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CHAPTER 64: Choosing Again And Again
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2026-04-13 21:01:08
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CLAIM ME, DON CHAPTER 67: Dante Unleashed
Nico called him from the garden.I know because I was standing in the entrance hall when the call connected and I heard three seconds of Nico's voice before Dante said something in Italian that made Nico go very still and end the call and look at me with an expression I had never seen on him before.Not fear exactly.Something closer to the specific feeling of watching a person you respected become something considerably more dangerous than their usual version."He's coming back," Nico said."I know," I said."Mia." He looked at me directly. "I need you to understand that what is about to happen in this house is going to look different from anything you've seen before. He is…" He stopped. Restarted. "Just stay with Elena. Whatever you hear."I looked at him. "How bad.""He's not going to hurt you," Nico said. "He's not going to hurt anyone in this house." A pause. "But Rafael Vega is going to wish he had made considerably different choices today."I nodded and went to find Elena.He
CLAIM ME, DON CHAPTER 66: Taken
I should have seen it coming.Looking back I could trace every step of it, the way you could always trace things backward with perfect clarity once they had already happened. The gate opened from inside. Someone had been paid. Someone who knew the schedule and the positions and the specific window when Nico would be on the far side of the grounds and I would be in the garden alone.Rafael had planned it for longer than that one afternoon.The five minutes in the drive had not been the real play.The five minutes in the drive had been to look at my face and confirm something he needed to confirm before he moved.I understood that afterward.At the time I was in the east garden three days later on a Sunday morning and the gate at the far end of the path opened and two men came through it and I turned and started back toward the house and then a third man was behind me and something pressed against my ribs and a voice said very quietly that if I screamed it would go badly for everyone.I
CLAIM ME, DON CHAPTER 65: Rafael's Trap
It happened on a Thursday afternoon.I was in the garden with the late sun still warm on my back and Biscuit making his slow circuit of the rose beds with the proprietary air of a cat inspecting his own estate. I had been outside for an hour, just walking, enjoying the specific freedom of walking without counting guard positions or calculating exit routes, which was a freedom I was still getting used to and intended to never take for granted.I heard the car at the gate.I didn't think anything of it. Cars came through the gate. That was ordinary.Then Nico appeared on the path ahead of me walking fast and I knew immediately from the quality of his movement that something was wrong."Inside," he said. "Now.""What…""Now Mia," he said.I went.We were almost at the side entrance when the second car came through the gates.Not Dante's car. Not anyone I recognized. A dark vehicle moving too fast for the drive and already through the gates before the guards at the perimeter had fully pro
CLAIM ME, DON CHAPTER 64: Choosing Again And Again
I woke up in the armchair.The lamp was off and the library was full of early morning light and there was a blanket over me that hadn't been there when I fell asleep. I sat up slowly and looked at it and then at the reading desk where his papers were still stacked neatly and his chair was pushed in and the room was empty and completely still.I sat with the blanket around my shoulders for a long moment.Then Elena appeared in the doorway with coffee and the expression of a woman who had been awake for hours and had information she was going to deliver whether I asked for it or not."He put it over you at midnight," she said. "Then he stood in this doorway for approximately five minutes before he went to bed."I looked at the blanket. "Five minutes.""Five minutes," she said. "Just standing there." She set the coffee on the side table. "Looking at you sleep."She left before I could say anything.I sat in the armchair with the blanket and the coffee and the morning light and felt some
CLAIM ME, DON CHAPTER 63: Surrender
The deliberate distance stopped.Not all at once and not with any announcement. It just stopped, the way things stopped when they had run out of reasons to continue, and what replaced it was something quieter and more honest and considerably more permanent feeling.The library became ours properly.Not mine and his separately, both of us drifting there independently and happening to occupy the same space. Actually ours, both of us choosing it at the same time for the same reason which was that it was where we were most ourselves and most comfortable and most able to just exist without any of the weight that existed everywhere else.He started leaving things there.Small things. A book he thought I would like placed on the side table without comment. A blanket on the armchair on an evening when the house was cold. Once a small dish of the particular biscuits Elena made that I had mentioned once in passing weeks ago and apparently he had remembered and apparently Elena had been informed
CLAIM ME, DON CHAPTER 62: Giulia
He told me on a Tuesday evening.Not because I asked. Not because anything had forced it out of him. He told me because we were sitting in the library after dinner and the house was quiet and he had been somewhere else for most of the evening, not distant exactly, just carrying something, and at some point I had put my book down and looked at him and said nothing and waited and he had looked back at me and understood that I was ready to hear whatever he had been holding.He set his own book down.He was quiet for a long moment.Then he told me about his sister.He told me about growing up with her. About the seven year gap between them that should have made them strangers and somehow made them closer instead, the way she had followed him around the estate when she was small demanding his attention with the absolute confidence of someone who had never once been refused it. The way she used to appear in his study when he was sixteen and too serious for his age and sit on his desk and t
CLAIM ME, DON CHAPTER 38: Three Days of Ice
I ate breakfast in my room.Elena brought the tray without comment, which told me she already knew everything, which meant the estate knew everything, which meant the next few days were going to be exactly as uncomfortable as I intended them to be.Good.I wasn't ready to sit across from Dante Marc
CLAIM ME, DON CHAPTER 37: The Truth About Carlo
I didn't sleep.I lay in the dark and stared at the ceiling and turned it over and over the way you turned something over when you were hoping a different angle would make it look like something more manageable than what it actually was.It didn't look more manageable from any angle.My father had
CLAIM ME, DON CHAPTER 36: The Secret About Carlo
Three days after the key everything felt different.Not dramatically. Just quietly and fundamentally different the way things felt when something significant had settled into its permanent position and stopped being uncertain. We moved through the estate together with a new ease, dinners that ran l
CLAIM ME, DON CHAPTER 35: The Key
He found me in the library the next morning.I was in the armchair with coffee going cold and Biscuit heavy on my lap and the kind of tiredness that came from lying awake too long with too many thoughts and not enough answers. He appeared in the doorway and I looked up and he looked at me and neith
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