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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groaned, his hands sliding up her

you’d do to me once Dan was out of the

you’re playing with

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pulled back to look at him, her eyes dark with desire. “Show me how controlling you can be

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

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

whispered, the word

suddenly his hands were in her hair, tilting her head back to expose

repeated, her voice breathier this

snapped. He flipped them over, pinning her beneath him with an intensity that made her gasp. “You have no

show me,” Blair challenged, and

“Oh, I intend to.”

eyes burning into hers, glittering

swiftly over

holding them firmly against the soft mattress. His er hand explored her

his fingertips trailing down her neck, across her collarbone, and down the soft swell of her breast. Blair shivered, arching her back instinctively,

commanded softly, and Blair stilled immediately, her body trembling in compliance. Roman lowered his head, capturing one taut nipple through the lace, teasing it with a flick of his tongue. Blair whimpered,

never leaving hers as he began lifting her nightie, revealing her flushed skin inch by inch, until she lay beneath him, completely

murmured, tracing slow, lazy circles over her sensitive

word slipping effortlessly from her lips, her entire being

defined body. Blair’s heart raced,

barely above

His voice was a silky threat,

“Yes. Please, Roman… Sir,”

gripping firmly, forcing her to look up at him

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gasped sharply, her body arching to meet him, but he held her steady, controlling, the

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

onto his, fully surrendering

drive her wild. His mouth

me who you belong to,” he demanded, his voice rough

Blair gasped. “I belong

pace slightly, his thrusts

neck. He bit

belong to me.

within her as she felt

“Roman, 1-” she whimpered,

me,” he