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Blood in Concrete

Author: LunarPen
last update publish date: 2026-07-23 00:57:58

"Wake up, you miserable bitch!"

A bucket of ice-cold water splashed violently across the girl's face, cutting off her unconsciousness in a sharp, strangled gasp. She choked, sputtering and thrashing wildly as the freezing water drenched her hair, her uniform, and her skin.

Pitch darkness swallowed the rest of the room until a harsh, blinding spotlight slammed directly onto her face.

The girl blinked frantically against the searing beam, her eyes watering. Her arms were yanked taut behind a h
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  • Kiss Me While The World Burns   Blow up

    The heavy steel ceiling of the Brooklyn warehouse detonated into a blinding flash of orange fire and black smoke. Sparks and jagged metal fragments rained down into the cavernous room as the portable generators flickered and died. "Get down!" Bruce bellowed, diving over the steel workbench and tackling Kany to the floor just as a wave of suppressed automatic gunfire shredded the metal table above them. Sparks flew into the dark. Heavy bullets chewed through concrete pillars and tore through wooden crates. "Protect the drive!" Kany screamed, her voice cutting through the ringing in her ears. She shoved Bruce off her, clawing through the debris to reach the titanium case holding Damien's micro-diamond and the backup drive. "Bruce! Don't let them destroy the data!" "I got it!" Bruce yelled back, rolling onto his back and pulling his heavy sidearm. He squeezed off three rapid shots into the swirling smoke above. "Vin! Vito! Flank the left catwalks!" “Aren’t those Giordano’s men?” Bin

  • Kiss Me While The World Burns   Mother’s Ghost

    The old shipping warehouse on the Brooklyn docks was dead silent, save for the low hum of portable generators and the rhythmic lap of seawater against the rotted wooden pilings outside. Shadowy metal beams stretched high overhead, lost in the cavernous dark. Bruce, Kany, Vito, and Bin stood huddled around a heavy steel workbench in the center of the concrete floor. Illuminated by the stark blue glare of a ruggedized tactical terminal, their faces were set in rigid lines of exhaustion and mounting anxiety. Bruce pulled the encrypted flash drive from his vest, slamming it down onto the scratched metal surface alongside his portable server rig. "This is everything I scraped from the Brooklyn apartment," Bruce said, his voice low and gravelly. "Server logs, offshore routing numbers, and encrypted comms traffic. Whoever was running that workstation had military-grade wiping protocols, but I managed to slice out forty percent of the raw partition before their operative tried to put a bul

  • Kiss Me While The World Burns   Merging The Proof

    Kany’s fingers flew across her phone screen as she stepped away from the ruined Brooklyn window, firing off an urgent broadcast text to Vito, Bin, and Bruce who had already gotten to the estate. Kany: We got the drive. Code Red assembly at the industrial warehouse immediately. Victoria’s phone chimed in the garage back at the estate. Reading the notification over Vito’s shoulder, her eyes widened. "I'm coming with you. If this drive has the location on the insider, I need to be there." "No," Vito said instantly, stepping directly into her path, his massive frame blocking her way to the tactical SUV. "You are not going anywhere near an unsecured warehouse, Victoria." "Vito, I am fully capable of—" "I said no," Vito interrupted, his voice dropping into a stern, unyielding command. "You are going back into the main house, and you are going to rest. And when I say rest, Victoria, I mean sit down, keep your blood pressure low, and rest. For the sake of the baby. I will handle the ware

  • Kiss Me While The World Burns   Gun point

    "What the fuck do you mean by he’s gone?!" Victoria hissed into her phone, her knuckles turning white around the casing as she paced narrow circles inside the elevator. "Alexander wouldn't just go ghost like that, Bin!" She completely brushed past Bin’s hesitant mention that Alexander had been loitering near her wing of the estate right before vanishing. Beside her, Kany’s eyes narrowed. She didn't let that detail slide. While Victoria was spiraling, Kany subtly slipped her phone from her pocket and fired off a rapid text to Bruce. Kany: Alexander just went off the grid. Can you run a quiet satellite ping on him? Kany kept her expression completely neutral. Pointing out her gut feeling right now was useless; Victoria was too emotionally hyper-focused to listen to logic. A subtle lurch resonated through the floor plates as the elevator descended toward the lower levels. The digital display overhead counted down the floors 3... 2... 1... before a soft, metallic chime echoed through

  • Kiss Me While The World Burns   Testing Day

    Five days of agonizing silence, suffocating nausea, and relentless estate surveillance had passed like a fever dream.Victoria stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling mirror in her private dressing room, buttoning a sharp, ivory silk blouse over tailored black trousers. She looked pale, but the faint shadows under her eyes were skillfully hidden beneath light makeup.For five days, Giordano had laid siege to her peace. His men had tailed her convoy, his proxy offers for truce meetings had been sent to Vito daily, and his dark, vengeful presence hung over New York like a thundercloud. He truly believed she was carrying Alexander’s heir and the rage behind that belief was driving him to the brink of war.“Let him believe it,” Victoria thought, staring at her reflection as her hand rested softly against her lower abdomen. “For now.”Her private phone buzzed in her palm with a fresh text message.Tex: Just landed at JFK. Terminal 4.Victoria blinked, her thumb flying across the screen.Vi

  • Kiss Me While The World Burns   Found Out

    "Get out of my way, Giordano," Victoria said, keeping her tone completely flat despite the sudden, violent racing of her pulse. Giordano didn't budge. He loomed in the dim, velvet-draped shadow of the corridor, his heavy chest heaving under his unbuttoned tuxedo shirt. The faint smell of scotch and expensive cologne clung to him, mixed with the raw, suffocating scent of unraveling control. "You've been avoiding me," Giordano rasped, his voice dark, jagged, and dripping with agony. "Hiding behind Vito’s guards, refusing to see me, and letting Alexander parade around as your bloody shadow." "I don't owe you an explanation, nor do I owe you my time," Victoria said, her eyes ice-cold as she tried to step around him. "We are done, Giordano. Move." Giordano stepped directly into her path, his massive frame blocking the dim light. His bloodshot eyes swept over her face, scanning the unusual pallor of her skin, the exhaustion in her eyes, and the way her hand subconsciously rested over he

  • Kiss Me While The World Burns   Done Deal

    “…An EMP?” Giordano asked, his tone dropping instantly into a deadly serious register. “A localized pulse, or something bigger?”“An apex trigger,” Victoria drawled. She reached back, lazily accepting a thick, matte-black file from Kany before tossing it onto the scarred mahogany desk. “A device co

  • Kiss Me While The World Burns   Deadline

    Friday night. 8:58 PM.The air outside Helms Cove was freezing. At exactly nine o'clock, Victoria stepped inside. Her crimson leather dress was sleek, simple, and fit like a second skin. She scanned the empty room until she spotted Giordano in a corner booth.He had a quiet, relaxed posture, comple

  • Kiss Me While The World Burns   EMP

    The sharp, rhythmic clinking of designer stiletto heels shattered the pristine silence of the DanTech corporate reception lobby. Victoria’s grand entry struck the room like a sudden drop in atmospheric pressure, instantly radiating an aura of absolute dominance that left the employees frozen in pla

  • Kiss Me While The World Burns   Diamond Queen

    Fifteen years ago“Dad, does mummy hate us?”Eight-year-old Victoria asked, clutching the white and silver-studded teddy bear designed specifically for her by her father, Damien De Luca. Smiling down at his daughter, whose gray eyes shimmered with innocence, Damien crouched to her height.“Honey, m

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