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REINAWas this actually a coincidence?I told myself yes. I forced myself to believe it as I followed Philip White into the lecture hall with the rest of the class, but something about it sat wrong in my chest. Not sharp enough to panic over. Not clear enough to name. Just there. Lingering.Unsettling.I slid into my seat at the middle row and placed my bag down slowly, my fingers brushing against the watch on my wrist. The one Celestino had given me.Tracker. Panic button.I had wanted to laugh it off in the car. I was not laughing now because nothing about my situation was funny.Laughable? yes. But it was absolutely not funny.“Alright, everyone,” Philip’s voice carried easily across the room as he dropped his notes on the desk. “I know I am not your usual professor, so let’s try not to make this painful for either of us.”A few students laughed. I didn’t. I kept my eyes on my notebook, pretending to flip through pages I was not reading.“Business Statistics,” he continued. “Sounds
REINAMorning crept into the apartment in thin, pale stripes, slipping through the half-closed blinds and stretching across the living room floor.Calestino had fallen asleep on the couch sometime before dawn, but he was already awake when I came downstairs.He looked exactly the way he had the night before—black T-shirt, jeans, boots still on, like he had never really intended to sleep. A gun rested on the coffee table beside him, placed there with the casual ease of someone who had carried weapons his entire life.His gaze lifted from his phone the second he heard me.It was the same look he always gave me. Quick. Professional. Assessing.Checking to see if I was okay. Like I was his priority.“You sleep?” he asked.I shook my head, yawning. “Barely.” My voice sounded rough, like I had been swallowing sand all night. The truth was I hadn’t slept longer than an hour at a time. Every creak in the building had dragged me awake. Every car passing on the street had sent my heart racing.
REINAThe door slammed shut behind me with a violence I didn’t know I had in me. The sound echoed through the empty hallway like a gunshot, sharp and final, and I pressed my back to the wood as if I could physically hold the night outside. My chest heaved. My palms were slick with sweat. My nails had dug half moons into the meat of my hands so deep I could feel the sting now, belated and distant, like pain happening to someone else.I held my breath.Listened.The low growl of his engine started, idled for a heartbeat, then faded down the street. Gone. Just like that. The silence that followed was worse than the sound of him leaving. It pressed in from every side, thick and suffocating, settling into the corners of the apartment like smoke.I slid down the door until my ass hit the floor. Knees to my chest. Robe gaping open at the front. I didn’t bother closing it. What was the point? He had already seen everything. Touched everything. Ruined everything.My lip was bleeding. I had bit
DOMENICOThe lobby was too bright.The lights overhead were harsh, unforgiving white and sterile, like a hospital corridor. Every polished surface reflected too much: marble floors, glass walls, chrome edges. There was nowhere for shadows to hide, nowhere for me to tuck the things I had just said, the things I had admitted without trying to soften them.The concierge looked up when we stepped inside.Then he looked away just as quickly.He had seen that look before. On men who walked in whole and left fractured. On women who were not crying yet but would be the moment they were alone. On couples who did not touch each other even when standing inches apart.Reina’s hand was still in mine.Cold.Not pulling away but not holding on either. Her fingers rested limp against my palm, as if she had forgotten they were there. I guided her through the revolving door, my grip gentle, instinctive, the same way I had handled her all night. Careful not to hurt. Careful not to lose.The glass panels
DOMENICO “The first one was named Rose.”She went still. The name sat between us like a ghost.“She needed protection,” I continued. “A name. A connection that scared people away. I was that name, at least to her at the time. She knew what she was getting into.”“And you?”“I needed an heir.”Her lips trembled. “Say that again and see if I don’t throw this bottle at your head.”“I needed an heir,” I repeated quietly.She inhaled sharply through her nose.“She got pregnant on purpose,” I said. “I knew it. I let it happen. Thought it would be simple.”“Simple,” Reina echoed. “Did you ever once think about the woman? Or was she just a womb with a pulse?”“I thought about survival.”“And did she survive you?”The accusation in that question was brutal.“She wanted more,” I continued. “Marriage. Love. Permanence. I told her from the beginning I would not give that. I was not capable of it.”Reina leaned forward, eyes blazing. “Then why me? You said you want to marry me. What changed?”Bec
REINA His hand tormented the other breast, pinching and soothing in perfect rhythm. My back bowed off the couch, thighs tightening around his hips as wetness slicked my folds.He released my nipple with a wet pop and looked up at me, eyes almost black with desire. “You’re so fucking beautiful like
DOMENICO I pushed inside her slowly, watching her face the entire time. Reina’s lips parted on a sharp gasp, her eyes fluttering shut as her tight heat closed around me inch by inch. She was soaked, slick from her orgasm, but still so fucking tight it took everything in me not to slam home in one
DOMENICO I pulled out slowly, deliberately, watching my cock slide free—shiny and thick with her cream. She whimpered at the sudden emptiness, hips chasing me instinctively. I flipped her onto her back again with gentle but firm hands. Her eyes were glassy and unfocused, lips swollen and red, chee
DOMENICO By the time we pulled into her driveway, I could feel the tension in my chest tightening, coiling like a spring ready to snap. Knowing this was the part where she would be telling me to leave.But I didn't want to leave her. Ever!Four days without her had been hell. Cold beds, empty room







