“Yes. No physical attachments.” Eros spun the file toward me and stood up from his seat. “We wouldn’t want anything to go out of our hands, would we?” It seemed like he’d been set about doing this for a long time. He’d planned all of this carefully, arranging it in a way he knew I couldn't resist.
MARIELLA “You did what?” Niana squealed through the phone, her voice pitchy. “Marie, you don’t lie about touching yourself to your husband.” “Well, he wouldn’t know if it’s a lie,” I reasoned. “Besides, he didn’t let me answer. Although I was feeling a little awkward to tell him how I tried to tou
A part of me wanted to let him go, especially because of the conversation we’d had this morning. But he was still my husband. I still hoped to make him see me as his wife, despite that stupid contract. Juno lingered behind him with the same hopes as me. She wanted his attention as much as I did. Bu
The sound of the main door alerted me and I shook my head, pushing my tears back with much trouble. Liam came to view as he stood in front of the kitchen, his reddish-brown hair trimmed and combed to one side and not a single crease on his black uniform. “Let me help, Ma’am,” he said as I lifted th
MARIELLA Eros had been coming back late at night and leaving early at dawn, stealing all my chances of seeing him and making any conversation. It had been three days since I’d come to this place and not a single day had gone when I’d had his attention for more than five seconds or at all, except th
*** EROS When I’d entered the mansion, the silence wasn’t what I’d expected. Liam had said Gina had taken Juno to walk as usual, but Mariella was inside. She hadn’t left the house since she’d gotten here, but I’d had intel that there had been deliveries coming in and out. She had been changing thi
My chest heaved as I crouched and collected the parts, my fingers shaking and eyes burning. Not with anger. This wasn’t rage. It was all the controlled emotions and the guilt that I had suppressed over the years. I turned the body around; the words carved on the back of the metal sent a shot of pai
MARIELLA Two weeks of being in this goddamn mansion with the same routine. Two weeks of misery. I couldn’t blame Eros. His initiation was in five days and he had been managing both his domain as the underboss of Manhattan and the CEO of Castellanos industries single-handedly. But I had thought he w