By seven the house had gone quiet in the particular way it did when Victor finished his last call and closed the study door behind him.I was already in his bedroom.The room was larger than the guest room, darker, the bed a wide expanse of white sheets that smelled faintly of his cologne and clean cotton. I had showered again, left my clothes folded on the chair, and waited as instructed — naked, sitting on the edge of the mattress, the residual evidence of the morning still slick between my thighs because he had told me to leave it.Victor appeared in the doorway and stopped.His eyes moved over me slowly, thoroughly, the way he used to look at a report card he intended to sign. The protective godfather expression was long gone. What remained was open, possessive, and completely uninterested in residual restraint.“Good girl,” he said quietly. “You waited.”He closed the door. The soft click landed like a final rewrite of every rule the house had ever held. Victor crossed the room,
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