All Chapters of Hidden Heiress Rising: Married to my Ex-Husband’s Uncle: Chapter 101 - Chapter 110

~ROMAN~He tasted like the white wine we'd shared at dinner, rich and warm, and underneath that was the taste that was of him. That was the one I craved most. Three weeks apart had felt like a slow torture, each day dragging while I counted the hours. Now my hands were finally on him again, and I wasn't about to rush a single second of it.I kissed him deep, taking my time to explore every familiar inch of him. My fingers traced the line of his jaw, then slid into his hair, holding him close as our mouths moved together. He tried to stay quiet as always, that old habit of his where he held everything in, even with me. I had noticed it from the start, the way he bit back moans, like they were secrets he wasn't supposed to share."Don't do that," I murmured against his throat, my lips brushing his collarbone. "Don't do what?" His voice came out breathless. "You know exactly what." I moved lower, pressing open-mouthed kisses down his neck to his chest. I found his favorite spot ju

~ MARTY ~Our campaign launch for the Sterling Collective was the kind of event I usually handle on my own on autopilot.It was an expensive open bar event that nobody was actually using because everyone was too busy mingling to drink. With this kind of crowd you arrived, you worked the room and made sure your client was happy and visible and talking to the right people. And then you leave at a reasonable hour and go home and do it all again two weeks later at a different venue with the same socialites in different outfits.I was twenty minutes in and doing exactly what I was being paid to do when I saw Felix Adler across the room.He was hard to miss. Six foot three with dark hair cut close and the kind of build that came from actually using a gym rather than just paying for the membership.In simple terms, he is hot. He was standing with a group of people near the bar and saying something that made everyone around him laugh while they tried their best not to gawk at his handsomene

~ ROMAN ~Kieran was a patient man, he was built in a different manner that if one wasn't prepared for, they might fall into his snare.I had always known this about him. It was one of the things that had made him compelling years ago when I was twenty-five and desperate for someone who wasn't my father or Celeste or any of the other people who had expectations attached to every interaction they made with me. Kieran back then had seemed uncomplicated, always present without pressure and patient without agenda.But it had taken me longer than it should have to understand that his patience was in itself an agenda.He appeared at my gym on a Monday morning, sixth weeks after the office visit. He was not using any of the equipment. He only stood there, in the lobby, talking to the front desk staff with a charming smile when I walked in. He looked up when I came through the door like he had expected me at exactly that time, which he probably had because Kieran did his research thorough

~ MARTY ~The two days after the Harrington event I threw myself into work the way I did whenever something was sitting in my head and I hadn't figured out how to deal with it yet.I took on three new client meetings that Lisa had been handling. I reorganized the campaign schedule for the Sterling Collective launch follow-up. I replied to emails at eleven at night and had calls booked before eight in the morning and stayed at my desk through lunch twice in a row.Roman noticed without saying anything usual which was his way. He just showed up at my office on Wednesday evening with food and sat across from me while I ate and he asked about the Sterling campaign. I thought about telling about Isabelle and everything but I just couldn't bring myself to because I knew the day I told him anything about Luka and I, might be the end of our relationship.By Friday I was tired from all my fidgeting and all the possible solutions that I was looking for. I wanted to sleep but at the same time

~ MARTY ~Danny and Danielle Blackwood came into the world at four seventeen in the morning.I know the exact time because I was sitting outside the delivery room when Damien appeared in the doorway and said it. I looked at my watch just to mark the moment and to tell Eva. The doctor said the boy came first and then the girl, three minutes later.They were both healthy and loud. Two lovely bundles of perfection.Eva let me hold them one at a time while Damien hovered at my elbow like a man who had decided he was never putting either of them down again and was only being polite by allowing anyone else a turn.Danielle had Eva's nose and a very serious expression for someone who was forty minutes old. Danny had already fallen asleep against my chest like he had decided I was acceptable and that was it.I sat in the hospital chair holding a sleeping baby at five in the morning and felt something I could not name in my chest."You're going to spoil them rotten," Eva said from the bed, w