#Chapter 179: Aftermath

DEREK shouldn’t have done that. Goddess help me, I shouldn’t have fucked her in the car. Not in a public alley. Not in a luxury vehicle with windows that weren’t even tinted dark enough to shield us from passersby. Not with photographers crawling through every backstreet hoping to snap a scandal. Paparazzi. Nosy citizens. Some rogue looking to sell secrets for coin. Anyone could’ve seen us. And they might have. But I couldn’t help it. She reached across the console and took hold of me like she owned me—and maybe she did. From that moment, I wasn’t a man anymore. I was hers. Completely. Feral for her. Devoted and undone in equal measure. The world could have gone up in flames around us, and I still would’ve stayed in that seat, letting her ride me like I was born for it. It was good. No—it was divine. I hadn’t even managed to get my seatbelt off. I was still strapped in, chest locked against the harness like a man imprisoned by his own restraint, while she destroye