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one week

Author: Favour
last update publish date: 2026-03-29 02:35:46

The dining table was full for once.

That didn't happen often — all of them in the same place at the same time without someone running late or eating standing up or grabbing something from the kitchen on the way out the door. But this morning they were all there. Lucien at the head, Dimitri across from him, Amara and Rachel on one side with the easy closeness of women who had been in each other's lives long enough that silence between them was comfortable. Sol, Zaren, Keal, Lior filling the rest
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  • marked by the mafia alpha   I can't love you

    Sol woke up slowly.The ceiling was wrong. Different height. Different color. Different quality of morning light coming through curtains that were never fully open.He lay there and let that land.Then the warmth beside him registered. The smell of the room. The particular silence that existed only in this space.Zarian's room.He didn't move. Just lay there with his eyes on the wrong ceiling and felt his body in a way he never had before. Not dramatically. Just — different. Settled. Like something that had been slightly off his whole life had been quietly corrected overnight and his bones were still adjusting to what right felt like.He turned his head.Zarian was on his phone. One hand scrolling. The other hand in Sol's hair. Slow. Absent. The particular touch of someone doing something without thinking about it. Like it was just — natural. Like Sol's head near his hand was simply where things were and his hand had made its own arrangement with that fact.Sol watched him for a momen

  • marked by the mafia alpha   ruin me

    ChapterZaren's eyes burned red.One hand shot out, fingers closing around Sol's wrist before he could move. The door slammed behind them.Then Zaren's mouth crashed into his.No warning. No hesitation. His tongue forced its way in, claiming, and his teeth caught Sol's bottom lip — a sharp bite that pulled a sound out of Sol before he could stop it. Sol's hands found Zaren's neck on instinct, pulling him closer, kissing back harder.Zaren's hands slid under his shirt.Sol's breath broke.Fingers worked over his skin, deliberate, knowing exactly where to press, and Sol moaned into his mouth, the sound swallowed between them. He bit back — caught Zaren's bottom lip, felt him groan, felt his hands tighten on Sol's waist like he was something to be held down.The shirt hit the floor.Zaren pulled back just enough to look at him. Red eyes, blazing, dragging down Sol's body and back up to his face.His voice came out low and rough."Repeat what you said."Sol held his gaze. "I said I want y

  • marked by the mafia alpha   fuck me zaren

    The house was completely quiet by eleven.Sol lay on his bed and stared at the ceiling and listened to it go quiet in stages — Amara's voice finally settling, footsteps stopping, doors closing one by one down the hall until the only sound left was the kind of silence that a full house made when everyone in it was finally still.He didn't sleep.Couldn't.He lay there and thought about seven days and Malik's voice in that classroom and the way Zaren had looked at him across the sitting room — that locked, immediate, finding-him-before-anything-else look — and at 11:47 he sat up.Didn't think about it.Didn't count.Just got up.The hall was dark.He walked it barefoot, the floor cool under his feet, and stopped outside Zaren's door and knocked twice before the part of him that managed things could catch up and talk him out of it.A beat of silence.Then the door opened.Zaren. Shirtless. Hair slightly pushed back like he'd been lying down without sleeping, which meant he'd been doing t

  • marked by the mafia alpha   A courtesy call

    Chapter — A Courtesy CallThe wine was almost gone.One glass left. She'd opened the bottle three hours ago when her mother left and the room went back to its particular quality of silence — the kind that existed only here, only in this dark, only with the heart beating its patient rhythm on the table beside her.She poured the last of it.Held the glass up in the dark like a toast to nothing in particular.Or perhaps to something very particular.Everything was moving. Every piece exactly where she'd placed it. Mei closing in from the east. The ceremony days away. The heart still beating. Zarian twenty years old and sitting in a pack house being prepared for a shift that was going to open him up in ways none of them were ready for.Twenty years of patience arriving all at once.She drank.Set the glass down.Looked at it for a moment — empty, clean, finished — and something settled in her expression. That quiet. That particular stillness that came over her when a decision had already

  • marked by the mafia alpha   evill lurks

    The mansion had no lights.Not a single one. Not by accident — by design. Every bulb removed, every candle unlit, every window sealed with something heavy enough that the city beyond the glass ceased to exist entirely. Aurora had lived like this for years. The dark was not a preference. It was a requirement. Light made things visible and visible things could be tracked and Aurora had spent too long being underestimated to make herself easy to find.The heart sat in her hands.Still beating.Thirteen years and it had never stopped. Not once. Not a single missed rhythm. It sat in her palms in the dark and pushed against her fingers with the stubborn insistent pulse of something that had decided it wasn't finished and had been deciding that every second for over a decade.Kang's heart.She had taken it the night they celebrated. The night Lucian came back from wherever the underworld had made him and killed Kang and the whole pack house had exhaled like a held breath finally released. S

  • marked by the mafia alpha   home

    The front door opened at 9:47pm.Sol knew the exact time because he'd been watching his phone with the specific focused anxiety of someone who had run out of things to do with their hands and had settled on checking the time every four minutes as a substitute for being useful. He was on the couch. Malik had texted three times. He hadn't answered any of them.He heard the door.His head came up.Amara heard it from the kitchen.She'd been in there for two hours doing things that didn't need doing — reorganizing a shelf that was already organized, making tea she hadn't touched, standing at the counter with her hands flat on the surface staring at the garden through the window while Rachel sat at the kitchen table and didn't try to fill the silence because she knew better.The door.She was in the hallway before it had fully opened.Zaren stood in the frame.Jacket on. Hair slightly wind-pushed. His face doing what his face always did — that closed, contained, giving-nothing expression t

  • marked by the mafia alpha   resignation letter

    Chapter 31: The ResignationTwo weeks passed.Every morning, I sent flowers to Amara's hotel. Roses. Lilies. Peonies. Whatever the florist had.Every evening, they came back. Untouched. Still wrapped.I called her thirty times a day. She never answered.I texted her. Long messages. Short messages.

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  • marked by the mafia alpha   the lie

    The drive home felt like driving to my own funeral.Every block. Every turn. Every red light. They all screamed at me. Cheater. Betrayer. Failure.My hands shook on the steering wheel. I gripped it tighter. Tried to stop the shaking. Couldn't.The parking garage was empty. Early morning. Most peopl

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  • marked by the mafia alpha   the ceremony

    Chapter 123: The CeremonyAmaraThe room they prepared me in had no mirrors.I didn't ask why. I didn't want to know.Sera worked in silence. The other women too. Hands moving around me with the kind of precision that came from doing something so many times it stopped requiring thought.The ash dre

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  • marked by the mafia alpha   the color of surrender

    Here's Chapter 117:Chapter 117: The Color of SurrenderAmaraI didn't hear them come in.That was the first thing that unsettled me. No knock. No warning. Just—suddenly, they were there.Three of them. Women in charcoal uniforms so precise they looked pressed while still on their bodies. Hair swep

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