MASON"What do you mean by she disappeared?" I grip the edges of my desk as I shoot Agent Morris a glare, trying to contain the rage that burns in my veins.He lowers his head, looking ashamed for the first time since I have ever known him."I left her in the gardens earlier to restructure the CCTV footages. When I came back, she was gone."I feel lethal, venomous anger try to crawl its way up my throat, so I sit back down in my chair, using my table as a cage. If I act out now, I could regret it later."You had one job." I begin, my voice portraying a calmness I do not feel, "one fucking job. You were supposed to shadow a god-damned female for chrissakes. And you failed."Agent Morris quickly adds," I have my men scouting the savannah for her, sir. She will be found in no time. I assure you."In a flash, and a blind burst of rage, I lift the heavy, ceramic penholder on my table and fling it in his direction.His fast reflexes save him. The penholder shatters on the wall, and falls
MASONMy driver speeds down the savannah like there's fire on his trail. In a few moments, the gates of the mansion come into view.Mira hasn't said anything else, but her shivers have gotten violent. The rain pours with a vengeance now. Everything is drab and gray, just like my mood.I look down to find her delicate face squeezed in a grimace, her teeth chattering, and my heart suffers a blow.I have definitely gone too far this time. Fuck!The gates open on their own, and the car finally skids to a stop. Agent Morris steps down quickly, running over to hold an umbrella over our heads. We are led into the mansion and I make quick work for the rooms."Call the doctor." I order sharply. "He should be here in the next five minutes, or he'll lose his god-damned job."" On it, sir" Agent Morris says, already whipping out his phone.Mira holds on to me monkey style, both her legs wrapped tightly around my waist, seeking my warmth. Without thinking, I lean down and kiss the top of her head.
MIRAI jolt awake, slightly disoriented. I heard something.The room is pitch black and silent. The drapes are pulled closed, blocking any form of light from coming in."No…no, leave me."I freeze. There it is again. I feel around for Mason. Sure enough, he's right beside me. The sounds of his gentle breathing fill the room, instantly soothing my jangled nerves."No! I want mummy!"Dutch!Eyes wide, I look around, searching for the source of the sound. A few short paces away, something glows in the dark.I pull the sheets away with shaky fingers and get to my feet. Stunned, I realise that I am completely naked. I grab a robe from a chair in the corner and hastily stab my hands through the sleeves, padding in the direction of the glow."No, please!" His voice sounds so broken, so guttural, it tugs at my already weary heartstrings.The glow turns out to be Mason's phone. Some sort of monitor recording shows Dutch, trashing atop his little bed. I pick the device up, trying to understa
FIFTY THREE – MASON"Hello, brother."I hold the phone so tight, it almost cracks as Devon's voice comes through the speakers. I shut my eyes, trying to regulate my distorted breathing."Devon. What do you want?""Tsk. Tsk. So rude. This isn't how one speaks to his brother."I lean against my office table, anger simmering in my veins." I do not have time for this, Devon. What the fuck do you want?"I left a warm and naked Mira in bed barely two hours after we had fallen asleep because the office phone wouldn't stop ringing. My patience has been stretched to its limits."Did you enjoy my surprise?" His voice is cold now, revealing the real, evil Devon who hides behind the expensive façade."What are you talking about?" I ask through gritted teeth.He laughs. It sounds like the warning bells of death."Since you've decided to play dumb, I'll give you a hint." A pause. " Did the little boy break a leg?"For a moment, everything goes still. Then I see red. I pace round the length of my o
MIRAWe finally touch down on the roof top of a gleaming skyscraper in the heart of the city. I look out my window at the breathtaking view of the Hawaiian strip, momentarily forgetting my fear of heights.Mason hasn't spoken to me since my uncoordinated confession a few minutes ago. Now, he walks over and unbuckles my seatbelt, his eyes still radiating cold.I stare at his profile, willing him to look at me. When he still doesn't, I feel the stirrings of frustration and annoyance in my veins."I didn't hurt Dutch."He pauses, finally looking at me. His stormy grays pin me in place, and I almost lose my confidence. Almost."It wasn't right for you to blame me because I would never do something like that."Mason eases to his feet, grabbing my hand and taking me with him. "We will have this conversation in the house, Mira. Not out here."His tone is gruff and serious, so I wisely clamp my mouth shut and let him lead the way off the plane.We pass through a hole in the roof, down a fli
MIRAMason wants a whore? By God, a whore he will get.I am well aware of my naked, plus sized arse jiggling as I make my way to the stage. Men have always commented on the sexual beauty of my arse. I plan to use it against Mason tonight.The other model looking girls eye me as I climb atop the stage. An image of their boobs in Mason's face as they leaned over to kiss him flashes through my vision, and I see red.I point a shaky finger at the girl standing by the middle pole."Hey, you. Move."She stays rooted to the spot, staring at me like I have just grown wings. I narrow my eyes at her, and she scrambles to the next pole.I intend to be the centre of attention tonight. I intend to be the main course.I wrap my fingers around the pole, enjoying the adrenaline that courses through my blood. Fuck! It's been too long since I danced on one of these.I strike a pose and stare down at Mason as he balances into his chair, giving me his full attention."Where's the dance music?" I ask, my
