LOGINDOMENICO Smoke curled lazily toward the ceiling of my office, thick and slow, twisting under the low light like it had nowhere else to go. The room was quiet in that expensive, controlled way only money can buy. No noise. No chaos. Just me, my thoughts, and the weight of everything I refused to let slip from my hands. The glass walls of my office reflected faint versions of me back at myself. Older. Colder. Tired in a way sleep never fixed. I sat behind my desk with a glass of whiskey in one hand and a cigar burning between two fingers of the other, staring at the monitor in front of me like a starving man watching a locked kitchen. Reina. One folder. Then another. Then another. Files I had built over time like a private religion. Stolen images. Hidden recordings. Security footage rerouted through systems no one else in my world knew I had access to. She was everywhere in them. Walking. Sitting. Breathing. Laughing at things I could never hear. Turning her head slightly like
REINA"Sorry, I wasn't following." I said, slowing down nothing. Elisa was still bouncing on her toes on her seat, her eyes shining with excitement as she looked between Paolo and me. She clapped her hands once. “I was asking you how you two are going to celebrate? Are you going somewhere fancy? Or staying in and having a cozy night? I brought gifts. Well, I helped pick them out. Paolo has the actual presents in his bag, he made me promise not to run my mouth and tell you what the actual gifts are because God help me I can't stop talking. So I'm not going to tell you, okay? Tell me your plans. I want to help make it perfect.” Paolo laughed softly beside me, the sound warm and familiar. He reached for my hand and laced our fingers together. “Elisa, breathe,” he said. “You’re going to pass out before we even answer.” “I am breathing,” she said dramatically, pressing a hand to her chest. “I’m just invested in your love story, it's the only good thing in this family right now.” “You
REINA Paolo stood right there in the middle of my living room, arms spreading open slowly like he had been holding himself back for weeks and could not do it anymore. His eyes looked tired, red around the edges from travel and too little sleep. There were faint shadows beneath them, and the lines around his mouth looked deeper than I remembered. But the second his gaze landed on me, something soft broke through all that exhaustion. That familiar smile touched his lips. The one with the faint dimple in his left cheek that used to make my stomach flutter back when life felt simpler and lighter. “Baby...” he whispered. His voice cracked on the word, rough and full of emotion. “I’m back, baby. Would you mind giving me a hug?” Before I could move, Elisa squealed beside him. “Oh my God, it's you, Reina!” She bounced once on the balls of her feet, practically vibrating with excitement. “I only saw you briefly that day at your reception. You are even prettier in real life than in a
REINA "You think I do not hate her for this?" Tessa's voice cut through the air from the living room like a jagged blade. It was raw, furious, and dripping with something dark and possessive that made my skin crawl. "Andrew loved her. That pathetic idiot actually fell in love with her after I begged him to fake the whole thing. I told him to keep her close. To make sure everyone thought she was taken so no one else would even look at her twice. But no. He had to go and sleep with her on prom night like some lovesick fool. I had to threaten him with everything I knew. I had to destroy him so he would leave her completely broken and alone. And it worked perfectly. She came running straight back to me. Crying in my arms every single night. Letting me hold her while she whispered how much she needed me." A low, satisfied moan drifted out next, followed by Shane's lazy voice. "Babe, you are seriously twisted. That wasn't fair to her, you know?" "Shut up, Shane." Tessa snapped back, tho
REINAThe walk back to the car felt like it stretched on forever, each step heavier than the last. Calestino stayed glued right beside me, his big frame solid and silent like a bodyguard who did not trust the world one bit. Every couple of seconds I glanced down at the watch on my wrist, my thumb twitching near the button, ready to press it if anything felt off. My head was still spinning hard from everything that had happened in class. Philip's creepy sweet smile kept flashing in my mind, the way he had looked almost thrilled when Calestino grabbed him by the collar like he wanted to tear his throat out. And the way Philip had called him grumpy daddy, like it was some twisted inside joke between them. Something was seriously wrong with that guy. Deeply, dangerously wrong. I was so deep in my racing thoughts that I did not even notice Andrew until he was right there, stepping out suddenly from between two parked cars and blocking our path completely. He looked tall and familiar in
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REINATessa had only been in my apartment for only twenty minutes and already turned it into a chaotic masterpiece—clothes on the couch, heels by the lamp, lipstick tubes rolling across the rug like confetti.And somehow, I didn’t mind.She sat cross-legged on the floor, face lit up by the glow of
REINA By the time my last class ended, I’d already spent half the lecture fidgeting with my pen, pretending to take notes while my mind was a mess of half-formed excuses. I wasn’t even sure why I’d asked Tessa to come over. Maybe because the guilt was getting too loud. Maybe because I knew if I d
REINA Shane leaned in like he was about to receive state secrets. “Oh my god, she’s in love.”“Shut up.”“She’s totally in love,” he said to Tessa, kicking his legs excitedly. “Look at her eyes! That’s the ‘I’d burn my life for this man’ look.”Tessa chuckled softly. “Yeah. I see it. Plus, have yo
DOMENICO Reina groaned in agony, but because of what I had said, her muscles locked together as her orgasm ebbed away. I suckled on her throbbing clit, and she cried out in surprise and pleasure. Then she arched her back, and I thrust my tongue deeper inside her slit. I used my tongue to swirl ar







