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YOU AGAIN

BRIAN"You again."I set my glass down hard enough that it rang against the marble."Funny how that works." Weston slid into the space beside me at the bar like he'd been standing there all along. "Same drink as last time?""I'm not doing small talk tonight.""Fine. Donors at nine o'clock. Smile for the cameras, then we can go back to hating each other.""I don't hate you. Hate requires effort. You're more like a rash.""A charming rash.""A persistent one."A photographer swung toward us, lens rising. Weston's posture shifted in half a second. His shoulders relaxed, his arm slid around mine, his chin tilted at exactly the angle that photographed best. The flash went off twice. He dropped his arm the moment the photographer turned and stepped back a full foot, like the contact had never happened."You're good at this," I admitted."Practice. Some of us didn't get to skip the family business." He handed me a fresh glass without asking. "Also, I concede. The range. You hit the center r

Last Updated : 2026-10-05

DON'T DO THAT

BRIAN"My father isn't here."Ace didn't answer. He stood several feet away with sunglasses over his eyes, watching the festival crowd drift between food trucks and stalls selling handmade jewelry. Funnel cake grease hung thick in the warm air."Nobody from his campaign is here either." I turned to face him. "Nobody knows we're here. So why are you still standing there like someone's about to shoot me?""I'm working.""God, you're irritating."I picked up my lemonade and drank, watching a little girl run past with a balloon tied to her wrist. Somewhere behind us a band worked through a song I half recognized. For once I had come somewhere without a bottle in my hand, an engine under my foot or hidden cameras hired by my father. One normal afternoon that was mine. Apparently that was too much to ask. "Come on," I said, pushing away from the table.He followed at the same irritating distance, three steps back, never once closing the gap on his own. I stopped at a stall and held up a r

Last Updated : 2026-10-06

NO NOTE. NO TEXT.

BRIANThe package arrived on Tuesday, and Ace signed for it before I knew there was one.I came out of the shower to find it on the kitchen island, flat and gray, wrapped in the kind of paper that cost more than what was inside. Ace stood on the other side of it with his arms crossed."It's been scanned," he said."You scan everything?""The concierge called me first. I went down and signed for it myself.""Why?" I looked into his eyes. I didn't know what I was searching to find either. "Protocol." He avoided my eyes."Since when did that become a protocol? And you didn't care about my mail before. Why now?" I pressed.He didn't answer. I tore the paper open.A first edition. Hardbound with a cloth spine. It was the exact printing I had hunted for two years. I had mentioned it once, mid insult, to a wine list, at a dinner I'd spent trying to make Weston hate me. I turned the book over twice, looking for the trick.The card slid out.*You said dinner was unbearable. I assumed you nee

Last Updated : 2026-10-06

YOU'RE IN HEAT

BRIANIt started after midnight.Not a full Heat. Just the first warning, like a faint warmth crawling low in my stomach. My skin was too tight, my sheets damp beneath me though I hadn't moved in an hour. Everything in the room smelled like him. His coffee still lingered in room and his woodsmoke soaked every hallway."Fuck."I tried to ignore it. That lasted five minutes, until the ache climbed high enough that I couldn't think about anything else. My hand slid down and found no relief, only more want, and every stroke wound me tighter. I bit down on a moan and it came out as his name.I gave up. I shoved off the bed, yanked the dresser drawer open, and found the suppressant bottle exactly where it always sat. Small and white. The easy solution.I shook one into my palm.Then I stopped. I looked at the door.---I found myself outside Ace's door instead, wearing nothing but a shirt resting short on my thighs. It was only a short distance away, yet I stood outside it for several

Last Updated : 2026-10-08

DONE BEGGING

BRIANI woke up with a suppressant crash sitting behind my eyes like a fist. My skin still felt too tight, my mouth tasted like metal, and the sheets smelled faintly of a man I had sworn I'd stop wanting.The penthouse was silent when I came out. His running shoes were not by the door. Nor the smell of coffee he always made when he got back from his runs.Did he leave the house again? I paused, staring at the closed door. Usually, by 7am, Ace's running shoe would already be by the entrance. I followed the quiet down the hall, my mind thinking back to what happened last night, until I heard Ace's voice.It came from the study, through a door open two inches. Seeing him after last night, his back to me, broad and tall in his tank top and joggers, sneakers still on his heels instead of by the door where he always left them, something in my chest punctured.Ace has never spoken so ruthlessly to me as he did last night. He said it like I was a mess who didn't even know what he wanted.Y

