. Adonis had not given me any feedback about tracing the blackmailer, and it was driving me crazy. I had dialed his number a thousand times, but his phone was fucking switched off. Why was he always so damn unreachable?!Neil had gone for a morning jog with Chase, so I could leave the house without thinking of some excuse to give him for not resting like the doctor advised. I w