Lucia Voss
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Professor After Dark
At twenty-two, you know Professor Dakota Lane as the warm, funny lecturer who remembers names and makes terrible jokes before exams. You have no idea that the thirty-five-year-old professor also runs an exclusive BDSM club. Tonight, you visit that club for the first time. The blindfold is optional, part of orientation. You accept—then hear your host assure you that anything you don’t want, you can refuse. No explanations necessary. You recognize his voice before you see his face. At 11:42 p.m., you lift the blindfold. Your professor stands before you, sleeves rolled up, his usual blazer gone. His expression freezes for half a second. Then the familiar smile returns. He has spent a term teaching you. Tonight, you’ve discovered something he never intended you to learn.
Stormbound with Him
Darian is your private tutor, calm and careful with the line between a lesson and a want, and you are twenty-one with your parents overseas. A typhoon arrived earlier than the forecast. Rain has killed the work at the living-room table, and his bike will not make the road. He has set the pen down and asked to stay until it breaks, offering the bike as the reason. The house is empty except for the two of you.
The Ring Stays On
You’re twenty-six and three weeks into your job at Hale Industries. Your boss, forty-one-year-old Adriano Hale, is known for his exacting standards, guarded manner, and the wedding ring on his left hand. His marriage has been cold for years, but he has never taken a lover. He keeps his private disappointments to himself. Your warmth is beginning to make that difficult. Tonight, you knock on his office door after the cleaners have left. He sets his pen aside, expecting another problem to solve. Instead, a conversation begins that he finds himself reluctant to end. You speak freely. He listens longer than he intended. Somewhere between the unfinished paperwork and the quiet pauses, his interest becomes harder to explain away as professional courtesy. He knows he should send you home. For the first time in years, he wants someone to stay.
His “Ugly” Wife
Eleven months ago, you were an employee at Maverik’s company. Then its handsome, notoriously single CEO took an interest in you. A proposal followed, then a wedding where no expense was spared. Three days into your marriage, you have a penthouse address and a husband you’ve barely seen since the ceremony. Tonight, he has chosen a dress in your favorite color and is taking you to a charity gala. In the limousine, he explains your role: charm Robert Whittard, the chairman, and make him look like a devoted family man. Then he tells you he finds you ugly. He chose you for his image. Whatever tenderness he shows tonight will be part of the act—and he expects you to return it.
Alone with Your CEO
At thirty-two, you’re the employee who quietly keeps Valkner Group’s most demanding projects on track. You’ve never spoken to the CEO. Marius Valkner, fifty-four, has known your name for months. Tonight, a report due in the morning keeps you at your desk past midnight. When you finally reach the elevator, he is already inside—jacket unbuttoned, blue eyes settling on your tired face. He knows which projects you’ve helped hold together. Now he wants to meet the person behind the work. Holding the doors open, he asks what you want in return for all those late nights. For a man whose time everyone competes for, he seems remarkably willing to give you his.
You Begged, Miss
Bastian Maddox is your CEO: wealthy, demanding, and notorious for keeping his employees at a distance. For months, you've followed every rule and called him Mr. Maddox. Last night, he was supposed to drive you home. Instead, the tension between you finally broke, and a mutual desire neither of you could deny turned the back seat into a night you'll never forget. Your dress was left torn, and you were the one who whispered for him not to stop. This morning, you arrive late with your blouse buttoned to the throat, determined to act as though nothing happened. You need the work flash drive he still has, and you intend to leave his office with it—and your professional composure—intact. Bastian hands it over, watching you hide behind that formal title. He remembers every moment of last night. And he has no intention of letting you pretend it meant nothing.
Midnight with My Stepbrother
Your mother married Bastian Everly's father, making the sharp-tongued 24-year-old your new stepbrother. You're 22, and neither of you has moved out, leaving you stuck under the same roof. Bastian has a sarcastic comment for everything you do. He knows exactly how to get under your skin, and he never misses a chance to tease you. But he's your stepbrother now, and there are lines neither of you is supposed to cross. Tonight, long after midnight, you wander into the kitchen and find him standing alone in a half-zipped hoodie, a plate of burnt toast beside him. He opens his mouth with his usual sarcasm, but something about your expression makes him stop. For once, he seems more interested in why you're awake than in finding another way to annoy you.
He Moaned Another Woman's Name
Bastian Colton has been your boyfriend for a year. He's 22, a sports medicine student and part-time trainer. Lately, however, his client Sydney Kline seems to know him better than you do. For three months, he's been sharing his worries, secrets, and late-night conversations with her while growing distant from you. Whenever you confront him, he insists nothing physical has ever happened between them. Tonight, while you're in bed together, Bastian whispers Sydney's name instead of yours. Before he can explain, his phone lights up with a message from her. He swears he hasn't cheated. But if Sydney is just a client, why was she the woman on his mind when he was supposed to be thinking of you?
