CHAPTER 1 [Are You Married?] ~TRAVIS~ Life is easy when you look at women as tools. Tools that you look upon and can’t think of anything else other than how good they would look, impaled on your cock. Tools that are the perfect bargaining chip for business moves. Or tools that are baby makers wh
CHAPTER 2 [Little Rainbow]~TRAVIS~“Are you married?”As many times as that question rang in my head, I still couldn’t understand what exactly I had done since I came into this hall which gave the impression that one could ask me that sort of question. Since I was mystified by the question itself a
CHAPTER 3 [To be alone]~TRAVIS~ Sophie Summers. Twenty-six. Graduated top of her class with credentials that could get her a job at any reputable company in the country. Aside from her age, there was nothing peculiar about little miss rainbow. She was certainly much younger than I was but she w
CHAPTER 4 [Her Life’s Mission]~SOPHIE~“Sophie! You mad woman!” I heard her angry voice from a distance away, yet I still wasn’t fast enough to escape the slipper that hit me smack at the back of my head. Celeste, my roommate and sadly also the only friend I had, barged into our cramped apartment
CHAPTER 5 [The Freaking Prize]~SOPHIE’S POV~There was only one reason why my relationships never lasted more than three months; I was too good for them. I was the freaking prize. Sure, they were too much of a coward to just admit it and came up with silly excuses as listed below: ~You’re too obse
CHAPTER 6 [An Anomaly] ~TRAVIS~ I’ve dealt with mergers that threatened to collapse entire divisions of my company. I’ve handled hostile negotiations with billionaires who’d rather burn than concede. I’ve faced reporters armed with intrusive questions and competitors who’d sell their souls to see
CHAPTER 7 [Sweet Tooth] ~SOPHIE~ The car ride back to the office was painfully silent. Not just any kind of silence—the loud, suffocating kind that made every second stretch like an eternity. I had played my cards too boldly today, and Travis Sinclair’s scowl was proof of that. He didn’t speak.
CHAPTER 8 [Anything But Ordinary] TRAVIS It had been two days since the disaster at Ridgeview, but Sophie Summers had refused to leave my mind. No matter how hard I tried to push her out, she lingered like a splinter under my skin, irritating and unavoidable. I leaned back in my chair, rubbing m
CHAPTER 45 [ A Confession and a Warning ]~SOPHIE~One second, I was mad that Travis had the audacity to ask me what I was doing out here after ignoring my very existence all day. And the next, I was luring him like a prey because I saw a small crack in the walls he shields his emotions with. I sa
CHAPTER 44 [ My Heart Hurts ] ~TRAVIS~ *MOMENTS EARLIER* I have never been the type to use alcohol as a coping mechanism but the moment we booked our rooms, my first thought was that I needed a drink. And fast. I left that room, craving the physical burn of a drink. I needed it to replace the e
CHAPTER 43 [ A Woman On A Mission ]~SOPHIE~I was insane. Absolutely out of my mind.How else could I explain getting on a plane to a city I barely knew, with a guy who irritated me to no bounds, to attend a ceremony I wasn’t properly invited to? All because of a man who didn’t give a flying fuck a
CHAPTER 42 [One Hell Of A Trip ]~TRAVIS~From the moment the words I and Elaine finalized our agreement, we were swept up in unending preparations, without a single pause to rethink the choices we were making. First, I got her a ring within hours of agreeing to the engagement. The gesture was noth
CHAPTER 41 [ Travis’ Good Girl ]~SOPHIE~Waiting was not my thing. Scratch that—patience and I were mortal enemies. Yet, it’s all I have been doing since that day. I’d been a slave to my phone two days into Travis’ promise to call, checking it every few minutes without fail. Two days.Forty-Eigh
CHAPTER 40 [ A Facade] ~TRAVIS~ I was almost certain that if I just as much as grazed those scars with my fingers, they would open up and begin bleeding again. That was how mortifying they looked. But what was even more scary was how clear it was they were acquired over the years, as if the pers
CHAPTER 39 [ False Innocence ]~TRAVIS~ I wasn’t shocked that I had been drugged. Heck, the drug test was right before my eyes. What threw me off was the person making the confession. The shy, fragile woman who had barely been able to meet my eyes at dinner had waltzed into my office and confessed
CHAPTER 38 [Illicit Affairs ] ~TRAVIS~ If I had any doubts left, Sophie's lips cleared them all in one single touch. Every second of last night came rushing back—the way her skin felt against mine, the way she moaned my name, the way I completely lost myself in her. Her kiss wasn’t gentle or he
CHAPTER 37 [ A Second Round] ~SOPHIE~ The blank expression on Travis’ face could easily deceive anyone into thinking he didn’t know what I was talking about. He must have practiced that look a lot to the point of perfection. For a man who has always been straightforward, he sure was taking the