Chapter 1 BOOK ONE: Chapter 0001

•LIANA•

"Come on, Liana, it will be fun," Maya said on the phone, begging me for the third time to go with her to an underground nightclub. "We won't stay after midnight, and we won't do anything you’re not comfortable with."

Everyone knew what happened in underground nightclubs. Everyone who went there was either wishing to have wild sex with a stranger or find someone to match their crazy sexual fantasies.

And I wasn't looking for anything in those categories.

"Can we schedule that for another time?" I asked, hoping she would stop pestering me about it. "It's just that I have a busy day today and tomorrow. In fact, my entire week will be busy with a lot of stuff."

"You're boring, do you know that?" She groaned. "I will text you the address anyway in case you change your mind. There will be hot guys there. And Chris won't know that you were staring at other men's dicks."

I almost laughed as I walked down the corridor to Chris's office. He didn't know that I was coming to see him.

I wanted my visit to be a surprise. I bought us a small cake to celebrate our second anniversary and three months since we got engaged.

I went all out and bought a red lingerie that I hoped he would take off me and give me something to last me for the next three days.

Our sex life was kind of boring, but I hoped to spice things up today. We had both gone a week without anything, and I was craving it.

Two days without sex in my job felt like hell. But whenever Chris and I had to be together, something always came up.

His work either got in the way or mine did, and we would be tired whenever he slept over at my place, or I at his.

"You can stuff those dicks in your mouth, Maya, because I am going to suck mine now."

"Eww," she groaned. "Bitch bye."

I chuckled as I hung up the call and slipped my cell phone back into my pocket. I then pushed the door open and walked into his office.

I wasn't looking at his desk when I walked in. And when I turned around and looked at it, the cake in my hands slipped and fell on the floor.

I gasped and couldn't believe that Chris's dick was buried deep inside another woman's vagina. My entire world tilted under my feet.

I felt dizzy and thought I wouldn't be able to keep myself from falling.

"What the fuck?"

Chris gasped as he tilted his head and looked at me. "Baby," he breathed, pulling out from her. "When — When did you get in here?" he asked as he pulled up his pants and leaned toward me.

The girl behind him pulled down her dress and fixed her hair. She didn't even look bothered that I had walked in on them.

She was the same girl that he had introduced to me as his new assistant two weeks ago. So, she knew that we were engaged.

"Should you be asking me that stupid question when you're fucking someone else?!" I snapped, stepping away from him.

"Baby, listen," he heaved. "This is not what it looks like. Caroline and I got carried away. We were working on something, and you know how it is when a man hasn't cummed in a long time."

"You haven't cummed in a long time?" I huffed, folding my arms across my chest. "You are a fucking asshole!"

He tilted his head and looked at Caroline. He signaled to her to leave the room. And as instructed, she stepped outside and closed the door behind her.

"You gave yourself into your job and forgot that I have needs, Liana," he complained as he walked back to his desk. "Do you think I will survive going months without needing a release?"

I unfolded my arms and looked at him. We shared two years together, and three months of engagement.

I loved him and would've done anything to make him happy. I would've even agreed to suck his dick on top of a Ferris wheel if he asked me to.

"I have done everything for this relationship and worked my ass off because I wanted us to be comfortable once we got married," I sneered as I leaned toward his desk. "But I won't stand here and let you blame me for burying your dick in another pussy!"

"Baby, hold on," he scoffed. "The walls have ears and you know that. I've just got promoted and wouldn't want my reputation to be ruined."

"Fuck you and your fucking reputation!" I exclaimed, taking off the engagement ring and throwing it at him. "We are done, and I hope someone cuts off that community dick and feeds it to the street dogs!"

I turned to the door and the moment I was about to twist the doorknob, he laughed.

I froze.

"Do you think you can just walk out on me after everything I have done for you?" he sneered, his voice dropping. "I paid off your college debt, Liana, while your father lazed around and couldn't do shit for you. I made you who you are today. But if you want to walk out on me, I want my six-hundred thousand dollars paid back in cash, including the half a million dollars that I paid toward your father's medical bills and mortgage."

I thought about what he said and knew I didn't have that kind of money in my account, but if that was what it would take for him to be out of my life, then I would find the means to make the money.

"You will have your money before the end of next month," I answered after a long moment. "And after that, I never want to see you again, Chris."

I turned the doorknob and walked out.

"You'll come back to me, Liana!" he shouted behind me. "You're nothing without me, and you know it!"

When I reached my car in the driveway, I pulled out my cell phone from my handbag and texted Maya.

She replied in less than a minute and told me where I would find her.

•••

When I walked inside the underground nightclub, I told myself that I was looking for a one-time thing and someone who would fuck Chris out of my mind.

I ordered six shots of vodka and felt as if my head was spinning after an hour. Maya was at the back booth with a dark chocolate man, already scoring herself some BBC.

I got up from my chair and attempted to walk to the bathroom when I bumped into a hard chest. My head spun for a moment before my eyes settled on him.

"Are you okay there, love?" he asked, but my mind wasn't there. My hands were on his bare chest, and his abs were hard. I cleared my throat and swallowed.

"I'm fine," I answered, looking up at him and thinking, 'damn, I won't be thinking about my debt and cheating ex-fiance after this one.'