She Used Me for a Dare… Now I Own Her Mother - Chapter 308: Validation
Chapter 308: Validation
Reginald’s heavy footsteps faded down the hallway, leaving a silence that felt louder than his shouting.
Cassandra stood frozen, staring at the empty doorway where her husband had just disappeared.
She didn’t move. She couldn’t. Her skin was still burning with a phantom heat… not from Reginald’s anger, but from Jonathan’s indifference.
She felt… dirty.
The sensation crawled over her skin like insects. Jonathan hadn’t just rejected her; he had wiped her away. He had treated her touch like a stain, her beauty like a nuisance, her entire existence like a smudge of dirt on a pristine suit.
She needed to be cleaned.
But water wouldn’t do it. She needed a mirror.
She needed to see herself reflected in a man’s eyes… not as a desperate failure, but as a goddess. She needed to be scrubbed clean with raw, unadulterated lust to prove that the failure wasn’t in her beauty, but in Jonathan’s blindness.
Slowly, she turned.
Her eyes landed on Arthur.
He was slumped in the corner chair, his tie loosened, wiping sweat from his forehead with a trembling hand. He looked at the floor, defeated, pathetic, radiating the scent of fear like a wounded animal.
He was weak. He was terrified.
He was perfect.
A slow, dark smile curved Cassandra’s lips. She walked to the door, grabbed the heavy brass handle, and pushed it shut.
Thud.
Then, with a movement that was slow and deliberate, she turned the lock.
Click.
The sound echoed through the silent room like a gunshot.
Arthur jumped in his chair, his eyes darting from the closed door to the woman standing in front of it.
“Cassandra?” he stammered, his voice thick with the residual panic of the last hour.
“What… what are you doing? Why did you lock the door?”
Cassandra didn’t answer immediately. She leaned back against the heavy oak panels, her chest heaving as she inhaled the stagnant air of the room. She closed her eyes, letting the memory of Reginald’s departure fade, and focused on the burning, acidic need clawing at her insides.
She opened her eyes. They weren’t filled with tears anymore. They were filled with a dark, predatory hunger.
”Arthur,” she purred, pushing off the door.
She walked toward him. Not with the aggressive stomp she had used on Reginald, but with a slow, liquid glide. The sway of her hips was exaggerated, hypnotic. She was putting the mask back on, reassembling the seductress piece by piece.
”C-Cassandra,” Arthur said, shifting uncomfortably as she invaded his personal space. “We… we shouldn’t be doing this. Reginald just left. He… he could come back.”
”Reginald isn’t coming back,” she said softly, reaching his chair.
She perched on the arm of his chair, her thigh pressing warm and firm against his shoulder.
“I know my husband, Arthur. He’s a coward. He’s running to his club to drink until he forgets he has a spine.” Her fingers trailed down the lapel of Arthur’s jacket. “He won’t be back for hours.”
“But the deadline,” Arthur protested weakly, trying to pull away from her heat but failing. “Jonathan… the seventy-two hours… we need to think. We need a plan.”
“Shh.”
She placed a finger on his lips, silencing him.
“I already have a plan, Arthur. Did you think I played all my cards?”
She leaned in, her jasmine perfume wrapping around him, suffocating his logic.
“I still have one left. The most important one.” Her eyes glittered. “Jennifer.”
Arthur blinked, the name registering. “Jennifer? But…”
“Don’t worry about the details,” she whispered, her hand sliding from his lapel down to his chest, feeling the erratic thud of his heart. “We have plenty of time to orchestrate that. But right now…”
She shifted her weight, leaning over him so her hair brushed his cheek.
“Right now, I need to know something.”
Her hand continued its downward path. Past his ribs. Past his belt buckle.
She let her palm rest heavy and hot on his thigh, just inches from his groin.
Arthur stopped breathing. He stared at her, paralyzed by the sudden shift from political disaster to sexual danger.
“Cassandra…” he choked out.
She ignored him. Her hand slid inward.
Slowly. Deliberately.
She watched his face as she made contact. She needed to see the reaction. She needed to see the cracks form.
Her fingers brushed the inseam of his trousers, and she felt it instantly.
Hard.
Thick.
Pulsing against the fabric, straining to break free.
A rush of relief, so potent it was almost dizzying, flooded through her veins.
“See?” she whispered, her voice trembling with dark satisfaction.
She squeezed him through the fabric, feeling him jump, feeling the way his hips bucked involuntarily into her hand.
“My charm hasn’t faded, has it?”
She looked him in the eyes, searching for the validation she was starving for.
