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BOOK FIVE CHAPTER 9

Penulis: Ava Sterling
last update Tanggal publikasi: 2026-08-02 15:31:18

The night after the conference room felt different from the first second.

They didn’t fuck against the door or on the floor or over any piece of furniture that could take the violence of them. Cass locked the door of his loft behind them, took Maya’s face in both hands, and kissed her slowly—deep and searching, like he was trying to memorize the shape of her mouth all over again. There was no rush in it. No anger. Just the quiet, devastating attention of a man who had decided he would not look
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    It started with a photograph.Maya found it by accident on Sunday morning while Cass was in the shower. She had been looking for a clean T-shirt in the bottom drawer of his dresser and instead pulled out a thin envelope she didn’t recognize. Inside was a single printed photo—creased at the edges, the colors slightly faded.Them.Two years and three months ago, on the balcony of the old apartment. She was laughing at something, head tipped back, his arm around her waist from behind. His face was buried in the side of her neck. She remembered the exact second the timer had gone off. She remembered thinking, even then, that the picture looked like a lie they were both still trying to believe.She was still staring at it when the water shut off.Cass walked into the bedroom with a towel around his hips, hair wet, and stopped dead when he saw what she was holding.The silence that filled the room was immediate and toxic.Maya looked up. “You kept this.”His expression shuttered. “It was in

  • Forbidden Lust: My Father-in-law   BOOK FIVE CHAPTER 9

    The night after the conference room felt different from the first second.They didn’t fuck against the door or on the floor or over any piece of furniture that could take the violence of them. Cass locked the door of his loft behind them, took Maya’s face in both hands, and kissed her slowly—deep and searching, like he was trying to memorize the shape of her mouth all over again. There was no rush in it. No anger. Just the quiet, devastating attention of a man who had decided he would not look away this time.Maya’s bag slid off her shoulder and hit the floor with a soft thud. She let him walk her backward through the living room, still kissing her, his hands moving under her blouse in slow strokes up her spine. When the backs of her knees hit the edge of his bed he pulled away just far enough to look at her.The city light through the window painted one side of his face silver. The other stayed in shadow. His eyes were dark and steady and full of something that made her chest ache.“

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    Maya did not go to his door the next night.She did not answer the single message he sent at 11:42 p.m.—just her name, nothing else. She turned the phone face-down on the nightstand and stared at the ceiling of her own loft until the city lights blurred. Sleep, when it finally came, was thin and full of the memory of his voice telling her to go home after she had finally told the truth.In the morning she dressed like armor again. High collar. Long sleeves. Trousers instead of a skirt. She took the stairs all twelve flights, coffee in hand, jaw locked against the ache that still lived between her legs and the deeper one that had opened behind her ribs.At the office she was ice.She answered emails with clipped precision. She led the morning stand-up without once letting her mind drift to the way he had frozen inside her when the words slipped out. She smiled at colleagues. She laughed at the right moments. She felt like a ghost wearing her own face.By 3:17 p.m. the performance was s

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    It happened on a Thursday.Maya would remember that later—the ordinary cruelty of it being a Thursday, the way the week had been building toward something neither of them wanted to name. Four nights in a row she had fallen asleep in his bed or he in hers. Four mornings of soft hands that turned vicious. Four days of walking through the world with secret bruises under her clothes and the slow, filthy knowledge that she was still carrying him inside her long after he left.They had stopped pretending it was temporary.They simply refused to talk about what it actually was.That night she came back to the building later than usual, brain still buzzing from a client dinner that had run long. The elevator was empty. She rode it to twelve with her forehead resting against the cool steel wall, already aching in anticipation. When the doors opened she walked straight to his door instead of her own. She didn’t question it anymore. Her body had stopped asking permission days ago.Cass opened be

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    Maya did not sleep in her own bed that night.She told herself she would. She told herself she would walk straight past his door, lock herself inside the loft, and pretend the laundry room had never happened. She even made it as far as the stairwell before her body simply refused to climb.At 11:09 p.m. she stood in front of Cass’s door again, still in the same trousers and blouse from the office, still feeling the slow, sticky evidence of him between her thighs every time she shifted her weight. She didn’t knock this time either. She just waited.The door opened after eight seconds.Cass looked at her for a long moment, eyes dark, expression unreadable. Then he stepped aside.Maya walked in.She didn’t speak. Neither did he. The silence between them was thick and familiar, the same silence that used to fill their old apartment after the worst fights—before one of them finally crossed the room and ended it with hands and mouths and the kind of sex that left bruises.Cass locked the do

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