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Sienna:I stood frozen just inside the doorway of the conference room, every instinct in me screaming for me to turn around and walk right back out. But I couldn’t. Not with Giovanni’s eyes locked on mine.“Please,” he said smoothly, gesturing to the seat across from him. “Don’t let me interrupt you
Damon:The second I picked up the phone and heard the panic in Sienna’s voice, I was already grabbing my keys.She didn’t have to explain. She didn’t have to beg.Just the sound of her breath trembling over the line, the unspoken fear in the way she said my name, it was enough to set my blood on fir
Sienna:The room was quiet, save for the soft hum of the bathroom fan. I curled up on Damon’s bed, my knees tucked under me, his scent wrapping around me like a second skin. I wasn’t sure when I’d started feeling safe in this room, when his scent had become familiar, comforting even, but it had happ
Damon:Sienna had left the job.That alone should have made me feel better. Should have eased the tension in my chest knowing she wouldn’t be walking into another trap set by Giovanni, or sitting in a room where every corner was controlled by his influence. It should have given me a sense of comfort
Sienna tensed beside me. I could feel her confusion, her discomfort, but I kept my hand on her lower back, grounding her. She needed this.Lysandra leaned forward. “What formality? Calling an Omega Luna now I really am impressed. How? Does your mother approve of this? Or maybe wait? She does encoura
Damon:I should’ve known she wouldn’t let it go quietly.I should have known that she was not going to let the subject die down. She was going to come and she was going to start the problem.The second I stepped back into my office, I didn’t even have time to close the door before Lysandra shoved it
Sienna:The elevator doors opened with a quiet chime as I stepped onto the executive floor. My heels echoed on the polished floors, and I adjusted the folder in my hand. Damon had asked me to drop by for a final update before the weekend, and despite the whirlwind of the past few days, I was startin
Damon:The drive home was quiet, but for once, it wasn’t awkward or full of tension. It was peaceful.Sienna sat in the passenger seat, her head resting lightly against the window, shoes kicked off, her legs tucked under her like she belonged there. And maybe… she did.It was a long day for the two
Delilah:The sound of the gunshot rang louder than it should have.It made my heart drop to my stomach and for a few moments I felt like everything around me just seemed to explode.One second I was stepping outside the building, I was walking out believing that maybe we had hope, maybe this was jus
Damon:I didn't expect to see her walk through the door.Even when I called her sounds, considering the fact that Sienna did not come and report to me, I expected it to be a mistake. I expected that something else was going on, that maybe she was just roaming around.But when I saw her walking throu
Giovanni:The silence in my office was never just silence.It was a weapon. A weight. A promise.The last thing that I would have expected was to send men following her, the one woman that I expected to never betray me. But if her mother had done so, why was I surprised when she did?I took a whiff
“Whatever you have to say, spill it out.”“I need your help.”That froze her.For just a second, the steel in her spine wavered. “What did you say?”“I said I need your help.”She stared at me, unsure if this was another game, another manipulation. Her jaw clenched.“You have a funny way of asking f
Delilah:The walls of the office were too white.Too clean. Too polished.And no matter how hard I wanted to deny it, no matter how much I was despising being here, I knew that I needed to be.I needed help, and I knew that they were the only people who would be willing to help with something like t
Sienna:I told myself I was just taking a walk.I told myself that I just needed a break, that I was going to be all right, that this was just a moment of weakness where I needed to find myself.I took a deep breath as I walked down the western corridor, where the windows were tall and the sunlight
I laughed, stepping closer. “You’re getting attached. That’s dangerous.”“She’s my sister,” Delilah hissed. “And I'm going to start acting like it. Or is it because you deprived the two of us from being together, from growing up by one another side that you are furious that I'm actually taking the c
Giovanni:The door creaked open, the scent of ash and leather wafting into the grand marble foyer like a warning. I stepped inside, boots echoing with cold authority across the polished floor. Silence wrapped around the place like a shroud.Everything seemed calm, far too delicate in a way that I di
Damon:She didn’t say anything at first.Not since we left the office. Not since the two of us were inside the car.We sat in the car with the silence between us stretched thin, tight like a wire pulled to its breaking point. I didn’t push her. I didn’t reach for her. I let her sit in it, breathe th