LOGIN“You didn’t seem to mind when I pulled the trigger.”
“I was in shock.”
Damian set the glass down, slow and deliberate. “You were not.”
Luca’s breath hitched.
Damian stepped closer, stalking him like a panther. “You’re angry. That’s good. I need you to be angry. But don’t lie to me.”
He pressed his hand to Luca’s chest. Right over his heart.
“You wanted that man to die. And I made it happen.”
“You’re insane,” Luca whispered.
“I’m efficient.”
“You killed someone like it meant nothing.”
Damian leaned in, lips brushing the shell of Luca’s ear.
“You think this world has space for mercy?”
He handed Luca a matte black pistol.
Luca stared at it like it might explode.
“What am I supposed to do with this?”
“Use it,” Damian said. “Or keep being prey.”
Luca swallowed.
“This was my brother’s life?” he asked. “Deals, blood, secrets?”
Damian’s eyes darkened. He just stepped close again. “You want revenge? Then step into my world fully. Stop pretending you’re clean.”
There was a long pause. Luca’s fists clenched. His heart wasn’t just beating fast, it was slamming, as if it too wanted to escape this twisted, volatile space between them.
Then he snapped.
With a low growl, Luca shoved Damian backward hard until his spine hit the wall with a sharp thud. Damian grunted, his jaw ticking, but his eyes lit up like he’d been waiting for this.
"You're not the only one who can take control," Luca snarled.
Their mouths crashed together in a brutal collision of teeth and spit and fury. It wasn’t just a kiss, it was a claim and a challenge. Luca bit down on Damian’s lower lip until he tasted blood, then licked it off with a sneer.
“You think I’m just your toy?” Luca whispered against Damian’s mouth.
Damian’s growl vibrated through both their chests. He grabbed Luca by the throat tight enough to make him gasp and slammed him around, spinning him to face the glass wall of the suite.
Luca’s palms hit the cold surface. His breath fogged it.
Damian’s body pressed against his from behind, one hand pinning his neck, the other tearing at the belt around Luca’s waist with brutal efficiency.
“I don’t want obedience,” Damian hissed against his ear. “I want resistance. I want to break you piece by piece until the only thing you beg for is me.”
The belt slid free with a sharp hiss.
Clothes came next, the shirts shredded, pants shoved down with impatient hands. Damian’s mouth was everywhere. Teeth scraping along Luca’s shoulder, biting down on his collarbone until Luca moaned angry, raw, involuntary.
“Fucking hate you,” Luca spat.
“Good,” Damian muttered. “Hate me while I ruin you.”
His hand shoved between Luca’s legs, rough and possessive. He didn’t tease. He took. Palming him, stroking him just enough to make Luca's hips buck. But when Luca tried to gain control tried to grind back Damian stopped altogether.
“Beg.”
“Go to hell.”
Damian smiled darkly and leaned in. His tongue traced the shell of Luca’s ear. “Then I guess you don’t want me to fuck you tonight.”
Luca’s hands curled into fists against the glass. His voice was a whisper-shout. Desperate. Furious.
“You’re such a bastard.”
“And yet your cock is hard.”
A single touch lower now dragging between his thighs, and Luca shuddered. Damian pushed his own pants down enough to free himself, grinding the thick, hot length of him between Luca’s cheeks with a promise of what was coming. He spat into his hand, slicked himself quickly, and leaned his weight in slow, threatening.
Damian grabbed him by the jaw, yanked his face to the side, forcing him to look into his eyes.
“Say you want this.”
There was venom in Luca’s voice. But submission in his body.
“I want it,” he hissed.
“Good.”
Damian didn’t ease in gently.
He pushed inside with one hard, unforgiving thrust, drawing a gasp so loud from Luca it fogged the glass again. Luca’s body clenched around him, legs trembling, hands slipping as he tried to hold onto something anything that wasn’t Damian.
Damian didn’t give him a chance.
He fucked him like he was owned him.
The sound of skin slapping skin echoed through the room, mixing with Luca’s ragged groans and Damian’s low grunts.
Each thrust was a punishment. A promise and a reminder that Luca was no longer untouched by this world. He was deep in it now being taken by the man who’d torn his life apart.
Damian leaned forward, one hand braced on the glass beside Luca’s. The other wrapped around Luca’s cock and began stroking in time with his thrusts.
“You’re going to come for me, Luca,” he growled into his ear. “You’re going to come like a whore who’s finally found his master.”
“F-fuck you—”
“You already are.”
Luca tried to fight it. But he was drowning.
In lust. In anger. In Damian’s scent and heat and brutal, unrelenting rhythm.
When he came, it was violent. Shaking. He nearly collapsed against the glass as he spilled in Damian’s hand, crying out with a sound that was half-curse, half-ecstasy.
But Damian wasn’t done.
He pulled out just long enough to flip Luca around, eyes wild, hair damp, chest heaving and shoved him back against the glass. Their eyes locked.
And then Damian was inside him again.
This time, he kissed him possesively while he moved.
Teeth dragging across lips, tongues tangling, hands roaming like he wanted to own every inch of Luca’s body from the inside out.
He came with a hiss of Luca’s name, burying himself deep, gripping Luca’s hip so tightly it would leave bruises. They were shaking, both of them, pressed together, breathless, blood-hot and strung out.
The silence that followed wasn’t peaceful.
It was charged.
Damian pulled out slowly, breathing hard, and grabbed a towel to clean them both. When he came back, he tossed Luca’s torn shirt over his bare chest.
