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CATALINA'S PERSPECTIVE
I was already in bed, curled up beneath the covers, ready to call it a night when I heard the door open. My husband, stepped inside, already unbuttoning his shirt, the muscles along his chest tense, jaw set in that way that told me something had happened again. "Dante?" I called his name. He said nothing. Just let the shirt fall to the floor, forgotten. I looked at him. My heart ached in ways I couldn’t name. He always came to me like this when the weight of his world grew too heavy. And yet, no matter how long I held my gaze on him, no matter how much affection I offered in silence… he never looked back. He walked to me with purpose, eyes shadowed, and without warning, he grabbed me and slammed me down against the bed. "Ngh!" I gasped softly, not from fear, but from the force of it. He flipped me over, pushing my face into the mattress, one hand keeping me pinned there while the other found the clasp of my lingerie. The fabric gave way under his touch, falling partway down my hips without ever being fully removed. His hand gripped my waist, jerking me onto my knees, my cheek pressed deep into the mattress. I heard his zipper, the quiet drop of his belt. Then he hooked his fingers down to drop his pants, and boxers. I stayed still. Waiting. His cock slammed into me, fast, hard, unforgiving. I cried out, sharp and soft, face pressed into the mattress. The sound wasn’t in pain. Not fully. More like the breath torn from someone dropped too fast. "Hnng!" I gasped so sharply it felt like a sob. The force of it knocked a strained sound from my throat, my fingers clawing instinctively at the sheets. He didn’t wait for me to adjust, didn’t give me time to breathe. His hips slammed into mine again, and again, each movement merciless, paced like a man burning through rage he couldn’t speak aloud. Everything tightened, my thighs, my breath. The sudden ache stole every coherent thought. My fingers curled into the sheets, the fabric twisting beneath my grip. He held nothing back. His pace was ruthless, his grip tighter with every second. I could feel the bruises blooming beneath his fingers, feel the bed frame creak beneath the force of his movements. I felt the edge of the bed bite into my knees, the tension coiling up my spine. It wasn’t slow. It wasn’t sweet. “Take it,” he growled against the back of my neck. “Take all of me.” He drove deeper, faster. The slap of skin, the creak of the mattress, the choked rhythm of his breath filled the room. His hand pushed down between my shoulders, pinning me in place, forcing my chest to press into the bed while he kept my hips high. Then, yanked my head back by the hair, not to look into my eyes, but just to pull, to control, to remind me that I was his to take. It was brutal. Purposeful. His only intention was to lose himself inside me, and he did. "Nnh!" I whimpered once, quiet and broken, more out of instinct than pain. But he didn’t ease up. If anything, he gripped me harder. His pace turned savage, raw thrusts slamming into my pussy until my thighs trembled and the air in my lungs came in ragged little bursts. “Please… please, go slow…” My voice cracked. My cries slipped through the mattress like whispers in fog. He didn’t listen. He never does. If anything, he went harder. Rough. Wordless. Final. My dear husband, gripped on my waist tightly, bruising me again. He made a guttural sound as he climaxed. And when it was over, he pulled out without a sound. I heard the rustle of fabric behind me. The click of his belt. The crisp snap of each button sliding back into place. I stayed where he left me, on my knees, face down, breath steady. My lingerie still tangled around my thighs, skin flushed, body trembling faintly from the force of him. He didn’t even kiss me. Didn’t speak. Just turned, walked to the door, and left. The door slammed shut behind him, echoing through the bedroom. I stayed still for a moment, knees sinking into the mattress, his scent clinging to my skin like smoke. Then, slowly, I sat up. My legs trembled slightly, my pussy swelling and sore, but I ignored the sting. I pushed my hair back from my face with one hand and turned to face the mirror at the far end of the room. There I was. Disheveled. Flushed. My shoulder bore the faint imprint of his grip, my neck bruised by his tight grip, and my lips parted just enough to catch the breath I hadn’t realized I’d been holding. Pitiful. Messy. Silent. And this is me, Catalina Moretti–Lucchese. Wife of the most powerful mafia boss in Italy. A man whose name carries blood and reverence. A legacy built on iron, fire, and fear. His domains span cities. His enemies multiply faster than I can count. Rivals speak his name behind closed doors, trembling. The ones that don’t… well, they don’t last long. And I? I’m the woman who shares his bed. Who bears his name. The obedient wife of Dante Lucchese. At least... that’s what I made them all think.CATALINA’S PERSPECTIVELUCCHESE ESTATE, VERONA – Five Years After the AshesLate-afternoon sunlight pours over the gardens in a thick, honey-gold spill, the kind of light Italy hoards for itself like a jealous lover. Everything gleams. Everything looks innocent.I know better than to trust beautiful things.Alejandro, six years old, long-limbed and loud, charges across the lower lawn with a wooden sword twice his size. The kid swings like a berserker. The two Caucasian shepherds, Bear and Ghost, lumber along beside him, pretending to cower even though either of them could flatten him with one paw.In my arms, Sofia kicks impatiently. Two years old, black hair, green eyes, temper measurable only in Richter scale units.