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CHAPTER 45: MINE NOW

Author: You Keika
last update publish date: 2026-03-21 15:38:07

The barrel pressed harder into Solene’s ribs. Rafael’s lips brushed her ear when he spoke.

“Say his name. Say you choose Lucien, and I’ll paint these church walls with your blood.”

Lucien didn’t flinch. His gun never wavered, though his jaw locked tight enough to snap.

“Rafael ”

“Quiet!” Rafael barked, his laughter sharp. “Always so sure you’re the savior. The protector. You’re not. You’re just a butcher who thinks love is something you can own.”

His grip on Solene tightened, iron cutting into
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    “Cut the lights.”Lucien’s command cracked through the convoy. Engines killed. Headlights blinked out. Silence settled, thick and waiting.Dom peered through night-vision goggles, jaw tight. “Two guards on the north wall. More at the gate. Snipers up top. They’re expecting you.”Lucien chambered a round. “Good. Makes the killing easier.”“Boss ” Dom hesitated. “We could wait. Scout. Call in more men.”Lucien turned his head, eyes burning through him. “She’s in there now.”Dom exhaled, the argument already lost. “Then let’s end this.”The convoy doors opened. Black boots hit dirt. Lucien stepped forward first, blade sheathed at his thigh, rifle slung across his chest. He moved like death given shape.At the compound walls, a guard leaned over, spotting them. “Hey ”Lucien lifted his gun and put a bullet through the man’s skull.“Gate’s open,” he muttered.The war began.Gunfire cracked outside, sharp and steady. Solene’s head jerked toward the barred window, heart pounding in sync with

  • Trigger Me Gently   CHAPTER 45: MINE NOW

    The barrel pressed harder into Solene’s ribs. Rafael’s lips brushed her ear when he spoke.“Say his name. Say you choose Lucien, and I’ll paint these church walls with your blood.”Lucien didn’t flinch. His gun never wavered, though his jaw locked tight enough to snap.“Rafael ”“Quiet!” Rafael barked, his laughter sharp. “Always so sure you’re the savior. The protector. You’re not. You’re just a butcher who thinks love is something you can own.”His grip on Solene tightened, iron cutting into her lungs. She wanted to shove him away, to scream, to carve the smirk from his face but she forced herself still. Still enough to think.Because Rafael wasn’t just desperate. He was playing for something more.“Let me go,” she hissed.Rafael’s chuckle slid across her skin. “Why would I let go of the only thing worth taking from him?”Lucien’s voice dropped, low and lethal. “If you touch her again ”“You’ll kill me?” Rafael tilted his head, brushing his cheek against hers like a lover, his wo

  • Trigger Me Gently   CHAPTER 44: ASHES BETWEEN US

    “Run all you want, Solene. I’ll always find you.”The voice wasn’t Lucien’s.It was sharper. Colder. Wrapped in the cruel amusement only one ghost could carry.Rafael.Solene froze in the alley where she had vanished after leaving the compound. Her hands were still trembling from shoving Lucien away, from hearing the confession she couldn’t forgive. The air stank of smoke and wet stone, and for a split second she thought she was hallucinating. But then shadows peeled back.And there he was.Rafael Vairo. Not a ghost, not a memory. A man with fire in his eyes and blood on his knuckles, wearing betrayal like a second skin.Her mouth went dry. “You’re supposed to be dead.”Rafael tilted his head, smirk tugging the corner of his mouth. “And you’re supposed to be his salvation. Looks like we both make terrible myths.”He stepped closer. Too close. She could feel the heat of him, the danger of him. He wasn’t like Lucien controlled violence, steel wrapped in restraint. Rafael was raw, unhing

