Stella's POV

Three days had passed since I signed that contract with trembling hands and a shattered heart. Three days since I undressed in front of him and, with one last breath of dignity, asked how much he'd pay each time we would do it. Three days of trying to stay sane while keeping up my professional routine, which continued with the same hypocritical formality as always, except now there was an invisible rope pulling me toward him, and another forcing me to resist.

Damian Winter was t