SCARLETT
I stared at the door after he left, still breathing heavy, my body shaking from what we just did. My lips were swollen, my dress was halfway off, and my heart? God, my heart was in pieces. What did he just say?
This can’t happen again.
He said that last time too. And the time before that. But it kept happening. Over and over. Like we were stuck in a loop we didn’t want to get out of.
And I didn’t want to. Not even a little bit. I liked the way he was. His everything that I gradually forgot what my dad's former secretary told me about him. I'll take care of my dad. But for now. I'll go after my heart. If my dad comes out now. I won't be able to get him.
It was like he had a hold on me—Zayden. Not Vincent. Not my husband. My husband’s father. The one man I wasn’t supposed to w
