“I can feel your heartbeat,” Damien murmured.
“You could have chosen to defy me. Yet, here you are.”
His fingers traced higher, a teasing and agonizing path.
Chloe shivered. Her breath hitched as his hand pressed forward past the barrier of silk.
A soft gasp escaped her lips when his fingers found the space between her legs.
“So tell me, what do you want?” he whispered against her skin, his strokes slow and teasing, breaking her breaths.
Chloe looked down, watching the way his hands moved—possessive, steady, each motion more intoxicating than the last.
“I want you,” she said. “I want you.”


Damien Cross only had one mission—revenge.
Cold, calculating, and merciless, he’s spent years building an empire and waiting for the perfect moment to strike back at the man who betrayed him.
Chloe Bennett was never supposed to be part of the plan. But when she walked into his life, she became the perfect pawn… and the one temptation he can’t resist.
Now the game has changed.
She was meant to be leverage.
But now she’s becoming his obsession.

  "Let me go!" Chloe's scream ripped through the woods, ragged and panicked. Rain lashed against her skin, soaking her dress, her hair clinging to her cheeks as she fought like hell against Sebastian's grip.


  "You're not going in there!" Sebastian shouted over the thunder, dragging her back from the house that was already roaring with flames.


  "Sebastian!" she cried. "That's Damien in there! That's your brother."


  "And if you go in there too, I'm burying both of you! And that's not happening." He groaned. 


  Another loud boom cut through the thunderous clouds.


  A fresh explosion tore through the front of the mansion, glass shattering and hurling into the wind like glittering shrapnel. Chloe turned in horror, the scream that tore from her chest was pure, unfiltered grief.


Chapter 106 - Up In Flames