Chapter 4 Branded I didn’t expect to be branded. Not literally. But that’s exactly what Dominic Vale did. It started with a text the next morning. You will come to the address below at 11 AM sharp. Do not be late. Do not wear anything under your coat. There was a pin. A luxury townhouse downtown. I recognized the neighborhood—it was the kind of place that charged five figures just to breathe inside. My hands shook as I buttoned up a long trench coat over my bare skin. No bra. No panties. Just the ghost of his c*m from the night before, dried between my thighs, and the soft ache of a hole that had been used more times than I could count. I hated how wet I got remembering it. I hated how fast I obeyed. But I showed up. Because I was past the point of pretending I wasn’t addicte

