Bound By Blood
He set his glass down with deliberate calm, then stood, tall and commanding, his presence filling the room like a storm breaking.
“Stay here,” he said, voice low but edged with steel.
I shook my head frantically. “Wait…..”
But he was already striding to the door. When he opened it, I caught a flash of chaos: a man in a suit collapsed against the wall, blood spreading across his chest, another dragged away by guards. The sharp tang of iron filled the air.
My stomach lurched, bile burning my throat.
Leonardo stepped out, murmured something I couldn’t hear, and the shouting dulled to curt orders. Within moments, the hallway was cleared, the bodies gone, the blood smeared away as if it had never