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CLAIM ME, DON CHAPTER 31: No Pretense & Second Intimacy
Neither of us moved for a long time.We sat in the dark library with his hand in mine and the fountain running outside and the quiet of the estate settling around us and I thought about Fen in the entrance hall and the way Dante's voice had been so completely still and I thought about all the weight this man carried every single day of his life without ever putting it down.I turned to look at him.He was already looking at me.In the low moonlight coming through the library windows his face was open in the way it only got when he was too tired to manage it and I looked at him for a long moment and then I reached up and put my hand against his jaw.He went completely still.I had touched him before. He had touched me. But this was different, this was me choosing it deliberately with no urgency and no crisis behind it, just my hand against his face in the dark because I wanted it there.His eyes closed briefly.When they opened again something in them had shifted.He turned his face i
CLAIM ME, DON CHAPTER 30: The Betraya
His name was Fen.I had seen him around the estate for weeks without thinking much about him. Mid thirties, quiet, the kind of man who occupied space without drawing attention to it. He worked logistics, schedules and routes and the movement of people and vehicles, which meant he knew things that most of the guards didn't.He had known enough to sell.I found out the way I found out most things in this house, by paying attention when people didn't know I was paying attention. Elena's face at breakfast. The absence of two guards who were usually at the east gate. Nico arriving at my door twenty minutes earlier than usual with a flatness in his expression that told me something was already resolved and the resolution hadn't been clean."Stay in the library today," he said."What happened?" I asked."Stay in the library," he said again, gently and without room for negotiation.I stayed in the library.For three hours I sat in the armchair with a book I wasn't reading and listened to the
CLAIM ME, DON CHAPTER 29: Viktor's Real Play
I wasn't supposed to hear it.I had come downstairs for water at eleven at night and the study door was open a crack, which never happened when Dante was working. I would have walked straight past it except I heard my name in a sentence that stopped me cold in the corridor.I stood outside and listened.Dante was at his desk. Nico was standing. Between them was Paulo, one of the senior guards, delivering information in the careful measured way of someone who wished they were delivering something else entirely.The offer had come through a clean intermediary. No fingerprints. No trace.The terms were simple. Whoever delivered the woman currently residing at the estate to a specified location would receive safe passage out of the country. New documents. Money. A clean start somewhere beyond Viktor's reach.Whoever delivered the woman.I pressed my back against the wall and kept very still.Paulo kept talking. The offer had gone to three people inside the operation simultaneously. Paulo
CLAIM ME, DON CHAPTER 28: Sophia Returns
She arrived on a Friday without warning, same as before.I was coming down the main staircase when I saw her in the entrance hall below, already inside, already making herself at home in the specific way that said she considered home to be the operative word. Same polished appearance. Same cream clothing. Same practiced warmth that lived entirely on the surface and went nowhere near her eyes.Elena was behind her with the expression of a woman who had opened a door she hadn't wanted to open and was managing the consequences with professional dignity.Sophia looked up and saw me on the stairs.Her smile arrived immediately. "Mia. How lovely, you're still here."The still here carried everything she intended it to carry."Sophia," I said, and came the rest of the way down the stairs at exactly the pace I had been moving before I saw her, which was not hurried and not slowed, because giving her the satisfaction of either reaction wasn't something I was willing to do.Dante appeared from
CLAIM ME, DON CHAPTER 27: Possession
He was controlled about it.That was what I noticed in the days after. Not cold, not distant, just controlled in the specific careful way of a man who had let something significant happen and was now deciding, very deliberately, what shape it was going to take in the daylight.He was present at dinner. He asked real questions and listened to the answers and refilled my wine without being asked and once, when I said something that surprised him, that almost smile arrived and stayed a full three seconds before he managed it back under control.But in front of others he was measured.I understood it. This world he lived in had rules about visibility, about what you showed and to whom and what it cost you when the wrong people saw the wrong things. Letting people see that something mattered to you was the same as handing them a weapon. He had told me that himself.So in front of others he was measured and I was measured and we were two people who happened to share dinners and a library a
CLAIM ME, DON CHAPTER 26: Morning After
I woke up alone.I had known I would. Somewhere between falling asleep and waking I had understood that this was how it would be, that he would leave before morning properly arrived because that was how he managed things that were too significant to face without preparation.His side of the bed was cool but not cold. He hadn't been gone long.I lay still for a moment and looked at the ceiling and took stock of how I felt.Different. That was the most honest word for it. Not changed exactly, more like something that had been slightly out of alignment for weeks had quietly settled into its correct position overnight and the absence of that friction was so complete it was almost disorienting.I got up and showered and dressed and went downstairs.The dining room held one place setting.Elena poured my coffee and said good morning and asked if I wanted eggs and said nothing else and her face said nothing else and I appreciated her more in that moment than I had since the day she told me
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