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Monster

Author: Precious Edmund
last update Last Updated: 2025-04-27 23:30:59

_Amelie’s POV_

The first thing I noticed was how cold it was.

Not the weather—it was always cold in Santiago’s house, no matter the season. No. This was a different kind of cold. The kind that sinks into your skin, settles into your bones and stays there.

They moved me after the gathering.

No explanation.

No warning.

Two guards showed up outside my door after midnight, their faces blank as stone. They said nothing, just waited for me to follow. I thought for a second they were going to kill me. March me into the woods and put a bullet through the back of my skull.

It wouldn’t be a surprise to me if that had happened.

Maybe that would have been kinder as well.

Death by her father’s men. What a good way to die.

Instead, they led me to a different wing of the estate—a part of the house I hadn’t seen since I was a little girl sneaking around the halls I wasn’t allowed to be in.

The room was small. Windowless. One tiny bed. No closet. No decorations. Just gray walls and the hum of a singl
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    _Amelie’s POV_The warmth in the estate was different now, not what I was used to. It was quiet footsteps and soft-spoken apologies, the gentle clatter of a spoon in a porcelain bowl, Nico adjusting the curtains to keep the sun off my face. It was Matteo making sure my tea was the right temperature before handing it to me, and Luca watching me with a stare that no longer held knives—but regret.They didn’t leave me alone.Not even for a second.It was suffocating and sweet all at once.I’d been home for two days, but it felt longer. Like my pain stretched time itself.I didn’t mention the blood. I didn’t mention the ache that wouldn’t leave my lungs or the heaviness in my limbs that no amount of rest could fix. I told myself it was trauma. Exhaustion. Healing.I didn’t want to believe it was whatever Santiago had put it in me.I told myself I could survive it—whatever Santiago had done to me. Whatever poison was buried in my veins.I just needed one more day.“Are you cold?” Nico aske

  • Bound By Blood: The Step-Brothers' Temptation   Killing me

    I woke to heat.Not the weather. It was inside me.It clung to my skin, wrapped around my chest, soaked into the gauze binding my ribs. My body felt like it had melted into the bed, too heavy to move, too weak to try. Every breath scratched down my throat like broken glass.Why had I woken up again? I was confused for a few seconds.Then I heard them.Voices—raised and angry.“Why wasn’t she waking up?!” Matteo’s voice. Sharp, panicked. “She had a fever all night, Luca—she was burning up!”“We did what we could,” Luca snapped back, colder. “The doctor said she was stable—”“She wasn’t stable! She was unconscious!”“You think I didn’t see that?” Nico this time. “You think I slept while she lay there shaking?”I didn’t move.They didn’t know I was awake.I had a fever last night. I didn’t know that. That explained the burn that I felt inside me. I kept my eyes half-closed, listening as their guilt leaked into every corner of the room.“You saw what they did to her,” Nico said again, qu

  • Bound By Blood: The Step-Brothers' Temptation   Alive

    _Amelie’s POV_The world came back to me slowly.My eyelids were heavy. My body was heavier. But the silence was soft this time, not cruel. And I wasn’t cold. There was warmth pressed against my skin. Sheets. A blanket. A pillow beneath my head.This wasn’t my father’s house.That’s right… he had sent me back and I was with the triplets now.Alive.I opened my eyes to find three shadows standing over me.My lips parted to let out a scream. Santiago was here. It took a second for their faces to become clearly then I relaxed.It was just the triplets. Nico was seated closest, his brows furrowed in fierce concentration as he dabbed a cloth against my wrist. I didn’t even feel it at first—just the motion. He was cleaning my wounds. Gently. Carefully. As if I would shatter if he pressed too hard.Matteo stood nearby, a tray of food in his hands. Soup. Water. Some fruit is peeled and sliced. He was watching me like a hawk—not like he expected me to collapse, but like he’d never seen me b

  • Bound By Blood: The Step-Brothers' Temptation   I’d die

    _Amelie’s POV_The first thing I noticed when I woke was the absence of pain.Not the actual pain—that was still there, gnawing at the edges of my ribs, pulsing behind my eyes. But it was dulled. It didn’t threaten to end me like he did when I was dropped off here. It felt like it had been softened by something they’d given me, or maybe just by sleep. I wasn’t sure anymore. The lines had blurred.I didn’t remember what had happened, because at some point I had slept off, or lost consciousness.I couldn’t tell which had happened.The second thing I noticed… was that I wasn’t alone.I turned my head slowly, and all three of them were there.Nico. Matteo. Luca.Standing in the corner of the room like the ghosts of men who had once known what to do. But now they just stood. Staring at me. Staring at what was left of me rather. Their presence filled the room in different ways.Nico’s rage was quiet but barely held back, like storm clouds rumbling under his skin. Matteo’s was loud in the

  • Bound By Blood: The Step-Brothers' Temptation   Loyalty

    _Amelie’s POV_I didn’t cry anymore.There were no tears left. They had been scraped out of me alongside the skin under my nails, drained with every drop of blood, cauterized with every burn Silvio gave me. Now there was only a quiet cold, numb, and bitter. I sat slumped against the wall, my body broken but my mind still functioning—barely.I was barely functioning at this point. The door opened.This time, it wasn’t Silvio.It was my father.Or rather sperm donor. Santiago walked in wearing his usual black, a long coat trailing behind him. His presence didn’t fill the room. It crushed it.I couldn’t lift my head, but my body still reacted. Every cell braced.I wanted to kill him but I couldn’t move a single muscle in my body. His shoes clicked across the floor as he came to stand in front of me. “You’re alive,” he said plainly.“Unfortunately,” I rasped, voice like rust.He could have just killed me instead of making me go through all these. He crouched, tilting my chin up with o

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    _Amelie’s POV_I woke up with a jolt, my eyes roaming around the room as I tried to figure out why I had woken up in the first place. And that was when I heard it again… the sound of metal.It was a soft click which was followed by the door opening.My entire body tensed. No part of me could move without me screaming. My hands felt detached—raw, destroyed, useless. The pain from yesterday hadn’t faded. It had taken root in me, humming through my blood like a second heartbeat.I hadn’t even known when I had lost consciousness. The pain was too much for me to bear, I had to pass out. I watched as Silvio stepped inside. He looked Calm and Composed. He was dressed in the same black gloves and tailored shirt as if yesterday never happened.But I knew it had. My fingers were proof of it. “You didn’t use the blade,” he said, eyes flicking to where it lay untouched by the wall. “That’s good. Means there’s something still alive in you.”I didn’t answer. Couldn’t. My lips were dry and crack

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