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Chapter 68: Don't Read Into It.
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2026-04-03 08:54:16
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Crave The Enemy Chapter 71: Friends Don't Bite.
Chapter 71Sasha's PovI should have said no.That's the thought I woke up with. I should have said no at the door, sent him back downstairs, told him to get a hotel. I had seventeen reasonable things I could have said and I said “take your coat off”, which is arguably the least reasonable of all of them.He's asleep on the sofa.I can see the back of his head from the kitchen doorway. He's on his side, one arm off the cushion, the blanket I gave him pulled up to his jaw. He's been asleep since midnight. It's half past six now.I make coffee and I don't look at my arm.He wakes up while I'm going through the Bratva documents at the table. I hear him shift, then sit up, then a sound that's almost a groan, because the sofa is not long enough for him and his back is going to tell him about it."Morning," he says, voice thick."There's coffee."He gets up slowly, comes to the kitchen and pours a cup. Leans against the counter exactly the way he did in my kitchen two days ago and looks at
Crave The Enemy Chapter 70: Friends.
Chapter 70Nico's PovI stare at my phone for forty-seven minutes.The voice note sits there. It was delivered because I opened it like an idiot the second it came through and now the two grey ticks are mocking me from the screen.Twenty-two seconds of me breathing in my sleep and saying his name.Twenty-two seconds.I put the phone face down on the mattress. Then I pick it back up. Then I put it down again. Then I sit on the edge of the bed with my elbows on my knees and my face in my hands and I have a very calm, very quiet internal crisis about the fact that I cannot even be unconscious around this man without embarrassing myself.My phone rings.I nearly drop it.It's him.I answer before I can decide not to."Before you say anything," I start."I wasn't going to say anything," Sasha says. His voice is flat and very careful in the way it gets when he's controlling something."Okay.""I'm calling to check on the Naples situation.""Right. The Naples situation." I stand up and sit b
Crave The Enemy Chapter 69: Empty
Nico's PovThe flight is four hours and I spend three of them staring at the seat in front of me.The fourth hour I spend looking at my phone. Not opening anything. Just looking at it like it will explain to me what I'm supposed to do now. My father's name is at the top of my call log. Below it, nothing from Sasha. Which is correct and exactly what I told him would happen when I left.This changes nothing.I said it to him and I meant it, but meaning something doesn't make it feel like anything less.Naples smells like exhaust and sea salt and something underneath that I've never been able to name. It smells like home, which is complicated, because home has not always been kind to me.My father is waiting in the study when I arrive. He doesn't stand up."You're late," he says."The flight was four hours," I say. "I came directly.""You were in Russia.""I was handling something."He looks at me over the desk. His eyes are the same shade as mine, which I hate for reasons that don't nee
Crave The Enemy Chapter 68: Don't Read Into It.
Chapter 68 Sasha's Pov I wake up before him. That's the first thing. The second thing is that I don't move. He's on his stomach beside me, face turned away, one arm loose above his head. His back rises and falls slow and even. He's completely out and I'm lying here watching him breathe like some kind of idiot, which is already more than I'm willing to admit to myself. I should get up. I know I should get up. Instead I look at his back. The marks from last night are still fresh. Red lines along his ribs, shallow and precise, he asked for them quietly, in that way he has where the asking is almost quieter than the answer. I remember the exact moment he exhaled when the blade touched him. Like he'd been holding his breath for months and only that let it out. I reach over before I can stop myself. I don't press. I just trace the edge of one of them with my fingertip, barely contact, barely anything. He doesn't wake up. There's an older one below his shoulder blade. A scar,
Crave The Enemy Chapter 67: I'll Be Good
Sasha’s POVThe foyer was cold from the open door, but the second Niko steps inside and I shut it behind him, the air shifts and becomes warmer and heavier, charged even. He brushes snow from his hair, shakes it off his shoulders like a dog, then looks up at me with that same infuriating half smile that makes me want to punch him and kiss him at the same time.“Cozy,” he says, glancing around. “I think I missed this place.”I don't answer. What the fuck am I supposed to answer to that? He thinks? He's not even sure. I lean against the door, arms folded, watching him.He takes the hints or ignores it and starts unbuttoning his suit jacket slowly and deliberately.“You know,” he says, his voice low, “I've been thinking about this place a lot, specifically about the way I felt while staying here.”My jaw tightens. He hangs the jacket on the coat rack, rolls his sleeves up to the elbow.“I've been imagining a lot of things these past few days.”I clear my throat.“Don't you have an empir
Crave The Enemy Chapter 66: Relief. F*cking Relief.
Sasha’s POVI am unable to move. I continue standing in the open doorway, arms crossed, letting the cold bite at my skin while snow swirls in around my feet. Niko stays at the bottom of the steps, looking up at me with that half-smile that used to and still does drive me insane in the best way.He doesn't say anything else. Just waits there, his hands still in his pockets, while snow collects on his shoulders like he has all the time in the world. Doesn't he have like an empire to lead? What am I supposed to do now? I could just invite him in and let whatever he has planned to play out. Or I could just ignore him. Yes, I will ignore him. I step back, shut the door firmly and walk away. Yup, that should do the trick. Four minutes later my phone buzzes.Nico: You're really gonna leave me out here?I stare at the screen, jaw tight. How did he even get my number in the first place?Me: If I have to.Nico: But it's cold out here (sad emoji)Me: I fail to see how that's my problem.Nico: Th
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