LOGINSophia Bennett
The words echoed in my head like a filthy refrain I couldn’t silence: I am going to suck a dick.
I was kneeling on the bed in nothing but the thin tank top that had ridden up my hips, my hands wrapped around a stranger’s waist. My cheek hovered so close to the sharp cut of muscle disappearing beneath the dangerous white towel that I could feel the heat radiating from his skin. In any other circumstance, I would never have done this. No amount of alcohol, no depth of desperation, could have pushed me to my knees like this in real life. Even with Ethan—when he refused to touch me, when he finished in under two minutes and left me aching and unsatisfied—I had never begged. I had simply turned away, swallowed my frustration, and pretended it didn’t matter. I had my pride. I had boundaries.
But this wasn’t real life. This was a dream, and my body was screaming for it.
My skin felt too tight, my pulse throbbed between my legs, and every breath dragged like fire through my lungs. I wasn’t craving a drink tonight. I was craving release. I needed to be touched, ruined, devoured—anything to forget the mess my waking life had become. Something was very wrong with me for wanting this so badly, or maybe, for the first time in months, something was finally right.
He was older than me. I registered that even through the haze of the dream. Tall, broad-shouldered, carved from every dark fantasy I had never dared admit I possessed. His presence filled the room, heavy and commanding. The way he looked down at me made something deep in my belly clench hard—predator and prey, and I was willingly walking into his jaws. I had only ever seen one man naked in real life: Ethan. Pale, average, quick to soften. This stranger was something else entirely. The thick outline beneath the towel left no room for doubt. My mouth went dry.
“So big…” The words slipped out before I could stop them, barely more than a whisper.
Please don’t let me wake up yet.
I needed this. I needed to feel wanted. Needed to be fucked so thoroughly that the ache inside me finally quieted. My fingers trembled as I reached for the edge of the towel. The moment my mouth brushed against the warm, taut skin just above his hip, he shifted. The movement was subtle, controlled, but it sent a jolt through me. Then, without warning, he stepped back. My balance faltered. We tumbled together onto the mattress, his weight pressing me down for one dizzying second before he braced himself above me.
I stared up at him, heart hammering against my ribs. He studied my face with an intensity that made my thighs press together instinctively. His voice, low and rough, cut through the charged silence.
“How old are you?”
The question jarred me. I tried to twist away from it, from the sudden clarity in his eyes, but his hand caught my chin, gentle yet unyielding.
“I won’t repeat myself,” he said. “Answer the question.”
Something inside me responded instantly to that tone—calm, authoritative, impossible to ignore. My skin tingled. My voice came out small, almost breathless.
“Twenty-three.”
He leaned back slightly, releasing my chin. His fingers raked through his dark hair as he exhaled. “Twenty-three,” he muttered to himself, the words carrying a note of dark amusement, almost indifference, as if the number both surprised and intrigued him.
For a moment, the dream felt dangerously close to shattering. I could sense the weight of reality hovering just outside the edges, waiting to pull me back. But I didn’t want to leave. Not yet. My body was alive in a way it hadn’t been in years—every nerve singing, every inch of me aware of him. The hard planes of his chest, the corded muscle in his arms, the unmistakable evidence of his arousal still straining against the towel that had somehow stayed in place during our fall.
I reached for him again, bolder now, my palm sliding over the warm skin of his abdomen. He didn’t stop me. Instead, his gaze darkened, dropping to my lips, then lower. The air between us thickened, heavy with unspoken promise. I could feel the tension coiling in him, matching the desperate need twisting inside me.
Memories of Ethan flickered unwanted through my mind—his hesitant touches, his quick release, the way I had always faked satisfaction just to spare his ego. This man was nothing like that. Even in a dream, I could tell he would take his time. He would ruin me in the best possible way, and I wanted every second of it.
My fingers tugged at the towel. It slipped lower, revealing more of him—thick, heavy, intimidating. My breath caught. Heat flooded my cheeks and pooled lower, slick and insistent. I had never wanted to taste someone so badly. Never imagined I could feel this shameless, this hungry.
He watched me, eyes half-lidded, a faint smirk playing at the corner of his mouth. “You sure you can handle this, little girl?”