Last Updated : 2026-10-08

HE'S JUST A BODYGUARD

BRIANAce's study door was open two inches again.I stopped in the hallway with my jacket over one arm and my keys in my fist. Eavesdropping had become a bad habit of mine ever since that day he asked to be free."No, he'll be there too," Ace was saying. His voice had gone warm, the way it only did for one person. "I'll make sure of it. Tell Flaminia Mr. Rex is invited too."Melinda's laugh came through the speaker, small and bright.Dinner with Melinda's family was today. Sunday, by five. I had promised to come with Ace.I stared at the gap in the door for a long moment. Then I took the service stairs all the way down, because the private elevator dings and Ace's hearing was too good.---Felix was idling at the corner with his headlights off."Venom's dead. The club too," he said before I'd shut the door. "Cops have been parked on it since your crash at their race track. Don't worry. Rico's uncle has a boathouse on the river, that's where we've been hanging out. Private, no cameras,

Last Updated : 2026-10-09

BECAUSE OF HER

BRIANThe elevator in Felix's building smelled like old carpet and someone else's takeout. I leaned against the back wall, one hand on the rail, the hangover pulling at me with every slow floor.Ace was leaning against the SUV when I came out. He had on the same shirt as yesterday, stubble shadowing his jaw.Two empty coffee cups were on the dashboard behind him. He didn't move toward me. He looked me over once, head to foot, the way you check something you were afraid to find broken."You're upright," he said."Disappointed?""No."I frowned and stopped a full arm's length away. Something was wrong with the picture, and it took my aching head a second to find it."Did you spend the night here? How did you even know where I was?"He held my stare and said nothing, his eyes giving away more than his silence did."Felix's place isn't in any file you have. He moved here in June. I never gave you this address.""Your phone.""My phone's been silent since I turned it face down, right afte

Last Updated : 2026-10-10

LET'S TRY DATING

BRIANIt had been nine days since the patch incident.And since I bought myself a new phone and locked away the one my father had power over.I didn't trash it. My father would notice. I decided to play the game of choosing when he could track me instead.Ace hadn't touched me once. He spent most of his time in the study or out of the house. He drove me where I needed to go, and stood three feet behind me like a man on a leash he had chosen himself. The man who had parked outside Felix's building all night now looked at me the way he looked at doorways.He had asked to leave. I hadn't forgotten it. And he said he shouldn't have given me hope.How wrong he was. He had no idea I didn't regret any of it. My only regret was letting a game become something that hurt me. Ace had plainly decided not to want anything to do with me anymore. And he stuck to it like the disciplined ex-special forces soldier he was.---Jax's birthday was on the roof of a members' lounge called Halcyon. Halcyon

Last Updated : 2026-10-11

DO YOU ACTUALLY WANT ME

BRIANThe photo ran on page one of the Sunday society section. *KINGSFORD AND COLE: THE MATCH NOBODY SAW COMING.* Weston's hand at the small of my back, close to my hip, his mouth on mine, my eyes closed, my smile so convincing I almost believed it.My father sent a single text. *Well done.*It was the first thing he'd said to me in years that wasn't a threat.---The real dates started. Two weeks of it. Dinners, a charity gala, a polo match where I hid behind sunglasses and let Weston explain the rules. He held doors and I let him. He remembered I hated cilantro. He made me laugh twice, and both times I checked whether Ace had seen us. I tried to gauge his reactions to everything. Ace saw everything. He drove us in silence, eyes on the road, hands steady. He sat in the front seat of a car where two men leaned toward each other in the back and never once looked in the mirror.On the fifteenth night, he missed a turn while driving.It was so small that Weston didn't notice. We were he

Last Updated : 2026-10-12

NOBODY TOUCHES YOU BUT ME

BRIANSaturday, I dressed for it slowly. Fitted tuxedo, the white one I hadn't worn. The silk tie was loosened just enough. I stood in front of the mirror and looked at a man I didn't recognize, someone about to make a terrible decision on purpose.Ace was waiting by the door with my coat over his arm."The car is downstairs," he said."Is that all?""Yes.""You're really going to drive me there?""It's my job."I laughed, short and hollow, and tried so hard not to break in front of him, though my heart already had. At last, I picked up my overnight bag, my hands shaking no matter how hard I tried to make it stop. I knew he saw all of it. Without looking at him, without begging again, I started for the door. If he doesn't want me, I'll show him how well another man does.My hand was on the doorknob when his voice stopped me.“Don't go.”It was so quiet I almost missed it. I turned, too fast like I was scared he would change his mind the moment I delayed.He was still standing there

Last Updated : 2026-10-12

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