LOGIN** Alessandro **I woke to the sharp sting of a needle and the constant, irritating beep of machines.My eyes felt heavy, swollen. It took effort—too much effort—just to open them. When I finally did, my vision came in fragments. Blurry shapes. Light. Movement.Then it settled.Dr. Elena stood beside me, calmly injecting something into the drip connected to my arm.Across the room, Dante sat watching me.Still. Silent. Intense.Pain followed immediately after awareness.It spread through my body like fire. My ribs felt crushed, every breath shallow and sharp. My arm throbbed violently, heavy and useless. My face felt swollen—tight and bruised. One eye barely opened.Bandages wrapped around me like I had been rebuilt.Then came the migraine.It hit hard—like a storm tearing through my skull. The machines didn’t help. Each beep felt louder than the last, drilling straight into my head.“You’re awake,” Dante said.His voice was steady, but there was tension beneath it.Dr. Elena turned t
“What?” Marco asked.“We’ve had routine checkpoints for five days now,” Ray said over the phone, his voice calm but alert. “And yesterday and today, a man that matches the description you just gave me was seen twice.”Marco straightened slightly in his chair. “You’re certain it was him?”“As certain as I can be without pulling him out of the vehicle,” Ray replied. “Same build, same face, same cold expression. Tall guy, dark hair. Hard to miss. He was sitting in the back of a taxi both times.”Tommy leaned forward, resting his elbows on the table. “Both times? You mean he passed two different checkpoints?”“Exactly,” Ray said. “First sighting was yesterday evening on the eastern bypass heading out of Manhattan. The second time was earlier today near the old industrial route by the docks.”Marco straightened.“You’re sure?”“Yes.”My pulse quickened.“Was he driving?” Marco asked.“No.”“Passenger?”“Yes.”“In what vehicle?”“A yellow city taxi.”Marco looked at me.Hope sparked inside
** Dante **Tommy drove us straight to one of our safehouses—a quiet two-story building hidden between abandoned factories on the edge of the industrial district. Marco was already waiting when we arrived.The moment I stepped out of the car, my injured leg nearly gave out.Marco rushed forward.“Jesus Christ,” he said, grabbing my arm. “You look like you crawled out of a grave.”“Feels like I did.”Inside, we gathered around a large wooden table in the center of the room. Maps, phones, laptops, and scattered files covered the surface.Tommy poured me a glass of water while Marco stared at me with that calculating expression he always had when something serious was happening.“Start talking,” Marco said. “What happened?”I leaned back in the chair slowly.“We were ambushed,” I said. “Masked men. Organized. Professional. They weren’t random thugs.”Marco nodded.“Kidnapping Alessandro was the real objective?”“Yes.”Tommy leaned forward.“Who do you think did it?”I didn’t answer immed
A voice I would recognize anywhere.“Hello, little brother.”My heart stopped.I lifted my head slowly, forcing my blurry eyes to focus.And there he was.Nico.Standing in the doorway like a ghost from my past.For a moment, my brain refused to accept what my eyes were seeing.He looked exactly the same—tall, broad-shouldered, dressed in a dark tailored suit that looked absurdly expensive for a place like this. His hair was neatly combed back, his expression calm… almost amused.But his eyes.Those cold, calculating eyes were the same ones I remembered from childhood.The same eyes that used to watch me like a predator studying prey.Finally.He showed his wicked face.So it was him all along.The weeks of silence.The fake peace.The pretending that everything between us was fine.I should have known.I should have seen through it.Nico stepped slowly into the room, his polished shoes echoing against the concrete floor.Two of his men followed behind him, both armed.He stopped a fe
** Alessandro **Three days. It’s been three fucking whole days.That was how long they had kept me here.Three endless days of endless pain, torture, darkness, and silence.Time had stopped making sense after the first day. There were no windows in this place, no sunlight to mark the passing hours—only the dim flicker of a single hanging bulb that swung lazily from the ceiling like a dying star. Sometimes it stayed on. Sometimes they turned it off for hours, leaving me trapped in complete darkness.I had lost count of how many times they beat me.My body felt like it no longer belonged to me. Every inch of it throbbed with dull, merciless pain. My ribs burned with every breath I took. One of my eyes had swollen nearly shut, and dried blood crusted the corner of my mouth.They had tied me to a metal chair bolted into the concrete floor.The ropes binding my wrists were thick and coarse, digging brutally into my skin each time I shifted. My hands had long gone numb. Every now and then,
** Dante **I woke up to a strange stillness.For a moment, I didn’t know where I was. The ceiling above me was an unfamiliar pale white, lined with long fluorescent lights that hummed softly like distant insects. Everything around me felt… sterile. Too clean. Too quiet.Then the smell hit me.It was the unmistakable scent of a hospital—sharp antiseptic, rubbing alcohol, disinfectant strong enough to sting the inside of your nose. Beneath it lingered the faint odor of latex gloves, bleached linens, and the metallic tang of medical equipment that had been wiped down too many times. The air itself felt cold and overly purified, as if no trace of the outside world was allowed to exist here.My head throbbed.Machines beeped beside me in slow, rhythmic intervals. A monitor glowed softly with green lines that rose and fell across the screen like small mountains. An IV bag hung from a metal stand beside the bed, a clear tube snaking from it into the vein of my arm. The sheets beneath me wer
"Talk to me," I said."About what?""Anything. Your sisters. What they were like."He was quiet for so long I thought he wouldn't answer. Then: "Bianca used to make me friendship bracelets. Terrible, ugly things with too many colors. I wore every single one until they fell apart.""What about your
** ALESSANDRO **The estate was a mansion, but it felt like a prison. Three days of lockdown and I was already on the verge of giving up. Dante barely left my side, which should have been comforting but instead felt suffocating."You need to breathe," I told him on the third night. "I'm fine. You d
The sound of my phone ringing dragged me out of sleep. I reached for it blindly, still half-dazed, and saw Marco’s name flashing on the screen. I answered quietly, my voice thick with sleep. As he spoke, my eyes drifted to Alessandro. He was still asleep beside me, looking almost angelic in the so
** DANTE **I froze, staring at the screen. Tommy.As my phone rang, my chest seized.What now? What could possibly be worse than everything that’s already happened?My fingers hovered over the phone, trembling. I was too scared to pick up.But I forced myself. I had to know.“This… had better be g





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