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DEAD MARCO

作者: S.A.B
last update 最終更新日: 2026-03-02 23:16:11

The village looked calmer from a distance than it felt up close.

As we stepped farther in, the soft glow of lamplight revealed figures gathering near the center, men leaning against walls, sitting on overturned crates, standing in loose clusters as if the night itself belonged to them. Their bodies were broad, movements unhurried. Beards shadowed hard-set jaws. Ink crawled up necks, across knuckles, disappearing beneath sleeves. Every tattoo told a story I wasn’t sure I wanted to hear.

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  • SOLD TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER   DEAD MARCO

    The village looked calmer from a distance than it felt up close.As we stepped farther in, the soft glow of lamplight revealed figures gathering near the center, men leaning against walls, sitting on overturned crates, standing in loose clusters as if the night itself belonged to them. Their bodies were broad, movements unhurried. Beards shadowed hard-set jaws. Ink crawled up necks, across knuckles, disappearing beneath sleeves. Every tattoo told a story I wasn’t sure I wanted to hear.Conversation slowed.Then stopped.Eyes tracked us openly. Not curious...... measuring.My grip tightened on my bag. I moved closer to Marco without thinking, my shoulder brushing his arm.“These people…” I murmured under my breath, barely moving my lips. “They don’t look like farmers.”Eli didn’t slow. “They’re not.”One man spat onto the dirt. Another laughed low at something none of us said.I swallowed. “Are they….... dangerous?”Eli glanced back at me, his face unreadable in the lamplight. “Yes,” h

  • SOLD TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER   NIGHT WITH THE VILLAGERS

    The farther we walked, the more the forest seemed to close in on itself.Branches knitted overhead, blocking what little light the sky still offered, and the dirt path narrowed until it felt less like a road and more like a suggestion. My footsteps sounded too loud in the quiet, every crunch of gravel echoing longer than it should have.Marco walked slightly ahead of me now. Not by much, but enough to notice.“You okay back there?” he asked, glancing over his shoulder.“Yeah,” I lied. Then, softer, “I think.”He slowed without comment until we were side by side again.“That look you’re making,” he said, attempting lightness, “is the same one you had when Samuel walked in.”I huffed. “So I look terrified and pretending not to be.”“Exactly.”We walked a little more before I spoke again. “Do you ever regret it?” I asked.“Regret what?”“This life,” I said. “The power. The danger. The constant… pressure.”Marco didn’t answer right away. His boots scuffed the ground as he walked, slower n

  • SOLD TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER   SURVIVAL LATER

    The car bumped along the uneven path, and Marco’s frown deepened with every twist and turn.“I think we’ve officially lost the road,” he muttered, tapping his phone. The screen blinked weakly, battery critically low.I checked mine too. “Same here. Great,” I said, a hint of panic threading through my voice.Marco exhaled slowly. “Okay, Plan B. We look for signs. Or people. Or, you know… civilization.”Minutes passed in tense silence, the street thickening around us, shadows stretching like fingers. Then, up ahead, a small structure emerged, half-hidden behind trees. A dusty sign swung lazily in the wind: “Mara’s General Store.”Marco slowed. “Perfect. Let’s see if they have… anything. Electricity would be nice.”We parked and stepped out. The heat from the sun was fading fast, replaced by a chill that snuck under our jackets. The store’s windows were dark the wooden door creaked as Marco pushed it open. Inside, the air smelled of old wood, dry grains, and something faintly sweet.No l

  • SOLD TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER   LOST

    The silence Samuel left behind didn’t fade. It lingered, stretching thin and sharp, like a wire pulled too tight across the room.Stefano was still holding my hand.Only when I noticed how firmly his thumb pressed against my knuckles did I realize he was grounding himself too.“He doesn’t usually drop by unannounced,” Marco said finally, breaking the stillness. His voice was lighter than his eyes. “That alone is… new.”Cassius nodded once. “And he doesn’t warn people unless he’s already decided something.”I looked between them. “Decided what?”No one answered immediately.That scared me more than Samuel’s visit ever could.Stefano released my hand gently, as if afraid I might disappear if he let go too suddenly. He turned toward the counter, poured himself a glass of water, then drank it in one long pull before speaking.“My father doesn’t interfere unless something threatens the structure he built,” he said. “Or someone changes it.”I felt the words settle where my ribs met my lungs

  • SOLD TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER   SAMUEL DE LUCA

    Morning came quietly.Too quietly, considering everything that had happened the night before.Sunlight filtered through the tall windows of Stefano’s house, warm and unintrusive, stretching across marble floors and expensive furniture like nothing in the world had gone wrong. No blood. No sirens. No tension thick enough to choke on. Just the soft hum of the city waking up below.I was already dressed when Stefano finished a call by the window, his tone calm, controlled, back to business. Whatever had happened was filed away, dealt with, buried where it belonged. That was how he survived. And apparently, how we were moving on.“You don’t have to stay in today,” he said, turning to me. “But if you want to—”“I’m fine,” I replied immediately, the words coming easier than they had last night. “Really.”He studied me for a moment, as if measuring whether that answer was truth or stubbornness, then nodded. “Marco and Cassius will be downstairs. We’re meeting at ten.”“Okay.”No arguing. No

  • SOLD TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER   BACK THEN

    “Stefano, I’m fine. You don’t need to bring me here.”My voice was quiet but firm as the car slowed, the sterile white lights of the private hospital bleeding through the windshield and washing over everything in front of us. The moment I recognized the place, my stomach tightened, not from fear, but from exhaustion. I was tired of rooms that smelled like antiseptic and control, tired of being looked at like something fragile that might shatter if set down wrong.Stefano didn’t answer immediately.The car came to a full stop, and only then did he turn to look at me. Not the calm, unreadable man everyone else saw, not the one who negotiated lives like numbers on a ledger. This Stefano’s jaw was tight, his eyes dark with something that bordered on panic he refused to name.“You’re not fine,” he said evenly. “And you don’t get to decide that tonight.”I opened my mouth to argue, but he was already out of the car, rounding to my side and opening the door before I could gather the strength

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