His legs were still trembling. “Why do I feel like I’m drowning in you?” he whispered hoarsely.
Damian didn’t smile.
He walked to the nightstand, opened the drawer, and pulled out what he gave to him on the first night.
Then he answered his question.
“Because you are.”
"Hold still."The tailor's assistant circled me like a vulture, pinning fabric with ruthless efficiency. I stood on a platform in Damian's bedroom, arms outstretched, while he transformed me into someone I didn't recognize."A gala?" I'd asked when Damian announced it over breakfast."The Annual Sapphire Foundation Charity Event," he'd corrected. "Where the criminal elite pretend to care about orphans while negotiating weapons deals in the bathroom.""Sounds delightful.""It is, actually." His smile had been sharp. "And you're coming with me."Now, three hours later, I stared at myself in the mirror and felt my breath catch.The tuxedo was midnight blue—so dark it was almost black, with silk lapels that caught the light. It fit like it had been painted on, emphasizing every line of my body. The assistant had styled my hair, tamed it into something elegant, and the overall effect was..."Devastating," Damian said from the doorway.I turned to find him watching me with an expression tha
The tailor came and went, leaving behind a wardrobe that probably cost more than my brother's funeral.Everything was dark—blacks, charcoals, deep navy. Colors that matched Damian's aesthetic. Colors that screamed his.I hated how good I looked in them.By evening, Damian led me down to the building's sublevels, past security checkpoints that required retinal scans and fingerprints, into what he called his "private facility."The gym was state-of-the-art. Weapons lined one wall behind reinforced glass—everything from knives to firearms to things I didn't have names for. Mats covered the floor. Punching bags hung like bodies from the ceiling."Strip to your waist," Damian ordered, already pulling off his shirt.I froze. "What?""You heard me." He stood there, torso bare, all carved muscle and ink and that jagged scar across his collarbone. "If you're going to survive in my world, you need to learn how to fight. Properly.""I know how to fight."His laugh was dark. "You know how to thro
The first thing I felt was pain.Not the sharp, immediate kind that makes you scream. This was deeper. A slow, throbbing ache that radiated from my hips, my thighs, the base of my spine. Evidence of what Damian Moretti had done to me the night before.Evidence of what I'd let him do.I opened my eyes to find myself alone in his bed—a California king draped in silk sheets that probably cost more than six months' rent at my old apartment. The room was bathed in cold morning light, all steel-gray and unforgiving. Floor-to-ceiling windows overlooked the city like a god surveying his domain.Damian's domain.I sat up slowly, every muscle protesting. My wrists were bruised where the cuffs had held me. Fingerprints marked my hips in deep purple. And lower, between my legs, I could still feel him. The stretch. The burn. The complete and utter possession.I should have been disgusted with myself.Instead, I was... what? Confused? Angry?Aroused?No. Fuck that.I shoved the thought away and swu
Luca's POVWe're halfway to the garage when every screen in the mansion lights up simultaneously. The television in the hallway. The security monitors. Even the digital displays on the thermostats. All showing the same image.Matteo's face."Wait," I tell Damian, stopping in my tracks. "He's not done."Damian curses under his breath but stops. We stand in the hallway, staring at the nearest screen. My brother looks directly at the camera, like he can see us standing here."Luca," he says, and my name in his voice makes my chest tight. "I know you're watching. I know you're planning to rush to that warehouse with Damian. Don't. I'm not there anymore. But I am here.""Here?" I repeat. "What does that mean?""I mean I'm closer than you think, little brother. I've been close this whole time. Watching. Waiting. Making sure you're okay."My hands are shaking. I press them against my thighs to steady them. "If you've been close, why didn't you just talk to me? Why all the games?""Because Da
Damian's POV"No."That's all I can say. Just that one word, repeated over and over as Luca shows me the enhanced footage."No. No. This isn't real. This can't be real."But the image on the screen doesn't change. Matteo's face. Clear as day. Alive. Smiling that dark, knowing smile."Damian, look at it," Luca insists, his voice desperate. "It's him. The facial recognition confirms it. It's Matteo.""It's not possible." My voice sounds strange to my own ears. Hollow. "I was there, Luca. I held him as he died. I felt his last breath. I watched the light leave his eyes.""Then explain this." Luca taps the screen. "Explain how my brother is walking around your mansion five years after you say he died."I can't. My mind is fracturing, trying to reconcile what I know with what I'm seeing. The memories are so vivid. Matteo's blood on my hands. His weight in my arms. The way he whispered my name one last time before the silence claimed him. That was real. It had to be real."It's a trick," I
Luca's POVI can't sleep. Can't eat. Can't think about anything except that figure in the shadows.It's been six hours since Jin saw the message on the window. Six hours of my mind spinning in circles, trying to make sense of the impossible. Matteo is dead. I saw his body. I went to the autopsy. I watched them close the casket.Didn't I?The memory feels distant now, fuzzy around the edges. I remember being in a cold room. I remember crying. I remember someone pulling a sheet back to show me a face. But was it really Matteo's face? Or was I so destroyed by grief that I saw what I expected to see?"You need to rest," Damian says from the doorway of the security room. He's been checking on me every hour, worried I'm losing my grip on reality.Maybe I am."I can't rest," I tell him, eyes fixed on the screen. "Not until I know the truth."I've been watching the conference room footage on loop. Frame by frame. Second by second. The shadow appears at 8:46:47 PM. It moves through the backgro







