ログインIt was a drunken game of Truth or Dare with the three boys I grew up running the streets with. Late into the night, riding the buzz, Matteo Bryant leaned in and dropped a bomb. "I’ve wanted you since we were kids, and I’m done biting my tongue... But my father is shipping me out to run Vegas. I know damn well you’re not built for long-distance." His eyes were bloodshot, raw with what felt like gut-wrenching honesty. My chest caved. I swore he meant every word. I had loved him for just as long. Hook, line, and sinker, I jumped right in. "The Hughes family is pushing their territory out west anyway. I’ll tell my parents I’m taking point. That way, we roll into the desert together." Matteo leaned in, pulling me into a slow, breathless kiss. With Nikolai and Julian shouting and egging us on from the couch, I signed the voluntary transfer papers right there on the glass table. The day the transfer went through, I went straight to Matteo to tell him we were set. Instead, I found the three of them locked away in the back room with Gia—the real Hughes bloodline, recently dragged back from the gutter. "You slick bastard, Matteo. Wrapped Sienna around your little finger with one damn kiss, selling her that bullshit about shipping out to Vegas. Fucking brilliant." Gia’s voice shook, sweet and sickening. "Matteo, you shouldn't have done that for me. Just looking at Sienna makes me feel sick that she took my life, but watching you throw yourself under the bus hurts worse." Matteo’s voice came out chillingly flat. "Once she’s tucked away in the desert, I won't have to waste my breath playing the doting boyfriend." I shoved the heavy door open. Our gazes collided right as the color drained from their faces.
もっと見るThe grand ballroom on the top floor of the Empire State Building was the beating heart of the underworld tonight.The old Don was stepping down, and I was taking the seat—crowned as the undisputed head of the Hughes syndicate.When I stepped onto the elevated marble dais, hundreds of mob bosses, cartel capos, and kingmakers rose to their feet in dead silence, followed by thunderous, room-shaking applause.Out of the corner of my eye, I caught three figures slumped at the lowest, darkest table in the back corner.Wrecks of men.Five years forged me into an absolute sovereign; five years reduced them to hollow, walking corpses.My intelligence network had laid out their files on my desk days before my jet took off:Matteo had driven his family’s enterprise into the dirt. Don Bryant, disgusted by his son's pathetic state, brought an illegitimate heir back from Europe and handed him the keys to the kingdom. Matteo was an heir in name only, a laughingstock across the boroughs.Nikolai’s tem
(Sienna’s POV)One year in Vegas.I paved my path in bone and brass, turning the chaotic desert playground into a fortress under my absolute rule.By the time the last rebel boss hit the warehouse floor with a hole between his eyes, the first red light of dawn was cutting across the desert sand.My second-in-command walked through the clearing smoke, dropping to one knee as he offered a thin, lit cigar. "Boss. Nevada’s cash routes and black markets are locked down. The territory is yours."Behind him, hundreds of armed soldiers raised their rifles in a deafening, unified salute.Back in my high-rise office, my mother’s face flickered onto the encrypted screen.She looked as unyielding as ever, but there was a sharp, unmistakable respect burning in her gaze.After I rattled off the quarter’s profit margins and supply line expansions, she took a slow sip of wine and remarked, almost casually:"Matteo lost his mind a while back. Tried to jump on a private bird to Vegas to track you down.
When Don Hughes heard the tapes, there was no fatherly outrage. Only cold, clinical disgust.In an empire forged through discipline and blood, this brand of cheap internal sabotage was a cancer."Erase the Hughes name from her records. Ship her to the border compounds in Eastern Europe," the Don ordered, waving his hand as if swatting away a fly. "If she ever steps foot back on American soil, put a round through her skull."No matter how loudly Gia shrieked, clawing at the mahogany doorframe until her manicured nails ripped and bled onto the floor, two enforcers dragged her out into the torrential rain like roadkill.She was eradicated. But the poison was already deep in our veins.I went out of my mind, flooring the pedal toward the Bryant private airfield, demanding a pilot prep a jet for Nevada."Tackle the idiot! Pin him down!"My father arrived with a dozen heavies, driving me hard into the wet runway before I could make the hangar steps."You're the heir to this syndicate! The fa
The rain outside came down like sheets of lead.I sat on a rusty folding chair in the basement cell of the docks, my knuckles raw and split, the air thick with the smell of iron and dirty water.On the concrete floor, the three socialites who cornered Sienna were soaked to the bone, trembling like cornered rats."Who told you that you could lay a hand on my girl?" My voice was shot, dragging a solid iron pipe across the wet floor with a high-pitched screech."It was Gia! It was all her!" the lead girl shrieked, slamming her forehead repeatedly against the concrete. "Gia dropped it in our private chat! She told us Sienna was stripped of her rank, that the family was tossing her in the desert to get slaughtered! She swore if we taught Sienna a lesson, she’d cut us into the Hughes supply lines once she took the seat!"The basement went tomb-silent.A sickening crack split the air.The wet snap of bone was drowned out by an ear-splitting scream. I dropped the pipe, pulled a clean linen han


















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