Kneel for His Uncle

She came to her ex-boyfriend's uncle for revenge. She stayed for the punishment. —- When Aria Caldwell poured a flute of champagne over her billionaire boyfriend's head in front of half the city's elite, she thought she was finally free. Julian Ashford was everything she'd grown to despise—spoiled, entitled, and utterly incapable of seeing her as anything more than a pretty accessory for his arm. But Julian doesn't take rejection lightly. Within twenty-four hours, he's used his family's vast influence to blackmail her, threaten her brother's livelihood, and systematically destroy everything she holds dear. Aria has one option left: march into the Ashford Tower and appeal to the only man Julian has ever feared. His uncle. Victor Ashford is nothing like his nephew. Where Julian is a boy playing with power he doesn't understand, Victor is the source of it—a silver-haired titan of industry who built an empire with his bare hands and guards it with unspeakable secrets. He's cold, commanding, and utterly dominant in every way. He's also everything Aria never knew she wanted. What begins as a desperate plea for protection becomes something far more dangerous when Aria makes an unexpected counter-offer: she doesn't want Victor's money. She wants him. But Victor Ashford is not a conventional lover. He's a disciplinarian, a sadist, a man whose primary pleasure comes from the sound of his hand meeting bare flesh. He doesn't make love—he corrects. And if Aria wants to belong to him, she'll have to submit to lessons in pain, pleasure, and absolute surrender. With every stroke of his paddle, every kiss of his cane, every whispered command, Aria finds herself falling deeper into a world she never imagined—a world where punishment and reward are two sides of the same coin, where a red-hot, well-spanked bottom is the ultimate symbol of devotion, and where belonging to the most dangerous man in the city might be the safest she's ever felt. But Julian isn't finished. And when he discovers that his ex-girlfriend has become his uncle's most prized possession, the confrontation will force Victor to make an impossible choice: protect the family name, or claim what's his—publicly, permanently, and without mercy. —- Content Warning: This book contains explicit sexual content and is intended for mature readers (18+) only.