KATHERINE’S POV
Fifty thousand dollars.
The words echoed inside my head like a gunshot, over and over. Fifty thousand. For one night. One single night with him.
My lips parted, but nothing came out. I kept staring at Arius, at the curve of his mouth as he said it… so calm, like it wasn’t even a big deal. Like it was normal to offer a woman that much money for her body.
But what terrified me most wasn’t the number.
It was how much I wanted to say yes.
Even without the money… I wanted him. God help me, I wanted him.
Since that night, I hadn’t gone a single day without remembering the way he touched me. The way his voice had dropped when he said my name. The way I’d come undone beneath him like he owned me.
Steven never made me feel that.
I’d had s*x with Steven plenty of times — qui
