All Chapters of He Wants Me Dead Or Alive : Chapter 51 - Chapter 60

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After

Rosa POVThe elevator doors opened and I walked into the penthouse with the medal still around my neck and my bag still on my shoulder and the adrenaline from the fight still buzzing under my skin. It hadn't come down during the car ride, it had just shifted into something else, something warmer and sharper and more alive, and it had nowhere to go except into him.He was right behind me. I heard the door close and I heard him drop his keys on the table and I turned around and kissed him before my bag hit the floor.He caught me, his hands on my waist, and he kissed me back like he had been waiting for this all night, which he had, because I had seen him in the crowd and I had seen his face when I won and I knew exactly what he had been holding back.He walked me backward down the hall without breaking the kiss and I let him because I didn't want to stop and I didn't want to talk and I didn't want to do anything except feel his hands on my body and his mouth on my mouth and the last of

Klaus Report

Raffaele POVThe report came in at nine in the morning.Klaus handed it to me in person, which meant it was important enough not to send through email or text. He stood in my office with his hands behind his back and his face neutral and he waited while I opened the folder and started reading.Mateo Moretti. Born under a sealed record in a hospital that no longer existed, the kind of hospital that catered to people who needed to disappear or be born or die without anyone asking questions. The name was changed legally when he was fourteen, a clean transition from Moretti to Reyes, from the name that marked him to the name that hid him. The mother was a Moretti cousin, the father unknown, and the boy had been raised inside the family's shadow until he was old enough to be useful.He had been placed at the university eighteen months ago on a long-term intelligence assignment from the Moretti head himself. The goal was to get close to students who might be useful, to build relationships t

Telling Her Everything

Raffaele's POVShe was in the kitchen, sitting at the table with her laptop open and a mug of tea beside her. She looked up when I walked in and her face did that thing it always did when she saw me, that small shift in her expression, that softening around her eyes that she probably didn't know happened."You look like someone died," she said."Can you come to my office?"She closed her laptop and stood up and followed me without asking why. That was new. A few weeks ago she would have demanded an explanation before she moved an inch. Now she just followed me because I had asked and because she trusted me.I sat down behind my desk and she sat down across from me in the chair she had claimed as hers, the one she always sat in when she was in here with me. I picked up the folder and set it on the desk between us."Klaus brought me the full report on Mateo this morning."She went still. Not scared. Just still. The way she did when she was bracing herself for something."I need to tell

Rosa's Fury

Rosa POVI didn't cry.That was the thing I kept coming back to, the thing that felt like a small victory in the middle of everything else. I didn't cry when he told me about Mateo's sealed record and I didn't cry when he told me about the drink spiking and I didn't cry when I walked out of his office and closed the door behind me. I didn't cry because crying wouldn't do anything and crying wouldn't change anything and crying wouldn't make me feel better. But I needed to do something. I needed to move. I needed to hit something until my body was too tired to feel what my chest was feeling.I went to the private gym and I didn't bother with wraps because I wanted to feel my knuckles against the bag, I wanted the sting of it, I wanted something physical to match the thing that was happening inside me. I started hitting and I didn't stop.Left, right, left, hook. The bag swung and I hit it again. I wasn't thinking about technique or footwork or any of the things Raffaele had been drillin

Moretti Messenger

Rosa POVI never got the chance to confront Mateo.The Moretti clan made their own move first, and they didn't send him. They sent someone else, someone I had never seen before, and she found me outside the university library at four o'clock on a Tuesday afternoon when the sun was low and the shadows were long and I was thinking about nothing more complicated than whether I wanted Thai or pizza for dinner.She was elegant in the way that money and age and confidence made people elegant, not flashy but deliberate, everything about her chosen with care. Her coat was dark and her hair was dark and her eyes were dark and she looked at me the way you look at something you have already decided belongs to you. She was standing by the bike rack, which was a strange place for someone like her to be standing, and she smiled when I walked past and said my name like she had known me for years."Rosa," she said, and I stopped walking because the way she said it was not a question. She already knew

