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Leo lay on the bed for a few minutes after Kai left the room. His body still buzzed from the rough fuck. Cum leaked slowly from his ass onto the sheets. He smiled at the ceiling. The big tough bodyguard had lost control faster than expected. Good. That meant Kai wanted him bad. He got up, wiped himself with the sheet, and pulled on a pair of black sweatpants. No shirt. He liked walking around half naked. It made people stare. Especially men like Kai. The house was quiet. Too quiet. Leo walked barefoot down the hallway toward the living room. He could hear Kai talking on the phone in a low voice. "Yeah. The shooter is dead. No ID yet. Tell the Don we are at the upstate house. Send more men. I do not like how fast they found us at the club." Leo leaned against the wall and listened. Kai sounded calm. Professional. Like he had not just been balls deep inside the mafia prince ten minutes ago. Kai ended the call and turned around. He saw Leo standing there. His eyes went straight to Leo's bare chest and the bite mark on his neck. "You should be sleeping," Kai said. "I do not sleep after someone tries to kill me. Or after good dick." Kai's jaw tightened. "That was a mistake. It will not happen again." Leo walked closer. He stopped right in front of Kai and looked up at him. "Liar. You liked it. I could feel how hard you came inside me." Kai grabbed Leo's chin with one hand. Not gentle. "Listen to me. Your life is in danger. Focus on that. Not on getting fucked." Leo smiled and licked his lips. "Both can happen at the same time." Before Kai could answer, the sound of car tires on gravel came from outside. Headlights swept across the windows. Kai moved fast. He pushed Leo behind him and pulled out his gun. "Stay here," Kai ordered. "Like hell." Leo followed him anyway. Kai gave him an angry look but did not have time to argue. They moved to the front window and peeked out. Two black SUVs had stopped in the driveway. Men in dark clothes got out. They carried guns. "Friend or enemy?" Leo asked. "Stay behind me and shut up." Kai killed the lights in the house. The place went dark. He checked his phone. No signal. Someone was jamming it. "Back door," Kai said quietly. "Now." They moved through the kitchen. Leo grabbed a knife from the counter just in case. Kai opened the back door slowly. The yard behind the house was dark. Trees everywhere. They stepped outside. Cold air hit Leo's bare skin. He shivered but kept moving. Kai led the way toward the tree line. A shot rang out. The bullet hit the ground near Leo's feet. "Run!" Kai shouted. They sprinted into the woods. Branches whipped at Leo's face and chest. His bare feet hurt on the rocks and sticks but he did not stop. Kai stayed right beside him, gun ready. Another shot. This one grazed Kai's arm. Blood soaked his sleeve. "Fuck," Kai growled. They kept running deeper into the trees. Leo's lungs burned. He was not used to this kind of exercise. Clubbing and fucking did not prepare a man for running from bullets in the middle of the night. Kai pulled him behind a thick tree trunk. They pressed close together. Leo could feel Kai's heart beating fast against his chest. "How many?" Leo whispered. "At least six. Maybe more." Kai looked at Leo's bare feet and the scratches on his chest. Something changed in his eyes. Not just duty. Something hotter. More possessive. "You okay?" Kai asked. "Yeah. Just fucking cold." Kai took off his jacket and wrapped it around Leo's shoulders. It was warm and smelled like gun oil and Kai's skin. "Keep it on." Leo smirked even though his feet were bleeding. "My hero." "Shut up." They heard voices getting closer. Men calling out in Italian. Rossi family enemies. Probably the Moretti crew. They had been trying to take over territory for months. Kai checked his gun. Only a few bullets left. "We need to circle back to the cars or find a phone." Leo nodded. He was scared but he would not show it. He was a Rossi. Rossis did not run forever. They fought back. They moved again. Slower this time. Kai kept one hand on Leo's back, guiding him. Every touch felt electric after what they had done in the bedroom. They reached a small clearing. One of the enemy men stepped out from behind a tree. He raised his gun at Leo. Kai moved like lightning. He tackled the man to the ground and slammed his head against a rock. The man went still. Kai took his gun and extra magazines. "Take this," Kai said and handed the extra gun to Leo. Leo checked it. Loaded. Good. They kept going. The sound of more men came from the left. Kai pulled Leo down behind some bushes. They lay flat on the cold ground. Kai's body covered most of Leo's, protecting him. Leo turned his head. Their faces were inches apart. He could see the blood on Kai's arm. "You are bleeding," Leo said softly. "Focus." But Leo could not focus. Not with Kai's weight on him and the memory of Kai fucking him still fresh. He shifted his hips a little. His cock was getting hard again even in the middle of this mess. Kai felt it. His eyes narrowed. "You are unbelievable." "What? Danger makes me horny." Kai pressed a hand over Leo's mouth. "Quiet." Two men walked past the bushes. Close enough that Leo could smell their cigarettes. Kai waited until they were gone then removed his hand. Leo licked Kai's palm before he pulled it away. "Tastes like blood and sweat. My favorite." Kai looked like he wanted to strangle him and fuck him at the same time. They waited a few more minutes then stood up. Kai led