Always Been Yours (Tessa and Nicholas)

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.

overcome with such an intense desire for this woman, whom

ignored his orders as she writhed and ran her hands all over him,

hungry beast, ferocious as lust cascaded over him and made him grab hold of Tessa by her waist, flipping her over. “Woman, you’re

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

recalled going over to her stepmother’s to demand the inheritance her mother had left for her, only to be drugged by the latter. When she

but the man didn’t show any sign of stopping as he continued to have his way

panting, he went on

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

her birthmark, which was a shade darker than her pale skin and was shaped like a delicate

…

she clutched the protective rails on

can see the baby’s

A loud baby’s cry resounded in the deathly silent delivery room, heralding

has been fulfilled, and from now on, the child has nothing

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 carried away by someone else. “M-My

streamed past

still did not know, Tessa found herself kept

to deliver the baby safely, then her brother, Timothy, would get

hearing that, Tessa agreed immediately and without a