MIRAYou know that moment when it feels like your life is gradually slipping out of your control? That moment when you struggle to get a grasp on what the heck is being done to you, but you can't, so you just groan and cry in frustration?That is exactly how I feel at the moment.I arch my back off the velvety table as Mason stands back, his dark gaze sweeping over my naked breasts and plump, peebled nipples.I grab onto my strains, holding on for dear life when he grabs a short, leather crop from the table."Wh-what are you going to do with that thing?" I stutter, fear gradually turning my veins to ice. " You're not going to hit me with that, are you?""Hush, princess. Just lie back and enjoy the fun."I look into his eyes, searching for the Mason I know, the Mason I have grown used to. My heart falls when I do not find him.The Mason that towers over me looks formidable…untouchable. The steely expression in his eyes tells me he would'nt hesitate to actually hurt me."Mr Lachlan, if
MASONMy gaze roves over Mira's nude, sated body, and my dick hardens in my pants. Fuck, she's beautiful.Right now, she looks tired, but I do not feel satisfied. Not even by half. My subconscious tells me I should be letting her rest and recover, but my body sings an entirely different tune.I know I should be taking it easy on her, but I want to punish her so hard, it hurts. I release the buttons of my pants and turn away, trying to get a grasp on the dark, venomous rage that threatens to choke me.She shouldn't have run from me. She made a big mistake when she fucking hinted at letting another man touch what belongs to me.Tonight was simply a test, one I never planned on going through with anyways. The plan was to pay Daisy off and send her home after we left, but Mira's reaction was the icing on my fucking cake.I don't know why, but since I set my eyes on the Italian firecracker, the thought of touching another woman feels like a bloody taboo.I hear her breathing gradually retu
MIRA “Wake up, princess. It’s getting late.” I blink sleepily, smiling to myself when I catch a whiff of heavenly smelling cologne. With my eyes still firmly shut, I reach out to the source of the delicious scent and my arms instantly come in contact with broad, cloth covered shoulders. With a determined tug, I pull the shoulders closer to myself and it lands against me with a soft thud, then I proceed to sink my face into the neck of the owner of the shoulder and get a better whiff of that addictive scent. “Mmm… you smell so good.” I feel soft, warm lips against my cheek. “Thank you, baby.” That jolts me out of my sleepy state. I open my eyes and I’m immediately assailed by piercing gray eyes. I blink up at him for a second. “Good morning, baby girl.” He whispers. I swallow. “Good morning.” I feel every part of my body tense up, mostly because I believe I have an early morning arousal and the world’s most handsome man is lying almost fully against me. I try to move awa
MASONI should be holding Mira right now. I should be reassuring her of my unlimited devotion. But her confessions earlier struck a chord deep in my heart."Fuck!" I curse into the empty office.Unable to keep sitting still, I walk to the mini wet bar and pour myself a glass of my favourite Cognac. I tip the shot glass and down the contents in one gulp. The sharp burn does nothing to lessen the pain inside of me. It does nothing to quench the fire that burns so desperately for one green eyed, stubborn-as-fuck female.I slam the shot glass on the counter to stop myself from throwing it against the wall.Mira wouldn't want to stay with me unless I admit that I'm in love with her. Am I in love with Mira?The sudden realization has me freezing in my tracks. It hits me out of nowhere, numbing my senses.I walk back to my chair and sink into it. It is either that or fall flat on my face. I've always seen myself as incapable of love or anything related to the term. Turns out, the little
MIRAMason and I fall into each other in a tangled heat of fused mouths and moving hands. He picks me from the bathtub and I hold on to him, enjoying the delicious slide of his wet body against mine.“Wrap your legs around me, baby.” He whispers urgently against my lips, and I comply. He grabs my arse, his fingers digging into the soft skin. The combination of pain and pleasure almost leaves me reeling.My core is already slick and dripping from arousal. My entire body feels like I’ve been set alight with a flaming torch.Mason pins me atop one of the counters in the bathroom. He spreads my legs and steps between them. His hot, hard, throbbing erection brushes against the swollen nub of my clit and I throw my head back, a slight whimper escaping my lips.“Mason. Mason please…”He runs his hot lips over the skin of my neck.“Please what, baby? What do you want?” He whispers against me. “Whatever you want is yours. Whatever you want, baby girl.”“Touch me. Touch me, please.” My voice is
