LOGINRodah's POV
I woke up the next morning with my body still sore in the worst places. My pussy felt sensitive from the way Martinez had licked and sucked me last night until I screamed. I hated how easily I had given in. “That was not the plan,” I whispered to myself. A silver tray sat on the table with hot breakfast — eggs, fruit, fresh coffee. Next to it was a note in his sharp handwriting and a deep red silk dress laid out with matching high heels. I picked up the note and read it quickly. 'Eat your breakfast. Be ready in two hours. We are going to a meeting and I want my wife with me. Last night you swore you would never let me fuck you. Yet you were coming hard on my tongue before you even finished your sentence. Don’t lie to yourself again, Rodah.' My face burned red. “Bastard,” I whispered as I balled the note in my fists. The dress looked expensive. Everything in this house screamed money — the huge bed, the marble bathroom, the heavy curtains. This was the world I had walked into to save my father. One million dollars. My life for his debt. The door came open and young maid stepped in politely. “Good morning, Mrs. Martinez. The master asked me to help you with your dress and hair.” “Hmm. The master, huh?” She nodded. “He does not like delays. He'll have me do whatever you want me to so you can be ready in two hours.” I turned to her. “I don’t need help. You can leave.” The maid looked nervous. “But ma’am, the master is very strict. He wants you ready on time.” “I said leave,” I told her sharply. “I will get ready myself.” She hesitated, then bowed slightly. “As you wish, ma’am.” She left and closed the door quietly. I smiled to myself. Let him wait. I ate, then showered. When I finally slipped on the red dress, it hugged my tits and ass tightly. The neckline showed too much cleavage, but if they had picked it for me, then it was what he wanted to have me wear. Three hours passed. I was deliberately slow — brushing my hair again and again, still barefoot, the red dress on but not zipped fully at the back. Suddenly the door flew open with a loud bang. Martinez stormed in, tall and furious in his black jacket and grey dress pants. His white shirt was left unbuttoned at the top, revealing the hairs on his chest. His eyes narrowed when he saw me half-ready. “Why the fuck aren’t you ready?” he growled. I turned slowly and gave him a tight sarcastic smile that didn't light up my eyes. “I’m trying to look good enough to stand next to a man like you. It takes time to appear as the perfect wife, doesn’t it?” His jaw clenched hard. “You were told two hours. It’s been three fucking hours. Where is the maid?” “I sent the maid away,” I said, lifting my chin. “I don’t need anyone dressing me like a doll.” Martinez stepped closer, voice low and dangerous. “You're so bent on testing me, aren't you?” “Well, haven't you thought about how extremely bossy you are?” Fury flashed in his eyes. Before I could step back, he grabbed me, bent down, and scooped me up in his arms like I weighed nothing. One arm under my knees, the other behind my back. “Put me down right now!” I shouted, kicking my legs. He picked up my high heels from the floor with his free hand and headed straight for the door. “Martinez! Let me go! I’m not a fucking child!” “Shut your mouth,” he ordered. I thrashed harder, hitting his back with my fists. “Put me down! Now!” He stopped suddenly in the middle of the wide corridor. His voice dropped to a dark whisper. “Keep screaming like that and I’ll tear this red dress off your body right here. I’ll push you against the wall, spread your legs wide, and fuck your tight little cunt hard and fast while anyone walking by can watch. You want that? You want everyone to hear you moaning and begging while I pound you in the corridor?” My heart slammed in my chest. Heat rushed between my legs even as I tried to tell myself that I hated him. “You wouldn’t dare.” “Try me, wife,” he dared. “My cock is already hard thinking about how wet you got last night. How you swore you wouldn’t let me touch you, yet you came screaming on my tongue in under five minutes. I can fuck you right now and leave you dripping down your thighs for the rest of the day.” I stopped thrashing. My face felt hot. “Fine. Just… put me down. I’ll walk.” He didn’t put me down. He carried me down the long hallway, past expensive paintings and guards who looked away quickly. I felt small and helpless in his strong arms. His chest was hard against me, and his scent filled my nose again — that same dark cologne from last night. “Everyone is staring,” I hissed quietly. “Let them stare,” he said. “They know you belong to me.” When we reached a side room near the entrance, he finally set me on my feet. He dropped the heels in front of me. “Put them on. Now.” I bent down fast and slipped the shoes on. They made my legs look longer, but he still towered over me. Martinez grabbed my chin roughly and forced me to look up at him. “You will not make me wait again. Do you understand?” I glared back, cheeks still burning. “I understand.” He leaned in closer, his lips almost touching mine. “Good. And when we come back tonight, I’m going to tie you down again and remind you exactly how fast that stubborn mouth shuts up when my tongue is on your clit.” My pussy clenched at his words. I wanted to slap him. I wanted to tell him to fuck off. But my body remembered last night too well. He released my chin and straightened his jacket. “Let’s go. My wife needs to learn how to behave.” I followed him out to the black car waiting outside, heart racing fast. The red dress clung to every curve.Rodah’s POVThe morning light that filtered through the high windows of the master suite was pale and gray, casting long, still shadows across the rumpled velvet blankets. Beside me, Martinez was still asleep. It was a rare, striking sight. The brutal, unyielding man who usually woke up at dawn with his hand already resting on a firearm was completely dead to the world, his heavy, scarred chest rising and falling in a slow, deep rhythm. The raw, desperate friction of the night before had driven the adrenaline out of him, leaving him completely anchored to the mattress.I slipped out from beneath the heavy covers quietly, my bare feet hitting the cold hardwood floorboards without making a sound. I pulled my thick black silk robe over my shoulders, tying the belt tightly around my waist as I looked down at him one last time. He looked less like a monster when he was sleeping, but the split, dried blood on his bandaged knuckles was a stark reminder of the reality I now lived in.I walk
Martinez’s POV"The sedan is idling in the underground garage, boss," Gustavo said, stepping back toward the study door. "Miller and Santos have their gear. We can be at the old brewery inside of twenty minutes, grab Cole, and have him back here before the fog lifts.""Good," I growled, sliding the compact Walther PPK into my inner jacket pocket. "Keep it quiet. I want him breathing when we get him into the cellar."I turned away from the desk, my heavy boots thudding against the floorboards as I prepared to head down to the garage. The burner phone was tucked safely into my pocket, Cole's exact coordinates locked into my head. The pathetic old gambler had breached my walls, and I was going to remove his head from the chessboard once and for all."Martinez."The soft, strained voice cut through the quiet study.I froze, my hand still resting on the lapel of my charcoal suit jacket. I turned around slowly. Rodah was standing in the connecting doorway that led from the master bedroom.
