Just Before My Wedding: Trapped By My Ruthless Boss novel Chapter 71

Chapter 71

OCEANS.

She stilled.

She was fucking quiet,

I had just handed her the most unguarded thing I had said out loud in eleven years, and she was sitting on my lap looking at me like she was waiting for the part where I told her I was joking.

I wasn’t joking.

I pulled her up in one motion and set her on the desk.

She gasped at the shift, her hands flying to my shoulders to steady herself

Her dress rode up with the movement and stayed there.

“Say something.” I reached for the hem of her dress with both hands, pushing it up the rest of the way. My belt came undone. “Would you believe me, Kiss?”

She was searching my face. Looking for the exit from what I had just said.

There was no exit.

This wasn’t something I was going to take back.

“Oceans.” Her voice was unsteady. “You can’t just — this isn’t-

I pushed into her slowly.

The rest of the sentence dissolved. Her head dropped back, her hands gripped my shoulders, and the sound she made went straight to my cock.

“That’s not the question, baby. I pulled out slowly, dragged the head of my cock through her wetness, and pushed back in. Inch by fucking inch.

She tried to find the words and lost them again as I moved.

I took her face in both hands, tilted it until she had nowhere to look except directly at whatever was on my face right NOW that I had stopped trying to manage.

I gazed into the eyes of the only woman who had reached something in me I had spent eleven fucking years making sure nothing could reach. And I was done pretending.

“I have fallen for you.” I said it again, quietly, with my hands on her face, and my cock moving inside her in slow, deep strokes that I felt in my spine.

My eyes trapped hers so she couldn’t look away from a single syllable of it. “Every fucking part of you.”

I pushed deeper until there was nowhere deeper to go. I was already seated completely inside her. But I pushed anyway. like

I was trying to crawl into her skin, and like if I could just get close enough, she would have to believe me.-

She clenched around me. Her walls gripped my cock so hard I had to close my eyes for a second. When I opened them, she was still looking at me. Her eyes were glassy and wet at the corners.

Oceans, stop saying those things…” She whispered, shaking her head.

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“I can’t.” My words were rough. “Fuck” I stopped moving, buried to the hill. My forehead dropped to hers. “I can’t stop. Kiss I’ve tried. I’ve told myself a hundred times that this was just sex, that it would burn out, that you were a distraction. None of it worked”

She didn’t reply. Instead, she pulled my mouth down to hers and kissed me like she was trying to explain something her words couldn’t explain.

Her tongue pushed past my lips as she kissed me hard and desperately and completely unlike the careful woman I know

I kissed her back as hard and as deep as I could, fucking her mouth with my tongue the way I was fucking her with my cock. and she made a sound into my mouth that I felt everywhere.

I moved with the kind of strokes that made her fingers curl into my shoulders, and her thighs tighten around my hips. I felt every fucking squeeze of her walls around my cock in my spine, in my stomach, and in the base of my skull as I pulled out of the kiss.

“Don’t shy away from the question, Kiss. Because I’ll ask you again.” My thumb traced her cheekbone, and she shuddered under my touch. “Would you believe me?”

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KISAREL

The hours after we had sex were too tense for either of us to speak to each other.

We straightened ourselves out, went back to our respective sides of the glass, and pretended to work.

Every time I looked up, he was already looking at me. And every time he looked away, I was already looking at him. We did this for four hours, until the day was over.

And when it was barely a few minutes before 5 PM, he appeared at my desk with his jacket on, “I’m taking you

“I can get a cab-

“Kiss.”

That was the end of that conversation.

home.”

And throughout the drive home, I kept my hands on my lap and my eyes on the street and tried not to think about those words that had taken root in my brain for the past five hours.

‘I have fallen for you.

“You’ll start your driving lessons from tomorrow,” He said when the car came to a stop in front of Elgin’s house. “I’ll have one of my trusted men teach you.”

I nodded.

He closed his palm around mine on my thighs and squeezed gently. “Get your things ready tonight,” he said. “I’ll have someone come first thing tomorrow to help you move to your new place.”

I turned to look at him. “Oceans-”

“The house is yours.” His thumb moved across the back of my hand. “You should be living in it.”

I’m fine here. Elgin and I have a system, and I don’t need–”

“Im not asking you as the person who shares a bed with you.” His gaze darkened a fraction. I’m telling you as your boss. You will move into that apartment tomorrow. That’s not a discussion

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I pressed my lips together before exhaling, “Fine.”

“Good.”

“But, on one condition,” I quickly added.

“Anything.” He said, and I almost smiled.

“Elgin comes with me”

There was silence, and it lasted long enough for me to genuinely prepare for the ‘no‘ that should follow.

But I wasn’t going to give up either way. Elgin was still grieving. He was the only person in this city who…

“Okay”

His words cut my wandering thoughts off.

I stared at him.

“What?”

“He can come.” He said, and from the way he sounded, this had cost him something.

“You’re

–

are you serious?”

“I said yes, Kiss. Don’t make me take it back.”

A warm, overwhelming feeling took over me.

“Thank you,” I said quietly. “Really. Thank you.”

“Don’t thank me yet.” He turned back to me, and the warmth in his expression had been replaced by something considerably more direct. “The moment I sense anything from him that I don’t like anything that makes me uncomfortable or gives

me a reason

—

– I will remove him from your life personally. Am I clear?”

I smiled and nodded, “You have nothing to worry about. Elgin isn’t a problem/

I reached for the door handle, but his hand wrapped around the nape of my neck, pulling me toward him and turning my face to him.

And then, he kissed me.

His kiss was slow and warm. It carried a hint of passion I never expected from a man like Oceans.

He moaned into my mouth as his tongue explored every corner of my mouth in those soft, gentle strokes.

When he finally pulled out of that kiss, his forehead dropped to mine, and he stayed there for a moment before he pulled back and looked at me.

“Stay safe.” His voice was rough at the edges. “You hear me?”

I nodded.

“Good night” He said.

“Good night,” I replied, pushed the door open, and stepped out into the cool evening air.

Belund me, I heard the car stay parked. He wasn’t pulling away until I was inside. I knew that without turning around to

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check because it was exactly the kind of thing Ocean Stark did.

I was almost at the door when a strange, prickling awareness at the back of my neck made me slow down.

I turned on instinct and saw a car parked half a block down, partially swallowed by the shadow between two large trees.

My heart skipped a beat.

It was a black car…

With no plates.

I knew that car

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