Dark Lord Seduction System: Taming Wives, Daughters, Aunts, and CEOs novel Chapter 1026

Chapter 1026: Greedy Wish: Have It All

The vulnerability she’d let slip with that soft, husky "come right to me" was already retreating fast — walls slamming back up behind her eyes, clinical composure reassembling itself piece by piece like armor she was desperate to put back on.

She’d offered herself, raw and open, and I’d answered with a fucking travel invitation.

She was clearly deciding whether to feel relieved... or deeply insulted.

"You could have a vacation or whatever while you’re with us, Maria. Spend some time with your daughter in Paris. A few weeks? A month? More if you wanted."

She opened her mouth to speak, but I kept going before she could fill the silence with a polite refusal.

"You know she misses you. Luna didn’t come to your house looking for approval of our relationship, Maria. She wanted — for the first time — to involve you in her life; completely. To have the two most important people in her world either agreeing on the same thing or at least standing on the same page of her life."

I held her gaze steadily, watching every word land and press into something soft and wounded behind that carefully rebuilt composure.

"To have it all. It was a greedy wish, sure. But when you finally have everything you’ve ever wanted, you start daring to hope you could fix the only remaining scar. The one thing that’s still missing."

Maria’s expression hadn’t changed, but her breathing had — shallower now, tighter, the kind that betrayed the war still raging inside her chest.

The robe had slipped again. Lower on her left shoulder, the flimsy strap barely holding on for dear life.

The heavy, full curve of her breast was now exposed almost to the dark edge of her areola, the golden light caressing the soft skin like it was in on the seduction.

She sat there on the bed looking at me with her wet, glistening eyes while I delivered a speech about her daughter’s emotional needs — and my peripheral vision committing straight-up felonies the entire time.

"She wants you in her life completely. She won’t tell me that directly and she won’t tell you directly either, but that’s why we’re here for the people we love, isn’t it? To give them what they want without them having to spell it out."

I paused — not for dramatic effect, but because the next part actually mattered and I needed to get it right.

"If I had to guess, Luna might not even be fully aware how deep that need runs. And as busy as you are, she definitely knew it was more hopes and dreams than anything concrete — and those two aren’t always on speaking terms — but she gave it a shot anyway."

God bless her brilliant, quiet soul. Somewhere in that obsessive mind of hers, Luna also knew that her mother wouldn’t completely surrender unless her Dark Lord somehow claimed her mother, pursued her relentlessly afterward, and folded Maria into the harem so Luna could finally have everything—

—Me, her mother, her sisters, the booming career she was about to build, money, peace, mind-blowing sex, total satisfaction, every single item on her list checked and accounted for.

She had everything but one.

The woman sitting right in front of me.

Maria — who had everything but her daughter, a truly happy life, sex, and real satisfaction.

She sighed. Long, heavy, exhausted — the sigh of a woman watching one escape route quietly close while an unexpected new door cracked open in a direction she hadn’t seen coming.

"I’d love that," she said quietly. "But these two days are all I could have right now. I can’t just ask for a vacation out of the blue. My boss—"

"Your boss is me and Ms. Patricia," I said calmly. "We own Mercy General. I wouldn’t mind giving you a few weeks or months off. And neither would she."

Maria’s eyes damn near popped out of her skull.

"What did you just say?"

"During the divorce between Patricia and the Morrisons I was able to acquire all their shares and the other holders’ too. Mercy General is her’s and mine fully. And if I must let you know — which I don’t, but I will anyway — Patricia is my woman. She’ll understand if I ask her nicely."

Not gracefully— just sat, like her legs had made a unilateral decision to stop supporting her weight while her brain tried to process the nuclear bomb I’d just dropped.

She’d been standing when she said "come right to me," offering herself with the confidence of an older woman, a mother, an authority figure propositioning a younger man who wanted her approval.

"Yeah."

Then down at the robe that had slipped even further, exposing the full soft weight of one breast, the dark areola now teasingly visible at the edge of the lace. 𝓯𝙧𝓮𝓮𝒘𝓮𝙗𝙣𝒐𝒗𝒆𝓵.𝓬𝓸𝒎

I watched the realization hit her in real time behind those dark, wide eyes: the man she had just propositioned while wearing nothing but black lace was also the man who could grant her a vacation or fire her on the spot, who held her daughter’s heart in his hands, who had just laid out exactly what Luna needed with a precision that proved he understood her child better than Maria had been willing to admit, and who was now standing at the door looking at her with an expression that said I want you, I’m choosing not to take you, and that choice is costing me more than you’ll ever know.

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