All Chapters of MARRYING MY BEST FRIEND'S FIANCEE: Chapter 231 - Chapter 240

"Answer me.""No, I don’t regret it. I would have done anything to save you from that drug-induced-drink-all-night-reckless-party life."No denial rushed out of her this time. Instead, she closed her eyes and bent her head to his chest. The raw intimacy of the gesture flayed him, reaching a part he didn’t know he possessed.Her shoulders pushing at his chest, the scent of her coating the air he breathed, her lithe form was so tempting. He wanted to wrap his arms around her, he wanted to bury his mouth in... Feeling like an iron anvil was sitting on his chest, he clasped her wrists to push her away.Instead, the pad of his thumb moved over the plump vein of its own will.Her breaths came in a slow rasp until, suddenly, she looked up. His lungs burned for air as her fingers laced around his, as a blunt nail raked the center of his palm, her molten brown gaze clung to his lips.Something so desperate and wanting flashed in her gaze that Darian dropped her hand.It was so unlike Kassandra

The responsibility of bearing that name, the reality of being the woman Darian would respect and know and want...it sent shivers down her spine.The usual white dress shirt he wore was unbuttoned, showing dark olive skin. His cuffs, folded back, displayed his muscled forearms, to the veins extending from his wrist and down... The sight of those powerful thighs, encased in tight blue jeans, made her remember how hard and corded they had been against her own. Made her wonder how they would cradle her if she...Heat, that had nothing to do with her running, pooled under her skin. The stretchy fabric of her Lycra top rasped against her nipples; the soft hem of her shorts rubbed against her inner thighs...She was breathing like she had run another few laps, her skin so overheated that dunking into the pool was so inviting. Just as she found her willpower and took a step, she heard her name.Turning slowly, she saw his fingers laced against his chest, a faint color bleeding into those chee

She stared, unblinking. Her nostrils flared. "You're..." disgusting.It was addictive to play her own game with her, so compelling to watch the different expressions pass through her eyes. At that moment, there were no lies she could tell him. At that moment, the connection between them was as explosive and destructive as the wildfire that had wrecked through the surrounding acreage a few years ago.A fire that was going to need feeding soon if he didn’t want it to consume him, as it had already begun to...if he didn’t want to lose all sense of right and wrong.And what was wrong with wanting his own wife in his bed? Maybe if he gave in to the fire, he could function normally again."You wanted to know," he goaded her."No, I didn’t. I was just trying to make a point. ""You sounded like a nagging, jealous wife. Just what I wanted my marriage to be. "All color fled from her face, leaving her gaze stricken. Tears pooled in her eyes. And the sight of those big brown eyes brimming with

Kassandra smoothed down the fabric of the beige, supremely boring satin silk she was wearing and suppressed another sigh. The dress, picked by the stylist and coming with a hefty designer tag, wasn’t ugly per se.But the classic-fitting bodice and the flaring skirt were not all her style. With her hair pulled back from her face and the cashmere wrap, she felt thoroughly unlike herself. The heavy diamond choker lay against her throat like a dead, cold weight that could siphon off every bit of warmth from her skin.Blinking, she looked at Darian, sitting on the other side of the wide cabin, his arrogant head bent over his laptop.She unbuckled the seatbelt and paced the length of the long cabin, all the way to the rear and back.Her back ached from all the work she had done in the past few weeks, once she had received the delivery of all the raw materials she had ordered.In the evenings, she had had meetings every day of the week, some arranged by her, some by the man who, it seemed, w

"I don’t believe you."Trembling with panic, Kassandra locked her hands by her sides, the urge to pound at him rising again.I’m not lying about this. Kal, and you are welcome to it. Now, if you could please tell your pilot to turn around and head back to your estate—"He didn’t even blink. "I won’t. "Maybe I forgot to mention it, but this is one of the conditions you have to meet for your freedom, Kassandra."Her throat felt like it was made of glass. "You can’t do this."Rising from his seat, Darian planted himself in her way. He frowned, taking in the trembling of her shoulders and the real flare of panic in her eyes. "Kassandra, what’s going on?"Her chin tilted up, her gaze slowly focusing on him again. Her jaw gritting, she squared her shoulders. "I don’t want anything to do with Romanos or his legacy. He...rejected my mom without looking back just because she fell in love with my dad. He didn’t even come when she died; he never accepted my dad."He was heartbroken that he had d