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HUNGER AND HATRED

작가: M. J ONYX
last update 최신 업데이트: 2025-08-25 01:54:54

The hunger finally won.

Ava had held out for five days, her body consuming itself one cell at a time, but the trembling in her hands and the way her vision blurred at the edges told her she was reaching her limit. She couldn’t save anyone if she was dead, and dying wouldn’t free her family from Dario’s shadow.

The penthouse was eerily quiet as she crept through the marble hallways, bare feet silent on the cold floor. It was early—too early for Dario to be awake, too early for his army of security to expect movement from the defiant prisoner in the guest room.

She found the kitchen tucked away behind the main living area, all gleaming steel and granite surfaces that probably cost more than most people’s cars. The space was warm despite its industrial feel, filled with the kind of morning light that might have been peaceful under different circumstances.

“Oh, sweetheart!”

Ava spun around, heart hammering, to find a woman in her sixties standing by the massive stove. Gray hair pulled bac
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  • MINE TO CLAIM    GOING HOME

    Sunlight streaming through the curtains woke Ava from the deepest sleep she had in weeks. For a moment, she lay still, savoring the feeling of being completely rested, completely safe. The storm had passed sometime during the night, leaving only the gentle patter of leftover rain against the windows.She rolled over, expecting to see Dario beside her, but found only rumpled sheets and the faint scent of his cologne on the pillow. Her hand touched the spot where he’d been lying, still slightly warm, which meant he hadn’t been gone long.The memory of last night came back in pieces. The terror under the bed, his arms around her in the cramped space, the way he’d held her while she shook. The threatening text that had changed everything about his expression, even as he’d tried to hide it from her.She sat up slowly, testing how her body felt. The bullet wound was healing well, barely a twinge of pain when she moved. Dr. Reeves had been right about her recovery time. She was almost back t

  • MINE TO CLAIM    IN THE DARK

    The thunder was everywhere.Ava pressed herself deeper under the bed, her back against the cold wall, knees drawn to her chest. Each crash of sound sent shockwaves through her body, bringing back the memory of gunshots in a marble kitchen, of glass shattering and blood spreading across expensive floors.“Daddy,” she whispered into the darkness, her voice small and broken. “Daddy, please come get me.”She was eight years old again, hiding from storms that shook their little house. Back when thunder meant safety was just a hallway away, when strong arms could lift her up and carry her somewhere nothing bad could reach her.But she wasn’t eight anymore, and her father was miles away, probably lying awake worried about a daughter who had vanished into a world he couldn’t understand.Lightning illuminated the room for a split second, casting harsh shadows that looked like armed figures. Ava squeezed her eyes shut and tried to make herself smaller, tried to disappear.The bedroom door crash

  • MINE TO CLAIM    STORMS AND POWER

    “Make sure Ava goes to bed early tonight,” he told Rosa, keeping his voice neutral. “She needs her rest.”The words tasted like ash in his mouth, but they were necessary. Distance was the only way to protect them both from what was coming.In his office, Rohan was already waiting with a full briefing.“Security reports just came in,” Rohan said, spreading photos across the desk. “She met with Leandro McCarthy at the coffee shop on Fifth Street. Conversation lasted approximately twenty-three minutes.”Dario picked up one of the photos. Ava sitting across from Leandro, her posture straight, her expression serious. In another shot, she was standing up, cash on the table, while Leandro remained seated with his head in his hands.“Body language analysis suggests she was ending the relationship,” Rohan continued. “She left alone. He stayed at the table for another fifteen minutes before leaving.”Relief flooded through Dario’s system like a drug. She had chosen. Not Leandro with his safe lo

  • MINE TO CLAIM    DANGEROUS GAMES

    Dario stared at the reports scattered across his desk, but the words blurred together into meaningless shapes. For the past hour, he had been trying to focus on quarterly projections, shipping schedules, anything that might distract him from the image of Ava walking out of his building that morning.She had looked so determined, so sure of herself as she climbed into the car his security team provided. He wondered if she was meeting Leandro, wondered what she would tell him about the weeks she had spent here, wondered if she would come back at all.The knock on his office door interrupted his spiraling thoughts.“Come in.”Rohan entered with his usual efficiency, but there was tension in his shoulders that immediately put Dario on alert. “We have a situation.”“What kind of situation?”“The Torrino family has called for a syndicate meeting. Tonight. They’re demanding your presence.”Dario leaned back in his chair. The Torrinos ran the old country operations across the sea, families t

  • MINE TO CLAIM    NOT THE SAME ANYMORE

    “Are you out of your mind?”Riley Martinez paced around Leandro’s apartment like a caged animal, her detective badge swinging from the lanyard around her neck. For two weeks now, she had been showing up at his door with the same lecture, the same frustrated energy, the same disbelief that he had walked into Dario Santos’ building and lived to tell about it.“Riley, we have been over this a hundred times,” Leandro said from his position on the couch, laptop balanced on his knees. He wasn’t really working, and hadn't been able to focus on anything since that morning at Santos building, but pretending to be busy was easier than dealing with Riley’s concern.“And we will go over it a hundred more times until it sinks into that thick skull of yours.” She stopped pacing and planted herself in front of him, hands on her hips. “You walked into a known criminal’s penthouse. Alone. With no backup. No plan. No way out if things went wrong.”“But they didn’t go wrong.”“Because you got lucky! Bec

  • MINE TO CLAIM    SILENT TREATMENT

    The silence was worse than captivity.Ava had been expecting anger, arguments, maybe even threats when she told Dario they were even. What she hadn’t expected was this cold, polite distance that made her feel like a stranger in his house.For two weeks now, she had watched him walk past her door each morning without so much as a glance inside. His footsteps would pause for just a moment outside her room, long enough for her heart to skip, then continue down the hallway toward his office. He left early and came back late, when she was already asleep or pretending to be.But every morning, there was a flower on her bedside table.Not roses or anything romantic. Just simple flowers that somehow made her chest ache more than grand gestures ever could. Today it was a white lily, yesterday a single daffodil. Each one fresh, carefully chosen, placed there while she slept like a ghost’s calling card.She picked up the lily and turned it between her fingers, wondering what kind of man could be

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