Love wasn't in the contract
Damon moreau is a powerful tech billionaire who survives through control.Raised by an absent father and a morally grounded mother, Damon learned early that vulnerability was dangerous. After his father's suicide following corporate betrayal, damon became emotionally closed off, relying heavenly on his mother, Evenlyn as his moral compass and emotional anchor.
That anchor shatters when Evelyn is killed in an assassination attempt meant for Damon. Unknown to damon, the man behind the trigger is luca raines an elite assassin shaped by childhood abuse and years inside a private military syndicate run by Adrian kessler. Luca has never hesitated on a job before,but when he sight Damon through his scope something breaks his bullet misses Damon and instead killed Evenlyn when she steps in to the line of fire. Wracked with guilt Luca accepts Adrian's next order embed himself in damon's security detailed as his personal bodyguard,waiting waiting for the second opportunity to finish the contract. Damon grieving and paranoid,hired enhanced protection. Luca enters his life as a silent guardian, hiding the truth that he caused damon's deepest loss.
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Chapter: Chapter 31Chapter 31“What did you inject him with?”The question hit Damon like a physical blow.Rain still fell, but it no longer felt real.Nothing did.Only Luca pale, too still on the stretcher, his chest rising too fast, too shallow.Damon swallowed hard.“I don’t know exactly,” he admitted, voice rough. “It was in Matteo’s kit. There was a protocol something about hemorrhagic shock. It said stimulant”Seraphine’s expression went from alarmed to razor-sharp in an instant.“Show me.”Damon’s hands shook as he fumbled for the crushed black case, pulling out the vial and syringe packaging with fingers that no longer felt like his own.She snatched them, scanning the label in seconds.Then she went very, very still.“That’s not a standard stimulant,” she said quietly.Damon’s stomach dropped.“What is it?”Seraphine didn’t answer immediately.She turned to the medics.“Get him on oxygen. Now. And start a line wide bore. He’s crashing.”The word hit like a gunshot.Crashing.“No,” Damon said u
Última actualización: 2026-04-16
Chapter: Chapter 30Chapter 30“LUCA!”Damon didn’t remember getting to his feet.One second he was in the mud, Viktor’s blood soaking into the ground beside him.The next he was moving.Running.Slipping downhill and then up again, heart beating so hard it felt like it might tear itself apart inside his chest.Luca staggered backward from the impact.For one horrifying, endless second Damon thoughtThat’s it.That’s the end.Then Luca remained standing.Barely.His body pitched sideways, one hand flying to his upper shoulder.Not center mass.Not the heart.Not dead.Not dead.Relief hit so hard it almost made Damon black out.Then Luca’s knees buckled.Damon caught him just before he hit the ground.The force of it drove them both down into the mud anyway.Rain poured over them in cold sheets.Luca’s breath came out ragged and sharp through clenched teeth.Damon’s hands were already there, frantic and shaking, trying to find the wound through blood and wet fabric and panic.“Oh God”“Not dead,” Luca ra
Última actualización: 2026-04-15
Chapter: Chapter 29Chapter 29Matteo’s second gun gleamed black in the rain.Damon’s heart dropped so fast it felt physical.“Luca!”The warning tore out of him too late.Matteo raised the weapon with unnerving calm, one hand steady despite the blood soaking through his shoulder. No panic. No desperation. Just that same old, terrifying composure as if shooting the man Damon loved was no more emotionally significant than signing a contract.Luca saw the movement a split second later.He pivotedAnd the world exploded again.Two shots cracked almost at once.Viktor fired from one knee.Matteo fired from the tree line.Luca twisted mid-step, his body moving with that impossible, brutal precision Damon had seen before the kind forged by training and trauma and too many years of surviving by fractions of seconds.One bullet tore through Luca’s jacket sleeve.The otherMissed.Barely.So close Damon heard it split bark behind him.Then Luca fired back.Once.Twice.Three times.The clearing erupted into movem
Última actualización: 2026-04-14
Chapter: Chapter 28Chapter 28Rain ran into Damon’s eyes, but he didn’t blink.He couldn’t.Because Matteo Laurent was standing twenty feet away, blood on his shirt, smoke in his hair, and somehow still looking composed enough to ruin lives with a signature and a smile.It should have been impossible.The man had taken a bullet.A knife.An explosion.And yet there he was.Alive.Still smiling.Still acting like he owned the ending.Beside Damon, Luca shifted despite the blood loss.Instinct.Pure, dangerous instinct.His body angled forward a fraction, like even now half-conscious, bleeding, barely upright he would still throw himself in front of whatever came next.Damon tightened his grip on Luca’s wrist.“No.”Luca didn’t take his eyes off Matteo.“Damon.”“No.”The word came out flat and absolute.For once, Luca seemed too exhausted to argue.Matteo took another step through the rain.No gun visible.No immediate aggression.Which somehow made him more terrifying.Viktor remained near the SUV, one
Última actualización: 2026-04-09
Chapter: Chapter 27Chapter 27The explosion didn’t come all at once.It came in layers.First, a violent metallic crack somewhere deep in the wall behind the generator housing.Then a burst of sparks bright enough to blind.Then the floor itself seemed to jump.The blast wave hit Damon in the chest like a giant fist.He was thrown backward hard enough to lose all sense of direction.Concrete.Heat.Sound tearing apart into white static.His shoulder slammed into something unforgiving.His head clipped the floor.For one awful second, everything disappeared.Then pain came back.And so did fire.The chamber roared.Smoke swallowed the air almost instantly, thick and black and choking.Emergency lights shattered overhead in showers of glass.Damon pushed himself upright on instinct, coughing so hard his ribs screamed.“Luca!”No answer.Only alarms.Only the crackling scream of overloaded electrical systems.Only the ugly, hungry rush of flames catching somewhere they absolutely should not have.Damon’s v
Última actualización: 2026-04-08
Chapter: Chapter 26Chapter 26For one terrifying second, Damon couldn’t hear anything except his own heartbeat.Not Matteo’s voice.Not the hum of the old generators.Not even Luca breathing somewhere to his right.Just the pounding inside his chest, brutal and uneven, like his body had finally realized this was the moment everything broke.The folder lay open across the concrete floor between them.Paper everywhere.Transfer authorizations.Emergency board resolutions.Control clauses.Corporate bloodshed disguised as legal language.And at the center of it allA signature line waiting for Damon Moretti.Matteo’s voice was soft enough to be mistaken for kind.“If you sign, he lives.”Luca laughed once.A rough, broken sound from the floor.“God, you’re pathetic.”Matteo’s expression didn’t change, but Damon saw the flicker.The tiny fracture.Good.Let him feel something.Even if it was rage.Damon forced himself to breathe.Forced himself not to look only at Luca.Because Matteo wanted panic.Wanted d
Última actualización: 2026-04-07
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