로그인ELENA POV My eyes struggled open, and a hammering headache split through my skull the moment the light touched them. I blinked, once, twice, the ceiling swimming above me. Then a face slid into focus. A stranger, sitting far too close, watching me with a smile that sat wrong on his lips. "Welcome
He squeezed his eyes shut and buried his face against my neck. I wrapped both arms around him, tucked his head beneath my chin, curled my body around his like armor. Then I leaped. The wind tore past us. For one suspended moment there was nothing but air and the pounding of my own heart. Then the
ALEXANDER POV My heart stopped. For one long, silent second, I couldn't feel anything at all. Not the pain in my ribs, not the blood in my eye, not the ground beneath my knees. The world had collapsed into a single sound, that gunshot, still ringing through my skull. Then I saw it. The blood was
"Haul him up," one of them grunted. "Madam wants him alive." They dragged me toward the stairwell, my feet scraping against concrete. Blood dripped from my mouth and slid warm down my chin. Each flight of stairs felt endless, my lungs burning, my vision swimming at the edges. I was tired. God, I wa
CALISTA POV My finger was already tightening around the trigger when a voice cut in from behind me. "Madam!" I didn't turn. "This had better be important." "A car just pulled into the compound." I let out a slow breath and lowered the gun, the smile returning to my face as if it had never left.
ALEXANDER POV My hand tightened around the phone until my knuckles turned white. "Adrian was kidnapped." The words didn't register at first. They hung in my ears like something spoken in another language. Then Adriana's voice cracked through the line again, ragged and breaking. "Selena saw the vi