MIRA“Bathe with me.” He says confidently like he hasn’t just made a declaration that has my heart spilt all over his thousand dollar shirt.All traces of sleep departs from me and I stare at him, transfixed. He looks serious. Dead serious.“Is…is this still part of the challenge? Getting me to fall in love with you, I mean.” Because if it is, unfortunately for me, that ship has long sailed. I need to know where all this is coming from.For a moment, Mason says nothing. He simply stares at me, those stormy grays causing havoc to my raging nerves.“Do I look like I’m joking, little flower? Challenge aside, I’ve decided that I want you. I need you with me every single fucking moment.” My breath hitches. “You’re not there for five seconds and I suddenly can’t breathe properly. I remember that whatever is going on here is temporary and I want to smash something against the wall.” He pauses, his chest heaving rapidly. I have never seen him so…worked up. “ I think I’m obsessed with you, Mi
MIRAIt’s eight o’clock and Mason still isn’t back. I left Vanessa’s a while ago after spending enough quality time with my sister and promising to come back. Actually, Darth came up and declared in his usual quiet, lethal manner that the boss wanted me back home. I would have defied him and stayed back, but I want to get this tuition issue out of the way once and for all.That was seven o’clock, almost an hour ago. Now, I sit in the main room and stare unseeingly at the beautiful mini aquarium, worrying myself to death. I started calling him thirty minutes ago. So far, he hasn’t answered any of my calls. Neither has he returned them. He said he was going after those who hurt me. What if they hurt him? My heart squeezes at the thought of him probably lying broken and hurt somewhere with no means of getting help, and I call his phone over and over again. It keeps going to voice mail. I throw the stupid thing against the wall, watching it crack open and fall to the ground with a sick
MASONMira and I have been back to civilization for all of three days and I already want to load her up and take her back. I admit that our little vacation time together was…positively enlightening, but I never wanted it to end. Sadly, the real world was calling. I had to come back and make plans, put things in place.Mira trusts me to take revenge on everyone who hurt her in the past, and that is exactly what I’m going to do. I haven’t told her about our little encounter when she was fucking nineteen years old. The very thought of telling her makes my insides turn to ice.She might run. She might want to leave me. I won’t let her. Losing Mira would destroy me. I never counted on wanting a woman so much, not seeing or hearing from her for up to an hour would make me itch, but Mira changed…everything. So if keeping this little secret from her for the meantime would guarantee that she stays with me a little longer, that is exactly what I’m going to do.“What’s the plan?” I turn my
MASON Mira might seem a little dazed, a little confused even, but I meant what I said. I protect her now. Her care is my responsibility. I know everything might go to shit later when she finds out that my uncle is in fact Escobar Scuderi and I’m the nephew she was “given to,” but when that time comes, I will be ready. She may have an anger fit, she might cry, she might even throw things at me. But even then, I’m not letting her go anywhere. She’s stuck with me for life now, even if I have to force a ring on that finger to prove it. I freeze as that thought flits through my mind, but the thought of Mira in my house, legally mine with my ring on her finger to prove it leaves me hot…and hard. I want to bind her to me in every possible way. I don’t really care if she accepts it as first. In the long run, she will come to understand that there won’t ever be another man in her life except me. As it should be. When I saw Mira for the first time at Le Delegharo, it felt like I was being p
MIRAYou know that point in your life when it feels like you have absolutely no idea which path you're headed?That part where you feel like you had everything all figured out and suddenly, the way you chose doesn't feel like the right way anymore and you're all toggled up with confusion? That is exactly how I feel right now.Mason's eyes spark with conviction and something else, an emotion I have seen one two many times in those gray depths…determination. "I'm the one who owes you not the other way round, Mason."One of his perfectly shaped brows shoot up."And what exactly do you feel you owe me, Miss Fernandez? Sex? Mistress duties?"Okay, now I'm confused. I lift my chin, my gaze equally tinged with determination."I'm sorry, did I perhaps miss the memo? Isn't that exactly why I'm here?"Mason stares down at me for a while. An emotion that feels too dangerously close to indecision flits in his gaze."I don't want you to just be my mistress anymore."I freeze." What?"He rolls off
MASONAfter two, or was it three more rounds of hard sex, Mason and I finally find ourselves back in the bathroom where he gives me soothing, refreshing bath. He literally scrubs me clean.When we’re both squeaky clean, Mason pins me beneath him on the bed. My legs are completely entangled with his. There’s absolutely no escaping him.”I like you like this.” He murmurs, running a thumb over my cheeks.”Oh? Like what?””Naked in my bed. Completely mine.”My pulse spikes and my heart begins to burn with a warm glow. Calm down, stupid heart.”I’m not utterly yours, Mason.” I challenge.His eyes equally spark with a dangerous, gray gleam.”Want me to show you all over again?” He asks, running his fingers over my thighs suggestively.”Are you joking?”His face is a perfect mask of seriousness,”Do you think I’m joking?”My mouth falls open and for a few seconds, I’m not able to utter a single word.”We just had…sex a couple minutes ago. I’m incredibly sore.” I point out incredulously.His