Forbidden Affairs のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 341 - チャプター 344

The moon hung low and bloated over the estate, the color of old bone. Every window in the villa blazed with light, but the true celebration spilled outside into the gardens. A labyrinth of twelve-foot yew hedges had been groomed for one night only, then laced with lanterns that glowed crimson behind black glass. Music drifted through the corridors: low, pulsing drums and the wet throb of cello strings that sounded almost like a heartbeat.Amara stood at the entrance to the maze wearing nothing but a thin silk gown the color of spilled wine. The fabric clung to every curve, nipples dark and visible beneath it, hem brushing mid-thigh. A black velvet half-mask covered the top of her face; the rest of her was bare. Around her throat, Asher had fastened a narrow leather collar with a single silver ring.He adjusted the ring now with one finger, tilting her chin up.“Rules are simple,” he said, voice velvet and steel. “You run. They hunt. When you are caught, you yield. No safe words tonigh

The fifth night began at moonrise.They did not carry her this time. Amara walked.Naked, collared, skin still faintly bruised from the previous nights, she descended the grand staircase of the villa flanked by the four men who now owned every breath she took. Torches had been extinguished. Only a single path of black candles led through the corridors to a pair of doors she had never seen open.Beyond them lay the viewing gallery.A circular room of smoked glass and dark wood. One entire wall was a window (one-way, floor to ceiling) looking down into a sunken chamber lit by a single chandelier of black iron. In the center of that chamber hung a web of leather straps and chains suspended from the ceiling: a harness designed to hold a body in perfect, helpless display.A dozen chairs faced the glass. Masked figures already sat in half of them (silent, elegant, powerful). Allies. Rivals. Collectors who had bid against Asher at the auction and lost. Tonight they were guests, allowed to wa