FAZER LOGINI ran until my lungs burned, finally reaching the police station. Everyone there spoke Brayelandic. Luckily, I'd watched enough Brayeland dramas to get by.I went straight to the counter and reported that I'd been kidnapped.But just as I frantically described what I'd endured, I saw Adrian. The police chief treated him with the utmost respect—bowing, almost groveling. The officers who'd been listening to me moments ago scattered like roaches.A hammer struck my heart. Stupid. So stupid. They clearly had connections I didn't know about—far more power than I'd imagined.Their reach was everywhere. Escape was impossible.Just as I resigned myself to my fate, Adrian took my hand and led me, dazed and defeated, out of the station. A female officer brushed past me and slipped a USB drive into my palm.I snapped back to my senses.I hid it quickly.When we returned, I opened the file.The officer was an undercover agent embedded in Brayeland's police force.She told me the truth:
Morning sunlight streamed through the window, just like any other day. But inside, I was already dead.How I wished last night had only been a nightmare.Yes, I loved Max. And yes, I felt desire for his older brother, too.Double the pleasure would surely be harder to resist.But I had morals. I had shame. I was a human being.I couldn't sink into this. If I did, my life would mean nothing.No matter how much pleasure it brought, this kind of affair—one that destroyed love—was nothing but animal pleasure.Sooner or later, it would destroy me.So I decided to escape. Even under close watch, I would get out, no matter the cost.But their greedy, relentless demands left me no opportunity.I felt like a plaything, day after day.Finally, I broke. I smashed a glass, raised a shard to my throat."You don't love me. You call it love, but all you do is hurt me."My tears didn't move them. They watched me like I was a circus act.I softened, pleading. "Please. Just let me go outsi
Max patted my head and smiled. "Baby, I'm done teasing you. He's not really my dad. Bro, why don't you officially introduce yourself to Anna?"Adrian took my hand and placed a gentle kiss on it. "Hello, sweetheart. I'm Adrian Parker, Max's older brother."I felt like my brain had just short-circuited. What the hell was happening?"So you've been lying to me this whole time."The two of them admitted it openly. Everything had been planned from the very beginning—starting with the train.They'd deliberately switched seats to make me find the wrong one.I was furious and stunned all at once. I should have seen it coming. Adrian never looked like Max's father. He barely looked thirty. Not to mention the photos with half the images cut out.Then Adrian explained about the woman I'd seen him with that day. She was just an actress he'd hired. All of it—every last bit—was designed to awaken the little devil inside me, to wear down my limits, to make me more accepting of today's truth.
I couldn't tell who had won or lost. I didn't know whether it was daylight, or already dark, or maybe even the next day.All I knew was that by the end, I was nearly falling apart. I figured this was what it felt like to be run over by five semi-trucks.I collapsed from exhaustion and slept for what felt like days and nights.When I finally woke, a thunderstorm was raging outside. Rain lashed the windows, and lightning split the sky.I looked down. The clothes I'd worn to bed had been swapped sometime during my sleep, replaced by a man's shirt that smelled of tobacco.A thin silk scarf covered my eyes. My limbs ached, my head throbbed.I tried to move my hand. A creaking sound echoed through the silent dark—eerie and chilling.By the faint moonlight filtering through the window, I realized with horror that my legs were spread wide, my body strapped to a swinging chair in a deeply humiliating position.I jolted fully awake. What the hell was going on?Then came the smell of cur
Through the window, I saw a woman step out of the car with him.I didn't dare go out and say hello. I locked myself in my room and tried to lie low, like a frightened little bird playing invisible.That didn't last long, though.Because soon enough, unmistakable sounds drifted from upstairs—raw, wild, unhinged. A man's voice, hurling crude, degrading words. A woman's voice, moaning with abandoned pleasure.Even an idiot could tell what was happening. But this, again, shattered whatever impression I'd managed to hold onto about his father.Max hadn't been exaggerating. The man's appetite was insatiable. Couldn't go a single day without it. Didn't even care that his future daughter-in-law was right there under the same roof.It was as if I didn't exist.The noises grew louder—sounds that seemed to shake the very ceiling—and the woman's cries climbed higher and higher. I couldn't sit still anymore.I crept out of my room and made my way upstairs to their door.It was slightly aja
And yet, Adrian—so refined, so gentle—uttered words so vile they would have put a field hand shucking corn to shame.It was all a mask. How foolish of me to have thought him handsome and dignified. Beneath it all, he was nothing but a shameless devil.Just when I thought I was totally done for, my boyfriend's confused voice came from outside the door, "What's taking so long?"The two of us inside went dead silent.I heard the doorknob start to turn, so I quickly raised my voice and said, "I'll be right out! Just give me a second!"Then I shoved his dad as hard as I could. This time, he didn't push back — he just gave me this weird, knowing smile that made my skin crawl.I scrambled to straighten my clothes, cracked the door open, and slipped out.Max asked why I'd taken so long. I mumbled something about stomach issues. Then he asked if I'd seen his dad."Me? I was in the bathroom the whole time. How would I know?"I forced myself to stay calm, terrified he'd sense something w







