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Chapter Twenty three: Faye POV
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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 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 forty nine: Lucien POV
Four hours from Washington to Varenholm if you obey traffic law.Nadia drives. I sit in the passenger seat because my hands need something to do and the wheel is the something. Faye is in the back with her phone, managing the legal team, the regulatory confirmations, and updates from Reth. Reth fol
Biker's Temptation:Claimed by the Ruthless Mafia King Chapter forty six: Faye POV
Washington arrives with rain, not dramatic, just persistent and low, the kind that flattens the city into grey and makes everything look slightly worn. We drive from the airport through streets that reflect their own lights back into the sky. I watch the city assemble itself outside the window and
Biker's Temptation:Claimed by the Ruthless Mafia King Chapter Two: Lucien POV
She is lying. I know this within thirty seconds of looking at her, not because she is bad at it, she is actually quite good at it, but because I have spent fifteen years reading people the way other men read contracts, and the things she is performing are not the things she is feeling. She is p
Biker's Temptation:Claimed by the Ruthless Mafia King ACT ONE: RUNAWAY AND THE CAPTURE
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