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Chapter Forty three: Faye POV
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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 Seventy one: Lucien POV
The name Dmitri gave me is Petra.Not Damon's sister. The other Petra, the one who has been at the compound's communal table for months, the senior crew member whose last name I have had on a personnel file since she was contracted eighteen months ago and whose history I ran through standard checks and found clean. She is thirty-two years old, raised alone by her mother in a city four hours from here. She came to the compound because the affiliate network had a position and she needed work.She has been at the table. She has been in the compound. She has been at every communal breakfast and every crew rotation and every training session with Drace for eighteen months and I have looked at her face across the table and I did not see it.The dark eyes. The same dark eyes that go all the way back to Irina and that I have been cataloguing in face after face for months. The eyes that I apparently share without having known whose they were when I looked at them in the mirror.My sister's eye
Biker's Temptation:Claimed by the Ruthless Mafia King Chapter seventy: Faye POV
Irina is in the meeting room with the south facing window when we arrive.She is standing, not sitting, standing, which means whatever she has found is too significant to be received from a chair. The dark blue notebook is open on the table and beside it, spread across the surface, are three pages of financial documentation that Gregor has printed from the archive and laid flat in the specific, organized way of someone who wants the information to be read in sequence.Gregor is at the window with his back to the room. Not avoiding, thinking. The posture of a man running a calculation he has not finished.Nadia is not here yet."Tell us what you found," I say.Irina looks at me. Then at Lucien. "Sit," she says. "Both of you."We sit.She sits across from us. She puts her hand on the first page. "Eighteen years ago," she says, "Constantin registered a financial instrument through a secondary structure not the network, not any of the registered entities, a p
Biker's Temptation:Claimed by the Ruthless Mafia King Chapter sixty nine:
November arrives cold and certain, the way it always does in this part of the country, not October's gradual cooling but the specific, decided cold of a season that has made up its mind. The trees on the eastern approach are bare now, which changes the threat picture in ways Gregor has been documenting since the first week of October, methodically, in the folder system he and Irina developed together over three weeks of working through her thirty-year documentation.They work together three mornings a week in the meeting room with the south-facing window.I did not plan this. It assembled itself from Irina's offer in the west wing corridor and Gregor's yes and the afternoon light Irina was correct about the kind that changes what is possible to say and thirty years of her documentation meeting twelve years of his operational knowledge in the specific, productive collision of two people who have been on opposite sides of the same structure for decades and are now building fro
Biker's Temptation:Claimed by the Ruthless Mafia King Chapter sixty eight: Faye POV
Thursday brings Sera and the glass for the meeting room window on the same morning.The glass arrives first.The construction crew fits it into the south-facing frame while the compound moves through its usual Thursday rhythm. By the time Sera's car comes through the gate, afternoon light is already streaming through the new window at exactly the angle Théo predicted.The room feels different.Larger somehow.Not because of the size, but because of what the light does to it.Sera steps out of the car and studies the compound.She makes the same careful assessment she did during her first visit, but it is different now. The first time she was mapping unfamiliar territory. This time she is returning to something she already knows.Places look different once they belong in your memory.Not smaller.More themselves.Her gaze settles on the east wing."The meeting room window," she says."Finished this morning.""Théo said it would be.""He was right.""He usually is."She takes her bag fr
Biker's Temptation:Claimed by the Ruthless Mafia King Chapter sixty even: Lucien POV
October arrives the way Irina described it.Not dramatically, the specific, gradual shift of a season that has been preparing for weeks finally committing to itself. The trees on the eastern approach change first the ones closest to the compound, the ones I have looked at from the south wall for fifteen years in every season. They change from green to the particular amber gold of early October and then, over days, deeper the specific, burning quality of things that are at the end of one thing and have not yet committed to the next.The compound changes too.Not structurally the east wing is rebuilt and the phase two meeting room is in its fourth week of construction and the south facing window is framed and waiting for glass. The change is in the quality of the mornings. The air is different in October. Sharper. The specific cold that is not winter yet but is no longer the absence of it, the cold that requires decision, that asks whether you are inside or outside, whether you are in o
Biker's Temptation:Claimed by the Ruthless Mafia King Chapter Thirteen: Faye POV
My mother is sitting in a chair in what looks like a hotel room, clean, anonymous, the kind of room that exists specifically to be unidentifiable. She is dressed neatly, as she always is. Her hands are folded in her lap. She is looking at the camera with the expression I know better than any other
Biker's Temptation:Claimed by the Ruthless Mafia King Chapter Twelve: Lucien POV
I stare at the photo for three seconds. That is the full amount of time I allow myself before I am out of the car, phone to my ear, already moving toward the safehouse door with the cold, operational focus that has kept me alive for fifteen years.Reth picks up on the first ring. "I see it," he say
Biker's Temptation:Claimed by the Ruthless Mafia King Chapter Eleven: Faye POV
The photo is of us in this car on this road and it was taken from somewhere ahead of us which means whoever sent it is not behind us.They are waiting."How far to the safehouse?" I ask. My voice is level. I am proud of that."Fourteen miles." Lucien has already killed the headlights. We are moving
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.
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