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73 Another burned body
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The Actor's Contract 74 Setting a trap
Date = 5 JulyOne more day passed.Place = San Francisco (Inferno)POV - EnriqueAfter yesterday’s incident, I’m reluctantly thinking of moving myself and Aria to Black Pit as soon as Leyla gets discharged. I figure their safety is more important than my stupid dislike of the place — even if every cell in my body rebels at the idea.I don’t think I will ever feel comfortable there. Not in this lifetime.Still, it doesn’t look the same anymore. Nothing does. Jackson changed everything — the buildings, the gardens, the atmosphere itself. Even the mountain and the ocean seem to be more lustrous, like the land was waiting for someone to scrub off the grime and let it breathe again.Now, the verdant green pastures are alive with livestock. Cattle graze under open skies. Sheep move in flocks like soft clouds across the hills. Ducks and geese glide across the ponds. And flowers — actual, vivid, defiant flowers — bloom everywhere in the gardens.And there are orchards. Fruits. Lots and lots o
The Actor's Contract 73 Another burned body
Date = 4 JulyPlace = San Francisco (Napa)POV - EnriqueThe wail of sirens tears through the quiet.I turn just as the first Napa County fire truck comes barreling down the dusty access road, tires spitting gravel, red lights flashing across the smoke-filled riverbank. Behind it, a second truck follows — smaller — and a water tender close behind.“Car,” Jackson gestures with his head to Miguel.He grabs River’s arm and hardhandedly shoves the pipsqueak into the backseat of the car again. “Please … if they see you, you’ll put everyone in danger. Including Jackson and … her … understand.” She nods.He closes the window and shuts the door. Childlock intact. Without a word, four guards surround the car. There’s no escape this time for the little hooligan.It takes a few minutes for them to kill the flames. We watch in silence.A firefighter in full gear steps back and signals to the others. “Secondary sweep, now! Check for reignition!”One of them turns toward us — his face soot-smudged
The Actor's Contract 72 Blowing up a ship
Date = 3 JulyA week has passed since they took Lee. And we got the next location.Place = San Francisco (Napa)POV - EnriqueHis time is up. Jackson got his location.The same M.O.Except that there is no video this time. Not YET.The main question on my mind is, what are we gonna find? Lee … in the state of Amanda?Axel did the daily recon. Everyone’s accounted for.Except for Lee.But for some reason, unknown to me, Jackson doesn’t look too anxious. He seems calm and collected. Not at all like he was the day at the warehouse.It can be a front. With him, you never know.I asked and got a grunt and an undecipherable mumble.Axel hasn’t said a word since we got in the Jeep. He looks more worried than my brother. His hands, gripping the armrests of the luxurious seats, are tense, and his eyes haven’t stopped looking through the tinted window.I know them well enough to know the two of them are either up to something — or they’ve already done something.I just don’t know what that some
The Actor's Contract 71 Pillowtalk
Date = 1 JulyPlace = San Francisco (Damion’s house)POV - EnriqueThe house is silent.As if holding its breath against the storm.I know silence. I know it in dark rooms with mossy walls. I know it in Jackson’s voice when he is holding back. And I know it in this absence.River is not in her bed.“River?” I call, already halfway down the hallway. “Hey, where are you?”Nothing.Her hoodie is gone from the hook. So are her dunk-highs — the scuffed ones with the neon skulls on the side.“Damn it,” I mutter. Knowing.But I still check the back porch. The kitchen. Even the laundry room. Still nothing.“Aria!” I call, heading to the front of the house.She appears from the room, one of Mel’s button-up nighties on, with sexed up curls. “What?”“River’s gone.”Her face shifts instantly — first surprise, then annoyance, and finally a dawning edge of panic. “What do you mean gone?”“I mean gone gone.” I rush to grab my phone from the kitchen counter. “Shoes gone. Hoodie gone. Ghosted.”“Oh my
The Actor's Contract 70 Emotional abuse
Date = 1 JulyPlace = San Francisco (Damion’s house)POV - Aria“I need you naked,” Enrique says, so straightforwardly it feels like an order and a confession in one breath.We stumble into the bedroom, half out of breath, my shirt on the floor, before the lightning cracks again. Thunder rolls in after, deep and hungry.It feels like slipping into another dimension — one where breath and skin and longing blur into something weightless. The air smells like rain and electricity, like something about to break. The storm outside is a distant hum, barely audible under the pulse of moans and gasps that fills the room like static.Time doesn’t stop, but it bends. Warps.It stretches thin until it feels like we’re floating somewhere between lightning strikes, caught in the space before the next crash.Until the moment shatters, soft and final, and the world slowly returns to normal — the sting of air on sweat-damp skin, the thrum of blood in my ears, the ache of wanting something he still can
The Actor's Contract 69 Payback
Date = 1 JulyPlace = San Francisco (Damion’s house)POV - AriaWARNING – Sex scene!!!The dishes clink in the sink, hot water steaming over my hands, thunder grumbling outside like an old demon with a toothache.I scrub harder than necessary, suds splashing up my arms, because it is better than thinking.The back door slammed shut twenty minutes ago. Jackson and Axel — ghosts in the rain. Out into the storm and into whatever dangerous plan Jackson refused to explain in full sentences.River is dozing, tucked under blankets and breathing slowly, but not nearly asleep enough to make me relax.Still, the house is quiet now. Just the storm. The water. The buzz of worry deep under my ribs. Leaving me alone with another problem. One, I’m not sure I want to face right now … or ever.One, I don’t hear sneaking up.He is always quieter than I expect a big man like him to be — all those sharp cargoes and louder-than-life grins don’t line up with the way he moves like a shadow. He appears behin
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