Valkyrie Rising: Ruining My Ex-Husband

a battlefield covered in silk and shadows. Serafina sat behind the massive mahogany desk, her fingers flying across her laptop. She had spent the

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in the doorway was unmistakable. Broad shoulders, a sharp jawlin

aid, her voice steady despite the frantic dru

d at the collar. He looked like a man who had spent the last eight hours at the bott

ance shaft," he said, his voice a low, gravelly rasp. "Even the

until he was standing directly over her. The scent of him-expensive cologne mixed with the bitter tang of scotch-swi

" she whispered, lean

k, caging her in. "You took my company. You took my office. You even took my name off the

could feel the heat radiating from his chest. "When you feel exactly as small as I felt when you handed me those divo

he air between them hummed with a violent, undeniable electricity. He reached out, his f

. She should pull away. She should call security. But h

both a caress and a challenge. "You think I don't see the way your pulse jumps when I touch y

nic," she lied, her voice shaking.

an agonizing promise. "Then tell me to stop. Tell me you don't want me to take you right here,

to push him away, but to grip his shirt, pulling him closer e

of repressed longing. It wasn't a romantic kiss; it was a war. His hands tangled in her hair,

ers. For a split second, the CEO and the Valkyrie vanished, leaving

sonogram flashed in her mi

ps swollen and red. She shoved him back, the dis

ears of fury and shame. "Get out before I

in his eyes despite the rejection. He wiped his mouth with the b

ut we're not done. Not by a long shot. And tomorrow morning? I'm going to that hotel

g Serafina alone in the dark, her body still humming wit