“Take off your clothes. All of them.” I command. “Bossy, I like it.” She smirks and takes off everything until she stands before me naked. My eyes run over her naked body and I wait for the first spark of arousal that never comes. Instead, I picture someone else’s naked body. Leslie. I shake my he
KIAN’S POV “There he is!” My mother beams, going round the dinner table to meet my uncle halfway. She pulls him into a hug which he returns reluctantly, his arms enveloping my mother’s smaller frame. “I am so sorry about your warehouse, Travis.” My mother says after pulling away but my uncle merel
“Why not? People do it all that time. It’s just a baby mom, please stop making a big deal out of it.” That seems to enrage her even more as she looks at me like she’s considering smacking me on the head. “That is disrespectful to the innocent girl you knocked up, Kian and I am glad she isn’t here t
LESLIE'S POVThe design team general office is a mess today just like it has been in the past two days since the disaster happened. Voices rise above each other as several calls are getting made within seconds of each other. The office landline phones ring for barely a second, get answered and are
“The word must have spread.” Someone on my team, a young blonde woman called Renee, breaks the silence on the table since we got here. I stare at my food, having had a taste and feeling nothing but blandness that makes me lose my appetite.“How the hell did it get out? Only the people on our team kn
LESLIE’S POVTwo more days pass and nothing has changed. The flicker of hope Travis had brought to me danced and burned brightly when I sent my first email. Now, three-hundred-and-something emails later, it barely makes a spark. Travis was right and it took me sending all those emails and getting
KIAN’S POVTonight is one of those nights that I wish this arrangement with Beverly never happened. One of those nights I wish I could go straight home instead of having to stay with Beverly for over three hours. I started checking the time the minute I got here and hell, it’s been moving so slow,
KIAN'S POVAndre Sanders is the biggest bastard on earth. And he should be the last person that I pick up my phone to call after how we parted ways in business school all those years ago. I swore to never have a reason to get involved with that insufferable bastard but I am left with no choice if L
CHAPTER 17 [The Path Of Heartbreak] ~TRAVIS~ “You asked to see me, sir.” Sophie Summers. I could never get used to her presence, not even when I was the one who requested it. “Sit.” I ordered, barely looking at her. Knowing how defiant she can be, I expected some sort of retort but she quiet
CHAPTER 16 [ A Tangled Mess] ~SOPHIE~ I pushed the door open with a sigh, the familiar weight of the day’s events pressing on me. My head still throbbed, a dull reminder of last night’s recklessness. As I stepped inside the apartment, the soft scent of lavender and the comforting hum of the refr
CHAPTER 15 [Not Her Type] ~SOPHIE~ "Who’s this, Sophie?" Sebastian’s voice slithered through the hallway, his smirk widening when his eyes landed on Travis. "Your new boyfriend?" I was still trying to gather myself together after running into Travis so suddenly. I had questions about how he was
CHAPTER 14 [The Man Who Was Never Mine] ~SOPHIE~ The nausea hadn’t subsided. I sat at the edge of the bed in my childhood room, staring at the peeling wallpaper and the dusty, forgotten trinkets that once made this space my sanctuary. It had been hours since I’d woken up with the hangover poundi
CHAPTER 13 [In Her Absence] ~TRAVIS~ The absence was the first thing I noticed. It wasn’t the missing coffee on my desk—although I’d gotten far too accustomed to finding it there, piping hot and prepared just the way I liked it. Nor was it the lack of a sticky note, usually plastered on the edge
CHAPTER 12 [A Return To The Shadows] ~SOPHIE~ The dull throb in my head woke me before anything else. It pulsed behind my eyes like a relentless drumbeat, making it impossible to open them fully. I groaned, rolling over and burying my face into the pillow, hoping to escape the nausea curling in m
CHAPTER 11 [Kill-Joy] TRAVIS I wasn’t sure what annoyed me more: Sophie Summers’ audacity or the fact that I had actually turned around and come back. Sitting in the backseat of my car, I stared out the tinted window at the pub just across the street from my company. I had never step foot there bu
CHAPTER 10 [The Sophie Effect] ~TRAVIS~ If chaos had a face, it would undoubtedly wear Sophie Summers’ unrelenting smile. For the past few days, she had inserted herself into every corner of my life at my textile company, leaving me to wonder how someone so seemingly innocent could wreak such calc
CHAPTER 9 [The Picture Of Caution]~SOPHIE~Celeste was already waiting for me as I stepped out of Travis office, her arms crossed and her usual look of exasperation firmly in place. I knew I had this coming when I came here but it was actually surprising that she let me in without a fight.“Sophie,