FAZER LOGIN[CARLTONâS POV]I feel it. Hot breath on the back of my neck. The solid wall of heat that is his chest pressing against my back. Something hardâthick, blunt, already leakingânudges between my ass cheeks. His reflection appears behind mine in the mirror.One eye. Scarred and covered, no eye patch tonight. Just the ruined socket, puckered and angry. The other eye burns amber-gold in the harsh bathroom light, fixed on me with an intensity that makes my knees weak.His arms come around my waist. Huge hands span my stomach, fingers nearly touching at my spine."Sneaking out, eh?" His voice is gravel and smoke, lips brushing my ear. "Bad manners, zayka. Bad boy."My heart hammers. "I came to pee. Please, I was just going backâ"SMACK!Pain explodes across my ass. I yelp, hands flying to grip the edge of the sink, knuckles going white."Uh-uh." His palm smooths over the burning skin, deceptively gentle. "Son always stays close to Daddy. Partner to partner." He squeezes my ass cheek, fing
2:30am, after TRISTANâS FuckFest. đđ„”[CARLTON'S POV]I wake up because my ass is on fire.Not metaphorically. Literally feels like someone shoved a blowtorch up there and left it burning.The room is dark. Silent except for Tristan's breathing beside me: deep, steady, the kind of sleep you only get after you've murdered half your empire and fucked someone into oblivion.I don't move. Can't, really. My legs are numb from the waist down, pins and needles crawling up my thighs whenever I try to shift. My holeâJesus Christ, my holeâthrobs with every heartbeat, swollen and raw and gaping open like it's forgotten how to close.I risk a glance down at myself.Mistake.Dried blood crusts the inside of my thighs. More of it smeared across my ass crack, dark and flaking. My hole is visible even in the dim light filtering through the curtains; red, puffy, obscene. He wrecked me.And I fucking loved it.That's the worst part. Not the blood or the pain or the fact that I can literally feel air
[TRISTANâS POV] I carry him down the corridor. Past the bodies. Past the dark spreading pools of red that reflect the overhead lights like mirrors. Past Amanda, who presses herself against the wall to let us through, who has the good sense not to speak.My boots leave bloody footprints tracking all the way to my door. My hands leave prints on Carlton wherever I touch him: his thigh, his back, the curve of his ass where I adjust my grip.Everything I touch, I mark.Everything I own, I mark.This is not a new development. This is simply who I am, who I've always been, and Carlton Dickson learned this the first night I had him and has apparently not yet accepted it in any meaningful way.I kick open the bedroom door. The wood splinters around the lock. And fling him onto the bed.He bounces once, scrambles backward immediately. That survival instinct, that cornered-animal thing he does that makes everything in me go very, very still. Predator watching prey. His back hits the headboard
[TRISTAN'S POV]I have always been mad.Born into chaos. Raised on violence. Baptized in the frozen Moskva River by a wife who believed weakness was a disease cured only by drowning. Forty-five years breathing, and every single one soaked in someone else's suffering.Mad is what I am. Mad is all I've ever been.But this?This is something else entirely.Carlton kneels in a spreading lake of my men's blood, blond hair plastered to his pale forehead, those storm-blue eyes red-rimmed and glassy with shock. Shaking. My Bunny is shaking like a leaf in a hurricane, small and fragile in a way that makes me want to burn the rest of the fucking world down just to ensure nothing else ever touches him.They touched what's mine.The thought isn't rage. Rage is hot, chaotic, stupid. What lives in me right now is colder than the Siberian tundra in January and twice as unforgiving.My menâthe ones who swore loyalty on their knees in blood and oath, who kissed my ring and called me Pakhanâthey looked
[CARLTONâS POV] Yosef's gaze finds mine. For a second, just a second, I see something there. Pain, yeah. But also⊠Pity? "Don't you act all righteous now." I yank the rod back from Tristan's grip. "You left me alone in a den of wolves. What the fuck did you expect?" "That you'd be treated like a prince in my own empire." His hand is on the back of my head now. Not gentle. Holding me in place, forcing me to look at him. "Tell me that's what you fucking got." I laugh. Can't help it. The sound comes out bitter and sharp. "Like a prince?" My voice cracks. "I was treated like shit, Tristan. Yosef beat me whenever he felt like it. Your men didn't just watch, they had their turn too." Tristan goes completely still. Doesn't blink. Doesn't breathe. "I was the weak-ass faggot." The words pour out now, unstoppable. "They made sure I knew my place. Promised to ruin me when you died. That's how they treated me. All because of you." Silence. The kind that feels like the world stopped spinn
[CARLTONâS POV]I stalk after Tristan through the stairs, and every cell in my body is screaming two very different things.Run away from this man.Run straight to him.My fingers are still slick with his cum. I can feel it cooling between my knuckles, sticky and obscene. My throat burns where his hand crushed my windpipe. I'll have bruises shaped exactly like his fingers by morning. My ass is sore from getting fucked in the backseat of his car thirty minutes ago, and my cock is already trying to get hard again like my body doesn't understand we're supposed to hate him.But above all that, louder than pain or fear or even desire, is this buzzing satisfaction humming through my veins.Because I just jerked Tristan Alister off in front of his entire Brotherhood. Made the Pakhan, the most dangerous man in this godforsaken empire, come in his pants like a teenager. Watched his knees buckle. Heard him beg in Russian.I did that.Me.And Christ, it felt fucking good."Don't ruin it." His v
(CARLTONâS POV) âWhat did you say to him?!â Lydia's voice tears through the hallway. Her makeup is smudged from tears. And her eyes are like Yosefâs, dark and cold. âYou said something to him.â The room locks onto me, and silence funnels my way. The chandelier's lights burn into my skin. And the
(YOSEFâS POV) Concealed by thickets of trees, I watch TanBear scramble back to his wing. So I duck backwards, body glued to the tree, eyeing Carlton. I scouted the area and kept the men at bay. Nobody in sight. Only us. The coarse bark of the tree scales my palm sore. Last night, I came to r
(TRISTANâS POV) MINE. Grinding my molars, I propel to my feet. Pain, rage, and all the vile emotions churn inside me. I lunged for Kendrick before stopping on the spot. A loud yelp, followed by Russian profanities. Kendrick staggers back inside. Yosef limps in, blood dribbling down his templ
(TRISTANâS POV) âYou left him,â Seleneâs words cut like a knife. âHeâs going to break.â I want to turn back, grovel on my knees, and plead for his forgiveness. The way Bunny looked at me. I destroyed him. I fucked him like it's punishment, like I could drive the questions out with my cock. Then







