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Earned Peace
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Cage to Cage You Always Belong
The words hang between us long after he stops speaking. Rather have you partly—than not at all.Something inside me twists, tightens. The room blurs at the edges. My pulse pounds in my ears, drowning out the sound of rain beginning again beyond the windows.And then—A flash.The sharp echo of footsteps in a marble hallway. Music spilling faintly from a ballroom. A glint of gold light against Vex’s eyes just before he says, forgive me.My breath catches.Suddenly I’m not sitting at the table anymore. I’m there—pressed against the wall, the world shrinking to the heat of his hand at my throat and the taste of danger on his lips. The kiss crashes through me all over again—rough, consuming, meant to be a cover but becoming something else entirely.I can feel it—the press of his chest, the low growl in his throat, the split second before the guards rounded the corner. The way he broke the kiss like it cost him something to stop.The memory fades as fast as it came, leaving me trembling. M
Cage to Cage Partly
BRYNN POV I close the door behind me, the soft click echoing too loud in the hallway. My pulse hasn’t slowed. My lips still feel warm—haunted by the taste of smoke and restraint. I press my fingers there, as if I can erase the memory before it sinks any deeper. But it’s too late. The moment is already carved into me. The kiss should have answered something. Instead, it leaves me more lost than before. When I finally crawl back into bed, the sheets feel wrong. Everything does. My mind replays it over and over—the way his hand slid into my hair, the way he stopped himself like it hurt to let go. If I didn’t know better, I’d swear my body remembers him more than my mind ever could. Sleep doesn’t come easy. When it finally does, it’s shallow, restless. A blur of sea light and cigarette smoke, of two sets of eyes watching me from opposite ends of memory. By morning, I’m no closer to peace. The rain has stopped, leaving the garden outside glistening in pale sunlight. I dress slowly,
Cage to Cage Let Me Try
BRYNN POVSleep won’t come.The sheets smell faintly of sandalwood and smoke—his scent—and it only makes the silence louder. I stare at the ceiling, tracing the faint shadows cast by the rain-damp moonlight, counting seconds until the clock somewhere in the hall ticks over to another hour I can’t feel.Everything here feels borrowed. The room. The clothes. Even my name when people speak it.I used to belong somewhere, to someone. But now it’s like living inside a story everyone remembers except me.The image of Kade’s eyes—dark, steady, full of something I can’t name—won’t leave me. And behind it, Vex’s silhouette on the opposite balcony, cigarette ember glowing like a warning light in the dark.Three people. One truth I can’t remember.I throw off the sheets and stand, wrapping the robe tighter around me. The mansion is quiet, the kind of silence that hums beneath marble and memory. My bare feet make no sound on the polished floor as I step into the hallway.The walls are lined with
Cage to Cage Earned Peace
VEX POV The ember of my cigarette glows against the night, a small, dying flame in a world that won’t stop burning.Across the courtyard, Brynn stands on her balcony—barefoot, hair tousled, wrapped in one of the robes I’d chosen for her. The sight hits harder than I expect. Not because of the robe. Because she’s there, alive, breathing in the quiet, while Kade stands beside her.He leans close—too close—and I feel something twist inside me.Jealousy is an old friend. It doesn’t rage anymore; it just sits there, coiled, patient. I could move. Step inside. End this small reunion before it festers into something neither of them can take back. But I don’t. I just watch.Kade’s presence should unsettle me. Instead, it steadies me in a way I can’t explain. If anyone could keep her safe from herself, it’s him. He’s the one man who’d die before letting her fall again.Still, the sight of them together pulls at a part of me I’ve tried to bury.She laughs once—soft, uncertain—and the sound car
Cage to Cage First Memory
BRYNN POV The night hums with quiet life. Cicadas sing in the trees beyond the estate walls, and the air smells faintly of wet earth and sandalwood. Rain still clings to the iron railing, jeweled droplets reflecting the faint city lights in the distance. I stand barefoot on the balcony, wrapped in one of the soft robes left in the wardrobe. The fabric feels foreign against my skin—too familiar to be new, too impersonal to be mine. I light a cigarette, watching the flame tremble before catching. The first inhale burns. The taste is sharp and bitter, grounding me in a way nothing else has since waking up in that hospital room. Smoke drifts upward, curling into the cool air like a ghost of something I used to be. Behind me, the door creaks softly. I turn my head just enough to see Kade in the doorway—barefoot, shirt rumpled, sleeves rolled halfway up his arms. His presence fills the quiet effortlessly, like he’s always belonged there. “Didn’t think you smoked anymore,” he says, voi
Cage to Cage Safe
BRYNN POVThe quiet hum of the monitors fills the space between us. Kade leans against the wall, arms crossed, eyes distant—haunted by ghosts he never buried.“So you were… a boss?” I ask softly, my voice still fragile.He nods once, almost absently. “A long time ago.”“Then why not take it back?”His gaze flickers toward me—sharp, guarded. “Because I buried that life with my parents.”I wait, but he doesn’t elaborate. The silence stretches. He’s thinking, I can see it—the flicker in his jaw, the way his thumb rubs absently over the scar on his wrist. There’s something behind his eyes he won’t say aloud.Vex steps closer, hands tucked in his pockets. “Power like that doesn’t die quietly. If Kade ever wanted the Russo name again, there’d be a line of men ready to follow him.”Kade doesn’t deny it. He just looks away.“So you’re both just… living like this?” I whisper. “No one ever really gets out, do they?”Neither answers.The doctor clears his throat in the doorway, murmurs something
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