ANMELDENThe Truth or Dare game dissolved the way all good chaos does….. Laughter turned slurred. Bodies drifted toward the dance floor. Aurora stayed. She didn’t dance again. Just sat on the edge of a chair…. Her legs crossed, dress riding high, red lipstick smudged from earlier. She was drunk and wasted. She drank the glass of vodka in her hand and stood up walking towards Vincenzo. When she go closer to him…. He Just grabbed her wrist, and pulled her into a corner…... No words. Just his fingers finding her already wet pussy…. swollen from the lap dance she’d given him earlier. Aurora gasped soft and sharp….. her head tipping back against the wall… He pushed two fingers inside her…..deep, no warning, his thumb circling her clit in rough, relentless strokes. She moaned…. While, His other hand clamped over her mouth. “Quiet,” he growled against her ear. “Or everyone hears how wet you get for me.” Aurora’s eyes fluttered….half-lidded and glassy. Her hips
Bottles were half-empty, laughter slurred, bodies pressed too close under the crimson chandeliers. Let’s play truth or dare… No one argued. They were all drunk The inner circle formed a loose circle on the rug: Vincenzo on one end (legs spread, arms draped over the back of the couch like he owned the air), Aurora diagonally across from him (still in that black silk dress, knees tucked under her now, eyes carefully avoiding his), Axe and Sierra side by side, Nini cross-legged and fidgety, Salvatore sprawled like he was bored, Vera grinning like a cat with cream, Sasha perched on the edge of a chair trying not to look at Vincenzo, Ken leaning back with a beer still drinking…. Nikita clapped once and sharp. “Rules: no skipping, no lying, no pussyfooting. You pick truth or dare. We pick the consequence.” She pointed at Salvatore first. “You. Truth or dare.” Salvatore smirked. “Dare.” Vera’s eyes glittered. “Kiss Vera. Real kiss. Tongue. Thirty seconds.” Nikita spoke…..
Yeeeee….. The gangster cheer…..Vincenzo gave them the go ahead to party…..As usual The Empire Hall of Imperio Pecaminoso had never been built for small gatherings.High vaulted ceilings, black marble floors veined with gold, chandeliers dripping crimson crystal like frozen blood. Tonight the lights were dimmed to a low, pulsing amber. Bass thumped from hidden speakers…..It was slow, and dirty, the kind that crawled under skin. Tables groaned under bottles of every poison known to man: aged whiskey, clear vodka, blood-red wine, unlabeled absinthe that burned green in the glass. Gangsters sprawled across leather couches, laughing too loud, already chasing the edge of blackout.It a drink party….Vincenzo doesn’t care about party but he felt like watching them… Maybe because he saw how Aurora cheer…. Now he has decide not to put his mind on any of General Puro’s shit….He stood near the far wall putting on a black shirt open at the collar, sleeves rolled to the elbows, one hand in
Aurora cleaned up her eyes….She don’t have to cry…. It aren’t his fault…. It just her fault. She is just too fast.She just have to be patient with him…..That’s just it….She dry up her body and dress up taking her note pad and harmonica……*****Marisol had been watching Aurora for days.Not the loud, clingy way she used to….running up, arms wide, calling her “Mommy.” She’d learned that got her pushed away. So now she was quieter. Smaller. She hovered at the edges of rooms, peeking around corners, waiting for Aurora to look happy, or tired, or alone.That afternoon Aurora was in the small sunroom off the east wing of the empire….curled in an armchair, knees to chest, staring out the window at nothing. Her harmonica was on top of her notepad. Marisol crept in barefoot She didn’t run. She just stood in the doorway.Aurora felt the shift in the air before she saw her.Her shoulders stiffened.Marisol took one careful step forward.“Hi,” she whispered.Aurora’s head snapped
Vincenzo’s punches slowed. Then he stopped. He turned. Watched her for a full thirty seconds…..silent, unblinking. Then he walked over. Stepped through the ropes. Gloves still on. “You want to train like you belong here? He spoke arrogantly… He stepped closer. Close enough she could smell his cologne. “You don’t give orders in my ring, princess.” She laughed….short, and bitter. “Then make me leave.” I only ask you to train me…. Aurora snarled. He did. He lunged. She blocked… barely stumbling back. He didn’t give her time to recover. He throw a Jab to her shoulder… Then his fist hit her lip…. She tasted blood. As her lips split…. She swung back wild, and desperate. Then she Punch his cheek. He smiled….slow and dangerous. “Good,” he rasped. “Again.” They went at it for forty minutes straight. No breaks. No mercy. He slammed her to the mat three times. Each time he hauled her up by the arm—not gently and shoved her back into stance. “Again.” She l
Vincenzo didn’t move at first. Aurora was trembling on his lap…. Her arms locked around his neck, face buried in the crook of his shoulder, breathing him in like he was oxygen after drowning. Her tears soaked through his shirt in hot little patches. She felt small. Fragile. Like something he could crush with one careless squeeze. And he almost did. His hands hovered at her waist…. His fingers flexing, then curling into fists. Every instinct screamed at him to shove her off, to stand up, to walk out and lock the door behind him. To go back to the cold, clean distance he’d forced between them since the past days. But she whispered again…. Her voice cracked and small. “Please… just tonight. Treat me like a baby.” Something in his chest twisted….. Yeah! sharp, ugly, unfamiliar. He hated it. He hated her for making him feel it. He hated himself more for not being able to stand up and leave. Slowly…..reluctantly….his hands settled on her hips. Not gripping. Not bruising. Jus







