Claimed By My Ex's Uncle
The sound it made was the softest hiss of a blade leaving its sheath.
I twirled, posed for her to observe if it was the right dress that suited me.
Then she stepped back and just stared.
And I suddenly forgot how to breathe.
Her eyes went wide, lips parted on a soft, reverent, “Holy fuck,” she whispered and I turned to the three-way mirror, impatient, curious, almost afraid to see what had stolen her breath.
And the woman staring back wasn’t the girl who once got cheated on. Not the woman who’d been shattered and rebuilt in Caesar’s bed. She was lethal. She was power wrapped in silk and vengeance and she was every promise Caesar had ever growled against my skin made flesh.