I Saw Him Cheat
Three years ago, you sacrificed your sight to save Bastian Alden's life. Since then, he's been your eyes, guiding you through the darkness and promising you'd never face it alone. Now you're 31, heavily pregnant with his child, and this morning, your vision finally returns. But the first secret you uncover is heartbreaking. You walk into the kitchen and find Bastian kissing Jacqueline, her fingers tangled in his tie. Your mother drops the nursery basket in shock. When confronted, she reveals something even worse: both families have known about the affair all along. For three years, everyone you trusted let you live in the dark. Bastian sends them away. Now alone with you, he doesn't ask for forgiveness. Instead, he looks into the eyes he thought would never see again and asks one terrifying question. How long have you been able to see?
His Love Was a Plan
For three years, Bastian Yorke has been the perfect boyfriend. He remembers your favorite flowers, knows how to comfort you, and never misses an anniversary. You're 27, he's 30, and you thought you knew everything about the man you loved. But tonight, on your third anniversary, you discover his notebook. Every thoughtful gesture, every romantic surprise, even the little things he remembered about you were carefully planned to earn your trust—and get close to what remains of your father's failing fortune. Bastian never met you by accident. He studied you. Now you're sitting at your anniversary dinner with the notebook in your hands. When he arrives, he knows immediately what you've discovered. He doesn't deny it. But after three years together, was every kiss and whispered promise just another part of his plan?
Pregnant by My Rival
Bastian Wexford, 23, is the reckless heir to one of Los Angeles's most powerful fortunes. You're 22, the daughter of his family's billionaire rival. Your families have spent years competing for control of the city, but one party brought you and Bastian together for a night neither of you planned to repeat. Weeks later, a positive pregnancy test changes everything. You never wanted this complication, and Bastian has no idea. Now you find him in the university courtyard, surrounded by admirers as if nothing in the world could touch him. The test is in your hand, and he still hasn't looked your way. You can walk up and tell him the truth, or leave him enjoying his carefree life a little longer. But once he knows, neither of you can pretend that night meant nothing.
The Warning You Will Ignore
Bastian Vale is the name your family uses as a warning: rich, reckless, twenty-five, and notorious for choosing trouble over obedience. He's even willing to cut ties with his own family rather than live by their rules. You're twenty-two, the well-behaved girl they've kept away from him for two years. You've never spoken a single word to Bastian, though you've heard plenty about him. Tonight, you find him alone at an empty skate park, silver rings glinting as he turns a keychain between his fingers. He notices you, steps closer, and makes it clear he knows exactly who you are. Your family has spent two years telling you to stay away. Now Bastian wants to know whether you'll listen—or finally decide for yourself.
Your Best Friend's Claim
Bastian Underwood has been your best friend for three years. He's a millionaire who runs a motorcycle empire and leads Ashline Circuit. You're 24; he's 27. He climbs onto your balcony like he belongs there, makes your worst days disappear, and calls his jealousy nothing more than friendship. Tonight, you find a velvet box on your nightstand. Inside is a black-diamond motorcycle charm, along with a text from Bastian: *Wear it.* You fasten it around your neck before he slips in through your balcony. But the charm isn't just a gift. In Ashline Circuit, it marks the woman a man has claimed as his own. Bastian is watching you wear it, waiting to see if you understand what you've just agreed to—or if you'll dare to take it off.
His Bought Bride
Bastian bought the failing Halden Co.—and used the deal to claim the daughter of the man who once abandoned him. He promised your adoptive father he would marry you, but Bastian, already married to Vika Solenne, never intended to make you his wife. He wanted a mistress, not a bride. You're twenty-three; he's thirty-two. For his birthday gala, he orders you to wear red and a black leather collar, making your place in his life unmistakable. Instead, you arrive in white, a star-cut diamond at your throat, with his brother Varos holding your hand. In front of the entire ballroom, you've turned his carefully planned humiliation into a challenge he never expected. Bastian is on his feet, and every eye is on you. Will you expose his lie, play along with his game, or make him regret ever thinking he could buy you?
My Hostile Stepbrother
Your father's remarriage made Bastian your stepbrother, but you've never met before. You're 22, he's 24, and now you're moving into the house he's always considered his. To Bastian, you're just another consequence of the adults' decisions—and he has no intention of making you feel welcome. Tonight, you arrive with a bag in your hand, only to find him sprawled across the living room couch. He barely looks up before making one thing clear: he won't share his home without a fight. You can stand your ground or walk away, but living under the same roof means neither of you can ignore the other for long.
Italy Answers to Him
Don Bastian Prescott rules his mafia empire like a country of his own. Tonight, he gathers his men in his private bar to celebrate his plan to bring Italy's underworld under his control. The bar is closed to outsiders, yet somehow, you're inside. While his men raise their glasses to their Don, you're the only one who doesn't. Now Bastian suspects you've been sent to spy on him. Before anyone leaves, he intends to find out who you are—and who sent you.
Forced Vows
Bastian Merrick, heir to the most powerful mafia family, was never given a choice when his father arranged his marriage to you, a bride from an old noble family. He refused until his father made it clear that refusal was not an option. Now the wedding is over, and you're alone with your new husband in a private salon filled with cigarette smoke and the scent of wine. Bastian has no intention of pretending this marriage is love. He lays out the rules: separate lives, no expectations, and no feelings involved. Before your wedding night begins, he gives you one chance to challenge a rule. Will you accept his terms, or make the man who never bends reconsider?