“Down, Mamá. Sword!” she demands, stabbing her tiny fist downward.“No swords until you’re four,” I say, kissing the top of her head. “Even tyrants need limits.”She gives me the same betrayed
CATALINA’S PERSPECTIVE LUCCHESE MANSION, VERONA – The First Days of ForeverI didn’t put Alejandro down for seventy-two hours straight.Not once.I was terrified that if I blinked, the lie would reassert itself and he would turn to ash in my arms.Dante never tried to reason with me. He simply became whatever I needed: pillow, table, shadow. He slept on the floor beside the rocking chair, woke every time Alejandro stirred, and handed me water or a clean blanket without being asked.He understood: For eleven months I had carried the certainty that my son was dead the moment he left my body. My arms had to learn, hour by hour, that he had never died at all.~~~~~~~Night OneI sat in the nursery rocker until the sky turned pale.I studied every detail of the living, breathing proof that everything I believed was a lie.The slope of his nose, Dante
CATALINA’S PERSPECTIVE VORONIN’S FORTRESS, CRIMEA – Dawn of Departure The convoy is already loaded. The sky is the color of wet ash. Voronin waits on the steps, coat collar turned up against the wind, cigarette glowing like a small red wound. I walk up to him alone. Dante hangs back by the car, arms crossed, watching. Voronin offers the half-smoked cigarette. I take it, inhale once, hand it back. “You own more than half of Russia now,” I say quietly. “From Kaliningrad to Vladivostok, pipelines, ports, half the aluminum plants, most of the black-market arms routes. Everything Gavriil bled for is yours.” He exhales smoke through his nose, eyes on the horizon. “I am aware.” I step closer. “Look at me.” He does. My voice is soft, but it carries th
CATALINA’S PERSPECTIVE THE BLACK SEA COAST We did not go home. Not yet. There was still meat on the bones, and I intended to strip them clean. For thirty-one days the entire coast from Anapa to Batumi became a silent, efficient slaughterhouse of memory. ~~~~~~~ Week One – The Purge We hunted the way fire hunts oxygen. Voronin’s kill teams, fifty men, no insignia, no mercy, moved in four-man cells. Night-vision goggles. Suppressed rifles. Black vans with false plates. They took captains in their sleep. They took accountants in five-star hotel bathrooms. They took pilots on the tarmac before engines could spool. Some tried to run south through Turkey. We had people waiting at every mountain pass. Some tried to buy their lives with information. We took the inf
CATALINA’S PERSPECTIVE FIOLENT FORTRESS – DawnThe sky is the color of dried blood when the last tower falls.I stand on the hood of the lead Tigr, wind whipping my hair, and watch the fortress die.One by one, the remaining walls fold inward. Roofs collapse with roars that shake the cliff. The sea below drinks the smoke.Gavriil is on his knees in front of me, wrists and ankles chained to a tow hook bolted to the bumper.He is barefoot, shirt torn open, the black-gold ring I once wore now hanging from a chain around his own neck like a noose.His face is streaked with soot and blood, but his eyes, those winter eyes, are still sharp.Still trying to own me.I crouch so we’re eye-level.“Look,” I say softly.He refuses.I grab his hair, force his head up.“Look at what you built, Gavriil. Look at it die.”A final explosion ripples through t
CATALINA’S PERSPECTIVE FIOLENT FORTRESS – 04:21 a.m. onwardThe courtyard is a crematorium.White phosphorus drips from the sky like molten tears. Bodies curl like burnt paper. The air itself feels thick enough to chew.I walk through it untouched.Flames kiss the edges of my fatigues and retreat, as if even fire knows better than to claim me tonight.Dante is a shadow at my left, rifle raised, eyes scanning every corner. Cynthia ghosts at my right, muzzle never wavering. Nikolai and Voronin sweep the flanks. Malcolm is already wiring the final charges that will collapse the rest of the building on top of whatever is left of this place.We descend the shattered staircase in single file.Marble crunches beneath my boots like broken teeth.Emergency lights strobe red across walls painted with blood and soot.I know this corridor the way a condemned woman knows







