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4. A Beautiful Problem

Author: Priyal Dessai

Huling Na-update: 2025-04-08 04:50:03

"𝔥𝔢 𝔱𝔞𝔰𝔱𝔢𝔰 𝔩𝔦𝔨𝔢 𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔯𝔶 𝔡𝔞𝔯𝔨 𝔱𝔥𝔬𝔲𝔤𝔥𝔱 ℑ 𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔯 𝔥𝔞𝔡."

— 𝔲𝔫𝔨𝔫𝔬𝔴𝔫.

[ZEKE]

The crying is starting to piss me off.

Elio’s wife hasn’t shut up since the bullet tore through her husband’s skull. It wasn’t even a messy shot—clean, precise, almost surgical. He didn’t suffer. I could’ve made it worse, but I’m not feeling particularly cruel today.

I slide the gun back into my jacket, welcoming it back against my ribs like an old friend. My eyes trail lazily to the body on the floor. Elio’s eyes are wide open, lips parted like he still thinks he can talk his way out of this. He can’t. Not anymore.

Marco crouches down beside him, clicking his tongue. “Carpet cost too much,” he mutters, poking at the blood pooling under Elio’s head. “Stupid prick couldn’t even bleed somewhere convenient.” Milo joins him, and together they carry the body outside.

His wife in the corner is still sobbing—those dry, hiccuping cries that have lost their edge. That first wave of pani

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Beauty and the Mafia Beast 80. A Prisoner and a Queen
[CAMI]The portrait hangs on the wall of the piano room, where the light hits it just right, softening everything sharp about her. My mother. Perfect curls. A dress she would’ve sold a kidney to buy. Makeup done so well it almost makes me angry. And a tiny mole above her lip, one I don’t remember ever seeing in real life. She looks… composed—like a woman who had her life together. Not the woman who forgot bills, forgot meals, forgot me—except when she needed company.I sigh.Behind me, Marco crosses his arms. “I knew you’d ask to see it again.”I glare at him. “That just tells me you don’t listen to my orders.”When we came back from Vance’s house, I told Marco to burn the painting. Or throw it out in the trash. I’d been too shaken after seeing Jake’s grave to decide better. But Marco, being Marco, had kept it—carefully wrapped—and now it hangs here like it’s always been part of the house. It’s creepy as fuck. “Who are you to order me?” he asks, raising a brow.“The queen,” I reply
Beauty and the Mafia Beast 79. The Softest Pillow
[CAMI]Zeke is asleep on my naked chest, one arm wrapped around my waist like I’ll disappear if he loosens a muscle. His face is tucked right between my breasts, warm breath against my skin, hair tickling my sternum. One of his legs is thrown over mine, and he looks so unbothered, so deeply at peace, that for a moment I forget what world we live in. I drag my fingers through his hair slowly, letting the strands slip between them. He sighs, and something in my chest contracts so painfully it almost feels like guilt.It’s been hours since the meeting. Hours since I stormed in like a crazy person, and he pulled me into him like I was oxygen. Now we’re here—warm, naked, tangled in each other—and I force myself to look away from his face because it bends my rationality in ways I’m starting to resent. I’m angry at myself for giving in so easily. Angry that he can stay away for days, functioning, doing whatever monstrous things Dons do, while I lose my mind the second he disappears. When it c
Beauty and the Mafia Beast 78. The Psycho I Chose
[CAMI]Marco taps his knight against the table’s edge, scanning the chessboard with a frown. “You forgot everything I taught you,” he sighs, dramatic as hell. “All your progress—poof. Gone. Tragic, really. But on the flip side, I want to play more with you because now I’m winning again.”I just stare at the board, arms crossed.He waits for a reaction—a snarky comment, or a cute threat—anything. But nothing comes, so he slumps back in the chair with an exaggerated groan. I mirror him, leaning back, staring at nothing. The chair is cold. Or maybe I’m cold. I can’t tell anymore.From the corner of my eye, Bianca sits on the couch scrolling through her phone, tapping away. She looks calm and bored. But I haven’t forgotten how she almost slipped to Zeke that I took a pregnancy test. For just that reason, I want to pull out my pink gun and put a bullet through her head. Or her neck. Or shoulder. Doesn’t matter where it lands. I won’t know if I’m a good shot if I never try. But taking a l
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[CAMI]Zeke’s still stroking my cheek with his thumb, watching me too closely. I look away afraid that he can see through me, forcing down the lump at my throat. His voice becomes softer. “What happened, doll?”I dare myself to take another glance at him. No, I don’t think he knows about the test. I really hope he doesn’t. I sit up slowly. “I wasn’t feeling well,” I tell him finally. “But I’m fine now.”He nods once but doesn’t get off the bed or stop touching me. Since we got back from Vance’s estate, everything between us has been… quieter. Hesitant. Held back. But he still holds me at night. Still kisses me like he means it. Still fucks me like he owns me.I wipe the drool from my mouth with the back of my hand. “I went shopping with Vivienne,” I say, hoping to ease out the tension. “I know.”Of course he does. Zeke knows every movement inside this house—every door that opens, every car that leaves, every person that breathes. For a second—I don’t know why—I look at him and the
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[CAMI]The days crawl.Morning, night, morning, night. Same walls. Same shadows. I spend most of my time in Zeke’s arms. His huge, comforting, warm arms that hold me every night like I belong there. And every other disturbing thought fades and goes quiet when I’m with him. He’s different lately. He’s still dangerous. Still lethal enough to wipe out a country if he wanted. But quieter. He doesn’t tease or challenge me. He touches me like I’m a fucking bruise he’s afraid to press too hard on.And it pisses me off because it means one thing—he’s afraid I’ll pull away. That I’ll change my mind about never hating him. Domestic bliss. That’s what this is, I guess. At least a form of it—the mafia edition. Guns in drawers, blood on phones, trauma in bed—but soft kisses in the dark and the way he tucks me into his chest when I shiver, making me feel safer with him than anywhere else in the world. And yet once he leaves, everything slams back. The grave won’t get out of my head. Jake. That
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[CAMI]I don’t know what I expected from that visit. Maybe it was closure. Or maybe it was just an opportunity to rile up my father. What I didn’t expect was to leave with a fucking knife in my heart. Vance’s words at the wedding are still lodged painfully in me, and as much as I hate admitting it, they stuck. I swore I wouldn’t let him get under my skin. That he’d never see me break. But then he showed me a portrait of my mother—my dead mother—smiling down from his walls. I’m sure she never posed for it—well photoshopped. And then Jake. Jake in the ground. A headstone complete with a neat little epitaph.He has a sister. She’s just sixteen. Does she know he’s dead? If she does, what lie did they feed her? My chest feels tight just thinking about it.By the time we’re driving back, the weight of it all—my nightmares, my mother’s face, Jake’s grave—crushes me so hard I feel like I’ll scream. I sit in silence, fists in my lap, refusing to look at Zeke because if I do, I’ll lash out. An

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