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Chapter Eighteen: Lucien POV
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Biker's Temptation:Claimed by the Ruthless Mafia King Chapter seventy seven: Lucien POV
Irina has the document on the table when we arrive.The original correspondence from 1997, the administrative record of the trust instrument's establishment, the one that registered a provision for a minor heir not publicly acknowledged. At the bottom of the document, below the notarization, two signatures. Marre's. And a witness signature: M. Haugen, with an address in the city where Petra grew up.The city where Vera lived when she was carrying Petra.Gregor is at the table. He has the look he has when a calculation has just resolved and the result is significant. "I processed a payment in 1997," he says. "Through the personal layer, the same layer as Vera's instrument and the one for Lucien. A smaller payment not an instrument, a single transaction. To an address in the same city." He looks at the document. "I did not know what it was for. I routed what I was given. The recipient name on the transaction was M. Haugen.""She was paid to witness," I say."Yes," Gregor says. "And to b
Biker's Temptation:Claimed by the Ruthless Mafia King Chapter seventy six: Faye POV
Nadia arrives Saturday morning with a bag that is larger than the previous visit.Not dramatically, incrementally, the specific increase of someone who is beginning to pack for a place the way you pack for somewhere you know rather than somewhere you are trying. She has added things to the north wing room over the months of visiting, a book left on the shelf, a specific mug she prefers that Reth noted and made permanently available, a jacket on the hook behind the door that she stopped taking back to Washington because bringing it back here was easier than carrying it. The room has been absorbing her gradually, the way the compound absorbs everyone, room by room, object by object, morning by morning.She comes in through the main gate with the bag and the specific, Friday to Saturday quality of someone who has completed a week of significant work and is now in the place that is not that.Théo is in the courtyard.He is doing the post sequence Drace taught him, the specific combination
Biker's Temptation:Claimed by the Ruthless Mafia King Chapter seventy five: Lucien POV
Petra asks her first question at the south wall on Wednesday morning and it is not the question I expected.I expected something about Marre, about the network, about the proceeding and the instrument and the full complicated architecture of what we have all been living inside for months. I expected the operational question, the one that establishes the facts before the feelings, the approach I use myself when a significant thing has arrived and needs to be made manageable.Instead she says: "What was she like? Vera. What was she like to you?"I look at the territory.The thin snow on the ground. The bare eastern trees. The specific, decided cold of a November morning that is not asking permission."I did not know her," I say. "She left when I was four. I have no memory of her that I can trust as genuine rather than constructed from what people have told me." I pause. "What I have is the photograph Nadia sent to Gregor. The woman in the garden. The amendment to the estate. The instrum
Biker's Temptation:Claimed by the Ruthless Mafia King Chapter seventy four: Faye POV
Wednesday morning arrives with the first real snow of the season.Not much, a thin layer, the kind that covers the ground without committing to anything, that the crew will clear before breakfast and that will be gone from the southern faces of the buildings by noon. But it changes the quality of the morning light in the compound. Everything is briefly, precisely itself — the edges of the east wing against the white, the courtyard's particular shape made visible, the footprints of whoever was out early crossing the fresh surface.Reth's footprints go from the main building to the kitchen door and back. The bird has been fed.Petra's footprints go from the crew quarters to the south wall and back. She was up before dawn. Standing at the wall the way Lucien and I stand at the wall looking at the territory, orienting. Finding where north is.I see the footprints from the operations room window at five twenty and I think about all the different people who have stood at that wall and looke
Biker's Temptation:Claimed by the Ruthless Mafia King Chapter seventy three: Lucien POV
We tell Théo at dinner.Not during dinner, after, when the table has cleared and it is the four of us: Faye and me, Théo and Petra. Irina and Gregor have gone to the west wing with the evening's archive materials. Marcus has disappeared with his newspaper to wherever he goes when he is being deliberately absent. Reth is managing something. The communal space is quiet with the specific quality of an evening that knows it is holding something important.Théo has the green notebook on the table. He always has the green notebook. He has been writing in it since before dinner, observing, as he always observes, the quality of the room. The way people moved around each other. The specific care with which Petra carried her dinner plate. The way Irina touched her shoulder briefly when she left.He has noticed.He is fourteen and he always notices.I tell him.I tell him directly, without managing it into something smaller, because that is what he deserves and because anything smaller would be
Biker's Temptation:Claimed by the Ruthless Mafia King Chapter Seventy two: Faye POV
Petra stays on the low wall for two hours.Drace stays with her for the first hour. Then he goes, not because the sitting is done but because he has understood, in the specific way Drace understands things that do not require words, that the second hour is one she needs alone. He leaves without ceremony. He comes back to the operations room and he says to me, "She is all right," and I say "I know," and he goes to whatever he does when he is not at the training ground, which nobody has ever established.At the two-hour mark, Théo finds her.He has been in the north wing room with his green notebook all morning remote school on Tuesdays, which he manages with the focused efficiency of someone who has decided that the compound's schedule takes precedence and school will accommodate itself to the compound rather than the reverse, a position Celeste has apparently accepted because Théo's grades have not suffered and arguing with him about it requires more energy than the results justify.H
Biker's Temptation:Claimed by the Ruthless Mafia King Chapter Six: Lucien POV
Damon breaks in under four minutes. I want to be precise about that, not because the time is impressive, but because it tells me something. A man who breaks in four minutes was already looking for permission to break. He was not a true believer. He was a man who made a bad financial decision and
Biker's Temptation:Claimed by the Ruthless Mafia King Chapter Ten: Lucien POV
The interior alarm means one thing: breach. Not over the wall, through a door. Someone opened something from the inside. I am moving before the alarm finishes its first cycle, already running the probability in my head, which door, which access point, who is on duty, where the vulnerability is.
Biker's Temptation:Claimed by the Ruthless Mafia King Chapter Eight: Lucien POV
I move the sister. Her name is Calla, she is twenty years old, she lives in a two room apartment in the next town over with a roommate who knows nothing about her brother's affiliations. Reves people have been watching her for eleven days, which is how long they've had their secondary asset insid
Biker's Temptation:Claimed by the Ruthless Mafia King Chapter Seven: Faye POV
Three days pass. I want to account for them accurately because the way they pass is important, not dramatic, not a montage of tension and charged glances, though both of those are present in the background like a low frequency hum I have chosen not to investigate. Three days of the specific, pr
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