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Chapter 31-- Something He Can’t Name

Author: Beauty m.j
last update Huling Na-update: 2025-06-15 20:48:22

Morning came too fast.

Matteo didn’t remember falling asleep, but the weak sunlight creeping through the window forced him up. His whole body felt heavy, like he’d been dragging secrets in his bones all night.

Leo was still asleep beside him, mouth open slightly, one small arm thrown over Matteo’s chest. It would’ve been peaceful… if Matteo’s mind wasn’t already racing.

“You interest me.”

“Next time someone sends you to spy on me…”

Those words haunted him.

Dominic hadn’t said if. He’d said next time. That meant he knew. Or at least, suspected something.

And still… he hadn’t hurt him. Not yet. He hadn’t exposed him to the others. He hadn’t even raised his voice.

He’d just looked at him with those cold, careful eyes.

Matteo didn’t know what scared him more—that Dominic was planning something, or that he wasn’t.

---

By eight-thirty, Matteo had scrubbed himself clean, worn his best shirt—clean but faded—and shoved his phone into his pocket, silenced.

Leo stirred in bed as Matteo was about
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