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He was running late as usual but I was too hungry. Right before I walked in, I noticed a strong familiar figure in there. I spotted Eric just as I stood by the window side to carefully observe and to be sure my mind was not playing games with me. He sat next to a glamorous lady with long blonde hair. She was so beautiful and had such an awesome figure that made me realise how out of shape I was. I could feel the chemistry right from where I stood and it was quite a distance. He looked at her with such an intense gaze.

From then on, whenever I unknowingly wore a color she favored, used her favorite perfume, or styled my hair like hers, he would scowl or lash out with cold, cutting words. The most humiliating thing I'd ever done was to fall in love with a man who never truly belonged to me. I traced the burns on my legs and called my mentor abroad. If I were just a forgotten shadow beneath Tucker's true love, then walking away was the only thing left to do. … That evening, Tucker handed me a necklace. "You're coming with me to the cocktail party tonight. Don't make a scene."

Every line exposed the kind of elegance that made women nervous and men forget how to speak. When Camila saw her came down the stairs, she went quite. This wasn’t surrender. Camila had learned that some fires burned themselves out faster if left alone — and if the D’Amaros approved, Elise’s recklessness could be recast as boldness. Marketable. Containable. By the time she arrived at the gala, the room was already turning to her. Not all at once. But in waves. A slow ripple, as if someone had opened a door and let in the storm.

Now, I have turned those cinders into a blade. Bennett did not lose hope, desperate to hit back after losing everything. "You think you're the winner?" The email attachment showed my face crudely edited onto explicit images, with the backdrop of our family's hotel, sent to every young member of the prominent families.

Instead, it was to honor my father's legacy. Before long, the Moretti family returned to its former glory. We became the strongest force in the underworld, and I was known as the coldest, most untouchable woman. The old me died in that fire, yet from its ashes, I rose anew. What the flames didn't consume was my heart. It still burned, but it would ache for no one ever again.

The kind that has no purpose beyond itself. He mentioned this to Elian on a morning in November, while they were on the coastal path in the early cold, the Atlantic the pewter grey of a serious ocean in winter. "You love the winter," Elian said, not surprised. "I find I do," Dante said. "I knew you would," Elian said. "You're a winter person. The clarity of it suits you." "What does that mean?" Dante asked. "Winter removes the unnecessary," Elian said. "The landscape simplifies. Everything that isn't structural falls away and what's left is the bones of the thing." He glanced at Dante. "You operate in bones. The decorative parts have never been your interest."

He jammed his boot against the base of the heavy oak desk, bracing his weight as the floorboards groaned. "I'm... I'm trying! Ahh! F**k, Abram, it’s burning! Everything is burning!" Elara’s fingers clawed at the polished wood, her nails leaving deep, ragged scores in the mahogany. Her head thrashed back, the cords in her neck standing out like steel cables. Sweat and ash streaked her face, mixing with the hot tears that evaporated almost as soon as they hit her skin.

I took a bullet for Vittorio, and it left my right hand permanently damaged. After that, I stepped back and supported him from behind the scenes. For eight years, I stood beside him as he rose from a low-level underling to Don. On his first day as Don, he had my portrait hung in every church he owned, to show the world who I was and how much I mattered. When I told him we had too much blood on our hands, he began going to church every day to confess and pray for us both. Once, I offered to go with him. He only shook his head, his expression solemn. "You got blood on your hands because of me. None of it is your fault. Let me carry all the sins alone." I was so moved that I believed him

Nives’s fingers tightened slightly against the fabric of Asena's linen shirt, her breathing turning shallow as she traced the fierce, burning fire in Asena's dark eyes. "Nives..." Asena whispered, her voice barely a breath, the name escaping her lips before she could stop it. Nives didn't reply with words. Instead, her gaze dropped slowly to Asena’s lips, her jaw tightening with an intense, agonizing restraint that felt more dangerous than any corporate war they had ever waged. The walls of her pristine fortress hadn't just cracked; they were burning to the ground, and she was entirely content to let them turn to ash.

My pussy contracts, flames of desire burn brighter. Tom’ beard tickles my inner thighs, chafes my labia. His tongue is magnificent. Big and strong and hot like the rest of him. And he knows how to use it. He teases and tortures me, circling my inner lips, flicking my clit. He stiffens his tongue and penetrates me with it, all the while using his nose to grind over my clit. I writhe beneath him, coils of lust twisting tighter and tighter. Need winding up.