Beneath Her Bastard Boss

Chapter 76

Blair stared at Roman, her mind racing through a dozen different emotions. The silence stretched between them until finally she spoke.

“You manipulated me,” she said quietly, her voice neither angry nor grateful–just stating a fact. “You let me walk in on them having sex.”

“Yes,” Roman admitted without hesitation. “I did.”

His honesty, his refusal to make excuses or justify it, somehow made it both worse but also better at the same time. Blair studied his face, looking again for signs he was sorry for what he had done. But still nothing.

“Do you regret it?” she asked because even though she couldn’t read his face, it didn’t mean he wasn’t feeling something.

“I regret that you’re hurt by it. I don’t regret saving you from marrying him. I don’t regret that now you are mine.”

Blair felt something shift inside her chest. The brutal honesty, the way he wasn’t trying to charm his way out of this or make her feel better, it was so completely… well, him. No games, no manipulation in this moment. Just the truth. Not tied up in a pretty bow.

“How long?” she asked. “How long did you know?”

“Three weeks before, I arranged for us to come home a day early.”

Three weeks.

“That must have been torture,” Blair said softly, surprising herself. “Wanting to say something but holding back.”

Roman’s eyes widened slightly, as if he hadn’t expected her to consider that angle. “It was,” he admitted. “Every time you had lunch with Dan or he came to your office for some reason. I wanted to… punch his teeth in for cheating on you. I even thought about sacking him.”

Blair felt the last of her anger dissolve. He could have kept this from her. Never telling her he already knew about the affair. But in the end, he had chosen to be honest and tell her.

“You could have just told me,” she pointed out.

“And have you hate the messenger? Have you think I was trying to break you up because I wanted you for myself?” Roman shook his head. “You had to see it with your own eyes to believe it. Sometimes you can forgive someone if you didn’t see the crime. But seeing there was no going back.”

Blair realized he was right. If Roman had come to her with accusations about Dan, she would have defended her fiancé. She would have told Roman it was none of his business. She wasn’t sure she would have forgiven Dan. Blair hated cheaters. But the break was cleaner somehow. More final.

“You know what the twisted thing is?” Blair said, a small smile playing at her lips. “I’m not even angry.”

Roman looked surprised. “You’re not?”

“You saved me from the biggest mistake of my life. Yes, you manipulated the situation, but you did it to protect me from something that would have destroyed me, eventually.” Blair shifted, moving to straddle his lap. “And if I’m being completely honest? The fact that you’re controlling enough to orchestrate something like that…” She leaned down to whisper in his ear.

“It’s kind of hot.”

Roman’s breath hitched. “Blair…”

“Tell me,” she said, her voice dropping to a husky whisper. “In those three weeks when you were watching me, planning your little intervention–were you thinking about having me for yourself?”

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day,” Roman groaned, his hands sliding up

what you’d do to me once Dan was

playing

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at him, her eyes dark with desire. “Show me how controlling you

shifted in Roman’s expression–a darker, more possessive look that made

to think.” His voice had dropped an octave, taking on a commanding edge that sent shivers down

whispered, the word

flashed, and suddenly his hands were in her hair, tilting her head back

Blair repeated, her voice

flipped them over, pinning her beneath him with an intensity that made her gasp. “You have no idea what you just started,” he growled

and Roman’s smile was

“Oh, I intend to.”

his eyes burning into hers,

swiftly over her on the bed, pinning her

firmly against the soft mattress. His er hand explored her body slowly, deliberately, every touch designed

her collarbone, and down the soft swell of

body trembling in compliance. Roman lowered his head, capturing one taut nipple through the lace, teasing it with

released her wrists momentarily, his gaze never leaving hers as he began lifting her nightie, revealing her

tracing slow, lazy circles over her sensitive skin, watching

whispered breathlessly, the word slipping effortlessly from her lips, her entire being focused on him.

deliberate slowness, letting her eyes roam freely over every inch of his muscular, defined body.

begged, barely above a

want it, Blair?” His voice was a silky threat, a promise of

“Yes. Please, Roman… Sir,”

hair, gripping firmly, forcing her to look up at him

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body arching to meet him, but he held her steady,

move until I say you can,” he growled softly against

nodded breathlessly, eyes locked onto

each deep, controlled thrust designed to drive her wild. His mouth captured hers fiercely,

who you belong to,” he demanded, his

“I

her answer by increasing his pace slightly, his thrusts growing deeper, more insistent, building her

murmured approvingly, his mouth trailing, heated kisses along, her jaw, down her neck. He bit gently at her shoulder, leaving a mark of ownership that sent a thrill racing

belong to me. So

tightened, sensations coiling deep within her as she felt herself teetering on

“Roman, 1-” she whimpered,

for me,” he