The challenge in his voice sent another shiver racing down my spine. I didn’t answer with words. Instead, I leaned in, pressing a slow, open-mouthed kiss just below his navel, tasting salt and skin and raw masculine heat. His muscles tensed beneath my lips. A low sound rumbled in his chest—approval, warning, hunger.
I wanted to lose myself here. In this dream. In him. To forget the empty apartment waiting for me, the failed relationship, the long nights spent wondering what was wrong with me. Here, I wasn’t the careful, composed Sophia Bennett who always did the right thing. I was something wilder. Something that craved the filth and the pleasure and the surrender.
His hand slid into my hair, not guiding, not yet—just resting there, a heavy promise. My heart stuttered with anticipation. Every second stretched, delicious and torturous. I could feel him throbbing close to my cheek, so close I could almost taste him.
I looked up one last time, meeting those intense eyes that seemed to see straight through me. At that moment, all hesitation burned away.
I guess I would go raw this time around since there are no condoms.
Damien's POVThe report on my desk detailed a shipping delay out of Rotterdam, three separate clauses of liability I needed to flag before the call with legal at nine, and a projected loss figure I should have found far more interesting than I currently did. I'd read the same paragraph twice without absorbing a single word of it.Austin knocked once and let himself in without waiting for a response, which had become something of a habit over the years, one I'd never bothered correcting because it was rarely worth the effort."You're going to want to hear this," he said, dropping into the chair across from my desk uninvited."I'm listening." I didn't look up from the file."Flowers were delivered to Miss Bennett last night. White roses. A dozen, apparently the expensive kind, not the gas station variety." Austin's tone was deliberately light, the way it always was when he was watching for a reaction and didn't want to seem like he was watching for one. "Card was signed. Ethan."I turne
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Ethan's POVBy the time I pulled into the driveway of my parents' estate, the fury had curdled into something heavier. Not weaker—just quieter. The kind of anger that stops shouting and starts planning.The lights were on in the main hall. Of course they were. I could hear voices through the door before I even reached it—my mother's clipped, anxious tone, my father's low murmur trying to calm her. I braced myself and walked in.My mother turned the moment she saw me, her pearls catching the chandelier light, her face already arranged into the particular blend of worry and control she reserved for crises involving the family name."Ethan. Finally." She crossed the room in quick steps. "Where have you been? Do you have any idea how many calls I've fielded today?""I had things to take care of," I said, loosening my tie.My father looked up from his armchair, newspaper folded in his lap though I doubted he'd read a word of it. "The Whitmores arrived an hour ago. The Kang family lands tom
Ethan’s POVSophia never looked back. She walked away without hesitation, her shoulders straight and her head held high. The woman who had once cried over me, who had begged me to stay, who had loved me with everything she had—was gone. In her place stood someone I barely recognized. Stronger. Colder. Untouchable.I stood frozen on the pavement, chest rising and falling rapidly as anger, regret, and frustration twisted together like a knife in my gut. The afternoon sun felt too harsh on my skin. The noise of the city—car horns, footsteps, distant chatter—faded into a dull roar in my ears.The security guards remained between us until Sophia disappeared into the crowd. Only then did they step back, their postures still alert and professional. Employees who had witnessed the confrontation whispered among themselves before slowly returning to their routines, stealing glances at me as they passed.I clenched my fists so tightly my nails dug into my palms.“So this is what you’ve become,”
Sophia’s POVThe cool afternoon breeze brushed against my face as I stepped out of Blackwood Enterprises. My shoulders ached after hours of staring at documents and replying to endless emails, but it was the satisfying kind of exhaustion. For the first time in weeks, I felt like my life was slowly beginning to move forward on my own terms. I had earned every penny through my own hard work, not through anyone’s pity or control.I tightened my grip on my handbag and headed toward the bus stop. The streets were busy with employees leaving nearby office buildings. Car horns echoed in the distance while people hurried home after another long workday. The normalcy of it all felt grounding.Then—“Sophia.”I froze.That voice.I slowly turned around, my stomach already twisting.Ethan Carter stood several feet away.He was alone. No Mark. No expensive suit. No confident smile. Dark circles rested beneath his eyes, and his usually neat hair looked as though he had been running his hands throu







