LOGINBRYNNS POV:
"Fuck where did she go?" I walk into a club downtown. I've never been to a bar, let alone a place where women are serving drinks topless. My eyes wander around looking for my step sister Jessie. I see a blonde in a red dress go into a closed off area. That has to be her. I run after her. "JESSIE!" I scream. But she doesn't turn around. A blood purple curtain hits me in the face as I enter a room in the back. There's smaller rooms with the same blood purple curtain for each room. Some of the curtains are closed and some open. Women dancing on men. Some moans coming from other rooms. I shield me eyes and just keep looking. "Jessie? You bitch! Come out right now this isn't funny!" we have never really gotten along, but since I escaped my step father's imprisonment, she's been helping me find a new life. I was promised to Ajax Moretti, Jessie's crush. So she was more than happy to get me out of the picture. My step father Robert Mason is mafia boss of the eastern territory, and wanted me to marry to combine the eastern and western territories. But Ajax is ruthless, killed his first wife for spilling soup on his 10k boots. So of course my stepfather isn't going to marry off his blood daughter to someone like that. My life is expendable. I make my way through the hallway, looking in each room. With each curtain I open there's more people fucking then I've ever seen on a p**n site. what kind of club is this? I reach the last door. Pulling back the curtain and there's no one there. "Fuck." I enter the room, its dark with red lights there's a side table with a bottle of unopened champagne and a sectional couch. I stand in front of the couch and pull out my phone to order an uber. A voice startles me from behind. A deep whisper in my ear... "careful... I play with first timers in ways they never forget. I'm curious how long you'll last under my rules, when your eyes are begging me to stop and... I don't" I turn facing him. His hands on the wall, inching closer to my face. he has dark hair, black eyes. The type that should make any woman run. There's a neck tattoo that runs down his chest. He has slicked back hair and his cologne smells like it cost more than my apartment. "Does that work for all the girls? Cute." I push his chest creating enough room to duck under his arm and slip out of the room. The strobe light blinds me. The music loud but I find the exit. The fresh air hits my face, allowing me to breathe. I've never been talk to like that and I've sure as hell never had a man like that so close to me. His cologne still lingering on my blouse. You're halfway across the parking lot when a sleek black Aston Martin pulls alongside you. The window slides down with a whisper. The man from the private room leans across the console, eyes glittering in the darkness. "Need a ride, sweetheart? Or you gonna keep running?" Behind him, two men exit the club's side door. They scan the parking lot with practiced efficiency, hands tucked suspiciously inside their jackets. One spots you and nudges the other. "Boss wants her? the taller one mutters." "Looks like it" the other responds, already moving in your direction. The mysterious man gaze never leaves your face. The only sound is that of the engine purring . "Tick tock. Your choice."BRYNN POVTwo months.Two months of waiting.Two months of security reports, surveillance updates, and dead ends.Val had disappeared.Jessie stayed quiet.Livia never made a move.At first, it felt like the calm before a storm.Now it just felt exhausting.I roll over in bed, my eyes barely opening as darkness fills the room.Something feels wrong.My stomach twists.Hard.I suck in a sharp breath.“Oh God.”The nausea hits so fast I barely have time to throw the blankets off before I’m sprinting toward the bathroom.The second I hit the floor in front of the toilet, everything comes up.Behind me, the bed explodes into motion.“Brynn?”Vex.A second later—“Baby?”Kade.I groan.“Don’t call me baby right now.”Another wave hits.The toilet becomes my best friend.Wonderful.Just wonderful.Within seconds they’re both beside me.Vex drops to one knee, gathering my hair back from my face before it can fall forward.His hand settles at the base of my neck.Steady.Warm.Kade kneels bes
VEX POVThe city looks different when you leave a room like that. Sharper. Like everything is already shifting beneath it.Streetlights drag in long gold streaks across the tinted windows as we move through the dark. The engine hums low, controlled, powerful—steady in a way the world outside isn’t anymore.Brynn sits in the passenger seat.Kade’s in the back.Same positions. Same silence.But it’s not the same.Not after tonight.I rest my arm along the center console, my fingers brushing lightly against Brynn’s thigh. Not for show. Not for strategy. Just instinct. She doesn’t move away. Doesn’t even glance down. Her eyes stay fixed on the road ahead, like she’s already thinking past it.“She won’t come at us directly,” I say.Kade exhales quietly behind her, the sound low and knowing. “No. That’s not Val’s style.”Brynn’s voice cuts through the quiet, soft but precise. “She smiled.”I glance at her. Of course that’s what she noticed.“Yeah,” I murmur. “She did.”She shifts slightly i
