SEDUCING THE UNTOUCHABLE MAFIA
She stared at the words, her brother’s face flashing through her mind his laugh, his voice on late-night calls, the way he’d always told her to stop trusting systems built by men like Ethan.
“This isn’t love,” she said quietly.
“No,” Dante agreed. “It’s leverage. For both of us.”
She exhaled slowly. “And intimacy?”
“That,” he said calmly, “will never be forced.”
Her eyes snapped up.
“But,” he continued, “it won’t be optional forever.”
Her heart stuttered.
He closed the folder. “You don’t have to decide that part today.”
Celeste stood abruptly, pacing to the window. The city sprawled below them indifferent, vast, alive. Somewhere down there, Ethan was still breathing freely. Somewhere, her br
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