Emily's POVI step into the building with a pounding heart. I don't know how Kane is gonna react if he finds me here. But I couldn't stay back at the cottage when tension was crumbling inside me, knowing Kane might be the last person Nova was with. Nova has been missing and Kane isn't answering my calls since the morning.I badly need to talk to him about Nova's disappearance. When Mr Smith asked me about her, I didn't tell him anything about Kane. God knows why I'm even trying to hide it. I believe Kane isn't straight behind all this but there will be some connection. I walk towards the elevator faster. Kane's cabin is on the next floor."Miss Benson!" Hearing a familiar voice, I turn around, finding one of our clients, Mr Standford standing over there. "Hello, Mr Stanford", I force a smile. After the last incident, I'm still not out of embarrassment. Nonetheless, I'll have to work with these people. There's no point in hiding around."You're late", he folds his lips. "We were ab

Kane"You're not gonna beat me. Are you?" Her eyes shiver, anguish filling in them. Her rosebud lips slightly part and seal within nanoseconds. It brings an unexpected laugh across my face as I touch her cheek, tucking a few strands of hair behind her ear. She squirms away nervously, her eyes still darting at me. "You're not so innocent. Are you? I can't believe it" I chuckle at her confusion-filled eyes. She literally didn't understand what I meant. "But I think you are- in a few things. Don't worry. I'm gonna make you experience everything"I see her gulping down slowly. "When did you start having such kinks?"Her face curls up into a frown as she finally comes out of her frightening shell."From the moment, you walked into me again and kissed me," I say straight, watching her ebony black eyes enlarging at me. It's so fucking true that all my desires of four years were bottled up when she walked into me. She has to fill the voids she made in my life for the last four years. It'

KaneI literally shuddered on the spot. My head went numb— completely numb for a whole second. I pushed my brain to work. I already believed it must be mine. It had to be mine. Maybe, the birth control didn't work and she got pregnant. "Pregnant?" Still, I tried to make sure I heard it right."Yes. She's three months pregnant," she said.That was it.My hands slipped down from Emily's shoulders. My brain stopped functioning completely.Three months?"Three— three months?" My voice shook and I looked over at Emily in disbelief. "Three months?" I repeated.How could she be three months pregnant when we literally had sex seven months ago? That was so fucking impossible. Was I really doubting her? The love of my life?How could I think like this? How could I have such a thought? Maybe, something was wrong. Something went wrong.If she was actually pregnant, that must be my baby.I knew her. I trusted her. But she chose to be silent, lowering her eyes like a culprit. It only increased

EMILY"Yeah", Kane utters as I immediately put my gaze down. "But I'll be back in a while""Oh! Are you leaving, Miss Benson?"I just nod, looking down and holding my bag as tight as possible. There's an enormous storm blowing inside me. "But I requested you to continue the discussion today, right? You kept cutting my calls"Damn! Why is he doing all this? Undoubtedly, Kane is gonna doubt me again and I don't know what's waiting for me. His actions are unpredictable. "Discussion about what?" Kane asks. "I guess the presentation had it all""It's just random", Stanford laughs.Both of them go silent again and I hope they stay like this. But my anticipation isn't gonna wipe away so easily. I feel Stanford brushing against my torso, taking the advantage of the crowd. His elbow is so close to my body that I fear getting touched. However, I squirm against Kane and make sure he doesn't notice anything. Leaving me in surprise, Kane comes in front of me and rests his both palms on the elev

EMILYMy eyes are aching and burning when I strive to open them as my alarm goes off. I keep my eyes closed for a while. It's been years since I cried like this. It's easy to tolerate anything but such a kind of humiliation. Every day, Kane makes me realise my actual worth and it stings like nothing else. I'm convinced that I mean nothing to him now. It was my stupidity that I started to fall for him again. I open my eyes to a new morning and look down, feeling the familiar weight on me. His head is placed on my breast, his hands wrapping around my eyes.I take a moment to absorb the view with my hollow eyes. I used to wonder how someone can be obsessed or addicted to someone while hating them the most. Kane's unnatural addiction to me gave me some false hopes. He's near me because he's just addicted to having me, caging me and fucking me the way he wants. So, how does it feel to be treated like an object, Emily?I sarcastically laugh at myself. My damn self-esteem, on which I was p