CLAIMED BY THE DEVIL DON.
The room was small, windowless, and poorly lit by a single fluorescent strip, a basement bunker, not a clinic.
Damon was seated on a metal folding chair beside me. The chaos of the breach outside had clearly ended, but his jacket was ripped, a smear of dirt marked his immaculate shirt, and a cut bled faintly above his eyebrow. He was no longer the composed predator; he was a scarred survivor.
He was using a damp cloth to gently clean the scrape on my forehead, an act of calculated, repulsive intimacy.
“Ah, you’re awake, bellissima,” he murmured, his voice too soft, too close. “I had worried for a moment that the strain of your theatrics might have caused a miscarriage. We wouldn’t want that.
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