登入Leone released his shirt with a violent shove and went still. I felt something warm move through my chest. Leone turned toward the second guard, “Call the mainland. Tell them to send everyone.” The guard immediately reached for his radio, “Everyone?” “Every fucking man we have,” his voice cut th
"I don't care." I looked past his shoulder again, at the cages, at the children. My tears started falling harder. Dad noticed, "We're your family. We're on the same side." I stared at him. He continued carefully. "This operation. This facility. Everything inside it. One day, it will be yours."
"The ones nobody is going to look for," his voice was flat, "Kids from poor families. Runaways. Orphans. Illegal immigrants. Some don't have papers. Some don't even have families," he glanced toward the cages, "Most of them don't make it onto a missing-person list because no one gives a shit about t
Maybe I had needed something soft to hold on to. Back then, he had been the one gentle thing in my life, and I had clung to that with both hands because I needed to believe something good still existed but maybe I had only seen what I wanted to see. Because there was nothing gentle about him. He wa
He was afraid of Dad, but he was more afraid of Leone. My eyes dropped to the metal collar locked around his neck. It was a shock collar. For the first time, the man who had once made me tremble was the one walking away with fear in his eyes. Dad turned back toward me. His expression was tired. Mi
Gianna ━⊰ ❦ ⊱━ For the first time since I'd known him, I saw something I had spent years wanting to see. Fear. It wasn't anything like the fake concern he used to wear when he called himself my doctor. And definitely not like the calm little smile he gave me before another session. It was real
Gianna ━⊰ ❦ ⊱━ I tugged at the scrap of black lace riding up my hip. This outfit wasn’t clothes, it was a prayer. A tiny, see-through prayer. I caught my reflection in the cracked dressing room mirror and barely recognized the girl staring back. The silver wig was cold and synthetic against my
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Waiting. For heartbreak. For regret. For grief. Nothing came. Only relief. And for the first time since his name had appeared on my screen... I smiled. ──━⊰ 𓆙 ⊱━── The office floor hummed around me. Monitors glowed from every direction. Lines of code scrolled endlessly across screens. Pho
"You're even hotter than they said." "Please!" I sobbed, my face half-buried in the leaves, "Please, let me go! I didn't know... I didn't agree to this!" I tried to crawl forward, my fingers clawing at the mud, but he just laughed. It was a dark, mean sound. He grabbed the back of my black top and







