All Chapters of HIS DOE, HIS DAMNATION(An Erotic Billionaire Romance): Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

Alaric’s POV: I didn’t want to get violent. Not in front of Meadow. But my younger brother had a way of pushing me to do things I didn’t want to do. Like breaking his already crooked nose for the third time in two years.I didn’t feel it. I never did—but the way Nolan’s head had snapped to the side before his body had hit the ground, too fucking drunk to even get back up, the way he cursed loudly, curling into himself and cupping his bloody nose, told me everything I needed to know.“Shut up, Nolan,” I muttered. He groaned in response.Out of all the things I already had going on in my life, my brother was the last person I wanted to see. We weren’t close, but every now and then, he’d pop in just to bother me or try to insert himself back into my life by using our mother as an excuse.Though I knew that the only thing driving him was his guilt.“Alaric…” I heard Meadow gasp softly.My shoulders tensed as I turned to face her, looking her straight in the eyes and expecting to see at

Meadow’s POV: Alaric didn’t take his eyes off me as he pressed the ‘end call’ button.For a moment, I thought he had overheard the call. But the phone wasn’t on speaker, so there was no way he could hear all the things that Tyler was saying to me.However, the look on his face meant that he’d heard enough of my side to know exactly who I’d been talking to.Alaric’s jaw ticked, fingers flexing at his sides. His gaze dropped to the phone still clenched in his palm.Anger wouldn’t be enough to describe the expression I saw on his face.It was rage—much deeper than anger. I wasn’t sure I’d seen him look like this before.I swallowed, backing up into the desk. Any more of that and I would disappear through the wood.“Alaric…” I breathed.I hadn’t done anything wrong, and Alaric hadn’t made any rule about talking to Tyler, but why did I feel like I’d done something terribly wrong?“Who were you talking to?” His voice was so calm and fucking quiet, it made my skin crawl.He already knew the

Meadow’s POV: I was equal parts terrified and excited about the fact that I was about to be spanked by Alaric. No, not spanked.Whipped. With his expensive leather belt. The pulse in my neck quickened as I slowly turned around and bent over the desk, pressing my cheek against the cold, hard wood.The tension in the room thickened, and I shut my eyes, waiting for Alaric to say something. Anything.There was no way he was happy about me doing this all because I wanted to save Tyler. Like I didn’t want it.But the truth was that I absolutely wanted it. In fact, I wanted it so much that heat had already pooled between my thighs a long time ago.He finally cleared his throat, and when he spoke, his voice was low and raspy. “Now, reach down and pull your panties down.”My muscles tensed. This was it. The moment I pulled my panties down, Alaric was going to punish me the way he wanted, and stop whenever he wanted to. That alone should’ve freaked me out enough to say no.But saying no would

Meadow’s POV: I wasn’t sure when I fell asleep, but the moment I woke up the next morning, I knew Alaric hadn’t slept in here with me.Just to make sure I wasn’t just assuming, I reached behind me to touch his side of the bed. It was cold. And then I turned on the bed, shifting to look at it. To see with my own eyes.It was made.Alaric had whipped me with his belt and left me hanging. And he didn’t even come back after he’d made me believe that we would sleep together.Maybe he changed his mind.A rock formed in my throat at the realization that Alaric didn’t want to stay in the same room with me. He was probably repulsed by the fact that I’d been willing to take a few painful strokes just to save a man that wasn’t even worth it.I got out of his bed, still in his shirt, and then I decided to go downstairs and get a cup of coffee.It was too early to overthink shit.The moment I walked into the kitchen, a deep voice stopped me in my tracks before I could head for the espresso machin

Alaric’s POV: “Say one more thing, and I swear to fucking god you will never be able breathe through your nose again.”I knew that having my brother here was not a good sign, not when he was always running his mouth and ruining things whether he meant to or not.“I hit a nerve, huh?” Nolan grunted through the pain I was sure he was feeling. I could feel Meadow’s eyes boring into my back even before she started to speak. “Alaric—”“Leave us, Meadow,” I said calmly, voice low, eyes not leaving my brother’s amused ones. No matter how bad he felt about what had happened in the past, he never ceased to find delight in my anger.“But I—” “Now.”I felt it. The moment the air thickened. Meadow hadn’t told me yet, but she was already upset about the fact that I didn't sleep in the room last night after I was the one who invited her over.And now I was dismissing her so blatantly.But it wasn’t my fault. I couldn’t let her be here to experience this. She’d already heard enough, and she had t