"Why," he whispered.

"Why what?" I trembled as he strode closer to me.

I backed against the wall shivering like I was caught in a huge tornado. He was now less than an inch away, his eyes a shade darker, as he breathed heavily near my lips.

"Why can't you love me?" he whispered once again.

Because I love your brother, that was what I wanted to say.

"Because you make it so freaking hard for me to love you," I blurted instead.

******
 Dominic Valiente is one of the coldest people one could ever meet. With severe anger issues and a scarred past, he is every bit feared by almost everyone in New York City. He takes anything he fancies without a single care of the consequences. 

When elegant Nicole Wilde catches his eye he is determined to make a claim on her without thinking twice.

DOMINIC'S CLAIM

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Nicole's POV
Oh, God! Three more files and another forty-five minutes to go before office hours were over. I sighed meaning to close my eyes for a brief moment. I placed my head on top of the file in the hope to relieve my tired mind a little.

"Hmm... Is it that exhausting?"...

1. DINNER

2. Instant attraction

3. Tracked down

4. FIRED

5. JOB Offer

6. Fiancee

7. Kissed

8. Doomed

9. Pre-nup

10. Married

11. Pouty

12. Mine

13. Pregnant

14. Ignored

15. Bloody boner

16. Just an act

17. Red

18. EX

19. Fucking no

20. William

21. Impossible choices

22. The extents I go for her

23. Divorce

24. Pregnant(2)

25. Candlenight dinner

26. Troublesome Reed

27. Monster

28. Not a monster 

29. Trouble

30. Resolution

31. Pregnant (3)

32. Shameless

33. Strip Club

34. Headlines

35. Scandal

36. Figment of imagination

37. Hello, Dominic

38. Side-chick

39. Andre

40. correctional facility

41. Dinner with the President

42. Nightmare

43. Kidnapped

44. The past

45. Revelation

46. Last chapter

EPILOGUE