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A MOMENT
Date de publication:
2026-07-06 23:47:52
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THE COST OF SAVING HIM SOMETHING'S BUILDING
I didn't answer with words.I just closed the remaining distance, and that was answer enough.The kiss was nothing like I expected. Not urgent, not demanding — just certain, the way Kane did everything, like he'd already decided how this was going to go and was simply arriving there. His hand stayed firm at my waist and the other held my jaw like I was something he intended to keep, and I forgot completely about the water I'd woken up for and the hour and everything else that usually occupied the back of my mind.When he pulled back it was only slightly, just enough to look at me, and I became immediately aware that I was standing in a dimly lit room in the middle of the night looking at a man who was watching me with an expression I'd never seen on him before — not the controlled calm, not the unreadable boardroom stillness, but something underneath all of that, something that had apparently been there the whole time waiting for the right moment."You're quiet," he said."You kissed
THE COST OF SAVING HIM A MOMENT
Kane's POVThe house was quieter than usual when he returned.He stepped inside and looked at the nearest staff member. "Where is she?""She's already asleep, sir, but the room was prepared before then." He nodded once and headed upstairs.The hallway was dim, only the low nightlights running along the baseboards, and the house had that specific stillness it took on after midnight when everyone had stopped pretending to be busy. He stopped outside her door for a second, then pushed it open quietly.The room was dark except for the small lamp on the far side, turned low. She was asleep on top of the covers, still partially dressed, one arm tucked beneath her and her hair spread across the pillow the way it did when sleep had arrived before she'd planned for it. Like she'd sat down for a moment and simply not gotten back up.Kane pulled the chair from beside the desk and sat. Not close enough to disturb her. Just there.He didn't examine why. He was tired and the chair was available an
THE COST OF SAVING HIM A DINNER WITH HIM
I looked at him. "Starting what?"Kane glanced behind me. I turned.At the very top of the hill, set back just enough that I hadn't noticed it from the car, sat a restaurant with glass walls and warm light spilling out onto the stone path leading up to it. The kind of place that looked like it existed specifically to make the city below feel like it belonged to whoever was sitting inside."Dinner," he said, and started walking toward it.I fell into step behind him, looking around at the empty hill, the empty path, the empty parking area. "Where is everyone?""They aren't coming."I looked at the restaurant again. Every table inside was set, every light was on, soft piano drifting through the glass. "Is it closed?""I rented it."I stopped walking. He didn't. I started again. "You rented the whole restaurant.""Yes.""...Why?"He glanced at me briefly. "So nobody bothers you."Not *us*. *You.* I heard the difference and didn't say anything about it, just followed him through the entra
THE COST OF SAVING HIM SURPRISED INVITATION
Nadia's POVThe back garden was exactly what Kane had said it would be — quiet, tucked away from the rest of the house like someone had deliberately forgotten to make it impressive. No fountain, no carefully trimmed hedges trying to look like something out of a magazine. Just grass and a few old trees and a stone bench that had probably been there longer than anyone currently living in the house. I liked it immediately.I'd been sitting there for almost an hour with a book open in my lap, not really reading it. My eyes kept moving across the same paragraph without taking any of it in, and eventually I stopped pretending and just sat there looking at the trees, letting the afternoon do what it wanted around me. Birds. Wind. The distant sound of someone moving around inside the house. Nothing alarming, nothing urgent, nothing asking anything of me.It was the most peace I'd had in longer than I could accurately remember.I turned a page I hadn't actually read and stared at the next one.
THE COST OF SAVING HIM I COMPLAIN TOO MUCH
Nadia's POVI didn't remember falling asleep. One moment I had been crying and the next I was opening my eyes to complete silence, staring at the ceiling while everything that had happened replayed itself in pieces — the warehouse, the chair, those men, their laughter, the video, the blood that had soaked through my shirt. I shut my eyes again. I didn't want to remember any of it.A soft knock came from the door and it opened slowly. The older housekeeper stepped inside carrying a tray, her smile gentle in the way that made something in my chest ache a little. "I thought you might be hungry."I sat up slowly. "I'm not.""You haven't eaten since yesterday."I looked away. "I know."She placed the tray on the bedside table and walked over with the quiet certainty of someone who had made this argument before and intended to win it again. "Just a little." I wanted to refuse, but looking at her worried face made it impossible — she'd already been through enough because of me. I nodded once
THE COST OF SAVING HIM BROKEN —
The recording light flashed.Then before he could finish the sentence, gunshots erupted through the warehouse.The door exploded inward.Nadia barely had time to register what was happening before something warm and wet hit her face and chest, and for one terrifying second she thought it was her own blood, thought maybe she'd been hit and hadn't felt it yet, her body going rigid with shock. Then she saw the man beside her — the older man, the one who'd been smiling into the camera — collapse sideways onto the concrete floor, and she understood. It wasn't her blood. It was his.The room descended into chaos immediately. Gunfire echoed off the concrete walls from every direction, sharp and overlapping, and Nadia screamed without meaning to, twisting against the restraints as bodies moved fast around her, shouting, falling, fighting. Through the smoke and noise she caught a flash of a familiar figure moving with brutal precision through the room — Kane, his expression unreadable even now
THE COST OF SAVING HIM NADIA
"Ahhh!"I screamed before I could stop myself, jumping back against the wall as something small and dark shot past my feet the second I pushed the door open.A cat.It was a cat.I stood in the doorway with my hand pressed flat against my chest and watched it disappear into the darkness outside and
THE COST OF SAVING HIM NADIA
Nadia's POV---Nobody spoke in the car.Lev drove. Kane sat beside me in the backseat, jaw set, one hand pressed against his side in a way that told me the wound was screaming even if his face wasn't. I watched him do it and said nothing because I had already said everything there was to say and n
THE COST OF SAVING HIM NO MORE NORMAL ROUTINE
Nadia's POV I don't know how long we sat like that. Him in the chair, me on the couch with my face in my hands, the apartment sitting in a silence that had too many things moving underneath it. I was running calculations I didn't want to be running — exits, options, how fast I could get to my pho
THE COST OF SAVING HIM FINAL
Final Nadia's POV I didn't hear everything. But I heard enough. I set the last of my supplies down slowly and watched him end the call and turn toward me with that look — the one that had shifted somewhere between the beginning of the call and the end of it. Like I had changed categories withou
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