LOGIN𝘼𝘽𝘽𝙄𝙀For what felt like an eternity, neither of us moved. The silence in the studio grew so suffocatingly thick that if a single pin dropped on the floor, it would have sounded like a gunshot.Demon didn't blink. His obsidian eyes remained anchored to mine, and my heart battered violently against my ribs."What are you doing here?" he finally asked, his baritone voice breaking the heavy quietness between us."Why, Logan? Are you going to kick me out of this place just because you bought it for me?" I countered, forcing my voice to remain completely steady. "Don't bother. I'm already leaving.""Logan?" He frowned, his brow furrowing as a flash of displeasure crossed his face. "It's Logan now?"I secretly clenched my fists into tight balls at my sides, hiding the tremors in my fingers. I refused to let him see me broken again. If I was truly going to learn from my mistakes, I needed to act entirely bulletproof in front of him. It was the only way I would ever be able to purge him
𝘼𝘽𝘽𝙄𝙀"Are you really sure you want to leave?" Ruby asked, her voice thick with sadness as she looked at me.After I finally ended the emotional call with my dad, I forced myself to take a proper bath, washing away the two days of sweat and tears before walking over to her salon to break the news."Yes. I’ve thought about it, and Dad is right," I replied, forcing a faint, weary smile to my lips. "I need to return to California and finally face my mom."Ruby paused, looking deep into my eyes. "Are you sure that’s what you really want, or are you just trying to escape from whatever Logan did to you?"I instinctively touched my earlobe, pressing my lips tightly together to keep myself from sobbing before I could answer."I can’t stay here anymore, Ruby. Landry will be back soon, and I refuse to be the reason you two fight. Besides, I was bound to leave one day anyway. Paris isn’t my home. Like Dad said, I only have fifteen days left. I should use that time to make my mom listen to m
𝘼𝘽𝘽𝙄𝙀"You should try to eat something," Ruby said softly. She gently pushed a plate of fried rice toward me, but I remained completely stiff on the bed."I don't know what happened between you and Logan since you're refusing to say a word to me," Ruby continued, her voice full of worry. "But Abbie, you need to eat. It's been two days already."Two days.I hadn't eaten a single bite in two days. After Ruby found me unconscious in the pouring rain, all I had done was lie on the bed. I hadn't even slept properly. Every time I closed my eyes, the tears just started flowing again.Demon's words had cut me so deep. It stung my heart worse than fire against bare skin. To him, I was nothing more than a sex toy. He hadn't hesitated at all to throw those cruel, hurtful words in my face. Every single time his harsh voice echoed in my mind, the pain in my heart grew sharper.And what made it even more humiliating was the fact that I still loved him. Despite every horrific thing he said to m
𝙇𝙊𝙂𝘼𝙉'I love you' I had heard those words so many times when I was a kid, but they were nothing but empty lies used to play with my little mind.My mom said she loved me, and then she used that word to trick me and sell me off to traffickers. The men and women who bought me from those traffickers told me they loved me too. They said they would love me as their own, but it was all a fake pretense to use me for their own selfish gains. Whenever they were done with me, they either threw me back to the traffickers or abandoned me until I was found by the traffickers and dragged back into the cargo.I was a victim of fake love. People always told the little me they loved me just so they could use me to their advantage. I kept falling for their words until I finally realized the painful truth: no one actually loved me.And when I finally escaped the traffickers with The Ruthless Elites, "I love you" became the words I hated to hear most in this world. I didn't believe in them. No on
𝘼𝘽𝘽𝙄𝙀The look Demon gave me wasn’t a good one. It felt like he wasn’t pleased to hear me confess my feelings for him.I had never intended to confess my feelings like this. I wanted to tell him later, but the overwhelming madness of the sex had entirely broken my restraint.The words had simply poured out of me.“What did you just say?” he repeated, his voice dropping into a dangerous, gravelly register.I swallowed hard, staring at him. “I love you, Demon.”Without a single word, Demon abruptly gripped my waist, lifted me off him, and set my bare feet flat on the cold floor. He turned his back to me and began pulling up his trousers.A wave of sickening humiliation washed over me. I felt utterly shattered. I had just poured my entire soul out to him at the absolute peak of intimacy, and he was treating me like a chore.With trembling hands, I pulled my skirt down from my stomach, forcing it back around my waist to cover myself.“Aren’t you going to say something?” I whispered, m
𝘼𝘽𝘽𝙄𝙀“You missed me?” I asked, a small smile forming on my lips.“Do you really need to hear it for the second time?” he growled, like he didn't want to repeat it.“Yes,” I nodded. “This is the first time you've actually said something like this to me, so I want to hear you say it again.”Demon stared at me, his lips parting as if he actually intended to repeat the words. My heart raced in breathless anticipation. But midway through, he shook his head, his gaze hardening.“I won't repeat it,” he said flatly.I let out a soft chuckle. He should really be grateful that I understood him. For any normal guy, telling his girlfriend “I miss you” wasn't difficult. But in Demon's twisted world, those words were a vulnerability he couldn't afford.“Has Daisy left already?” he asked, changing the subject.I scoffed. “Don't pretend like you didn't already know. Isn't that why you're here? Because you knew she went back to California.”“Let's go home then,” he muttered, wrapping his hand ar
𝘼𝘽𝘽𝙄𝙀Waking up, a sharp ache throbbed through my head... so intense it felt like my skull might split open. I squeezed my eyes shut, pressing my fingers to my temples, but it didn't help.Last night… I cried myself to sleep.The memory alone made my chest tighten.Demon had been cruel.I know
𝙇𝙊𝙂𝘼𝙉Arriving at Ruby's salon, she was s with her husband Landry. They were both laughing when I entered, but the laughter died when they saw me.Landry practically leapt from his chair, eyes wide, like he'd just glimpsed at his worst nightmare."Blood…bath," he stammered, his voice shaky, tu
𝙇𝙊𝙂𝘼𝙉If I could laugh… or just maybe, if I knew how to smile, even a little… I would have done it.The look on Papillon's face was… amusing. Ridiculously amusing. The kind that should have pulled a laugh out of me.But it didn't.I really don't know how to smile.There has never been anything
𝘼𝘽𝘽𝙄𝙀By the time Chaney and I returned to Ruby's salon, the sky had already swallowed the last bit of light, leaving behind a heavy, restless darkness. My body ached, but somehow, I felt lighter than before.I have a phone now—cheap, cracked at the edge—but it was mine. Chaney gave me his num







