All Chapters of You Buried Your Wife, Mr. Hayes. Now Beg.: Chapter 31 - Chapter 40

Seraphine POV "So," Mira said, linking her arm through mine like we were old friends catching up, steering me gently toward a cluster of women near the champagne fountain, "tell me, how does it feel building something so big all on your own? It must get so lonely at the top, with no husband, no family, nobody really to share it with." "Not lonely at all, actually," I said sweetly. "Turns out an empty house is a lot more peaceful than a full one with the wrong people in it." A couple of the women nearby exchanged glances, and Mira's smile tightened just slightly at the corners. "Of course," she said. "Though I do worry about you sometimes. All that success, and still no ring on your finger. Men can be so intimidated by women who out-earn them." "Funny," I said, tilting my head. "I've never had that problem. Then again, I've never needed a man's money to feel secure in mine." Alice snorted into her champagne glass, badly disguising it as a cough. "Well," Mira said, recovering quic

Seraphine POV I woke up to loud banging on my door, hard enough to rattle the frame. "Who the hell is that?" I muttered, groping for my phone on the nightstand to check the time. Two in the freaking morning. Who the flying fuck is that? For a moment, genuine fear spiked through me, my heart hammering as I sat up in the dark, but then I remembered my security team downstairs would never have let anyone through the gate at this hour without knowing exactly who they were dealing with. I pulled up the camera feed at my front door on my phone, and there he was. Diego. "What the hell," I muttered, already sliding out of bed and grabbing my robe off the chair, tying it tightly around myself as I padded down the stairs, my bare feet cold against the marble. "Why is he here at this hour?" I reached the door and pulled it open before he could knock again. "Why are you banging on my door at this time?" I asked, stepping back to let him in, though the moment I got a proper look at his fac

Seraphine POV Knock knock. I lifted my head up from the file in front of me. "Come in," I said. Diego walked into my office, smiling in that easy way he sometimes did when nothing serious was on his mind. "Are you busy?" he asked. "Not really," I said, closing the folder in front of me. "I'm done for the day. Just about to pack up and head home." "Oh, okay." He said nothing else after that, though his eyes gave him away completely, that particular look he got whenever he wanted to ask for something. "Okay, what is it?" I asked, setting my pen down. "Nothing," he said. "I just wanted to see if we could go out for dinner tonight." I raised an eyebrow. "Uhm, okay," I said slowly, watching him shift his weight slightly by the door. "You know it's not the first time we've gone out to eat together, right?" "I know," he said, a little too quickly. "Alright then." I stood and grabbed my bag off the desk. "Give me ten minutes." ***** Dinner was amazing, we joke around a bit and I

Mira POVI stand in the red lingerie with the black robe pooled at my feet and watch Adrian’s eyes darken. Heat floods my body the second his gaze drops to my breasts, the thin lace, the way the fabric clings between my legs. He takes one step, then another, until I feel the warmth of him.“You’re still the same,” he says, voice rough. “Still know exactly how to make me forget everything.”I tip my chin up. “That’s the point.”His hands slide to the straps on my shoulders and push them down. The lace catches for a second before it slips, freeing my breasts. Cool air tightens my nipples. I don’t cover myself. I let him look. He cups one breast, thumb brushing the peak, and I feel the pull straight to my core.I reach for his tie and finish loosening it, then work the buttons of his shirt. My fingers drag down his chest, over the hard planes of muscle, lower still until I press my palm against the thick length straining his trousers. He hisses. I squeeze once, slow.“Take them off,” I t

Seraphine POV"Since you're going to the summit this Saturday, will you be my date?" I asked randomly, watching Diego lift his head up from the file he was working on.He'd decided not to go into his own office today for some reason known only to him. According to what he'd told me, he just wanted a change of environment, and out of every possible place in the city, he'd chosen mine."Sorry?" He blinked, not quite catching the question the first time."I said, will you be my date to the business summit?""Yeah, I guess," he said, still half distracted by whatever was on the page in front of him.That reply made me raise an eyebrow. "You guess. Wow. Looks like someone's playing hard to get."He chuckled, finally setting the file down. "I'm kidding, Seraphine. I'd love to be your date. And it's not like I have anyone else to take either, so I guess I'm stuck with you.""This just keeps getting worse," I said to myself, rolling my eyes a bit."Again, wow." I said to him and sat back, cro