Owned In Silence
Dark RomanceSteamyDramaMafiaDominantBadboyMxMHate to LoveRevenge
Tobin Leith was never supposed to survive the first week.
When his older brother's gambling debts spiral out of control, the Saal mafia syndicate comes to collect. They want collateral to keep on a leash until the debt is settled. Tobin volunteers before his brother can speak.
Emeric Saal, a dominant underworld boss, is cold, calculating, and bored by almost everything. He accepts the arrangement without emotion. Tobin is just a pawn housed in his guest wing under constant surveillance.
Except Tobin refuses to act like a hostage. He stays defiant. On the fourth night, Emeric catches him picking the lock on his office door with a fashioned tension wrench. Emeric simply sits down across from him, lights a cigarette, and says the words that change everything:
"I was wondering when you would try."
Emeric already knows the truth. Tobin is operating under a hidden identity, actively hunting for revenge. What begins as a volatile cat-and-mouse game quickly twists into a steamy, intense MM romance. Emeric, for the first time in years, is deeply interested in seeing what happens next.
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Chapter: CHAPTER 5: THE FRACTURETobin did not sleep that night. He lay on the bed with the ceiling pressing down on him and the contents of that file rearranging everything he had built over the past two years. Every piece of intelligence he had gathered, every hour of planning, every cold and careful step that had led him to this estate had been aimed at one man, and that man turned out to be the wrong one.Emeric Saal had not ordered the raid that killed his mother. He had not known about it until it was over, and when he found out, he had punished his brother and launched an investigation. The civilian casualty report was clinical and brief, the kind of language that reduces a human life to a line item, but it existed, which meant someone inside the syndicate had at least acknowledged that a woman had died who should not have died.The person who should be sitting at the other end of Tobin's fury was Nikolai. The brother with more ambition than patience, the one who left his bishop exposed and ran unsanctioned op
最後更新: 2026-05-19
Chapter: CHAPTER 4: THE SHADOWBeing Emeric Saal's shadow was nothing like Tobin had anticipated. He had expected surveillance, the cold and clinical monitoring of a man who wanted to keep a potential threat within arm's reach. What he got instead was proximity of a different kind entirely, the kind that stripped away the layers between two people whether they wanted it stripped or not.He was present for everything. Morning briefings with Silas in the study, where Emeric reviewed operations with the quiet focus of a chess player considering his next twelve moves. Afternoon meetings at the waterfront warehouse district, where men in expensive coats discussed logistics and territory with a vocabulary that treated violence as accounting. Evening dinners in the estate's formal dining room, where Emeric ate alone and Tobin sat across from him and neither of them spoke about the fact that this arrangement was profoundly strange.On the third day, Tobin discovered that Emeric played chess. A board sat in the study, its p
最後更新: 2026-05-19
Chapter: CHAPTER 3: THE LOCKTobin waited until 2:17 in the morning, when the security rotation left a four-minute window between the east corridor camera sweep and the nearest patrol's return circuit. He moved barefoot down the hallway, staying close to the wall where the floorboards were less likely to creak, carrying nothing but the tension wrench and a thin flat tool he had fashioned from the metal clip inside his paperback's spine.The Kaba lock was a seven-pin configuration, and Tobin had trained on locks far more complex than this during his military intelligence certification. His hands were steady and his breathing was controlled, and the first three pins set within forty seconds. The fourth pin gave him trouble, a spool driver that required a specific tension angle he needed a moment to find, but by the ninety-second mark the lock turned with a soft click that sounded, in the silence of the sleeping estate, like a gunshot.He eased the door open and stepped inside. The office was large and dark, lit onl
最後更新: 2026-05-19
Chapter: CHAPTER 2: THE ESTATETobin spent the first three days performing the role of a frightened hostage with a discipline that would have impressed his old commanding officers. He kept his head down, spoke only when spoken to, ate the meals that were brought to his room, and spent his visible hours reading the paperback he had packed and staring out the reinforced window with the vacant expression of a man who had accepted his circumstances.The invisible hours were a different matter entirely. Between midnight and four in the morning, when the security rotation thinned and the cameras followed their predictable sweep patterns, Tobin mapped the estate. He memorized the patrol schedule within two nights. He identified blind spots in the camera coverage along the east corridor and the service stairs. He counted doors, noted which ones were locked electronically and which ones used traditional hardware, and built a mental blueprint of the manor that grew more detailed with every passing hour.On the second morning
最後更新: 2026-05-19
Chapter: CHAPTER 1: THE DEBTThe men came on a Tuesday, which Tobin Leith would later find almost funny, because Tuesdays had always been the most unremarkable day of his week. He was sitting at the kitchen table in his brother's apartment, cleaning a handgun that didn't belong to either of them, when the front door opened without a knock and three men in dark coats walked inside like they owned the air in the room.Jude was on the couch. Tobin didn't need to look at his brother to know what was happening to his face, because he had seen that particular shade of terror before, the colour draining from the skin so fast it looked like someone had pulled a plug somewhere underneath. Jude owed the Saal syndicate an amount of money that he could not pay in this lifetime or the next, and these men were here to collect something other than cash.The tallest of the three did the talking. He explained, with the bored patience of someone who had delivered this speech many times, that the debt had matured past the point of
最後更新: 2026-05-19
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