Marco’s POVMichelle’s message appears on my phone while I sit alone in the back room of the bar, a place that smells of old wood, spilled alcohol, and sweat, the kind of place people forget easily, and the moment I read her words, a quiet, dangerous calm settles over me instead of relief."Be ready, I will open the gates as soon as I can." I do not respond. I do not even move at first. I simply sit there, staring at the screen, listening to the noise from the front of the bar bleed through the walls in dull waves of laughter, music, and careless voices, and all I can think is that nothing about this feels right, not the timing, not the confidence in her words, not the silence from my men, and certainly not the fact that Logan Rossi is hosting a party while knowing I am in the same city. That alone should have warned me.Logan does nothing without reason, and he never relaxes when there is danger close, which means that if he looks relaxed tonight, if his house is full of guests, lig
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