“Does he ever touch you like this?” I tried to answer, but he flicked my earlobe with his tongue, and my words dissolved into a whimper. He slid his fingers lower, circling me without release, trapping me at the brink.He pinned my wrists overhead, crushing any thought of resistance. I arched for friction; he pressed me flat with a quiet command that made me feel completely his. Pulling back, he met my eyes, dark satisfaction gleaming there.“You’re so wet,” He whispered. “Such a dirty little girl.”Shame and want tangled in me as he tilted my face up.“Please…” I gasped.He bared his teeth and asked, “You want to come so badly, don’t you?”I nodded, voiceless.He grazed me once more and then withdrew.“But you’ve been a bad girl,” he said, tracing my thigh with a cool fingertip. “And bad girls don’t get to come.”****On the runway, Ari is a world-famous model. Off it, she is the secret heiress to a billion-dollar empire. After a scandal rocks her career and a shocking discovery about her father turns her world upside down, one reckless night with a handsome stranger changes everything.When her father falls into a coma and the family company begins to collapse, Ari is forced into a contract marriage to save it. On her wedding day, she discovers the stranger is connected to the powerful rival family she is marrying into. Trapped in a dangerous world of secrets, power, and forbidden attraction, Ari must decide whether to remain a pawn in their game or become the queen of the board.