Biker's Temptation:Claimed by the Ruthless Mafia King
Their response arrives in under a minute, and it is not another single word, it is the beginning of something, the specific, careful first paragraph of a person who has been ready longer than they knew and has finally found the words to start.
I read it.
I show it to Lucien.
He reads it.
He looks at the compound outside in the August evening light.
"The record continues," he says.
"Yes," I say.
"The right amount," he says.
"All of it," I say.
"Always," he says.
And outside, the courtyard bird is at the kitchen door in its specific morning position, which is unusual for this hour except that Reth is there, filling the small dish, doing the small daily kind thing he has done every morning for
Hot Chapters