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2021-07-19 12:53:07After my day with Dominic Knight, I felt entirely drained and had a splitting headache. How can one guy be so draining? I swear he was testing me, but I wouldn’t fold. I wouldn’t give in to the childish games he was trying to play.
I shook my head to get rid of my negative thoughts as I walked up to my parent’s house and opened the door.
“Mama?” I hollered.
“Ms. Stephanie,” greeted one of the maids of the house with a smile.
“Good evening, Gretchen. Where is my mother?”
“She’s in the library.”
“Thank you.”
I made my way toward the back of the house where the “library” was. It was really just a study, but with the giant rack of books that had accumulated in there over the last year, we all started to call it the library.
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I couldn’t believe the man. His photos were everywhere in this building. I caught a few framed things along the wall of models and ads for watches that weren’t of him. Does he have a watch company as well? I shook my head and decided to get the hell out of that building.I texted my driver from the conference room earlier how much longer I would be, so my car was there front and center when I walked out and I didn’t have to worry about any paparazzi. I probably look exhausted. I know I feel that way and am considering a real glass of wine tonight.This man is exhausting. That’s an adjective, right? Not one I should share with him, though. As hard as it may be, I need to stay on this guy’s good side.“Where to, ma'am?” My driver, Noah, asked from the front seat.“Home, please.”Noah nodded his head and drove m
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Dominic left my skin tingling everywhere that he touched me, and even some placed that he hadn't. I never would have admitted that I wanted Dominic Knight before, but in my emotional state right now, my body was screaming for him.I knew it was wrong, so I forced words out of me that I thought would make him stop, even though I knew that I would be disappointed if he actually did.“You’re… selfish… conceited… egotistical, and… pompous.”“Keep going,” he whispered as he moved his lips up to my neck and wrapped one arm around my waist, the other on my neck, beginning to walk us back and toward the bedroom.He let his hand slip underneath my tank, making me gasp slightly at the feeling of his warm palm on my bare flesh.The slight facial hair on his jaw was prickly on my neck, but the gentleness of his lips outwei
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Everyone gathered around the bed where Isaac and I lay together, baby Micah cradled between us. The doctors came in to take him to the NICU and make sure that everything was alright, and with parting words and kisses, I let them take him.Once gone, I nuzzle closer to Isaac, and he wrapped his arms around me and kissed my head.“You named him after your brother,” my mom said with tears in her eyes and her chin quivering, her hand trying to hide her reaction. Dad held both her shoulders before hugging her from behind with a gentle smile on his lips.“Yes,” I responded. “Do you like it?”She threw her hand down and made a hmph sound as she answered, “Like it? I’m the one who picked it,” she and my dad both laughed. “We love the name. Thank you, baby.”It was past midnight now, and in the room
