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n't blink. He wasn't even looking at me anymore. He kept look

me I did something this reckless was when I too

lly, "You have no idea

"I know exactly what I'm

really understood why everyone feared Ocean Stark. He didn't eve

fore. And my heart refused to stop rac

ck my emplo

f the word Fuck. Heat crawled up my neck to

I swear... Just this once. Let's be like two strangers who j

move, but I coul

k to my eyes. I could almost fe

space there was between us. My breath hitched as I tried to look away, bu

And I don't do scandals. Go to bed, hug your pillow, an

pping too close to fire. The crown of

ulse? I could see it beating

sh further, "Unless you're scared you can't mat

urn a shade darker, and something

rk wrapped his fingers around my neck and

ed. Whatever cold professionalism lived in it during office

lready been burne

ewhere between Jace's bedroom floor and this hotel room. Some part of me that had decide

a long moment. Somet

t and I felt my own heartbeat betray me. "You k

no urgency at all, which was so

me?" He said through clenched teeth, like a lion whose ego was

d, and he leaned in slowly until there was almost no space left between us. I could feel the heat coming off him

ed me harder into the wall, "When I fuck, I don't stop because you cry. I don't stop because you can't take it. I stop when I'm

hing turn

wist until the thought of anyone else feels wrong. I'll become t

, his breath hot

ou to know that before you make this decision, b

ath ca

is fingers tightened on my throat. "

ow, the rational part of me was dead. All

," I blurted out the dare,

the back of my neck, and he crushed his lips again

rry you made

*

EA

u

, hot nerd-looking girl out of my line of si

ion and deemed my office the right place to i

cock forgot what dignity was. Always jerking

ck memories that had been torme

etting married to a man whose head I could put a b

felt toward her. I bu

cost me my legacy. Since then, I'd drawn a hard line. No mixing

n front of me, desperate, trembling, asking for the one thing my body had always craved? That was a t

rn her down.

have been th

table. I had a flight the next day. I had a rule I shouldn't ignore, and I had exactly enough scotch

d. And my control - usual

question. Understood?" I warned her, and sh

arted out and licked the movem

dered, "

d gi

sted like heat and salt and bad decisions. Her

u

er. She seemed so fragile, the crown o

est of my senses. She was panting. Her small, plump lips were re

" Don't ever wear

s lethal. Big blue, almond eyes. Inn

line of her hip - and what I felt made me curse against her lips. Those loose skirts and gowns she w

ps that filled my grip, a body c

almost

tugging desperately. And when s

y screamed to stay pressed to hers, but I needed space. Nee

and fell in rag

and watched her fingers shake as she reached for the hem of that oversized shirt. God. Who th

he floor. The s

ts that did it's best to cover every corner of her ass

something I'd choose fo

Any man alive would kill to have th

ower lip, staring at her. My

pped into something d

but one look from me, and she dropped all that hesitation. And the moment

es. Head bowed, hair slid

goose-pimpled, chest rising and falling as sh

ing away from her. My palms flatten

crawl