Alle Kapitel von The Perfect Wife’s Affair : Kapitel 1 – Kapitel 6

~SERENA’S POV~There had to be some unwritten rule about paying an escort.A pamphlet? A price list? Did overtime cost extra? Was I supposed to tip him, or would that make it weird?'God, I should have Googled this.'Who hires an escort without researching escort etiquette? Normal, confident women probably knew how these things worked. Me? This morning, I had been comparing prices on vanilla extract at the grocery store. Tonight, I was trying to figure out how much it cost to burn my marriage to the ground.I couldn't even order a caramel macchiato without rehearsing my order three times in my head. Now I was sitting in a VIP booth at a nightclub that smelled like spilled gin and cheap judgment, trying to buy a man.And the man in question looked far too expensive to come with instructions.His name was Raul...or at least, that was the name on the website I had frantically browsed in a gas station bathroom an hour ago. He was tall, effortlessly handsome, with dark eyes and hair tha

~CASSIAN~The silver butter knife in my right hand felt heavy and well-balanced, and was sharp enough to cut skin if I pressed it even a little harder against my palm.Across the dining table, my brother...the family's golden heir, the favored son, the legitimate prince...was laughing with his mouth full."You remember that summer at the lake house?" Ryker chuckled, taking an aggressive gulp from a thousand-dollar cabernet. He pointed at me with his wine glass, spilling some liquid near the clean white tablecloth. "Cassian was what, twelve? Father told him he could sleep in the main house, but he spent the whole week sleeping on the boathouse floor because he was too terrified to ask for extra blankets."Around the table, the elite circle of my father's inner board members chuckled politely. My stepmother gave a light, airy sigh, dabbing her lips with a linen napkin."He was always such a quiet boy," she murmured, her voice dripping with the pleasing condescension she'd mastered over

~SERENA POV~The sound of the glass doors shutting behind us in the underground parking lot felt like a grave closing.We didn't say anything as Cassian led the way to the private lift. The apartment building was very quiet, the silence only interrupted by the quick, nonstop tap of my shoes on the smooth tiled floor and the quiet, ding sound as the doors opened.Cassian stepped aside, holding the door open for me. He stood straight, and his face was impossible to read in the soft, warm light above. Nothing about him felt seductive....if anything, he was treating this like another business meeting.The elevator went up quickly and quietly. It reached thirty floors in thirty seconds. Where every breath felt heavy, every second seemed to last a long time with a painful, unseen buzzing sound.When the doors opened into the penthouse entrance, Cassian stepped forward, entered a code on the brass lock, and pushed the door open."Come in."I stepped over the doorway, my heart pounding ha