Giordano’s POV At the torture room“Boss… he’s dead.”“Dead?” Giordano didn’t even blink. He stared at the blood-soaked floor of the torture room, the boy’s limp body still shackled, mouth frozen mid-scream. Giordano’s voice cracked through the smoke-filled room like a whip. “Useless” Dante didn’t flinch. “Yeah. The boy croaked. He stopped breathing sometime last night. Probably from the shock. Weak fucker.” Giordano leaned back in his leather chair, flicked ash from his cigar. “Toss him in the ocean. No point wasting ground space on a liar.” “Yes, boss.” “Make sure he sinks. Tie something heavy to his ankles. I don’t want that skinny bastard floating back to haunt me.”Dante dragged the corpse out with a grunt.The room was silent again. The metallic smell of blood still hung thick in the air. Giordano cracked his neck and stepped into the main corridor of his underground estate, cold marble, low lights, silence that screamed.Giordano rubbed his temples. The headache behind hi
Katarina's POV"Maribel?" I whispered.My voice echoed quietly in the dim room. My body still ached, warm from the way she'd touched me just hours ago. The mattress beside me was cold.She was gone.I sat up slowly, rubbing sleep from my eyes. The room was silent, still, strange. Why would she leave without saying anything? Why sneak off in the middle of the night?I lay back down, my heart heavy, trying not to overthink it. Maybe she got caught. Maybe she just didn’t want to risk getting attached. Maybe… maybe I was alone again.I whispered her name again, softer. Nothing. I glanced toward the door, closed, locked. Same as before. Maybe she had to work early, and she wasn’t allowed to stay.I lay back down, my chest tight and Eyes wide open.Then I smelled it.Smoke.At first, I thought maybe I was imagining it. Maybe my brain was frying from all this shit. But then it got stronger. Acrid. Sharp and Burning.I sat up straight.Then I saw it.Smoke creeping from the corner, thick and
Katarina’s POV“Hey! HEY!” I banged my fist against the door. “You fuckers hear me?! I said I want out!”Silence. “GUARDS!” I screamed till my throat burned. Nothing.The guards outside didn’t answer. They never did. Not unless it was to drag me somewhere or shove a tray through the slit in the door. I kicked it once. Weakly. My leg barely lifted. I was so goddamn tired.I sank back onto the mattress, this thin, scratchy excuse of a bed. My body ached in places I couldn’t even name. My head was heavy. My throat was dry. My eyes burned.There was just a heaviness in my chest I couldn’t shake.I missed Mateo. I missed Selena. I missed... being human.“ Where are you, Mateo? Where are you, Selena? “I stared at the ceiling. Nothing but silence and shadows. I hated it here.Time didn’t move in this place. The air tasted like dust and perfume. The walls sweated old memories. I curled up and let the quiet break me slowly.But then I heard it.A scuffle. Muffled voices. Someone whisp
Vittorio’s POV“Tell him I’m busy!” Vittorio snapped, throwing the velvet folder across the desk. It slid and hit the bookshelf with a dull thud.“I told him that, Don,” Pietro said, standing stiff by the door, voice thin. “But he said it’s urgent.”“Everything’s urgent with politicians. They piss in their pants if you don’t smile their way.”The Conversation on the phone with the politician was as expected “You want to run for office, you need a wife,” he said. “A face to hold beside you in press photos. The people like it.”I grunted. “I don’t need a wife. I need Giordano’s head on a stick.”He chuckled. “Well, get one and the other becomes easier.”I hung up. I didn’t have time for suits and puppets.I rubbed my temples, trying to focus. The papers in front of me blurred. Numbers, names, and signatures. A deal with some Italian minister. Talking about political backing and marriage for image, more money, more power.But all Incould think of was her.Katarina.My eyes flicked to th
Giordano’s POV. At The Torture Room In Giordano Underground Office.“Move it!” Scarface barked, yanking the boy by the collar and throwing him down the stairs like garbage. The kid hit the cold concrete with a yelp, face already swollen, lips cracked. Blood smeared his shirt. His wrists were tied behind his back, shaking like jelly.Giordano watched from the steel doorway, cigarette glowing between his fingers, and Smoke curled around his face like a snake.“Who the hell is this?” he growled.“The boy with a sharp mouth,” Scarface said, panting. “The one who paid her debt. He was snooping around.”Giordano flicked his cigarette at the boy’s face. He stared at the boy, barely seventeen, skinny, busted lip, one eye swollen shut. His wrists were red from the tight metal. Blood dripped onto the dirty floor. He had a bad smell of thick sweat, blood and old piss.“You better be worth my time, punk.”The boy whimpered, confused. “I-I don’t know anything! I swear! Please!”I don’t know any
GIORDANO POV“Giò! Ma quando mi darai un nipotino, eh? I’m old, Giordano. Be Dead soon.”Giordano pinched the bridge of his nose, eyes closed, lips tightening. “Mamma… please.”He leaned back in his custom black leather chair, silk shirt unbuttoned halfway, a fresh Cuban hanging from his lips, but it trembled. Not from nerves but From the wet mouth around his cock under the desk.“Giordano!”“I hear you, Ma. You’ll get your grandchild,” he gritted, voice rasping as the girl’s teeth scraped him by accident. “F F …fuck. Hold on.”A raw moan slipped past his teeth, and he slammed a hand against the mahogany table. “What the fuck was that?!”The girl froze, still on her knees, mascara running down her cheeks. She looked up, terrified. “I..I didn’t mean to, I …”Giordano hit the mute button on the phone. “You bit me, you stupid whore?” he snarled, hand gripping her jaw. “You tryna chew your way to my heart or something?”“N-no, I swear, I just slipped”He grabbed her by the throat, yanke