Betrayed By Him: Claimed By The Boss

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s slid open wi

pushed it forward onto the familiar marble floor

k heels, her bare feet

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Caleb's twenty-two-year

her index finger, a nervous habit she couldn't

ted down the

hed, breathy giggl

groan followed. A man'

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too heavy to inhale. A cold sweat broke out

sharp, twisting physical pain t

her fingertips, leavi

her Hermes Birkin bag

t the thick rug

wed by another, louder moan e

body moved on pure,

ld hardwood floor of the hallway. Each step f

skin slapping against skin

e heavy mahogany door

ernoon sunlight spilled into the dark hallw

sitate. She d

ht hand and pushed

sun poured through the floor-to-ceiling window

on top o

white Egyptian cotton sheets Kati

d open. She saw Katia

ed scream ripped fr

ess, frantically pulling the white duvet

ipped his head around, h

against the solid oak headbo

rfectly still

idn't cry. Her face was

pletely straight,

was flushed a dark, ugly red, his ba

e floor and shoved his legs into the

," he

his messy brown hair-his tel

ching out his hands to grab her shou

the fabric of her bla

arp, filled with pu

oze in the empty

red. The panic in his eyes morphed

" Caleb shouted, his voice e

ou care more about your Wall Street deals than

jaw locked so tight her

es. Her manicured nails bit so hard into her pal

uncurled he

ee-carat oval diamond caught the sunlight,

slow, heavy rhyth

inched the platinum band, and pulled it

oked a

rew th

nd struck him dead in the

flin

ced off his skin and h

lic clinking sound before coming to a

g is off,"

pitch or emotion. It sounded lik

until Friday to buy out

t in my account by 5:00 PM, my lawye

vet, her face pale. "Kati

her gaze to th

, cold, and entire

ped her mouth shut, shrinking back

t look at C

her bare feet carrying

ure rigid, leaving the apartment and