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71. Your body

Author: Cord3lia
last update Huling Na-update: 2025-10-26 23:51:50

Chapter 71

ISLA

~•~

When I woke up the next morning, I was instantly aware of the arm draped across my waist.

It took me a few seconds to remember where I was. I was in Lorenzo’s bed, our limbs tangled together. And then everything else from last night came rushing in. I’d confronted him about what Ricardo told me. For the first time, he had promised to tell me the truth even if it came at a price.

I had been hellbent on leaving after graduation but with this new offer that Lorenzo had presented me, staying to find out the truth, I was beginning to second-guess myself.

I’d never been the best at decision-making. My presence on Lorenzo’s bed was enough proof of that, but I had no one to rely on. I had no one to tell me if I was going about this the wrong way. I could only follow my instincts, and maybe what my horny ass told me to do.

Lorenzo’s breathing was slow and deep, the kind that came with someone who slept without guilt. I had been struggling to sleep for the longest time and
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  • The Devil you begged for   112. What next

    ISLA~•~When I woke up, I didn’t feel the weight of Lorenzo’s arm around me. I looked at the digital clock by the nightstand. It was exactly midnight and Lorenzo’s side of the bed was cold. Did he come to bed at all?I stood up quickly and exited the room. I didn’t know where I wanted to find him but he was always either in his room or in his office and he wasn’t in the room.The doctor had told him to rest. It was midnight and he still wasn’t in bed. Why the hell was he so stubborn?My steps down the stairs were very quiet. I was about to turn onto the hallway when I saw a faint light coming from the kitchen. I followed it.It led me straight to the man I was looking for and his best friend, except the one in a wheelchair was putting on a new bandage around his chest.I gasped at the sight of the bloodied bandage and both heads turned to me.“What the hell did you do? How did you open your wound?”“See?” Ricardo asked. “She gets me.”Lorenzo kept his eyes on me but didn’t respond a

  • The Devil you begged for   111. Dead man

    LORENZO~•~My father opened the door for me when I rang the doorbell.He ran his eyes across my form. “You seem to be doing better, son.”As if he’d know how I was doing the last few weeks. And I wasn’t stupid. I knew he was checking for weapons. He was good at pretending his slow sweep across my body was fatherly concern but I knew betterI also assessed him, checking for bulges at the waist or weight imbalance. There was none. It was easier to check if he was strapped or not since he was wearing a pair of pajama pants and a white shirt. My father had no weapons on him.Even his place that usually had guards all around him had none. I’d only seen one face apart from my father’: since I stepped in here and it was the person who opened the gate for me.It unsettled me.What was he planning? Had he decided today was the day he killed me?His lack of protection unsettled me more than if he’d greeted me with a rifle.“Dinner’s already served,” he said, placing a heavy hand on my should

  • The Devil you begged for   110. Father

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  • The Devil you begged for   109. Dinner table

    ISLA~•~The house never felt more alive than the way it did the day we all went back home. Lorenzo had refused a wheelchair. I knew it had more to do with his ego than his physical ability so I let him lean on me as we entered the house.His men, the ones who hadn’t been injured, were all gathered in the living room to greet him. There were so many faces that I had never seen before but they all seemed to know me.Lucia’s mother had prepared a feast, welcoming everybody home. I smiled at the development. Just two weeks ago, she had been wary of Lorenzo and his men. Yet here she was cooking for them. It seemed like she had finally come around. Lucia had tried to make her mother trust Lorenzo but she failed since the woman was mourning her husband and thought that Lorenzo was partly the reason they got ambushed.She wasn’t wrong, but she wasn’t entirely right either.She was glad to know that Nikolai, the man who had orchestrated the ambush was dead. I still couldn’t believe I killed

  • The Devil you begged for   108. Adult

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  • The Devil you begged for   107. Tiptoeing

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