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AURORAThe world hadn’t stopped spinning since the night Dominic pulled me out of the street.Sometimes, I still heard the screech of tires when everything went quiet. Sometimes, when I closed my eyes, I saw the girl’s face again…the one I thought was her.But it wasn’t.It was no one. Just a stranger with the same hair, the same walk, the same ghost I couldn’t stop chasing.“You have officially gone insane,” Dominic told me that day, and for a split second, I actually thought maybe I did. My obsession with this girl had gone on far too long for anyone to categorize it as normal. But did I care? Hell, no. I shook it off the moment I was over it and pretended that everything was fine, and that everything was normal, and that I was not cracking anywhere. The next morning, I went to visit Ralph with a bottle of his favorite wine. He was not exactly a patient who’d appreciate flowers or a ‘get well soon’ card because, well, he is Ralph Alessi. “Am I on fucking house arrest?” he asked t
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AURORASomething in me always snapped when I saw Lilliana. It was like a fuse blowing. My blood would burn, and reason would vanish as if it had never existed.She wasn’t like the monsters we’d faced before. No, Lilliana was something else entirely…a quiet kind of chaos that ruined everything she touched. The storm she brought left wreckage in its wake, and the names on her list of casualties were far too close to home: Dominic, Ralph… and Sammy. That last name cut the deepest, a wound I still couldn’t put into words.And now, with the storm finally over, there she stood, untouched, unharmed, like she’d walked through hell and come out gilded. It made my fury crawl beneath my skin. Because Lilliana never seemed to lose. She came out of every disaster with more power, more sympathy, while the rest of us were left bleeding in her shadow, expected to handle her like some fragile, untouchable thing.I had avoided going to Marco’s, but I had no other choice because Ralph was there. And no
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MARCO[One day ago]I poured myself a drink and settled into the chair by the fire, letting the warmth lick at the edge of my exhaustion. My legs were stretched out on the table, a small rebellion against the chaos of the week. And what a week it was—one hell of a storm from start to finish.It began with the explosion at the Romano mansion, fire lighting up the skyline like the city itself was burning in judgment. Then came Dante and Lilliana—our little triumph that somehow felt like a loss in disguise. Every move had cost us more than we’d planned to pay.And then they took Ralph. That was their mistake. We ripped through the city like a blade through flesh, left no stone unturned, no name unpunished. When we finally found him, we made sure those responsible learned the hard way what it means to cross us. The streets bled that night, and the city remembered who it belonged to.I had almost fallen into a state of sleep until the sharp sound of the doorbell made my eyes snap open. Whe
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AURORAI had already grilled Lilliana more than a couple of times, and by now, I already knew that she had no knowledge of Ralph’s existence or connection with her. Despite that, I had developed an acute sense of hatred given the chaos she brought into our lives.Dominic was torn apart, Sammy was in shambles, and even though Lorenzo was to be blamed for that, Lilliana was indirectly involved. And now, Ralph was missing.You do not abduct the ex-enforcer of the Mafia Kingpin of Chicago, and if you do, you need to have the balls to follow through the storm you have raised.And as it turned out, they did not have the balls. Ralph was found two days later, alive but barely. When Viktor called me middle of the night to inform me that, I froze. He was barely breathing
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MARCOIt was bad enough that I had woken up to an empty bed in the middle of the night, my phone buzzed incessantly, and it did not take a genius to guess who was calling me at this hour. “What?” I snapped.“Where the fuck are you?” Viktor shouted as I held the phone away from my ear, wincing. “Viktor, not a good time for—” He cut me off. “Someone took Ralph.” And then the phone went dead.I did not have the time to think who was stupid enough or daring enough to make that move, but I saw red. If there was someone from whom I would have burned the world down, and go down along with it, it was Ralph. I drove to the Romano mansion as soon as I could, and as soon as I crashed through the gates and made my way into the basement, the sight that greeted me made me pause. Now, I have seen a few hundred of Romano’s enemies inside those dark cells, and depending on how badly they had screwed up, they bled accordingly. On one side of the room was Dante, already a prisoner of the Romanos, a
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AURORAConfessing to Marco wasn’t easy. In fact, it was one of the hardest things I’d ever done. To bare the parts of myself I’d fought so desperately to keep hidden—the ache, the fear, the quiet unraveling that crept through me day after day—felt like stepping off a ledge with no promise of landing. He was the one person I couldn’t afford to look weak in front of, the last witness I wanted to be my undoing. Maybe it was pride, maybe it was ego. But if I’m being honest, it was something far more primal than that—self-preservation.But today felt like an exception. It felt like I wanted to be held, cared for, and listened to.And Marco knew it. And he wanted it.And if he had smelled my desperation, ther
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