เข้าสู่ระบบFernando’s POVI shut the study door harder than necessary. The sound echoed off the walls, sharp and final, but it didn’t do a damn thing to quiet the noise in my head caused by Michael.I dragged a hand through my hair and crossed the room, stopping in front of the liquor cabinet like it had personally offended me. I poured without measuring and the glass clinked against the counter, the amber liquid moving dangerously close to the rim.I gulped down half of it in one go.I welcomed the burn because it was easier to deal with than the knot in my chest, the one that had been tightening since I watched my son cry while shielding the man I had just publicly broken.I slammed the glass down.“I shouldn’t have told him the truth,” I muttered.The words hung in the air, heavy and accusatory.Behind me, the door opened quietly but I didn’t turn.Marlo, Emilio, and Mortis entered the room like they knew better than to announce themselves. The study felt smaller with them in it, the walls
Michael’s POVHenry was still crying, not loud, not dramatic, just those broken, helpless sobs that come from a place too small to hold fear this big. His body was pressed against mine like he thought he could physically shield me, his thin arms wrapped around my shoulders, his face buried into my chest.“Please,” he whimpered. “Please don’t hurt him. Please don’t take him away.”Every sound he made felt like a blade sliding under my ribs.I shifted as much as the restraints allowed and wrapped my arms around him carefully, pulling him closer, bowing my head so my chin rested against his hair.“It’s okay,” I whispered. “Hey… hey, little man. I’m right here.”His hands fisted into my shirt. “You’re bleeding.”“I’m fine,” I said quickly. “See? I’m fine.”I pulled back just enough so he could see my face. My lip stung, my knees ached from the marble floor, but none of that mattered. What mattered was that Henry's eyes were full of terror.I brushed my thumb under his eye, wiping away t
Fernando's POV I woke up to my name being spoken like a warning.“Fernando.”It wasn’t screamed in a panicked way which was much worse.My eyes opened instantly, my body already moving before my mind fully caught up. The bed was warm but wrong with too much space on one side. My arm reached out on instinct and met nothing but rumpled empty sheets.I sat up sharply, my heart slamming hard.“Fernando,” Marlo said again, closer now.I turned my head and saw him standing just inside the room, his posture rigid, his face carefully neutral in the way my men get when something has already gone to hell and they’re bracing for impact.“Where is he?” I asked.My voice was calm and that scared even me.Marlo hesitated for half a second too long. “He’s… not in the room, boss.”Silence stretched.The room smelled like last night of heat, sweat, and the faint trace of Michael’s skin still clinging to the air like a ghost that hasn’t realized it was dead yet. My jaw tightened.“Explain,” I said.
Michael's POV I woke up before the light changed. That’s how I knew Fernando was still asleep.The room was quiet in that thick, heavy way that only came after a night where everything has been taken out of you, wrung dry and left scattered like clothes on the floor. Fernando’s arm sat heavy across my waist, possessive even in sleep.I lay still, staring at the ceiling, counting his breaths and it suggested he was exhausted. Good.That part mattered more than anything else right now. If he wakes too early, the plan dies before it even finishes being born.And yes, this was a plan.I don’t pretend otherwise, not even to myself.Arguing with Fernando is like punching a wall and expecting it to crack before your bones do. Words don’t reach him when he’s decided something. Logic slides right off and anger just feeds on him. I learned that the hard way.But desire is the one language he doesn’t defend against.I shifted carefully, inch by inch, testing the weight of his arm and the an
Fernando’s POVMichael was still pressed against the wall when I realized my hands were shaking, not with weakness, with restraint.That was the part no one ever understood about me. They thought control meant calm, but control, real control, was this. Standing inches away from the person who could ruin me, with every instinct screaming to take, to dominate, to end the chaos one way or another and choosing not to.My fingers were at his throat but i wasn't crushing or choking him, even though I really wanted to.I could feel the subtle movement beneath my palm as he swallowed, the steady beat of his pulse against my skin. His body refused to betray fear even now, even with the room still echoing from shouting and slammed doors and everything that had gone wrong tonight.He looked at me the way he always did when he was furious and unafraid, like he dared me.“Do it,” he said quietly.The words sliced straight through me, clean and merciless.“Try it.”My jaw tightened so hard it hu
Michael’s POVI stared up at Fernando from the floor, my chest rising and falling too fast.He stood over me like a storm that had decided, at the very last second, not to break and that was the worst part.If he had shouted, if he had hit me again, if he had lost control completely, I would have understood it. But this? This restraint wrapped in fury? This silence sharpened by emotion terrified me far more.Fernando’s shoulders were tense, his whole body locked in a battle he was fighting entirely within himself. His jaw was clenched so hard I could hear his teeth grind when he exhaled. One hand was curled into a fist at his side, knuckles white, veins standing out like cords beneath his skin.In his other hand was his unraised belt that just hung there, loose and heavy, swaying slightly with his breathing.My pulse thundered in my ears, loud enough that I wondered if he could hear it too. My body was still buzzing from adrenaline, from fear, from anger, from the sharp sting on my




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