CATALINA'S PERSPECTIVE
LA ROSA NERA The stench of sweat, iron, and semen hung thick in Nico Mareni’s mansion like incense. The kind that didn’t pray to the saints. He was on his throne already. Legs apart, hand lazily resting on his thigh, shirt stained from someone else’s mouth. One look and I knew, He was bored. High on his own rot. Good. I didn’t speak. I let the door slam shut behind me. The sound made his men flinch. Not him. He looked up. Smirked. “La Rosa Nera,” he said, eyes trailing me like a hunter sizing meat. “Or just some girl wearing her name.” I stepped into the room like I’d been there before. Like it was mine. Like he was already on his knees and didn’t know it yet. “You don’t even deserve my name on your tongue,” I said, voice low. Controlled. “Yet here you are. Drooling.”DANTE'S PERSPECTIVE LUCCHESE ESTATE All my wounds had healed.Physically, at least.The stitches Catalina placed never once tore. Not because of my stillness, I’m not a patient man, but because she watched me like a hawk every time I moved. Her glare carried more weight than a dozen bullets. So I behaved.Mostly.We didn’t talk about what happened that night. Or the nights that followed.But something shifted. Subtle. Like a door left open just enough to feel the wind change.She moved slower around me, but not out of fear.She lingered.Every morning, she helped me sit up even though I could do it myself. She still treated the skin where the bruises had been, palms soft and steady, as if refusing to believe I was fully healed unless she declared it so.Every meal, we ate together. No guards. No meetings. Just us.She made me coffee. Brought me cut fruit. Forced soup down my thro
CATALINA'S PERSPECTIVE LUCCHESE ESTATE He didn’t say anything after that.And neither did I.Dante just let his hand fall back to the mattress, fingers grazing the sheets like he forgot how to hold anything that didn’t hurt.So I stayed.I stayed there, beside him, even when my knees ached and the soreness between my thighs reminded me of everything we did last night. I adjusted the gauze one last time, smoothing it gently. Then reached for the salve, dabbing it against the smaller cuts on his side, ones he probably didn’t even feel, but I did.His breath slowed. Not asleep. Just watching.I didn’t look at him.If I did, something might break inside me.And I couldn’t break. Not yet. Not until everything I buried had its revenge.Instead, I picked up the cloth. Wiped away the dried blood on his abdomen. His neck. The smudge on his jawline that wasn’t mine. I didn’t speak. I didn’t ask.
CATALINA'S PERSPECTIVE LUCCHESE ESTATE The first thing I felt was heat.Not from the sun, from him.Dante.Pressed against me, still holding me like he thought I’d disappear.His breath was steady.Heavy.Peaceful in a way that didn’t belong to a man like him.I should’ve stayed like that.Let myself pretend a little longer.But something was wrong.The sheets beneath my leg were wet.Not from us.Not from the night we carved into each other.It was thicker.Warmer.Smelled like metal.I sat up fast, and that’s when I saw it,the blood.Seeping through the bandage on his ribs.Soaking into the gauze like it didn’t care this man had almost died once already.The stitches had torn open.From how hard he moved.From how deep he buried himself in me.I clenched my teeth.Hard.The fury came
DANTE'S PERSPECTIVE LUCCHESE ESTATE - Bedroom I didn’t want to come back to her like this. But I am like this. Stained. Tarnished. Unworthy. So now I’m fucking her like it’s the only language I remember, and maybe it is. My hands on her hips. My mouth dragging across her skin. My cock buried inside her so deep, I swear I’ll leave nothing untouched. Because every thrust is a fucking confession. This one’s for that night I told another woman to moan my name, a name that only ever sounded right from Catalina’s lips. I drive into her harder. This one’s for the girl I pulled into my lap and whispered, "Just pretend you’re her." I grip her tighter. She gasps and arches under me. She thinks this is about need. It’s n
CATALINA'S PERSPECTIVE LUCCHESE ESTATE - Bedroom Not enough.Not even with his cum still hot inside me.Not with his mouth gasping my name against my throat.Not with his fingers digging deep into my skin like he was already trying to fuse us.It wasn’t enough.Not for what I needed.Not for what we needed.Because it wasn’t just about Nico.Or the faceless women that still haunted Dante’s hands.It was about taking each other back.Until every scar, every bruise, every ghost was drowned in us.I pulled away first.Still trembling. Still stretched wide and aching.I moved like my bones weren’t mine. Like I was chasing something just out of reach.His eyes followed me.I climbed over him again. Slide my pussy down onto his cock, half-hard, still slick, and didn’t stop moving.He groaned, deep and broken.His hands reached for me, but I slapped them
CATALINA'S PERSPECTIVE LUCCHESE ESTATE The sound of the car door slamming shut nearly tore my chest open.I dropped the bowl I was holding. My feet hit the marble barefoot as I ran, past the hall, through the front doors, straight down the stone steps of the mansion. The wind caught my dress, but I didn’t stop.He was here.Dante.I reached him before he even made it halfway to the front entrance, throwing my arms around his neck and burying my face in his jacket. He smelled like gunpowder and leather and exhaustion. His body was tense, rigid, until it wasn't.Until he hugged me back.It was subtle. Just a low grunt, a rough arm snaking around my waist and pulling me closer. But it burned. I expected him to stand there like he always did, aloof, silent, unreachable.But this time... he held me.And something inside me split open.I clung tighter, my fingers curling into the back of his sh