All Chapters of owned By His Dark Commands: Chapter 11 - Chapter 17

Sienna's POVThe drive to the waterfront groundbreaking ceremony was quiet. Andrea sat beside me in the back of the car, one hand resting on my thigh, thumb absently stroking the skin just under the hem of my dress. Twenty-nine days left on our agreement, and the threats were already closing in.He hadn’t mentioned last night again. The whiskey confessions. The way he’d looked at me like I was more than a contract. Part of me wondered if he even remembered everything he’d said.“You’re tense,” I said softly, covering his hand with mine.His jaw flexed. “Elena knows how to make a scene. Blackwood will give her the stage. We stay united in public. No matter what she says.”I nodded. The platinum band on my finger felt heavier today. “We face it together.”The site was already crowded when we arrived—press, board members, city officials, and workers in hard hats. Cameras flashed the moment we stepped out of the car. Andrea kept his hand at the small of my back, guiding me through the cro

Sienna's POVThe room smelled of damp concrete and expensive cologne. My wrists were zip-tied to a metal chair in what looked like an abandoned warehouse office. The two men who had taken me stood guard by the door, silent and professional. Not rough, but their presence alone was enough to keep me still.Julian Blackwood sat across from me, legs crossed, looking every bit the polished shark in a charcoal suit. Elena leaned against the wall behind him, arms folded, watching me with cold satisfaction.“You’re making this too easy, Mrs. Voss,” Blackwood said smoothly. “Walking out on your husband the same night he finally tells you half the truth? Predictable.”I lifted my chin, refusing to show fear even as my heart hammered. “What do you want?”“Simple. I want what Voss took from me five years ago. Control. And you’re the key.” He leaned forward. “Your husband didn’t just save your father’s company out of sudden heroism. He did it because I was about to expose the real reason he wanted

Sienna's POVI did not sleep the few hours I tried. The ceiling of the guest room blurred and sharpened depending on how long I stared at it, but my mind kept circling the same loop. Andrea had ordered a man's death. My father wanted me back. And in three hours, a judge would decide whether the last six weeks of my life were a contract or a cage.By six I gave up pretending and dressed in the navy suit his assistant had sent over the night before. When I stepped into the kitchen, Andrea was already there, two cups of black coffee on the counter, his jaw tight in a way I was starting to recognize as fear wearing a tie."You should eat something," he said without looking up."I can't." My stomach had been turning since I woke, and for the first time the nausea did not feel like nerves. I pushed the thought away before it could finish forming. There would be time to be afraid of that later.He studied me a beat too long. 'He notices everything,' I thought. 'Just maybe not the right thi

Sienna's POVThe first thing I noticed was the steady beep of a monitor. The second was Andrea's hand wrapped around mine so tightly it almost hurt."Sienna." His voice cracked on my name. "Sienna, look at me."I forced my eyes open to fluorescent light and the sterile white of a hospital room. My head throbbed. An IV line ran from the back of my hand, and somewhere beneath the haze of whatever they had given me, a memory surfaced of the floor rushing up too fast."What happened," I managed, my throat dry."You fainted." Andrea's jaw was tight, his eyes rimmed red in a way I had never seen on him. "You have been out for almost two hours."Before I could ask anything else, the door opened and a doctor stepped in, a clipboard tucked under one arm, her expression carefully neutral in the way doctors get when they are about to say something that changes a room."Miss Vance, how are you feeling?""Dizzy. Tired." I swallowed. "What is wrong with me?"She glanced at Andrea, a silent question