Semua Bab Forbidden Desire: My Ex's Uncle Wants Me: Bab 31 - Bab 38

Janet Winget POV“Why did you do it, Janet?”The second Lucian and I stepped into the living room, my mother exploded. My father looked like he was about to combust, fists clenched, eyes blazing. Lia glared at me like she’d already picked out the shovel to bury me with.What the hell just happened? Why are they angry again? What now?“How could you disgrace this family after everything you’ve already done?” My father looked like he was seconds away from dragging me out by my hair.“What happened, Carlos?” Lucian’s voice was too calm. Too knowing. Like he already had the script. Or maybe… maybe he was the reason they were all looking at me like I’d risen from a grave.I turned to him, my eyes full of questions. He just winked.And that’s when I knew—this mess was his doing.“Mr. Ashford, I don’t want to speak this way in front of you,” my father said, suddenly all fake politeness, like he hadn’t been about to hurl a lamp at me a second ago. “But Janet has, as always, ruined everything.”

Janet Winget POVMy eyes burned with unshed tears. When was the last time someone said they wanted me safe?I couldn’t remember. Maybe no one ever had. Or maybe it was so long ago, it no longer lived in memory.“What are you doing?” Lucian pressed a button, and the partition between the driver’s seat and the back slid shut. He stayed close—too close—his presence a silent threat and a steady comfort.He smiled and reached for me, fingers brushing through my hair with surprising softness, drawing my gaze to his.“Other than this photo,” he said, lifting the one we took from the Winget mansion, “there’s nothing in that house more important.”It was so easy for him to say. Maybe because he didn’t care about his family. Maybe because he could cut clean.But me? Even after everything—after the way my parents treated me—I still carried some frayed, stupid softness for them.“Don’t be sad, darling. Want me to kiss your pain away?”His thumb slid over my lower lip, his gaze flickering between

Lucian Ashford POV My heart did a thousand somersaults hearing her say it. Wasn’t she engaged to Dalton? Even though he never treated her right, she still loved him. But now—me being the first to touch her, to kiss her—that changed everything. Not that I cared if Dalton had touched her before, back when I wasn’t in her life. I’d erase it all if I could. Because now, I knew I was the first... and I’d be the last. “You don’t know what you did by saying this, darling,” I growled, my lips dragging against her collarbone before I bit down, then sucked, claiming her skin. “Ah—mmm,” she moaned as my fingers slid over her stomach, slipping beneath the lace of her panties. I lifted her top. Her breasts were perfectly cupped in her bra, and I didn’t waste a second. My mouth found the hem and tore it. “Lucian,” she breathed, her voice a soft, shaky purr. She didn’t answer. Didn’t need to. Her legs parted—slow, hesitant, then all at once—as if her body already knew it was

Janet Winget POV“Did you hear how a new assistant came in?”“Yes, but she didn’t even go through an interview. No introduction. Her office’s right next to the boss’s.”“Such a bitch. Did she seduce him or what? How else did she land that job?”The stall’s walls were thin.Lunch break.I’d come in just to pee, not sit through a firing squad.Three voices, shrill and overlapping, carried from the sinks outside. I stayed still, feet tucked back, not even daring to shift on the seat.Gossip traveled fast in this place. I’d tried to avoid it—was still trying—but after everything, I couldn’t escape the headlines. Not when my name was etched into them.“I saw her once,” one of them said. “It’s the same Janet Winget who was all over the news. Jail for three years. Pregnant. Cheated on her fiancé. Seduced his uncle.”My fingers curled into a fist on my thigh.That’s not what happened.But what could I even say?“How does someone who just got out of prison get hired here?” another snapped. “Is