Meeting Mateo

Rosa POVRaffaele arranged it for the next evening, a quiet café on the edge of the city that his people owned, somewhere neutral and controlled with two exits and sightlines he could manage. He told me he would be close but not in the room and I told him I didn't want him in the room, I needed to do this alone, and he looked at me for a long moment and then he nodded and I saw something in his face that might have been pride or might have been fear or might have been both.Mateo was already there when I arrived, sitting at a table near the back with a cup of coffee in front of him that he wasn't drinking. He looked up when I walked in and his face did something complicated, something that wasn't quite guilt and wasn't quite relief and wasn't quite anything except tired and scared and maybe, underneath all of that, a little bit glad to see me.I sat down across from him and I didn't order anything and I didn't take my jacket off because I wasn't planning to stay long."Rosa," he said,

After The Dark

Rosa POVI didn't go to my room after the car dropped us off. I followed Raffaele inside and kicked off my shoes and walked past my door without stopping. He didn't say anything. He just walked beside me down the hallway and into his room and I sat on the edge of his bed while he stood by the window for a moment with his back to me and the city bright behind him.He turned and looked at me and I looked at him and neither of us spoke because there wasn't anything to say that we hadn't already said. I had confronted Mateo and I had walked out and I was still standing and now I was here and I didn't want to be anywhere else.I was quiet in a way that felt different from the angry quiet I had carried for weeks or the deal-framing quiet I had used to protect myself or the scared quiet that came when I thought too hard about all the things that could go wrong. This was just quiet. I was just present and a little tired and I was choosing to be here, in his room, in his bed, with him.He chan

The Demands Of The Don

Raffaele POVMy father came to the penthouse unannounced, which he never did, and I knew something was wrong the moment Klaus's voice came through the intercom to tell me he was in the lobby. My father did not visit. He summoned. If he was here instead of making me drive to his house outside the city, it meant he wanted to see my face when he told me whatever he had come to tell me.I told Klaus to send him up and I stood by the window with my hands in my pockets and waited.He walked in at seven o'clock, the same time Rosa usually made tea, but she was in her room doing coursework and the apartment was quiet and dark and my father looked around the living room like he was taking inventory, like he was noting every piece of furniture and every shadow and every small sign that a woman was living here now.He didn't sit down right away. He walked to the window and stood next to me and looked out at the city and we stood there for a minute, father and son, not speaking, just looking at t

Accidentally Hears It

Rosa POVI was bringing him coffee because I had made too much and because it was late and because I knew he was still working and because I wanted an excuse to see him before I went to bed. The hallway was dark and the floor was cold under my bare feet and I was carrying two mugs, one for him and one for me, and I was thinking about nothing more complicated than whether I wanted to read for an hour or just go straight to sleep.Then I heard his father's voice through the office door.Not in person. Don Navarro was not in the apartment because I would have heard him come in and I would have hidden in my room like I had done every time he visited because I did not have the energy for another dinner with that man. This was a call, speakerphone or maybe just loud enough to carry through the door, and I heard his father's voice clear as day."The girl's position. Formalise it."I stopped walking. My feet were cold and the mugs were warm in my hands and I stood in the hallway outside his o

What Do You Actually Want

Rosa POVI waited until dinner.The afternoon had been quiet after the conversation in the kitchen. He went back to his office and I went to my room and I lay on my bed and stared at the ceiling and thought about the ring and the key and the words I had heard through the office door. Formalise her position. I turned them over and over in my head, trying to figure out what they meant, trying to figure out what I wanted them to mean.By seven o'clock I was hungry and tired of thinking and I walked to the kitchen and started pulling things out of the fridge. He came in a few minutes later and sat at the table and watched me cook and neither of us said anything about the conversation we had had earlier. The ring sat between us like a ghost. The words sat between us like a wall.I put the food on the table and sat down across from him and I looked at him and I decided I was done waiting."What do you actually want?" I asked.He looked at me and his face was calm but his eyes were not. His

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