Torn: A Dark Captive Romance (Original Sin Prequel) by Hart Stella

Author:Hart, Stella [Hart, Stella]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Published: 2019-03-25T16:00:00+00:00

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Mason

September 12th, 2010

New York City

“Mr. Ashwood?”

I glanced up at Vlada, my secretary. “Yeah?”

“You asked me to remind you about today’s meetings when I got in. The first is at two with Barnett, and the next is a dinner meeting with the Gallaghers starting at six-thirty at the fusion place on West 51st.”

“Cool. Got it.” I took my legs off my desk and sat up straight in my chair. I’d just finished my coffee, so it was probably time for me to at least pretend to get some work done.

Vlada held out a brown paper bag. “Oh, and before I forget, here you go, boss.”

She dumped the bag on my desk, then winked and sashayed out of the room, silky black hair swinging from side to side as she went. I could see two guys out on the floor staring at her ass before casting envious gazes toward my door.

Before coming to work for me, Vlada was a model, so everyone always assumed we were fucking. I couldn’t be bothered to deny the rumors, but they had no basis in reality whatsoever. I wasn’t in the habit of hiring women I wanted to fuck, because I’d seen a fair few friends screw themselves over that way. My secretary was hot, but not my type in the slightest. She was good at her job and we got along well. That was all I asked for.

I tore the bag open to find the sweet doughy treats within. Leaning back in my chair again, I sank my teeth into a warm beignet. Vlada picked these up for me every morning from some little bakery in whatever hipster neighborhood she lived in. They were passable. Nowhere near as good as the proper ones from New Orleans, but they were a nice reminder all the same.

As much as I’d hated visiting Louisiana as a child, I had to admit it kinda grew on me in the end. My mom was born and raised in the state, so I’d practically spent half my childhood there thanks to her dragging me along on vacations at every opportunity. Now my parents had retired down there after building their lucrative New York property financing company from the ground up over the last thirty years.

They wanted to keep it in the family, so I ran it in the city along with my three siblings, James, Ella and Andrew. The golden children. They were all slightly older than me and vastly more mature; I could admit that. While I’d been fucking around as a teenager and getting myself expelled from school after school, they’d been learning to play piano and volunteering for charities.

I got there eventually, though. When I went to college (after getting in by the skin of my teeth) I discovered I actually enjoyed commerce studies. I wound up here after graduation, and surprisingly, I didn’t fuck it all up like my siblings probably expected.

Sure, I had lazy days, but overall it was a pretty decent gig. I enjoyed it

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