Chapter 41: Before She Gets Home

Marcus’s POVMaybe I should have done something. Maybe I should have intervened faster. But listening to Diane say those words — watching the way Sophia’s eyes glistened —I knew I had been too slow to react.But this was the thin line — I couldn’t bring myself to actually hold her. In Diane’s eyes, she was going to say I was supporting her, taking a side. Of course, I was. Sophia didn’t deserve the blow-out she had gotten. But my intervention still felt like nothing at the same time. Diane had been cruel. Sophia had been broken… and me? All that I could think about was the kiss that almost happened.I had let myself dream, wondering what would have happened a second later if Sebastian hadn’t shown up. What her lips would taste like — would they taste like cherries? Ever since I knew the name of her lip balm, it had become an obsession that was slowly trying to tear me apart.My phone buzzed, the sound forcing me to tear my gaze from the computer monitor I had been looking at. The s

Chapter 42: Don’t Let Me Fall

Sophia’s POVThe sound of the door closing caused my back to tense. My head turned to the door, my eyes meeting Marcus’s watchful gaze. Heat crept up my neck, his eyes lingering on my gym shorts — a pair that no one should see.“Welcome, I didn’t know you would be back so soon,” I muttered, hoping he didn’t hear how flustered I sounded. “How was work?”“Great,” he said in a gruff tone, rushing up the stairs as if he was being burned.I shrugged, fighting back the feeling that I was getting. If he was in one of those moods, I didn’t want to be on the receiving end of it. We had been fine, the call we had earlier in the day was alright. It wasn’t hard getting back to the workout. Kyla had sent the link, said it helped clear the mind, and well, I guess it was working. That was until a certain person walked in and now — “No thinking, focus,” I hissed under my breath.Besides, with the mood he was back in, I knew that he wasn’t going to come down. I guess this would do. The stairs creake

Chapter 43: Doomed

Marcus’s POVThe door slammed shut behind me, my back pressed against it as if I was running from a demon. With trembling fingers, I worked the locks, clicking them shut. “What the hell just happened?” I mumbled to myself as I ran my fingers through my hair.The first mistake had been offering to help, and the second, letting myself dwell in the moment. The minute my hand touched her exposed skin, my mind had gone numb, frozen in time, enjoying everything that had to do with her body pressed against mine.And when she fell, when her body… no! I didn’t want to think about it, but there was no way I could get the image out of my mind. She had been on my body, her chest pressed hard against mine.My length twitched, begging to be pulled out of the joggers I was wearing and touched. I stared at my hardened length, the glare doing nothing to tame it.She smelt divine. Coconut and jasmine, a combination I never knew could be poisonous. I felt that twitch again. I gritted my teeth, my fist

Chapter 44: No more hiding

Sophia’s POVHe had been pressed up against me, the feel of him carved on my skin, a burn that couldn’t fade. But that wasn’t the only thing that had burned deep in me, it was the fact that the dangerous yet fleeting nanoseconds had brought curiosity, and now, I had made a decision, one that could set my whole world ablaze.But I didn’t care.Not anymore.I smiled as I stared at the shorts I held in my hand, a gift from Kyla from two years ago when I had expressed an interest in working as a bottle model. Dreams I never actually acted on, and somehow, this morning, this pair of shorts was about to live another dream. “This should do,” I muttered to myself as I picked up the cropped tank top, the sheer fabric that I knew would cling to my skin like a mesh dress.What is the plan? You might ask. Easy, I was going to seduce Marcus. I needed to feel that forbidden burn that I felt last night. I needed to be sure that it wasn’t just an imagination. That I had felt it… him, his hunger fo

All Chapters of After the Divorce : Chapter 41 - Chapter 44

Chapter 41: Before She Gets Home

Chapter 42: Don’t Let Me Fall

Chapter 43: Doomed

Chapter 44: No more hiding