*THIS STORY IS 18+ AND INTENDED FOR MATURE AUDIENCES* - I do NOT own the cover image - Just to clarify: 🌶 = More mild spice in the scene 🌶🌶 = girllllllll, hold onto your panties Please have some understanding for my one woman show 🫠. I'm also moming two small gremlins, but any free time I get (mainly when they are napping) I am working on chapters. Feedback, comments, and stans are always appreciated. If you happen to see any typos pleaseeeee let a girl know, I am also my own editor. This is my first time officially giving my all to a book so ya girl is trying. My goal is ideally to do a chapter every day, if not every other day. I truly enjoy writing and it's given me something to look forward to daily 🎉. Okay byeeeeeee. ✨️✨️✨️ "Have you had sex?" he started. I choked on spit, "Really? That's your opener? We are just starting off strong?" "Answer," he demanded. "No. Have you?" "Yes," he answered a little too quickly for my liking. "How do you feel about me?" "Honestly, I'm conflicted. I've known you for less than a week. I mean, you are only using me for a ritual." He was quiet. "How many times have you had sex?" "More than I care to admit." Sadness flooded through me with his answer. That was not an emotion I was expecting to feel. Of course he had bedded others, I mean he was Lucifer. What was I expecting from that question? For him to be a blank slate? His gaze lingered on me. "Does that upset you?" I shook my head avoiding his eyes.

Abandoned by the man she thought loved her, Claire Denham is left with very few options as she faces the prospect of being disgraced for falling pregnant out of wedlock. In fact, she is left with one. Lord Jack Beresford, the younger son of the late Duke of Ashwood, and often considered "the spare" in comparison to his older brother, has long held a torch for the pretty Claire Denham. When fate throws them together, Jack extends a favour to Claire, and she takes it, turning the lives of their families upside down. As they navigate a marriage of convenience, jealousy, betrayal, old lovers, and the fear of being second best all pose dangerous threats to an already shaky relationship ...