Always Been Yours

Chapter 1 A Painful Separation

“She’s the woman who can bear my child?”

“Yes, Master Nicholas. She’s the only one in the entire Brentwood City who is genetically compatible with you.”

In the darkness, Tessa Reinhart was half-delirious as she lay on the king-sized bed, clutching and clawing at her thin clothes. She felt as if flames were licking her body, and she whined, “It’s so hot, I can’t stand it…”

The door closed with a heavy thud, and a towering figure sauntered over to the bed.

Tessa tried to open her eyes to see the person approaching, but all she could make out were the blurry edges of what would otherwise have been a rather chiseled face.

Even so, she could still feel the dominance that radiated from the person, and as he drew near, the air around her suddenly grew so dense that she could hardly breathe.

The next moment, she felt a weight pressing down on her. The heat of her body seemed to wane as soon as the hard contours of the man’s body molded against hers. Relieved and tempted by the inexplicable coolness that washed over her, Tessa arched her back fearlessly as though to close even more distance between herself and the man, wriggling impatiently as she mumbled, “More…”

At that moment, Nicholas Sawyer’s gaze darkened, and a sense of hot urgency ran down his spine. “Don’t move,” he whispered huskily, seductively, his voice like velvet.

The Sawyers had extremely rare genetics, but rarer still were women who could bear Nicholas’ offspring, and this mewling woman beneath him happened to be one of them.

He would never have intentionally gotten close to women, much less fool around like a rogue. The only reason he was doing this tonight was to fulfill the duty, Remus Sawyer, his grandfather, had given him.

such an intense desire for this woman, whom he had never met

and ran her hands all over him, the soft curves of her

man turned into a hungry beast, ferocious as lust cascaded over him and made him grab hold of Tessa by her waist,

was so extreme that for a minute, she was almost lucid. Who is he? she asked herself frantically, belatedly. What am I doing

the inheritance her mother had left for her, only to be drugged by the latter. When she woke

out piteously, protesting against the violation, but the man didn’t show any sign of stopping as he continued to have his way with

of sweat trickled down the man’s body, and amidst his low grunts and her tortured panting, he went on to thrust tirelessly into her, switching positions as he pleased as he reduced her into

intense wave of pleasure crash over her like a tsunami. She threw her head back as

and Nicholas saw her birthmark, which was a shade darker than her pale skin and was shaped like a delicate butterfly about

…

clutched the protective rails on either side of her, her knuckles turning white. “Argh! It hurts!” she cried while enduring

I can

the deathly silent delivery room, heralding

duty has been fulfilled, and from now on, the

impassive voice filled Tessa’s ears as she lay ashen-faced on the hospital cot, so weak and drained that she couldn’t even lift a finger. All she could do was watch wide-eyed as her child was

tears streamed past

that man, whose identity she still did not know, Tessa found herself kept under housewatch. Not long after that, she

her that if she were to deliver the

hearing that, Tessa agreed immediately and without a