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Liora’s POVI was still half-asleep when I felt the softest little pecks on my cheek. Like tiny kisses that weren’t quite awake but were definitely trying to get my attention. I smiled even though my eyes were still closed, and leaned into them. They kept coming, gentle and warm, right at the corner of my mouth.“Mmm… baby,” I murmured, half in sleep. My hand found his jaw and I tugged him closer, kissing him back lazily. He tasted like mint and sleep and the man I loved more than anything in the world.Nikolai pulled back just enough to rest his forehead against mine. His voice was rough and sleepy, the way it got when he’d been sick. “Let me get some rest, Nikolai,” I whispered, my voice thick. “I’m really tired.”He let out a dramatic little sigh, like a toddler who didn’t want to go to bed. “Nooo. I’m not done kissing you.”I smiled into his neck. “You’re being such a baby right now.”“I’m not a baby,” he mumbled, but his voice gave him away. He was acting like one. Then I felt h

Gone for me

Nikolai’s POVThe first call came at 6:17 a.m.Dmitri’s voice was tight, the kind of tight that meant trouble was already brewing somewhere. “Pakhan, the eastern shipment update. The lieutenant we thought was gone… he’s been spotted in a warehouse outside the city. Our men are moving, but we need your order.”I sat up slowly, rubbing my eyes. The fever had left me drained, but the moment I heard that name Elias’s ghost still trying to bite us, the Reaper woke up inside me. “Give me the details.”He rattled them off in short, clipped sentences: routes, names, a possible connection to a new player who might be offering protection to Elias’s old people. I listened without interrupting, jaw tight, the same cold focus I’d worn like armor for years. “Mobilize the eastern team. Quiet entry. No blood if we can avoid it. And get me the new name on that player — I want to know who he’s working for.”While I spoke, my mind was already spinning. New player. Someone testing the waters. Testing *m

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