VEX POVMorning comes slow.Not because the sun is gentle—but because I don’t move.I don’t want to.Brynn is between us, exactly where she fell asleep. Like she belongs there. Like it’s always been that simple.It isn’t.My arm is draped across her waist, fingers resting against her stomach, feeling the steady rise and fall of her breath. Kade is still behind her, close enough that every inhale brushes against her shoulder.Too close.Not close enough.Funny how both can exist at once.I watch them for a long moment—longer than I should. Longer than a man like me ever allows himself to linger in something soft.Because this?This is dangerous.Not the power.Not the city.Not the blood that built everything we stand on.This.Her.Us.Brynn shifts slightly, pressing back into Kade without waking. My jaw tightens—not in anger, not anymore—but in something far more complicated.Acceptance sits heavy in my chest.And beneath it—Possession.Mine.Ours.Kade’s hand flexes lightly at her
Brynn POV “I want you both to take me.” I choke out the words, between the pleasure. The night unfolds in a tangle of limbs and breathless moments, boundaries dissolving between the three of us. Vex and Kade move with restraint, both focused entirely on my pleasure while exchanging glances that speak volumes about their shared devotion.Vex’s eyes flash with dark approval as I come undone against his mouth, his hands gripping my thighs to keep me in place.Kade watches with hungry fascination, his own breathing becoming ragged as he witnesses my pleasure.“So beautiful when you lose control.”Vex’s voice is rough as he rises, wiping his mouth with the back of his hand. His expression is pure masculine satisfaction.Kade's hand replaces Vex’s between my legs, his touch gentler but no less precise.Vex begins unbuttoning his shirt, his eyes never leaving my flushed face.The two men exchange a look over my body—possessive, protective, and filled with dark promise.Kade lays back on th
BRYNN POV The tension doesn’t break.It stretches.Tightens.Something unspoken passes between the three of us — a silent understanding that the room we’re standing in suddenly feels too small for what’s happening.Vex’s hand slides from my waist to my lower back.Grounding.Claiming.“Not here,” he murmurs against my ear.Kade exhales a quiet laugh.“Agreed.”His fingers brush down my arm — deliberate, slow — before he finally steps away from me.The loss of heat is immediate.Temporary.“We should go,” Vex says.It isn’t a question.⸻The drive back to the mansion feels longer than it should.The city lights blur past the windows, neon streaking across glass while silence settles thick inside the car.Not awkward.Charged.Kade sits across from me, one arm resting along the seat, eyes never leaving my face.Studying.Relearning.Every time the streetlights pass overhead they catch in his eyes — dark, restless.Vex sits beside me.Close.His hand rests loosely on my thigh, thumb mov
SIX MONTHS LATERBRYNN POVRoutine is a strange thing.Six months ago, the idea of normal felt impossible.Now it’s almost believable.The club hums beneath my feet most nights — bass vibrating through polished floors, men laughing too loud, deals being made in shadows behind purple velvet curtains. Vex runs business from the back office like he always has. Calm. Controlled. Untouchable.He looks the same.But there’s a quiet sharpness in him now.Waiting.We don’t talk about the countdown.We don’t have to.Kade said six months.So we let the clock run.Contact has been… sparse. Strategic. A message every few weeks. Secure lines. Short updates.Alive.Progressing.Soon.Soon is a dangerous word.I keep busy.Training. Meetings. Logistics. Making sure our territories don’t shift while one king is rebuilding his throne.Tonight the club is quieter. A private event downstairs. Vex is handling investors. I’m upstairs in the secured room, field-stripping one of my pistols on the long meta
KADE POVThe faint sound of footsteps in the hallway makes me lift my head.Not Vex’s—those are heavier, sharper.These are quieter. Lighter. Hesitant.Brynn’s.I hear Vex murmur something soft at her door, then the muted click of it closing. A moment later, I hear him walk back to his own room… al
VEX POV — CONTINUATIONThe soft shift of weight outside the door makes Kade straighten, but I don’t look. I already know who it is.The door opens slowly.Brynn stands there—hair mussed from restless pacing, eyes bright with something unsettled. She looks between us like she’s walked in on somethin
VEX POV The storm outside hasn’t broken yet, but it’s coming.I can feel it in the pressure of the air, the heaviness in my chest, the way every shadow in this house seems to hold a memory she can’t touch anymore.I’m sitting behind my desk—lights low, sleeves rolled, paperwork untouched—when I he
VEX POVThe ember of my cigarette burns down to the filter before I even realize I haven’t taken a drag in minutes.Kade is upstairs now—hovering near her door, pretending he isn’t. I felt him watching me before he went up the stairs. That tension in his shoulders. That guilt he tries to hide every







