All Chapters of Contractually Married my ex-mate's father: Chapter 121 - Chapter 125

Chapter One Hundred and Twenty OneAriaThe air around me settled into something dangerous immediately. Of all the things Zane could have said, never in a million years did I think that was what he was going to start with, and worse, I hated that I understood the double meaning in his words.I didn't even have time to breathe before his hand was at the back of my neck, his fingers tangling in my hair with a possessive grip that forced my head back. When his mouth crashed into mine, I literally saw stars. Not that I was complaining though.The kiss was deep, punishing, and obscenely hot. He tasted like the bitter coffee he’d been drinking and the raw, sharp edge of a man who was done being patient. For a split second, my brain tried to remind me where we were, in the corridor just outside Kieran's confinement room , surrounded by guards that could show up any time and I shoved against his chest.But the moment my palms met the hard, unyielding muscle of his torso, my resolve shattered.

Chapter One Hundred and Twenty ThreeAriaThe echo of my scream was still bouncing off the stone walls when the world finally stopped shaking. The heavy silence that followed was thick enough to choke on, broken only by the erratic, ragged hitch of our breathing and the faint, rhythmic groan of the door hinges settling back into place.For the next couple of seconds, Zane didn’t move. He stayed pressed against my back, his forehead resting against the corner of my neck, his chest a thundering furnace that kept my body trapped. I was a liquid mess, my legs barely holding my weight, and my skin still tingling from the violent pressure of that climax.Slowly, almost tentatively, I felt his hands move to the silk sash at my wrists. The brutality of him fucking me like a mad man vanished, only to be replaced by a gentleness that felt like a secret. He untied the knots with painstaking care, his fingers light as air. Once my hands were free, he didn't let them fall. He brought my wrists to

Chapter One Hundred and Twenty FiveAriaI woke before dawn and for a while, I didn’t move. The room remained dim around us, pale gray light spilling softly through the curtains while silence wrapped itself around the bed in a strange kind of peace I still didn’t fully trust.Zane slept beside me, actually slept and not the restless half-awareness he usually carried. Nor was it the rigid tension that followed him even in silence.He was really sleeping. His arm remained heavy across my waist, holding me against him like sometime during the night his body had decided distance was unacceptable even unconscious, and for the first time since I’d known him, he looked human.The sharpness was gone from his face while he slept, the constant calculation had disappeared completely, leaving behind something quieter and unexpectedly exhausted.Younger, almost.My chest tightened painfully at the sight, because now I couldn’t stop hearing his voice from the night before.I didn’t just choose you