“Tell me, Arthur. Am I still beautiful? Do I still make you hard?”
“Yes,” Arthur gasped, his resistance crumbling under the weight of her touch. “Yes… you know you do… you always do.”
“Good.”
She stood up abruptly.
Arthur let out a noise of loss, reaching for her, but she stepped out of range.
She walked to the center of the room, stepping directly into the pool of cold light cast by the crystal chandelier. The shattered glass from the vase crunched softly under her heels, a violent contrast to the grace of her movement.
She turned to face him, the light catching the wild, desperate hunger in her eyes.
“Watch me,” she commanded.
She reached for the zipper at the back of her dress.
Arthur sat frozen, his hands gripping the armrests of his chair, his eyes glued to her. He knew this was wrong. He knew the family was burning down around them. But the sight of Cassandra… his brother’s wife, the woman who had always terrified and aroused him… taking control was impossible to look away from.
The zipper hissed.
The silk dress pooled at her shoulders, then slid down her arms. She shimmied her hips, and the fabric fell to the floor in a whisper of expensive cloth.
She stood in her lingerie. Black lace. Intricate. Scandalous.
She saw Arthur’s throat work as he swallowed hard. She saw the hunger flare in his eyes, raw and undeniable.
It fed her. It stitched the wounds Jonathan had inflicted back together.
She reached for her bra. Unclasped it. Let it drop.
Her breasts spilled free, heavy and pale, the nipples already hard from the adrenaline of the moment.
She grabbed her panties and shucked them down her legs, kicking them aside.
Naked.
She stood in the middle of the ruined office, surrounded by shattered glass and broken alliances, looking like a goddess of chaos.
“Cassandra…” Arthur moaned, his voice thick. “We shouldn’t… not here… not now…”
“Shut up,” she said, but she smiled.
She picked up her discarded dress top… the silk blouse she had worn to impress that Blackwood dog… and balled it up in her hand.
She walked toward him.
“You talk too much, Arthur.”
She threw the blouse. It landed over his head, draping him in her scent.
Arthur pulled it off, blinking, but she was already there.
She moved behind his chair.
She leaned over the high back, wrapping her arms around his neck from behind. She pressed her naked breasts against the back of his head, smothering him in her softness, surrounding him with her heat.
“Do you like it?” she whispered into his ear, rubbing her chest against his hair, against his ears.
Arthur groaned, tilting his head back blindly, trying to find her skin. His mouth opened, searching, and she laughed… a bright, cruel sound.
“You definitely do,” she giggled, feeling his lips graze the underside of her breast. “You’re like a starving dog.”
She pulled away, leaving him gasping, and circled the chair.
She stopped directly in front of him.
She didn’t say a word. She simply sank to her knees.
Arthur looked down at her. The power dynamic had flipped, yet she was still in control. She looked up at him through her lashes, her eyes burning with a demand for worship.
She reached for his belt.
Her fingers were deft, practiced. Buckle. Zipper.
She yanked his trousers and boxers down to his ankles in one rough motion.
His cock sprang free. Hungry. Leaking. Desperate.
Cassandra stared at it. She didn’t touch it yet. She just looked at the physical proof of her power.
“Yes,” she breathed, a flush of genuine pleasure coloring her cheeks. “This is how it should be.”
She looked up at Arthur, her eyes gleaming.
“This is how a man reacts when he sees me. Immediate. Uncontrollable. Hard.”
She wrapped her hand around him, squeezing the rock-hard shaft, feeling the life pulsing beneath her fingers.
“Don’t you think?” she asked, her voice taking on a bitter, vindictive edge.
“That man… Jonathan…”
She stroked Arthur, but she was thinking of the enforcer.
“He refused me. He looked at this…” She gestured to her body. “…and he felt nothing.”
She squeezed Arthur harder, making him hiss.
“How dare he?” she spat. “How dare he act like I am nothing?”
She looked at Arthur, her eyes wild, demanding his agreement.
“He must be impotent,” she insisted, creating a reality she could live with. “That’s the only explanation. He’s broken. He’s not a real man.”
She stroked Arthur faster, needing to hear him say it.
“Tell me, Arthur. Tell me he’s impotent. Tell me no real man could resist me.”
“Yes,” Arthur gasped, his hands flying to her hair, gripping tight. “Yes… he’s broken… he has to be…”
“Exactly,” Cassandra hissed.
She leaned forward, her mouth opening, her eyes fixed on his throbbing length.
“A real man knows exactly what to do with a woman like me.”
