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Marco's Control Issues

Author: Raven Storm
last update publish date: 2026-06-13 05:03:56

ISABEL

Wednesday dinner is at Marco's penthouse.

He cooks again, some elaborate Italian dish that requires three pans and precise timing. I sit at the kitchen counter watching him move through the space with his usual controlled efficiency, but something's off tonight.

The precision feels tighter than normal. More rigid. He's quiet in a way that's different from his usual thoughtful silence.

This is the silence of someone containing something.

We ate at the dining table, the food excellent as a
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  • Banged Three Daddies To Hurt My Ex   Marco's Control Issues

    ISABELWednesday dinner is at Marco's penthouse.He cooks again, some elaborate Italian dish that requires three pans and precise timing. I sit at the kitchen counter watching him move through the space with his usual controlled efficiency, but something's off tonight.The precision feels tighter than normal. More rigid. He's quiet in a way that's different from his usual thoughtful silence.This is the silence of someone containing something.We ate at the dining table, the food excellent as always, but Marco's jaw is set throughout. His responses to my attempts at conversation clipped and minimal, like he's holding himself together with concentrated effort.Halfway through the meal I set down my fork."What's wrong?""Nothing." His reply is mmediate and automatic."Marco."He continues eating."Marco. Talk to me."He sets his fork down with careful, controlled precision, and look at me across the table with grey eyes that are doing their best to be unreadable and failing."I'm fine.

  • Banged Three Daddies To Hurt My Ex   The First Real Jealousy Crisis

    ARESSaturday morning starts wrong.I wake early, earlier than usual and lie in bed staring at the ceiling for twenty minutes before giving up on sleep entirely.Harvey is traveling. Boston, some risk assessment meeting that couldn't be rescheduled which means last night, Isabel stayed with Marco.I knew this, and I agreed to this. It was on the shared calendar we all maintain with careful, deliberate honesty.Intellectually, I understand completely. Emotionally, I didn't sleep well. I tell myself I'm fine.I make coffee, and review some work emails. Go for a run along the river, trying to outpace the thing sitting heavy in my chest bu it doesn't work.On the way back, my route takes me past Marco's building. I don't plan it, I don't consciously decide anything but my feet slow when I see the familiar figure emerging from the building entrance.Isabel.Hair slightly messed from sleep. Marco's oversized grey sweater hanging off one shoulder. She is carrying her heels in one hand, and h

  • Banged Three Daddies To Hurt My Ex   Workplace Dynamics

    ISABELMonday morning arrives with the particular cruelty of all Monday mornings.I walk into Queens Enterprises at eight AM looking every inch the acting CEO, navy suit, heels, hair pinned back, and professional armor fully assembled.Nobody looking at me would guess I spent Sunday evening tangled on a penthouse floor with three men, eating sushi and falling asleep to the sound of Ares's quiet breathing. That's the skill I've developed over the past weeks. Compartmentalization, that is personal Isabel and professional Isabel in completely separate boxes and it works mostly.The quarterly board presentation is at ten AM. I've prepared for weeks, financial projections, operational improvements, strategic initiatives, and growth metrics. Everything is polished to perfection.The boardroom fills with faces I've known my entire life. Men who watched me grow up, who doubted my return, and who are only now beginning to accept that I belong here.My father sits at the head of the table, his

  • Banged Three Daddies To Hurt My Ex   Weekends Together

    ISABELWeekends belong to all of us.No schedules, no carefully designated time, just four people learning how to exist together as something that defies every conventional label.The first weekend starts Saturday morning when all three men show up at my apartment unannounced, Ares with groceries, Marco with expensive coffee, Harvey with nothing except his presence which somehow feels like the most significant contribution."We're making breakfast," Ares announces, already heading to my kitchen."You're making breakfast," Marco corrects, following. "I'm supervising.""You're both in my kitchen uninvited," I point out.Harvey stops beside me, his hand finding the back of my neck briefly. "Do you want us to leave?""No," I admit.His mouth curves slightly. "Then stop complaining."Breakfast becomes an event.Ares cooks with enthusiastic chaos—eggs everywhere, bacon spitting on the stove, flour somehow appearing despite no baking occurring.Marco stands at the coffee maker with surgical

  • Banged Three Daddies To Hurt My Ex   Fridays With Harvey

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  • Banged Three Daddies To Hurt My Ex   Wednesdays With Marco

    ISABELWednesdays belong to Marco.Where Ares brings lightness, Marco brings depth.Our evenings always start with conversation without fail. Over dinner or wine or coffee, we talk about things that matter. Business strategy, philosophy, the nature of power and how it corrupts or clarifies.He pushes me to think harder, sharper, deeper than anyone else ever has.It's intoxicating in a completely different way than Ares's joy.The first Wednesday, he takes me to an art gallery opening not the kind Ares took me to, warm and romantic with stolen kisses in viewing rooms.This one is darker, more confrontational. Art that challenges and unsettles.Marco stands beside me in front of a massive canvas, all violent reds and blacks and asks what I see."Anger," I say immediately. "Controlled anger. Someone who learned to contain it but couldn't quite."Marco turns to look at me. "Most people say passion.""Passion and anger aren't that different."Something shifts in his grey eyes. "No. They're

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