Book 3: Chapter 1

BOOK 3: BECAUSE I WANT TO

Vie lives in a world of spreadsheets and code—safe, predictable, and boring. But beneath her quiet, mousey exterior lurks a side of her she rarely reveals: a longing to surrender completely. That desire only intensifies when Master Reed asks her to help a certain rough, battle-hardened Marine.

Trev has spent ten years searching for his baby sister, and now that he’s found her, his life is in chaos—buried in debt, fighting to regain control. The last thing he expected was to be drawn to a shy accountant with hidden fire… or to discover his sister is part of a world he never imagined. Blindsided, intrigued, Trev finds himself wondering what it would be like to command Vie’s submission and see her surrender everything to him.

But Trev is torn. Part of him craves the stability of a vanilla life; the other aches for the dark, intoxicating freedom Vie offers. With every glance, every stolen moment, the Dom inside him grows harder to deny. Now, T