In His Shadow, in His Bed
(Lorenzo's POV)
The cold promise of that blade against my skin was a watershed. It severed the last, fraying thread of denial. For a week, I retreated into the penthouse, not as a king to his throne, but as a wounded animal to its den. The silence was no longer empty; it was filled with the echoes of my own failures. I stood at the windows for hours, tracing the paths of headlights far below, each one a reminder of a city moving on without me.