Vanessa's POVShirtless Rodri should be illegal. Obscene. My lips had parted in pure awe. His skin was a deep tan, like the rest of him, and his manly chest were a mile wide. His laddered abs were so ripped, tight and defined that they glistened under his perspiring skin.His black gym shorts hung low on his waist, and I could see the designer brand of the black briefs he had on under. I stopped my eyes from exploring further down before the last of my purity is stolen by his sinful body.And his tattoo. I could finally completely see the dark tattoo drawn on the side of his chest. It was the shaded outline of some woman’s face. At first glance, it was difficult to notice that it was actually a face, because of the scrawling and beautiful designs… but once you took a good look.You could see it.That realization suddenly slapped me back to reality. He had someone, a lady’s face tattooed on his chest. That was a concrete act of commitment.I looked away from him, with sobering thoughts

Trinity's POVI grabbed the test results tighter and went over it again for the third time. My eyes were not playing fucking tricks on me. I was pregnant.Three weeks pregnant!“Oh my god!” I screamed, then remembered that I was at work and quickly held my hand over my mouth. I jumped in my heels and squeezed my eyes shut, collapsing into my seat with a silent scream into my palm.Finally.Finally!After trying so hard to get pregnant with a Darnell baby, I finally succeeded. I dropped the test results on my desk and looked down at my belly with a huge smile. I could not even contain my excitement.I was now so close to my dream that I could taste it. Turned out that my efforts at drugging Cameron Darnell and making him have sex with me, and cum inside me did not go to waste. Rodri might have been too stubborn to impregnate me, directly or indirectly, but at least I got the chairman.Now, Vanessa’s bastard baby was the fraud and a tool to keep Rodri deceived, while I nurture my real

CHAPTER FIFTY SIXRodri's POVTrinity picked up one of the wine glasses, twirling it before taking her sip through her blood red lips.Her dark eyelashes fluttered close as she let out an appreciative sound. “Hm. The wine tastes great.” She looked back at me and smiled, “Why don’t we have a cheers, to being on speaking terms again.”I wordlessly reached to take the other glass and took a sip. It admittedly tasted great, but I really didn’t fucking care. I had lost my appetite the moment she walked up to my table. I just wanted to wrap up on what I had displayed on my laptop, before heading home for the night.But I probably wouldn’t be able to do that anymore now that Trinity had invited herself to my table.“Cheers?” She pressed on, extending her wine glass towards me. Her bronze hair shimmered glossily as she moved. “I’ve been having a lot of practice recently, Rodri, and I can say that I’ve become a better wine drinker than you.”I raised my glass to click slightly against hers. Th

Rodri's POVI opened my eyes, feeling drowsier than fucking ever. Immediately I regained consciousness, I knew that whatever sleep I was waking up from was not natural. Because usually, I would never black out this deep, and for this long.“Mr. Darnell, you are awake.” A soft voice said from somewhere above me. “How do you feel? Can you see me clearly?”I blinked and turned my face slightly in the direction the voice was coming from. Slowly, my vision cleared out and I saw that there was a lady in a nurse uniform standing by my bed. She was fiddling with an IV tube on my wrist, smiling kindly at me.“Yeah, I see you.” I said, and my voice came out hoarse. Slowly, I looked around and saw that I was in a hospital ward.What the fuck?“That’s great. It means the effects of your allergic reaction have been significantly reduced.”My allergic reaction? I was completely lost, wondering what she could even be talking about. The last thing I remembered was that I was getting out of my car, co

Vanessa's POVI should be sleeping. But I could not fall asleep, no matter how hard I tried. My nutritionist had come by and made me a warm meal, and a filling, queen breakfast to replenish the energy I must have “lost” staying up all night at Dolphin hospital.I was upset at how I had acted out of my place, following Rodri to the hospital and staying by his side all night as if I had any importance to him, or his family.I was literally a stranger.But I could not explain the kind of possessiveness and worry that had struck me when I saw him be so vulnerable, for the first time.I sighed and closed my eyes, snuggling deeper into my pillows. And then when he woke up, all that vulnerability had disappeared.He had become the cold and detached billionaire CEO of Dolphin group again, with his hazel eyes hard and non-negotiable again. And he had impassively sent me home.That had harshly reminded me that I had no business being worried about him. The many workers in that hospital would