them toward the main road. They stayed in the trees. After almost an hour of walking they saw lights ahead. A small gas station on the edge of the highway. Closed for the night but there was a pay phone outside. "Stay here," Kai said. "No. I am coming with you." Kai sighed but did not argue this time. They crossed the open space quickly. Kai used the pay phone while Leo kept watch with the gun. Kai spoke fast and quiet. He gave their location and told whoever was on the line to send clean cars and more men. When he hung up he turned to Leo. "They will be here in twenty minutes. We wait inside the station." They broke the lock on the door and went inside. The place smelled like old coffee and motor oil. Kai checked every corner then locked the door behind them. Leo sat on the counter. His feet were cut up pretty bad. Blood on the floor. Kai noticed. He grabbed a first aid kit from behind the counter and knelt in front of Leo. "Give me your foot." Leo lifted one foot. Kai cleaned the cuts with alcohol wipes. It stung like hell but Leo did not complain. He watched Kai's hands. Big. Rough. Careful with him right now. "You are good at this," Leo said. "I have done it before." "For who?" "People who mattered." Leo tilted his head. "Do I matter?" Kai looked up at him. His eyes were dark. "You are my job." "Bullshit. You fucked me like I mattered." Kai finished bandaging the foot and started on the other one. "That was adrenaline. Nothing more." Leo reached down and ran his fingers through Kai's short hair. "Then why are you hard right now?" Kai was hard. The front of his pants showed it clearly. Kai finished the bandage and stood up. He stepped between Leo's legs. "You never know when to stop talking." Leo wrapped his legs around Kai's waist and pulled him closer. "Make me stop." Kai kissed him hard. Same as before. Angry and hungry. Leo kissed back and ground his cock against Kai's stomach. They did not have much time but they did not care. Kai pulled Leo's sweatpants down just enough. Leo's cock was already leaking. Kai took both their cocks in his big hand and stroked them together. "Fuck," Leo groaned. Kai stroked faster. Rough. His other hand held Leo's hip tight enough to bruise. Leo bit Kai's neck. "I want to fuck you next time." Kai made a low sound. "You think you can handle that?" "I know I can." Kai stroked them harder. Leo came first again. He spilled over Kai's hand and onto his own stomach. Kai followed right after. Thick ropes of cum mixed together. They breathed hard against each other. Kai wiped his hand on a rag from the counter. "Clean up. Our ride will be here soon." Leo pulled his pants back up. He was smiling. "See? We can do both. Fight and fuck." Kai looked at him for a long moment. "This is going to get us killed." "Probably. But it will be fun until then." Headlights appeared outside. Two new SUVs. Rossi men this time. Leo recognized the drivers. Kai checked them carefully before they stepped outside. One of the men nodded at Kai. "Don wants you both back at the main compound. Extra security is already there." Leo climbed into the back seat. Kai sat next to him. As the car started moving Leo put his hand on Kai's thigh. Kai did not push it away. Leo leaned close and whispered, "When we get there I am going to ride you until you forget your own name." Kai turned and looked at him. There was heat in his eyes. And something else. Something that looked a lot like the start of real trouble. "Try it," Kai said quietly. "See what happens." Leo grinned. The war outside was just beginning. But the one between them had already started. And neither of them wanted to stop it. The car drove into the night. Leo kept his hand on Kai's thigh the whole way. He could not wait to get behind closed doors again. Because next time he was not going to let Kai stay in control the whole time. He wanted to see the big man fall apart under him too. And he always got what he wanted.Chapter 71We didn’t go straight to the private wing.First there was Elena in the main hall, pale and furious and alive, confirming every attacker was accounted for and every system locked down harder than before. Then Luca with a short, grim report and the quiet understanding that the bodies at the cathedral would never become stories. I gave the necessary orders. I looked every remaining loyal face in the eye and told them the contingency was finished. No more heirs in the dark. No more letters. The old ghosts were ash.Only after all of that did I let myself look at Kai properly.He had cleaned the cut on his cheek but hadn’t changed out of the clothes still marked by the night. He stood a few feet away, watching me work, patient in the way only he could be after violence. When the last person left the room he didn’t move. He simply waited until I crossed the space and stopped in front of him.“Upstairs,” I said.His eyes darkened. “Lead the way.”The door to our rooms shut with a
Chapter 70Six minutes and twenty seconds.I stared at the live feed of dark figures moving through my home and felt the old, familiar cold settle into my bones. The same cold that had lived in me the night I put a bullet in Isabella’s forehead. The same cold my mother had tried to forge into a weapon.Alessio watched me like he already knew which way I would break.He was wrong.I lifted my gun and shot him in the thigh.The round punched through muscle and dropped him to one knee with a sharp, surprised sound. The phone clattered across the stone. Kai moved instantly—boot on Alessio’s wrist, gun aimed at his face—while I crossed the distance and picked up the device.The feed was still live. Two attackers in the private wing hallway. A third near the secondary generator.I pressed the earpiece. “Elena. Status.”Her voice came back tight and fierce. “We see them. Secondary team engaged. One down. Two still moving. Power’s holding. I’m not losing anyone else tonight.”Relief hit so ha