  • Trigger Me Gently   CHAPTER FORTY THREE: THE DEVIL’S HAND

    “Still bleeding for ghosts, Lucien?”The voice slid through the smoke like oil. Low. Mocking. Familiar enough to split the air in Solene’s chest.She froze. The barrel of her gun dipped an inch. For the first time in hours, her lungs forgot how to breathe.Lucien reacted faster, weapon up, stance solid, a predator caught mid-strike. His jaw clenched as if he’d seen the specter in his worst nightmares crawl into the room.From the haze stepped Rafael Vairo.Alive. Whole. Smiling like the devil had handed him the script.“Impossible,” Solene whispered, barely audible, but the tremor in her voice betrayed her.Lucien didn’t whisper. His rage cut through the silence like a blade.“You’re dead.” His finger twitched on the trigger. “I buried you myself.”Rafael laughed softly, as though the absurdity of the statement was entertainment. His suit, charcoal black, wasn’t even wrinkled. Not a scar. Not a shadow of death. Only eyes that burned with too much knowledge, too much power.“Correction

  • Trigger Me Gently   CHAPTER FORTY TWO: THE FIRE WITHIN

    “Move!” Lucien barked, shoving Solene toward the dripping corridor as the sirens wailed overhead.Her blade was still in her hand. Her knuckles white. Her mind was nowhere near the door.“He knew my name before I said it,” she whispered. “He knew ”“Forget him.” Lucien grabbed her chin, forcing her eyes on him. Water streaked down his face, his jaw locked. “He is a smoke. You’re real. Don’t let him crawl inside your head.”She wanted to believe him. God, she wanted to. But Rafael’s laugh still echoed in her bones.Boots thundered down the hall. Armed men. Angelo’s.Lucien spun, gun snapping up. “We fight our way out.”“Three squads at least,” Solene muttered, listening to the echoes. Her hand flexed on her knife. “They’ll try to split us.”“Then stay on me,” Lucien said.The first wave hit black suits, rifles raised. Lucien fired without hesitation, each shot precise, each body falling in a spray of red. Solene lunged into the chaos, her blade flashing, cutting through arteries and th

  • Trigger Me Gently   CHAPTER 41: BLOOD REMEMBERS

    “Say it,” Rafael murmured, his eyes glittering like broken glass in the low light.Solene stood in the doorway, heart slamming against her ribs. “Say what?”“That you feel it.” His smile was slow, deliberate. “The blood. The tether. That no matter how many names you’ve stolen, you were always mine first.”Her blade was already in her hand. The distance between them twelve steps felt both too close and endless.“You’re not my father.” The words scraped out of her throat, raw, almost a growl.Rafael tilted his head, like a priest listening to a stubborn sinner. “And yet you wear my scars. You breathe because I let you.”“You’re dead.”He laughed deep, echoing the sound of a man who’d buried truth long before he buried his own name. “No, little flame. I just learned how to make dying useful.”Behind her, the hallway rattled. Lucien’s voice thundered through it:“Solene!”She turned instinct, hope, weakness. But that second was enough.Rafael was in front of her, hand closing around her w

  • Trigger Me Gently   CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: INHERITANCE IS A LIE

    LOCATION: UNDERCITY – ARCHITEUM RUINSTIME: 1:14 a.m.Morrow bled from the lip.Not from a fight from the truth.Solene stood over her.No gun. No blade. Just a black envelope.“Open it,” Solene said.Morrow did.Inside:DNA reports.Medical logs.Photos.The embryo.The child.Half Rafael.Half S

  • Trigger Me Gently   CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: THE GHOST THRONE

    LOCATION: UNKNOWN SYNDICATE FACILITY – PRIVATE MED WINGTIME: 4:12 a.m.Rafael Vairo stood shirtless in the center of the sterile room.A biometric scanner moved over his chest.Clean vitals.He touched the ultrasound pinned beside the console.Then turned to the man standing in the corner face sh

  • Trigger Me Gently   CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: BURN THE INHERITANCE

    LOCATION: INNER VAULT – VAIRO ARCHIVE FACILITYTIME: 11:04 p.m.The flames reached the third floor before the alarms went off.Digital records melted. Biometric backups fried.Birth files. Bloodline registries. DNA tagging systems.Everything the empire used to track, claim, and command its childre

  • Trigger Me Gently   CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: THE QUEEN WITH NO NAME

    LOCATION: VAIRO TERRITORY – OUTER BORDERSTIME: 2:06 a.m.The walls were tagged now.Not with names.Not with crowns.With a mark burned into the brick a hairpin drawn in blood.The city had stopped asking where Solene went.It started asking who was helping her.And every time Morrow sent someone

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