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The shift

Author: KJS
last update Last Updated: 2025-09-01 21:35:48
~ Seraphina ~

Three days. Maybe four. Time felt strange inside Dino’s walls. No windows showed me more than a sliver of sky. Guards at every turn, men who moved like shadows with guns strapped like extensions of their arms.

But something was off.

I could feel it in the way they looked at me. Not like prey. Not like entertainment. Not like the women who scurried past with their heads down and their mouths shut.

They watched me with the kind of careful silence men gave when they were following orders too strange to make sense.

Dino’s orders.

That morning at breakfast, I sat at one end of the long table. The smell of eggs and meat filled the air, steam rising from plates I hardly touched. At the far end, Dino leaned back in his chair, one arm draped lazily over the backrest, a glass of whiskey in hand.

He wasn’t even eating. Just watching. His eyes cut through the smoke like they owned me.

A few thugs came in, laughing too loudly, talking about some job they’d botched the night before. On
KJS

Everything shifted here. For the first time, Dino put Seraphina above his men — and everyone saw it. In a world where women are used and discarded, he shouted in front of his gang: “This one is different.” That changes everything. 👉 Did you catch the way the thugs went silent? Even Arturo, bold as he is, had to say it: Dino has never done this before. Could Seraphina really be the one thing he can’t control? A hint: when a man like Dino breaks his own rules, it’s not mercy. It’s obsession.

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