Beneath Her Bastard Boss

Chapter 120

Chapter 120

It was 4:53 a.m. by the time they stepped through the front door of his place, and Sutton was so quiet beside him that Luca kept glancing over, unsure if she was asleep with her eyes open. She wasn’t. Just worn out, shattered, was the best way to describe her.

He could tell by the way she leaned her head against the window, lips parted slightly, breathing slow but not quite even. She hadn’t said much since they’d left the office, but she didn’t need to. Everything that needed to be said had happened in the last few hours at the office, and once the adrenaline had burned out of their systems. They both felt exhausted. She hadn’t even protested when he said he would take her home with him.

By the time he carried her up the stairs, she was deadweight in his arms.

She barely stirred.

Luca took her straight into his bedroom, not the guest room. He couldn’t bear the thought of putting her somewhere separate, not after the night they’d just experienced, and he wasn’t talking about just the betrayal by Nicole.

She didn’t even open her eyes when he sat her on the edge of his bed. She just let her head tip forward slightly, like even holding herself upright took more energy than she had left to give.

“Sutton,” he said gently, crouching in front of her. “Let me help.”

She mumbled something too quiet to catch, but she didn’t resist. He took it as permission and moved slowly, sliding her shoes off one at a time, then working the zipper at the back of her dress. The fabric slid down her arms and pooled around her waist. She lifted her hips for him like a puppet half- asleep. He pulled it off and folded it neatly on the chair by the bed. He would arrange clothes for her tomorrow. It wasn’t like he would let her go to the office.

Her skin was warm, and Luca found the little marks he had left on her earlier… He hadn’t meant to be so rough. He found one pink bite mark just visible on the slope of her shoulder. He kissed it.

now. There was no way he would push her for more tonight. Tomorrow. He laid her back on the pillow after he had removed her bra, breasts

semen drying on her skin. Luca dampened a cloth and cleaned her up gently, carefully, trying

tossing the used cloth back in the bathroom before returning and pulling the blankets up over her. For a long moment, he just sat there, one hand over her hand lying on the bed near his leg, the other braced on his thigh, watching her breathe. She looked so small like this in his king- size bed, but she was tall, just at this moment she didn’t look it. He had found her, but she wasn’t the Sutton he remembered… Audrey had been easygoing and pretty… Sutton had more depth, fight and fire. She had stood up to him–even defended herself against Nicole and the rest of the development team. He just

but now around her he wasn’t so sure. This wasn’t just about his child; he wanted Sutton with a need he had never known before. He worried about her and her health. He was worried that he might

sat down in the armchair beside the bed, elbows on his knees, phone in his hand but screen dark. He should’ve been exhausted, too, but his mind was spinning

She had figured out who the hacker was after

she looked. “Code name Ghost. He’s the one who took my

hackers were. She had only figured out he

had

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She’d logged every keystroke.

camera feed from the monitor he was using. Just a single frame. One shot

“Nice job.”

him, eyes half–closed, mouth slurring slightly, showing how tired she had been. “We need to know who else paid him. It’s not just

senior security men still in the building, Leo… while Sutton was still packing

had followed Ghost… Miles to a hotel downtown. Room 714. Paid in

to watch and follow. Take photos

had people. And now, thanks to Sutton,

they were not done until they knew who paid him. They needed them all in the