My Husband's Brother Owns My Secret

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Hartm

smelled of suffocating wealth, fal

e piece of armor that did nothing to keep the cold from seeping into my marrow. Around

a Caldwell, hadn't looked at me

spineless, arrogant, and cruel in the petty way only weak men could be. As another

emind everyone the Hartmans surrendered. Speak only

ext from whatever mistress he was currently keeping on the family's dime. Without another word, he vani

bitter, clawed

aldwells as a peace hostage in a white bridal gown. For three years, Joshua had treated me like a decorative ornament-n

eeded air that hadn't be

iskey from a passing silver tray and slipped through the heavy

rewing over L

t started, fine mist spraying across the limestone balustrade seventy floors above the city. I lifted the tum

us pour for a captive

from the shadow

avelly, and saturated with an aura

against my ribs.

e stone archway into the faint am

Italian suit without a single crease, a heavy platinum watch glinting on his wrist. His face was sculpted from razo

is ey

hing winter tempest-slate, ruthle

the Hartman ghost or Joshua Caldwell's submissive, broken trophy. He looked

crystal tumbler. Every instinct in my blood screamed that this ma

a thin ribbon of blue cigar smoke into the storm wind, the sc

to be saved," he murmured, his baritone vibrating against my

between us in three slo

ped me against the rain-slicked balustrade. My breath hitched. He reached out with

jolt of electric fire shot through my

ose storm-cloud eyes, he tilted the tumbler, pressing his lips

Slowly. De

chest rose and fell in

he asked softly, setting the glass do

raight through my pride. "Th

iece of rare silk is left out in

der, sliding down to hook a single finger under the fragile silver strap of my

h his thumb, forcing me to m

ch from the shell of my ear, his hot breath making every nerve in my neck stand at att

my entire body. "I...

jaw, his teeth lightly grazing the sensitive line of my neck, sending

of my treason could pull me back, his la

traight into a private, mirrored express ele

scended in abs

ors locked, the r

mouth crashing onto mine with a hunger tha

e. Consuming

nstead grabbed the lapels of his suit jacket, clutching the fine wool as his hips pinned mine against the glass. The hardness pre

vator c

ooking the raging storm over Lake Michigan. The entire city of

y illumination came from the lightnin

ing my palms against the c

the curve of my spine, his voice rough and brea

the zipper at the back

n to my tailbone. The delicate fabric parted, whispering down

aked before the stor

cket, vest, and tie with lethal efficiency. When he tore h

users. But it was his back that made my soul tremble-etched across his bronze skin was a network of ol

warrior.

nst my cold back. His hands slid around my waist, his rough palms sp

massive mahogany console table,

hands smoothing up the insides of my

ce trembling as his knuckles brushed ag

n his chest. "Liar. You're soak

r slipped

gan circling the sensitive nerve at my core. He didn't rush. He drew out every gasp, every whimper, strok

begging for, only that the empty ache inside me w

d, his stormy eyes glittering with dar

belt, shoving h

nst my entrance, my eyes flew wide. He was massive

ers sinking deep into my flesh with bruising s

one dark and hypnotic. "Remember this. Fo

e drove

entless.

se. He filled me so completely that it bordered on agony-a blunt,

d hard against mine, burying his full,

f us f

ainst mine as he took short, ragged breaths. Inside me, my wet, tight walls clamped do

raw and torn from his chest. "You feel l

n, letting the ridges of his length graze every nerve inside m

ting mine echoed like a g

nto his thick hair. He carried me from the console to the sprawling king-sized be

Pure, uninhibi

s deep, hitting a spot so profound that white stars exploded behind my eyes. He

s teeth. He sucked and bit with possessive fury, intentionally marking me-leaving a

mark, his thrusts accelerating into a frantic, po

easure coiling so tight in my bell

down his bronze skin, leaving fresh, bleeding tracks ri

atory growl, he drove into me with terrifying speed, each s

d into blinding,

in an endless wave of climax. The man roared, his hips snapping forward with three final, bone-

inst mine, his sweat mingling with my tears as ou

y sound was the rain las

y waist like iron chains, safe in the arms of a mo

*

e stale whiskey a

nfamiliar weight of Egyptian cotton sheets. The air in the room was sharp

d immediate, s

breasts, and the movement drew my

a lethal kind of strength that my husband, Joshua, had never possessed. And there, etched across his bronze skin, was

have

d cheated on Joshua. After three years of an empty, miserable marriage, I had let a

trembling so violently I nearl

e floor. I snatched it up, my hands shaking so h

re he woke up. Before Joshua

clutch on the nig

tch sat a leather-bound notepad. Embossed in the

dwe

ned completely

ld me captive in a loveless, political cage. If Joshua found out, I would be punished. If The Don-Anthony Caldwell, the ruthless mon

hua. He was too big, too scarred, too lethal. A

he never looked for me. I had to make

red dollars. It was pathetic,

ontblanc that probably cost more than my lif

vice. Keep

a night of earth-shattering passion into a cheap, degrading exchange. If he thought I was j

swallowed the sound of my bare feet as I fled the penthouse, escaping the c

y Cald

, and the silence of

e morning after a woman stayed over-which was rare-my skin crawled. My senses, always dialed up to a mad

lence. A heavy, velvet quiet that

s an a

plagued me was gone, replaced by a strange, hollow hunger. I wanted her back in th

fted to the

er glass. A piece of paper fluttered sligh

ching out to s

vice. Keep

cal blow. The air in the room

growl. She thought I was a whore? Me? The man who hel

me three hu

. The insult burned, hot and bright, but beneath it, something darker

ould use me, pay

ernal phone and dia

pard's voice wa

from the last ten minutes," I ordered, my voice a jag

e a prob

the bed, the indent of her bod

dangerously. "But t

he predator f

takes, Clay. Find her.