Todos os capítulos de A Good Girl's ruin(Dark Steamy stories ): Capítulo 91 - Capítulo 100

He withdrew his hand slowly.“Sorry.”“It’s fine.”It wasn’t fine. My pulse had jumped hard enough that I was certain he could see it moving in my throat. I kept my eyes on the lantern because looking at him felt suddenly dangerous. The coat still held his warmth. The place where his fingers had touched still tingled. Every careful distance we had maintained for months was collapsing in small, irreversible increments.The temperature continued to drop. I pulled the second blanket up around my shoulders over his coat and tried to focus on practical things — how long the emergency lights would last, whether the power company had estimated a restoration time, if there was still coffee in the thermos that might still be warm. None of the practical things held.Julian stood. The sudden movement made the lantern light swing. He walked the short distance to the counter, found the thermos, and brought it back along with two clean paper cups. He poured what was left of the coffee and held one

“You named a cat that hates you after a flower?”“I named her before I realized the depth of her contempt.”I smiled into the dark, and felt the smile linger on my mouth longer than the moment required. When I looked up he was watching that smile as if it were something he wanted to memorize.“Your turn,” he said.“I don’t have a cat.”“Something else ordinary.”I thought about the small, unremarkable facts of my life and how few of them I ever said out loud.“I eat the same sandwich three nights a week because deciding what to make feels like too much work after midnight. I reread the same four novels every winter. I still have a library card from a town I left six years ago and I don’t know why I keep it.”“Which novels?”I listed them. He nodded at two as if he already knew them, and asked a quiet question about the third that proved he had read it carefully. The conversation that followed was the most ordinary exchange we had ever shared and somehow the most intimate. We talked ab

I tugged at his T-shirt until he understood and dragged it over his head. The loss of that layer let me put my hands fully on his bare skin. He shivered once under the contact, then kissed me harder. My own sweater followed a minute later, pulled off in a tangle of sleeves and dropped somewhere in the dark. The office air was cold against my newly bare arms. His hands were not. They mapped the newly exposed skin of my waist and back with a kind of focused hunger that made my knees weak.His fingers found the clasp of my bra and hesitated.I reached back and undid it myself.The straps slid down my arms and the cool air touched my breasts for only a second before his hands replaced it. He made a low, rough sound that was almost pained. His mouth left mine and traveled down the side of my throat, across my collarbone, lower. When his lips closed around one nipple the sensation was so sharp and sweet that my head fell back and a clear, helpless moan left me. He answered it with another p

Felcon Lee's POVTonight was the annual masquerade ball which is usually held by my family every single year. It wasn’t just a party, it was a tradition and it had been going on for generations so a lot of people looked forward to it.The mansion has been prepared for this occasion. The crystal hung from the ceiling in heavy tiers. The orchestra kept to a low, polished waltz that never quite covered the sound of champagne glasses meeting or the soft scrape of expensive shoes on marble. My family’s crest was everywhere — carved into the banisters, stitched in gold thread along the edges of the black table linens, even faintly embossed on the corner of every invitation that had gone out three months ago. The Lee's did not host quietly. We hosted so that people remembered who held the room.I moved along the edge of the floor with a glass I had no intention of finishing. Smiling when required and accepting compliments on the arrangements with the exact degree of cool gratitude expected o

I felt Damian restrained footsteps follow behind and i continued walking till I stopped at a door halfway down the hall and pushed it open without looking back. The room beyond had once been a private study. Now it served as an overflow library for volumes too fragile or too politically inconvenient for the main collection. A single lamp burned on the desk near the window. The rest of the space sat in layered shadow. Tall shelves. A low fire that someone on staff had lit earlier and left to burn down. Two armchairs facing each other across a dark rug.I stepped inside. Damian followed and closed the door behind him with a quiet, deliberate click.The muffled orchestra disappeared entirely.For a moment we only stood there. The air between us felt charged enough to hum. I turned to face him fully. In the lower light his mask looked more severe, the uncovered portion of his mouth set in a clean, unsmiling line. He had not removed his gloves. The detail felt intentional.“This is still m