Chapter 101 - Mind Game Obsession

Two nights before she expected to be allowed an audience with a courier from one of Zane’s shipping partners, Zane changed the rules. He grew more intimate. He asked her for pieces of herself; he wanted her to describe Jaxon’s eyes when he thought no one watched. He wanted to know her favorite dresses. He wanted to hear the way she laughed about the Don’s temper. He wanted to catalog her as if she were a product that could be displayed in a cabinet and admired.

Raven gave him small things. She told him about the sound of Jaxon smoking in the penthouse long after the city fell asleep. She described a ridiculous story of a man who once tried to teach Jaxon how to dance and failed spectacularly, a story that bent the iron façade into something human enough that Zane would covet it. He ate those crumbs and, in return, he offered up his confessions. He even bragged about an account in Marseille that moved funds under his mother’s code. It was arrogance built on a mother’s wealth.

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