Chapter 69The first shot came from my right.Stone exploded near my shoulder. I was already moving, dropping low and firing twice as Kai shoved me behind a toppled pew. The cathedral turned into noise and muzzle flash. Alessio’s men spread along the side aisles, using pillars and confessional booths for cover. They were good—better than the usual hired guns—but they weren’t us.Kai and I had been fighting in the same rhythm for years.I took the left angle. He took the right. We moved like we shared one set of lungs. A man in a dark coat broke from cover near the baptismal font; Kai dropped him with a clean shot through the throat before I even fully tracked the movement. Another tried to flank from the choir loft stairs. I put two rounds into his chest and watched him tumble.My earpiece crackled. Luca’s voice, tight and controlled. “We’re in. North and west entrances. Elena has eyes on the roof. No runners yet.”“Copy,” I answered, and kept shooting.Alessio hadn’t moved from the c
Chapter 68We got the two hostages back to the compound alive.Elena’s cousin was shaking so hard she couldn’t speak. Franco’s son just stared at the floor like he’d already decided the world was finished with him. Elena took one look at her cousin, pulled her into a side room, and shut the door. I didn’t follow. Some things weren’t mine to witness.Luca handled the rest. Medical checks. Quiet rooms. Guards on every entrance. I stood in the war room with the folded page still in my pocket and watched the sky through the high windows turn from black to the first thin gray of false dawn.Sunrise was less than ninety minutes away.Kai came up behind me. I felt him before I heard him—heat, the faint smell of gun oil and the cologne he only wore when he knew we might not come back. His chest pressed lightly against my back. One arm slid around my waist, hand splaying low over my stomach like he needed the contact as much as I did.“We don’t have to walk in the front,” he said against my ea
Chapter 67I didn’t speak until the shipyard lights disappeared behind us.Kai drove. I sat in the passenger seat with the folded page still in my pocket, the paper edges cutting into my palm every time my fist tightened. The city slid past in dark streaks. My mind kept looping the same three images: the typed order with my mother’s signature, Alessio’s calm little smile, and the two black-bagged heads on that laptop screen.Become the one he leans on.She had written it like a grocery list. Get close. Stay close. Be the attachment. Open the door when the time comes.I had married the man she assigned to me.Kai’s hand left the wheel for a second and settled on my thigh, heavy and warm. He didn’t say anything. He just kept it there, thumb moving in a slow, steady line the same way he had in the side room days ago when the first message arrived. The contact grounded me and scraped at the same time. I hated how much I needed it.“Talk to me,” he said finally, voice low.“Not yet.”He ac
Chapter 66Leo picked up the page.The paper was thin, the typeface clean, the signature at the bottom unmistakable—Maria’s sharp, slanted hand.Kai stood still beside him. Alessio watched them both with the mild interest of someone who already knew the ending.Leo read.Kai,The boy is becoming difficult. He is soft in ways that will ruin everything I built. Tonight you will make contact. Get close. Stay close. Become the one he leans on. If he starts forming real attachments, make certain you are the attachment. Report every private conversation, every name he trusts, every plan he makes for this “reform” nonsense. When the time comes, you will be the one who opens the door. Do not fail me.— M.Leo set the page down carefully.The warehouse was quiet except for the distant slap of water against the docks.Kai spoke first, voice low and steady. “I took the order. I made contact that night. I stayed. I reported the early things—names, movements, nothing that ever got anyone killed. T
The dock smelled like salt water and rotting fish. Leo stood behind a stack of shipping containers with Kai right beside him. Night air was cold. Leo had changed into black tactical gear. Tight shirt, cargo pants, boots that actually fit. He carried a gun in his hand and another on his hip. For th
Chapter 4 The morning light came through the heavy curtains. Leo woke up first. His body felt sore in all the right places. Ass still tender, bite marks on his neck and shoulders, dried cum flaking on his stomach. He turned his head and looked at Kai. Kai was still asleep. One arm thrown over Leo
Chapter 3 The main compound was a fortress. High walls, armed guards at every gate, cameras everywhere. Leo had grown up here but tonight it felt different. He was not coming back as the spoiled prince who partied all night. He was coming back with bullet holes in the walls behind him and a bodygu
Chapter 1 The bullet shattered the glass right next to Alessio Rossi's head. Leo ducked behind the VIP table as screams filled the club. People ran in every direction. Another shot hit the wall above him and sent pieces of plaster raining down on his expensive shirt. His heart pounded hard. This







