บททั้งหมดของ The Billionaire's Obsession -Claimed by Power : บทที่ 1 - บทที่ 5

You're nervous," King said, his deep voice carrying that husky sound that always made something low in her belly tighten. He reached across the table, his large hand engulfing her smaller one, his thumb stroking across her knuckles with deliberate slowness. "You know I'd never let anything hurt you in here. Or anywhere else.""I'm not nervous," Victoria lied, offering him the smile that had gotten her through countless political dinners at her father's side. Warm and perfect. "I'm just wondering why you brought me to the most expensive restaurant in Lagos on a random Tuesday in December."The restaurant was a symphony of understated elegance,crystal chandeliers casting warm amber light across tables draped in cream linen, soft jazz filtering through speakers hidden somewhere in the vaulted ceiling, and the gentle clink of expensive cutleries against fine plates that screamed old money.Victoria Nanya Okereke smoothed her hands over the emerald silk of her dress, a nervous gesture she

Victoria woke to sunlight burning through her eyelids and the disorienting sensation of not knowing where she was. Her bed felt wrong as it was too soft, the pillow cradling her head was not the regular cotton she has in her room.She opened her eyes and found herself staring at a ceiling that wasn't hers. Slate gray, modern track lighting, floor-to-ceiling windows revealing Lagos's skyline bathed in early morning gold.King's penthouse.Memory crashed through her like a wave. Her father,the rally. The phone call that shattered everything,coming home to chaos and grief and her brother's hollow eyes. And then…King must have brought her here. She had no memory of leaving the compound,after sitting with Uche in the dark until their mother came to check on them both.Victoria sat up, her body aching like she'd been in a fight. She was wearing one of King's T-shirts, soft gray cotton that fell to her thighs.Apparently King had removed her dress, shoes, jewelry and taken care of her when s

Victoria's phone wouldn't stop buzzing.News of her potential candidacy had leaked. Of course it had, nothing stayed secret in politics for more than five minutes and now everyone had an opinion.Reporters, family friends,random constituents who'd never spoken to her before suddenly had advice.And the trolls. Oh God, the trolls.“A woman senator? Daddy's little princess playing politics.She's only running because her billionaire boyfriend is funding it. Gold digger!”Victoria threw her phone onto King's bed,she'd migrated to his mansion because it was quieter.Recent nights of his body wrapped around hers had ruined her sleeping alone."Ignore them," King said from his laptop at the desk. He'd been working all morning, restructuring his company's contracts to eliminate conflicts of interest."Easy for you to say,because it is not you, they're a gold-digging princess."King's fingers stopped typing. He turned in his chair, and the look in his eyes made her nervous. "I am being trolled