Martinez’s POVThe drive back from the Grand Horizon Hotel was fast and silent. The heavy armored SUV cut through the thick gray fog that blankets the lower city roads, the V8 engine humming with a steady, deep power. I sat back against the leather seat, my split knuckles throbbing beneath my bandages. The meeting with the minor distribution heads had gone exactly as I planned. Vance, Moretti, and Ross were back in line. They knew the northern border routes belonged to the Rinaldi family, and they knew the standard forty percent tax was not up for negotiation. But as the high iron gates of my estate swung open to let my convoy through, the corporate victory tasted flat. The business was stable, but my fortress had still been breached.That had to be fixed. I climbed out of the SUV before the tires had even stopped rolling on the gravel courtyard. Gustavo was right behind me, his boots crunching on the wet stone as we strode through the main foyer and headed straight down the basemen
Martinez's POV They were the supply chain link between my border routes and the street-level cartels. When I walked into the room, all three of them straightened up instantly, their hands moving away from their pockets.I didn't take a seat at the head of the table. I walked straight to the expansive glass window, looking down at the fog-covered streets below, my back turned to them. It was a power move, and they knew it. It showed them I didn't consider any of them a threat."Martinez," Vance started, his voice shaking slightly as he cleared his throat. "We heard about the rail yard. We heard you burned Kilian's fleet. But the northern border road is still closed. Our trucks are sitting in warehouses losing fifty thousand dollars a day in rotting product. We need to know when the routes are opening.""The routes are open when I say they are open, Vance," I rumbled, my voice flat and lethal as I turned around slowly to face them. I leaned my weight against the edge of the glass table
Martinez’s POVThe freezing rain had completely stopped by noon, replaced by a thick, heavy fog that rolled in from the harbor and swallowed the city skyline. It had been three days since the breach at my estate. Three days of absolute, sleepless lock-down. Cole and Kilian’s extraction team had vanished into the dense woods behind my property line like smoke, leaving zero electronic tracks or physical evidence behind. My shooters had combed every square inch of the valley, but the old gambler knew the blind spots too well. He was hiding out there somewhere, terrified, waiting for Kilian to give him his next order.But I couldn't spend twenty-four hours a day hunting a ghost in the trees. The Rinaldi syndicate was still bleeding from the federal raid and the broken alliance with Maldok Meyers. The forty percent border routes I had seized back from Kilian at the rail yard were secure, but they were stagnant. No product was moving because the entire northern territory was a volatile wa
Martinez’s POVThe heavy steel doors of the estate’s main entrance slammed shut behind me with a loud, metallic boom that echoed through the vast marble foyer. My knuckles were split and bleeding, the raw skin throbbing beneath the fresh coat of rainwater and engine grease. My breathing was heavy, my chest expanding against my wet black shirt as the high of the victory at the rail yard still pumped through my veins.I had broken Kilian’s trap in less than forty minutes. The young prick had underestimated my shooters and completely miscalculated my speed. We had rammed through his burning barricade, slaughtered his flankers, and cornered him inside his own distribution office. I hadn't killed him. I had done something much worse for an arrogant bastard like him—I had beaten him senseless, destroyed his entire fleet of trucks, and reclaimed every single inch of my forty percent border routes before his backup could even arrive. I had drawn a hard, bloody line across his territory, pro
Rodah's POVThe headlights from the black sedans blinded me, and for a split second, I thought we were dead."Hold on!" Martinez roared.With a brutal twist of his massive arms, he swung the heavy steering wheel to the right. The tires shrieked in protest against the asphalt, the heavy SUV tilting
My vision blurred with a hot, murderous red as I stared at the phone screen. Seeing Rodah tied up, her soft skin smudged with dirt while a cold steel barrel pressed against her temple, nearly made me go completely berserk. My chest heaved, a savage, primal roar ripping from my throat as
The inside of the abandoned textile factory looked like a military bunker. Outside, it was just crumbling concrete and shattered windows, but the top floor was a high-tech fortress owned by Lawrence Freeheight. Heavy metal tables, weapon racks lining the walls, and the cold smell of gun oil filled
Martinez’s POV"I don't give a fuck what Lawrence says, prepare the cars," I barked into the phone, slamming it shut before stepping back into the brightly lit gallery hall.The exhibition was finally winding down, and the results were staggering. My associates might be ruthless bastards, but they







