At Nico's mansion, when Dante left.
The door hadn’t clicked shut before Nico groaned, spine arched, collapsed forward into the plush tangle of limbs below him.“God, finally,” he drawled, chest heaved, skin glistened with sweat, cock still hard, slick with cum. “He always knows when to ruin my rhythm.”The boy beneath, pale, trembling, throat littered with red teeth marks, whimpered, half-exhausted, half-wrecked from Nico’s final thrust, cock ground deep into his ass, slow, punishing.Nico pulled out, lazy, smeared in sweat and cum, rolled onto his back, sprawled like a king done with his toy.The living room pulsed, a writhing sea of bodies. Backs arched, slick with sweat, mouths gasped, moaned against flushed skin, hands clawed, stroked cocks and pussies, relentless.The room was a temple of carnal ruin, scented with musk, oil, and raw need. Nico sat at its altar, a god never sated.His assistant, shirtless, sweatCATALINA'S PERSPECTIVE LUCCHESE ESTATE I didn’t rush. I never do. Especially not when I know he’s breaking inside. The bathwater had gone cold before I stood. I made sure every trace of salt on my cheeks was rinsed off, the staged sobs, the tremble, the curled-up silence by the tub, washed clean, at least to the eye. But the weight of it? That had to stay. He needed to see it. I changed into something soft. A thin robe, warm socks. Not enough to be sultry, not enough to be dramatic. Just enough to look fragile. Just enough to make him think I was holding myself together by a thread. Then, I made him soup. It wasn’t poisoned. Not even drugged. It was warm, full of flavor, just the way he liked it. That was the point. I carried it with a mug of coffee, black, bitter, the way he took it when he couldn’t sleep from overthinking. I knocked once. No answer. I turned the kno
DANTE'S PERSPECTIVE LUCCHESE ESTATE - HOME OFFICE I shouldn’t have said her name. But I did. La Rosa Nera. It came out raw, tangled in a groan, spilled from my lips like a fucking confession. And Catalina, my wife, my silent, soft little wife, heard it. Took it. Let me take her like a goddamn madman, and didn’t flinch. But now? Now I see her curled up near the tub, the door half-open like a trap. She’s crying. Not trembling from pain. Not crying out from the bruises I left on her hips or the way I used her like she wasn’t her own. No, she’s breaking. And it’s not the kind of break that comes with noise. It’s the kind that shatters something delicate. Something I never thought I’d see. Catalina never cries. She never asks. Never demands. She’s just... there. Always fucking there. Obedient. Warm.
CATALINA'S PERSPECTIVE LUCCHESE ESTATE I sat there, still warm from his touch, my thighs trembling as the last of him slipped from me. The scent of sex lingered thick in the air, but I didn’t move, not at first. I waited, waited until I heard his breath catch, the way it always did when guilt began to creep through his bloodstream like venom. Then I sat up slowly, my muscles sore, my body raw, not from pain, but from the way he gripped something he thought he couldn't have. I cupped his face, gently, reverently, as if he hadn’t just used me as a vessel for his confusion. I smiled. A smile meant for me. Not him. He didn’t even see it, didn’t realize that behind the curve of my lips was triumph. Behind my wide, innocent eyes was a wildfire. Dante Lucchese, my husband, my captor, my obsession, was now d
DANTE’S PERSPECTIVE LUCCHESE ESTATE – AFTER THE PRIVATE GATHERING She’s fucking draped over him. And I can’t stop watching. Can’t fucking breathe. Crimson red. That goddamn veil. That body. That silence. Every click of her heel on marble sounded like a gunshot in my skull. She moved like she was sculpted to command. Measured, slow, deliberate, every step screaming ownership. And the bastard she chose to sit on, Nico fucking Mareni, had his hands on her like he earned the right to breathe her in. His lips brushed her neck. I should’ve snapped his fucking jaw right there. But I didn’t. I stood there. Watching. Burning. The world narrowed to her silhouette and that fucking name, La Rosa Nera. A name that used to mean fire, fear, death. A title no man dared speak too loud. Now it belongs to a woman. Her. And the chaos she carries
CATALINA'S PERSPECTIVE AS - LA ROSA NERA His knuckles were white. I noticed it the moment his hand curled into a fist on the table, tight, trembling at the edge. No one else probably saw it. But I did. Every time Nico’s fingers drew idle, thoughtless circles across the fabric of my dress, my waist, my stomach, Dante’s gaze narrowed. His jaw clenched. His nostrils flared like a bull just before the kill. And I knew. La Rosa Nera isn’t just a name to him anymore. She’s becoming an obsession. He doesn’t realize it yet. But I do. Because I’ve seen that look in his eyes before, when he stands over bloodied men asking for names, when he owns the room without ever raising his voice. When something dares to exist beyond his control. He craves power. Always has. And now, it’s wearing heels, silk gloves, and crimson. It’s sitting on a
DANTE'S PERSPECTIVE "Spit it out, Nico."My voice cut through the room like a blade, flat and cold."You think this is a fucking joke?"They all watched him, every suit around this table, every snake in polished shoes puffing cigars like the smoke would hide their fear. Carlos Moretti leaned back like he was above the rest of us. Bullshit. Even he had sweat behind his ears.And Mareni?He sat there like a smug little bastard, fingers laced over his gut, chin lifted like we weren’t even in the same food chain."I said I don’t talk about her," he said.He fucking smirked.A gun clicked beside him.He didn’t blink.“Who is she?” I asked again, quieter this time. Deadlier. “Who’s La Rosa Nera?”Nico just looked at me. No fear. No twitch. Nothing but that calm, fuck-you confidence he wears like a second skin."Even if I told you, you wouldn't understand," he said.