"Some cages feel like safety… until you fall in love with your captor." Leona has spent her life escaping—from homes that felt like prisons, from scars no one sees, from a past that keeps dragging her back. At seventeen, homeless and hunted, she crashes into the life of Marco De Santos—a billionaire with ice in his eyes, secrets in his past, and a twisted need for control. He takes her in. At first, it’s charity. Then, it’s ownership. Marco is used to women obeying. But Leona isn’t like them. She’s fire in silk. She disobeys. She challenges. She learns him—in ways that terrify and undo him. What begins as protection becomes obsession. And when secrets unravel the truth about her parents, about his past, and about the dark connection binding them—everything explodes. As the world threatens to pull them apart, Leona must decide: will she stay the girl he saved, or become the woman who saves him? Because pleasure can heal... or destroy.
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Leona: I am Eighteen today. Finally. I stared at myself in the mirror in the bathroom, as I grazed my soft fingers on my bare skin, just beneath the towel that was wrapped low covering my breast. I was finally a woman, or so, as I still felt incomplete. My friend, Cassie, would say that when we turn eighteen that's when you'll want things. Feel things. Cassie was always naughty even before she turned eighteen it was one thing I liked about her that I didn't have. Her exposure to naughty things. She was always talking wild, whispering about stuffs she did with her crush whenever she hanged out with them, how they would finger her till she cum more especially... Sex. I always carved to experience it but I felt guys took me to be a minor and I made me burn inside. Jealous maybe. I slowly let loose of my towel as it fell on the floor as I took a full look of my body at the mirror. Before my memory could collect I found myself looking at the soft curve of my breast. I touched the side, slowly, and I couldn't tell how i felt. It was soft. Sensitive. When I brushed my thumb over my pink nipple, I saw it stiffen as I felt tingles down my pussy. I wondered what it’d feel like if someone else touched it. A boy. A man. Did it feel dirty? Good? Wrong? Or all of it at once? Rubbing my belly I led my two fingers down my clit. Feeling the wetness as I felt a little noise slipped from my mouth. I didn't mean to make it. I was alone. I should've been safe. I could touch if I wanted to. Then I heard BANG. I jumped so hard I knocked over the toothbrush cup. It hit the floor with a clatter. “Leona!” His voice. Thick, dragging across the walls. Slurred like he’d poured the bottle down his throat on the way home. “Open this goddamn door!” Panic punched the air out of my lungs. He was home. My adopted father. Drunk. As usual. I pressed my hands to the sink. My breath came fast and shaky. I didn’t want to go out there. But if I didn’t… he’d tear the door off like he had last time. The knob still had scratches from that night. “You’re eighteen now,” I whispered to myself. “You don’t have to be scared.” That was a lie. But I quickly wore my pajamas as I rushed downstairs to open the door. But he was already in the living room. He had polluted the house with beer and stale cigarettes. The lamp was knocked over. Couch cushion was a mess. He stood with one boot still half off, shirt unbuttoned and hanging open over his gut. His belt was unlooped, dangling from one hand. His eyes—God—his eyes didn’t look like they knew who I was. “Birthday girl,” he slurred, grinning like a maniac. “My baby’s all grown up.” At least he remembers my birthday. But something wasn't right with the way he said it. “You’re drunk,” I said quietly. “You should go lie down.” “Why would I lie down,” he said, stepping closer, “when you matured, my little slut?” I backed away. “I’ll call someone.” “Who?” His laugh was wet, mean. “Ain’t nobody comin’. Nobody’s ever gonna come for you.” His hand shot out and grabbed my arm. I flinched, tried to pull away. “Let me go.” “I took care of you,” he hissed. “All these years. My house, my food. I could've done this long ago, but you were a child. You think it was all for free, huh? I was waiting for you to be ripe, so I could eat you when I want to?” “No.” My voice was thin as I broke down in tears, pathetic. My courage was already failing me. “You don’t mean that dad.” “I mean every inch of it. Dolly.” He yanked me close. His fingers gripped my jaw, tilted my face up. I could smell the beer on his breath. His other hand touched my cheek, then slid down to my waist. The tank top I wore clung wet to my chest. “Stop,” I whimpered. “You’re not—You can’t—” He ignored me. He tore my tank top as my breasts fell to his face. Without hesitation he slid his hands over my breast. His thumb brushed the nipple. My insides squirmed in pleasure but my body did otherwise. He is my father I can't let this happen. I tried to push him away but he was stronger. I panicked. If I screamed, he might hit me. If I stayed still, he might take more. He was muttering things under his breath—gross things. Stuff I never wanted to hear from anyone, especially not him. “Please,” I whispered. “I’m your daughter. You’re drunk. You don’t mean it.” “Daughter my foot,” he growled. “I had been enduring till this moment.” His hands went to my trouser as he tore it open too and I was completely naked. He held my both hands with his one hand as he turned to pin me to the wall, revealing his fully erected dick to pull inside my pussy. That was it. Something in me snapped. I kneed him in the leg. Not hard enough to drop him, but enough to make him grunt. I shoved him back with all my weight. He grabbed at hair trying to drag me backwards but I kicked him harder this time. I covered myself, and ran for the front door. He lunged after me, cursing. “You ungrateful little—” I snatched my yellow raincoat off the hook as I sprinted through the hallway. He almost caught the edge of my sleeve. I slammed the door behind me and tore down the porch steps into the rain. It hit me like ice. The wind slapped my face, drenched my hair in seconds. Thunder cracked over my head, close and angry. I ran barefoot, legs splashing through puddles. The sidewalk was slick. I tripped on a curb, scraped my knee, but I didn’t stop. I didn’t even cry. The adrenaline was louder than the pain. Somewhere behind, he was yelling. His voice faded with every step I took. Streetlights flickered. My breath came out in clouds. I was freezing, wet, scared, but I wasn't planning on turning around. I walked down the street aimlessly. I didn't have any money. I thought of calling Cassie but I didn't have my phone. My adopted father broke it months ago one night I attempted to call the cops on him. I didn’t have a plan. I didn’t have money. My phone was inside, somewhere under the couch maybe, probably dead. All I had was my stupid yellow coat and a racing heart. A set of headlights cut through the darkness. I tried to wave it down, but my knees buckled. The light got brighter—too bright. I felt the thud before I heard it. Everything spun.BECOMING SCARLETTLeona POVI got a worried stare immediately I got back to cassie’s grandma’s apartment. It was cassie. Her voice was soft, laced with worry, the way it always was when she thought I was breaking apart again.