Ruin Me, Alpha Step-Daddy
Nicole shrieked from the balcony, her laughter ringing out clear above the roar.
I hit the bloody canvas hard, coughing up a mouthful of copper-tasting crimson as the mercenary stalked over me, lifting a heavy boot to crush my chest into the floorboards. My vision flickered violently. My lungs burned for air, and every muscle in my body screamed in total surrender. I was losing. The fifty thousand dollars, my apartment, my independence—everything was slipping through my bleeding fingers.
Then, right as his steel-toed boot descended toward my face, a violent shift ripped through my entire central nervous system.