Brant

Can be read as a standalone story.

The board wouldn’t hand me my father’s empire without a wife on my arm.
So I made her an offer.
Marry me. Save your brother. Keep your store.
One year. Separate rooms. No complications.
Indigo said yes.
She wasn’t supposed to matter.
She wasn’t my type.
But then she made me breakfast.
Made me laugh.
Then she came down those stairs in green silk, and I forgot every rule I’d set.
The dress clinging to every curve.
Every man in the room watching her.
And all I could think about was peeling it off her.
I told myself it was just lust.
The way she gasps my name. The way she trembles under my hands.
The way she fits me like she was made for it.
I was wrong.
This is so much more.
I’ve fallen for my own wife.
And now I’ll ruin anyone who tries to take her from me.
She thinks she isn’t enough.
She has no idea I’d burn the world down before I let her go.
One year isn’t going to be enough.
She’s mine now.
And I want her…for good.