The Accidental Heart
The impact drew a soft, dazed gasp from Avery, her hands instantly sliding up to cradle Vivian's jaw.
When Vivian leaned in and crashed their lips together, it wasn't a performance for shareholders or a strategic shield against Deo.
It was a mutual, violent surrender to the wildfire they had been playing with for weeks.
Vivian’s tongue tangled with Avery’s in a fierce, possessive hunger, her grip tightening on Avery's waist as if she were trying to anchor herself against the very storm tearing her structured world apart.
Avery matched the desperate intensity stroke for stroke, fingers burying deep into Vivian's dark waves, pulling her closer, deeper, until the lines between corporate logic a