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He walks to me and places a warm hand around my arm, steering me toward the door. “Now would be a good time to start talking,” I continue. “Who’s after me?” He doesn’t say anything until we’re inside. The moment the door clicks shut, I toe off my shoes. Knox does the same, as meticulous…

“Attitude?” I manage. “You’re the one throwing a tantrum because you saw a ghost from the past.” ??/p> “The only thing I’ll be throwing is you over my lap for a spanking.” Heat travels from my neck down south. His fingers are moving, brushing over the tendons in my neck, and my p?lse flutters against…

The bar creaks beneath us, but I don’t care if it breaks, if the whole world crashes down. As long as he doesn’t stop. “Knox,” I say, my body tensing as I feel my orgasm building. “I’m close. So close.” “Do you want me to fill you?” “Please.” He picks up the pace, slamming to…

“I don’t want to hear it.” He stands now, jaw clenched. “Because, Sloane, I am one hundred percent sure that my mother called her to come see me. And if she had to wait for her to do that, I don’t want to see her.” I don’t know what to say to that. Not without…

“AA?” My eyebrows go up. “Since when did you become an alcoholic?” “Oh, I’m not,” he says, stepping back slightly but not letting me through. “I tried therapy. It sucked. All those questions. And the judgment? Yuck. But these people just sit in a circle and say the darkest shit. Like, I hate my best…

Jade intercepts him mid-motion, tackling Nathan with the kind of skill you know took years to perfect. Nathan’s body slams into the ground with a sickening thud, fis back crashing against the sharp edge of the table leg. The entire table jolts, knocking over a water glass that rolls and falls to the floor, shattaring….

Which, honestly, isn’t that surprising. Top execs move like shadows in this place. They take the private elevator, have their own entrances, their own goddamn alt, probably. The rest of us? We stay tethered to the lower floors, doing all the real work while t polished alternate dimension, So what the hell is this? Why…

He grins. “Why would I want to keep a girl who doesn’t like what I do for a living? I bet you haven’t told her about the times you used to indulge, fight? How you got the old man to sell this place to you?” “We’re not having this conversation, Levi.” “You’re gonna regret it.”…

Mateo has asked me nearly everything Where I went to college. What I majored in. What my GPA was. The name of the pet inas n?o My mother’s maiden name. Hell, Il he asked for my menstrual cycle, I wouldn’t be surprised. I tell myself this a normal Erecu?v? ar but tongues and ice behind…

And then she disappears. I haven’t moved from my seat. I don’t even know if I can. My hands are on my lap, clenched so tightly my nails are biting into my palms. There’s this strange static in my ears, a whining silence that feels like a scream underwater. Serena’s sobbing now. She has Nathan’s…