"This is the first time—and the last."

That's what Asher Keating told her, cold-faced and buttoning his shirt, after one night he never should have had.

Leah Sinclair was no one. A broke college student buried in debt after her grandmother's surgery, selling her evenings at a high-end escort club just to survive.

She wasn't supposed to end up in his bed.
He wasn't supposed to come back.

But he did.

After the second time and the third, Leah cursed viciously in her heart: "Damn man! You really can't trust a word men say."

Many years later, Asher looked at Leah sleeping beside him and sighed to himself: "Sure enough, you shouldn't be with the same woman more than three times, or you'll really be in for it."

Was it possession... or affection?

A choice that began as a transaction but became true love, with only the wish... to never forget their original intentions.

"You're the one who seduced him! You're the slut who led him on!"


Lynn Lawson waved the knife around frantically. The only thing on his mind were his father, Winston Lawson's, words: any woman was fair game, and it was always the woman who seduced the man.


Asher Keating walked forward, his voice filled with suppressed anger. "Lynn Lawson, I'll say this one last time. Put the knife down!"


Lynn Lawson pointed the knife at Asher Keating. The chilling look in Asher's eyes frightened him, and the hand holding the knife began to tremble involuntarily.


But he still held the blade tight against Leah Sinclair's neck. "Take one more step and I'll kill her right now!"


Asher Keating didn't stop. He continued walking forward, his eyes fixed on Lynn Lawson. "I'm the one who sent Winston Lawson to prison. A woman like her could, at most, call the police. Your dad wanted to settle with her, but I'm the one who said no deal. I'm the one who made him stay in there."


Chapter 77 - Chapter 77: You All Must Die