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Chapter 14: Let's Go
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2026-09-17 00:48:37
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Claimed by my next door neighbour Chapter 22 : Same Gem, Different Sides
Renato POV:The silence after the kiss didn't last as long as I wanted it to.I pulled back slightly, catching the faint trace of spice still clinging to his skin, garlic, something citrus underneath it, the unmistakable evidence of an actual meal he'd cooked with actual effort. For Jack. I filed that particular detail away with more irritation than the situation probably deserved."So." I let my gaze drift toward the kitchen, toward the abandoned plates still sitting there. "Blondy gets a home cooked meal. I get nothing. Ouch.""That's not—" Felix started, flustered, color rising fast up his throat."No, no. I understand completely." I stepped back a pace, hands raised slightly, entirely too pleased with how flustered he'd gotten over something this small. "Some men simply rate higher than others.""Renato."My phone rang before he could finish whatever half formed protest he was building. I checked the screen, saw the name, and felt my whole posture shift automatically, years of habi
Claimed by my next door neighbour Chapter 21: The Silence After
Felix POV:Jack stood frozen in the doorway. Renato stood on the other side of it, expression flat and cold in a way I hadn't seen since the club, since that particular quiet before violence I'd learned to recognize far too quickly for someone who'd known him less than a month."Well," Renato said finally, voice deceptively pleasant. "Blondy. Small world."Jack's spine went rigid. "You've got some nerve showing up here.""Do I?" Renato tilted his head slightly, gaze sliding past Jack to find me instead, something unreadable flickering behind the calm. "Felix and I have unfinished business. I'd think that gives me every right.""Unfinished business." Jack's laugh came out short, humorless. "That's a nice way to put it.""I could put it less nicely, if you'd prefer.""Try it.""Renato." I stepped forward fast, some instinct telling me exactly where this was headed if I didn't intervene now, my pulse already climbing. "Just — give me a second."Neither of them looked away from each other
Claimed by my next door neighbour Chapter 20: Drumroll
Felix POV:Two days had passed since Sofia's call, since Renato had shown up at my door with a plate of breakfast and a bandaged thumb, since I'd traced that signal all the way back to a bar in Venice I'd never once set foot in.I sat at my kitchen table now, staring at a blank spot on the wall, turning the same question over and over without landing anywhere useful. Someone had planted that tracker weeks before any of this started. Which meant someone had known, or at least suspected, that I'd eventually end up somewhere worth watching.Going back to Italy felt inevitable now. Not just because of Sofia, not just because of whatever deal she'd apparently struck with my father, but because the answers I needed were sitting in a city I'd fled without looking back.My laptop chimed before I could sink further into that particular spiral. A new job request, flagged urgent, routed through the same encrypted channel I always used for the kind of work that paid well specifically because most
Claimed by my next door neighbour Chapter 19: Rubik's Cube
Felix POV:I sat on the edge of my bed after the call with Sofia ended, some heavy, aching gratitude settling into my chest that I didn't quite know what to do with. ‘God, she's worth everything’ Sixteen years old, holding my hand through our mother's funeral, and here she was two decades later still throwing herself in front of whatever came for me, still fighting battles that weren't even hers to fight.My eyes stung before I could stop them. I pressed the heel of my hand against them, annoyed at myself, at how easily she could do this to me from three hundred miles away with nothing but her voice and a bad connection. She'd been the one steady thing since our mother died, the one who'd learned to braid her own hair because neither I or my brothers knew how to, the one who'd shown up at every apartment I'd ever lived in with soup and zero judgment about the state of my life. And somehow, 10 years later, she was still doing it. Still calling to check if I was eating. Still asking que
Claimed by my next door neighbour Chapter 18: The Fifth Try
Renato's POV:I woke to an empty bed and cold sheets on the side where he'd been.I hadn't heard him leave. That bothered me more than it should have, lying there in the gray Helsinki morning, staring at the ceiling and trying to pinpoint exactly when he'd slipped out from under my arm without waking me. I was a light sleeper. Had to be in my line of work. And yet somehow Felix Luciano had managed to dress and disappear right out from under me without so much as a shift in the mattress giving him away.I let myself lie there a moment longer, replaying the last several hours in more detail than was probably healthy for a man who had actual work waiting for him.Then my mind drifted somewhere less pleasant.Blondy. The way he'd thrown that first punch without hesitation, the way he'd gripped Felix's shoulders like he had every right to be an anchor there. I'd recognized something in that grip, something built from years rather than days, and it had taken every ounce of restraint I had n
Claimed by my next door neighbour Chapter 17: Please
Felix POV: "Felix. You need to come home. Now."I gripped the phone tighter, my stomach twisting cold and sudden. "Sofia, slow down. What happened?""Nothing happened, that's not — " She cut herself off, and I heard her exhale hard, the specific sound of someone trying to steady themselves before they said something they'd been holding in too long. "I just need you to come home.""I can't just—""You left the country, Felix." Her voice cracked slightly on my name, and something about that crack hurt more than actual anger would have. "You left Italy. I didn't even know that. I had to hear it from Adam, who heard it from someone, because apparently my own brother doesn't think I deserve a phone call before disappearing to God knows where."I sat down slowly on the edge of my bed, the last of tonight's warmth draining out of me entirely. "I'm fine. I needed space.""You were nineteen the first time you disappeared on us. Do you remember that? I sat outside your door every night for t
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