Old flames, new sins

Xanthippi Lemma Steamy Stories

​Manhattan is a city built on the bones of the ambitious, and Bella Romano is its most ruthless chronicler. At twenty-seven, the Naples-born political journalist has traded her soul for a sharp pen and a sharper gaze, carving a name for herself in the cutthroat world of the New York Chronicle. She doesn't believe in fairy tales, only in the leverage found in the wreckage of powerful men. Across the grid of steel and glass, Pietro Moretti operates with the same lethal precision. At thirty, the Sicilian-born litigator is a titan of the courtroom, a man who defends the indefensible with a cold, aristocratic arrogance.
​Five years ago, they were ghosts on the Amalfi Coast—ten days of unbridled, nameless passion under a Mediterranean sun before they both fled to New York to chase a dream that didn't include room for others. Now, a chance encounter at a high-society wedding has reignited a fire they thought they’d buried.
​They live by a brutal code: no feelings, no public displays, no sleeping over. Their encounters are transactional—hate-s*x fueled by professional rivalry and the crushing weight of New York’s isolation. It is a collision of power and surrender, where teeth graze skin and silk is sacrificed to raw need. But as the lines between their careers and their carnal obsession begin to blur, the ultimate rule looms over them: the first one to catch a feeling must walk away. In a city that never sleeps, they are discovering that some sins are too addictive to ever truly confess.

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