“Leo? Where’d you go throughout the night? I waited up and you didn’t come back,” she stood up to hold my hands.I bit my lip hard enough to taste iron. “I just… I needed air. I walked. Cleared my head. You don’t have to worry.”“Cleared your head where? You told me you were only gong for a walk.”“Yes I went for a walk by the river. Just walking, thinking about exams. I’m in my final year, Cass. I can’t fail now.”Then we sat down facing each other on the leather couch, almost accusing, before she sighed. “You don’t have to lie to me. You know that, right?”I swallowed hard. The lie lodged like a stone in my throat but I forced it out. “I’m not lying. Promise.”She wanted to believe me—I could hear it in the quiet
ACCEPTING VALERIO'S OFFER Leona POVI don’t even know what finally broke me. Maybe it was the way my pillow stayed wet every morning from tears I swore I hadn’t cried. Or maybe it was just the text still burned in my mind like a hot brand— “I hear you’re hurting. Come talk. – Valerio.”I told myself a hundred times I wouldn’t answer it. That I wasn’t that weak. That I could keep my distance. But the thing about silence is it eats at you, it carves you hollow until even poison feels like water.So I did what I swore I wouldn’t. I decided to go funny enough he already sent me the address . I told Cassie I was going for a walk, and she didn’t press me, just gave me that sideways look like she knew I was lying but also knew better than to cage me with questions. “Don’t stay out too long,” she said, like I was some kid sneaking out past curfew.The truth was, I wasn’t sure if I’d come back at all.The drive into the city blurred past the windows, gray and ugly, the sky pressing heavy on
VALERIO'S GREED Marco POVI placed my body on one edge of her bed, my legs was dangling on midair, as I clenched my fists pressing it so hard against my knee that I felt the bones grinding. The sheets were still filled with her faint perfume, but it was already fading and I hated it.I lost count on how long I rested my body on the bed. Not I knew how long in the first place. My phone made a buzz sound on the tablestand. I didn’t want to look, didn’t want more messages that weren’t her, but I did anyway.A name I didn’t expect.Valerio.Just three words. “She’s safe with me.”My stomach dropped and burned all at once. My heart slammed so loud I thought it might crack my ribs. Safe? He thought he had the right to say that? He had been circling her, I knew it, like a vulture waiting for a body to go cold, and now he was telling me she was with him? No. No, he wasn’t going to touch her, not even with his shadow.I soon began to imagine things flowing around my head, blurring my vision,
Valerio’s Offer (2)Leona’s POVI don’t even know if I slept. Maybe I did, maybe I just lay there all night staring at the ceiling until the gray light came creeping through the curtains. My eyes feel swollen, my head stuffed with cotton, like I’ve been crying in my sleep even if I don’t remember it. Cassie’s already gone from the room when I finally roll over to reach for my phone.It’s buzzing on the nightstand. For a second I thought it’s Marco—my stupid heart jumps before my mind can stop it. I grab it, fingers shaking.But it’s not him.The screen burns my eyes. A new message. Just one line, cold and sharp like a knife pressed under the ribs.“I hear you’re hurting. Come talk. – Valerio”My breath stalls in my throat. My hand almost drops the phone. For a moment I Couldn’t move, can’t blink, can’t even swallow. It’s like the words reached out through the glass and touched me, gripped me by the throat.Don Valerio.I don’t know how
Leona’s POVThe rain hadn’t stopped since I left that house. It was the definition of an endless outpouring; I was slowly freezing out here wanting to wash away what was left.My hair was still damp, my shoes soaked through, and I just sat there on the curb outside the gates with my bag clutched to me like a shield. Every car that passed made me flinch, headlights too bright, sounds too sharp.Then a car soon pulled up in front of me, headlights was cutting through the et night. I looked inside it was cassie, she took a cab. I didn’t even wave. I didn’t move at all until she jumped out, umbrella crooked in her hand, and said my name like she’d been saying it over and over before I could hear it.“Leona… hey, babe, get in, okay? You’re freezing out here.”I couldn’t answer. My lips felt stuck together. I just let her take the bag from my shoulder and push me gently toward the car. I slid into the seat, leather cold and wet under me, and buckled in with hands that wouldn’t stop tremblin
AFFECTING MY SANITYMarco’s POVThe house just felt wrong without her. Like something vital was being been ripped out and the walls were holding their breath, waiting for me to put it back. But I could do anything. I was just standing by the window like a fool, in the middle of the room, waiting for a miracle that’s never happening.I was just left with just me and silence. Every damn room feels haunted. I walk into the bedroom, then out again. I drift into hers, where the sheets were still crumpled on one side. Smells faintly like her perfume, sweet and sharp, and my chest caves in like I can’t breathe right. I touch the pillow she used, stupid habit, like maybe the warmth will still be there if I press hard enough. But it’s gone. Cold.I pace out. My steps drag across the hallway, through the living room where she always curled her legs across mine on the couch. I almost sit, but my legs won’t bend, won’t let me. Instead I keep moving. I feel like a restl
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