LOGINARIELLA Asher squeezed my throat between his elegant fingers, pulled out of me, then started fucking me mercilessly. A grunt punctuated each thrust, followed by a swirl of his waist and a tilt of his body to hit my G-spot. He released my throat, dipped his head down, and ravaged my mouth. Our tong
ASHER Silence filled the room. Ariella just stared at me. Then, without saying a word, she reached up and touched my face again. Her thumb brushed over the bruise carefully. "So...You picked a fight because of that?" I smiled sheepishly. "...Maybe." She stared at me again, then she sighed. "Y
ASHER There it was again. That sentence..... Trust me. For some reason, hearing it a second time unsettled me just as much as it had before. But I nodded anyway because this was Luca. The man who had stood beside me through every fight, every loss and every victory. "I trust you." He smiled.
ASHER Luca walked outside and headed behind the bar, toward a dark corner where no one from the club would be able to see us. I followed. The cool evening air hit my face the second I stepped outside. He reached the spot first and stopped. I walked up until we were standing face-to-face. Neither o
ASHER We went to the warehouse together. I wasn't really in a good mood, but at least we didn't end up arguing this time, and everything went smoothly with the meeting and the transaction. We didn't get shot at or ambushed. So, it was nearly perfect. Afterwards, instead of going home, I decided to
ASHER I was supposed to meet with Luca at one of our warehouses to make sure everything was ready for tonight. With all the attacks on our source of income, we had gotten more cautious with every meeting and every move. I should be at the warehouse right now. Instead, I was angry. So damn angry.
ASHER I sit straighter, my pulse quickening. “And I told myself, I was going to tell you, and you were gonna help me.” She shakes her head. “And they told me the hard truth, opened my eyes, Asher.... That you weren’t Don yet. He was just teaching you the ropes by then. And you didn’t really have a
ASHER I swallowed, feeling the weight of her gaze. The truth was simple, but the words felt fragile on my tongue. Everything I had done, everything I had fought through just to be here, it all came down to this one moment, this conversation, right here in the quiet of the night, just the two of us.
ASHER “That’s not gonna work for me, I’m afraid,” I told her flatly. Her sobs grew louder, desperate, maybe for effect, maybe for real, but I didn’t care to measure the difference anymore. “I’m tired,” I added, dragging my words like I was done with every piece of her. “I want to go inside, take
ASHER I didn’t know where I was going. I just knew I couldn’t stay in that room. Not with her staring at me like that. Not with everything inside me cracking wide open. So I kept walking, down the hallway, down the stairs, through the house that now felt too quiet, too heavy with what hadn’t been







