LOGINLeone 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
Raphael ━━ ⛓ ━━ "Five minutes are up," I whispered, flicking the safety off my bow, "The Void is open. Happy fucking hunting, gentlemen." With a surge of adrenaline, the men vanished into the trees, disappearing into the blackness I controlled. I stayed on the terrace for a moment, watching the
Raphael ━━ ⛓ ━━ I leaned against the cold brick wall of the mansion, my arms crossed, watching the show. Our soldiers were busy dragging in the trash, fifty men, all bound at the wrists, their faces covered in bruises and tears. They were lined up like cattle ready for the slaughter. This was th
Gianna ━⊰ ❦ ⊱━ I was back at the Rose Garden, which was basically a fancy way of saying a place where girls got dressed up to be arm candy for guys with too much money. "I’m telling you, Mama D, they aren’t humans," I groaned, throwing my head back so hard my ponytail nearly hit the floor. "The
Raphael ━━ ⛓ ━━ Gold-digging whores. I didn’t even have to look at them to know that’s exactly what they were. The smell of desperation always clung to women like them, no matter how much expensive perfume they sprayed on their wrists to hide it. Hazel Kinsley. She was the widow of some patheti







