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SAFE FOR THE MOMENT

Author: Aikohi
last update publish date: 2026-06-28 23:52:14

The door to the penthouse had barely clicked shut behind us when the air changed.

The event had left a charge on all three of us that the car ride home couldn’t burn off. Not the usual post-gala exhaustion or the sharp edge of adrenaline. This was thicker, deeper. The kind of heat that had been building since the lodge, since the quiet files Matteo kept leaving on my nightstand, since Nico started watching me like I was a map he was still trying to read but no longer fully controlled.

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  • CONTRACTED TO THE DON...AND HIS TWIN   SAFE FOR THE MOMENT

    The door to the penthouse had barely clicked shut behind us when the air changed. The event had left a charge on all three of us that the car ride home couldn’t burn off. Not the usual post-gala exhaustion or the sharp edge of adrenaline. This was thicker, deeper. The kind of heat that had been building since the lodge, since the quiet files Matteo kept leaving on my nightstand, since Nico started watching me like I was a map he was still trying to read but no longer fully controlled. Tonight, after watching me work that room like I belonged there, the heat between us had a different quality. Less about possession, less about who owned who. More about something that didn’t have a clean name yet. Something that felt dangerously close to real. I kicked off my heels in the entryway. The burgundy dress clung to my skin, still warm from the night, the slit up my thigh flashing as I moved. Nico’s hand found my lower back immediately, warm through the thin fabric. Matteo closed the door a

  • CONTRACTED TO THE DON...AND HIS TWIN   SOCIAL OBLIGATION

    The biggest social obligation so far was at the old Metropolitan Club, the kind of place where the chandeliers had been hanging since before most of the guests were born. Heavy velvet drapes, marble floors that clicked under heels, air thick with expensive perfume and older secrets. This wasn’t a simple gala. This was where the real strings got pulled. Where families like the Blacks reminded everyone else who still ran the table. I wasn’t the same woman who had walked into that first event months ago. Back then I’d been mapping exits and memorizing faces while trying not to drown in the dress and the role. Tonight I walked in like I belonged in the dress. Like the role had grown into my skin. The deep burgundy gown hugged every curve, slit up one thigh just enough to draw eyes without screaming for attention. My hair was up, diamonds at my ears and throat that weren’t mine but felt like armor now. Nico’s hand rested at the small of my back as we entered, warm and steady, but I d

  • CONTRACTED TO THE DON...AND HIS TWIN   MORE COMPLICATED

    Nico felt it before I even realized how obvious it had become. We were in the living room that evening. Nothing special. Matteo and I had been trading another quiet look across the kitchen island earlier, the kind that carried the weight of another file left on my nightstand and the silent alliance we were building. Nothing romantic, just understanding. Shared purpose. But the bond didn’t care about intentions. It carried the new closeness between us like a signal. Nico was on the couch with his laptop when it hit him. I felt the exact moment through the connection... his cool presence sharpening suddenly, turning colder, then flaring hot with something raw and complicated. Jealousy. Not the clean, controlled kind he usually kept locked down. This was messy, immediate. The kind that comes when you think someone is taking what’s yours. He closed the laptop slowly. Too slowly, his gray eyes lifted and locked on me where I sat curled up with a book I wasn’t reading. Then they slid t

  • CONTRACTED TO THE DON...AND HIS TWIN   DIDN'T FEEL ALONE

    It started small. Two days after Irina left, I found a plain white envelope on my nightstand. No name, no note. Just a USB drive inside. I knew it was from Matteo the second I saw it. The bond carried a quiet warmth when I picked it up, like he was somewhere in the penthouse watching to see what I’d do. I locked myself in the bathroom, plugged it in, and opened the files. Nothing huge. Nothing that would get him killed if someone found it. Just small pieces, a port manifest from seven years ago with my father’s old company name listed as the receiver. A payment note with Elias Vale’s initials next to a transfer that matched the one I’d already found. A single line from an old email chain: “Thompson becoming difficult. D says handle it quietly.” I sat on the cold tile floor and stared at the screen until my eyes burned. Matteo had been watching this empire with the same eyes I had for much longer. He didn’t say anything when I came out of the bathroom. Just gave me a small nod ac

  • CONTRACTED TO THE DON...AND HIS TWIN   IRINA ARRIVED

    Irina arrived like she owned the afternoon. The elevator chimed mid-afternoon, and I heard Maria’s surprised greeting from the kitchen. I was on the couch with a book I wasn’t reading, legs tucked under me, when Irina stepped into the living room. Charcoal coat draped over one arm, dark hair swept up, that same razor-sharp elegance she carried everywhere. She looked like she could cut glass with a smile. “Aurora,” she said, voice smooth as good whiskey. “I was in the area, thought I’d drop by.” I set the book down slowly. “You don’t strike me as the type who just drops by.” Her smile curved. “Smart girl. I don’t. But some conversations deserve to happen in private.” Maria hovered near the doorway, uncertain. I gave her a small nod. “We’re fine, Maria. Thanks.” The older woman disappeared into the kitchen without another word. Smart as always. Irina dropped her coat over the back of an armchair and settled onto the couch across from me like she belonged there. She crossed her le

  • CONTRACTED TO THE DON...AND HIS TWIN   I'D ALREADY GONE

    Matteo found me in the library the next afternoon. I was curled up in the big leather chair by the window, pretending to read the same page for the third time. The sun was coming in low and golden, catching dust in the air. My mind was still replaying the way Nico had gone completely still in that meeting room, the flush on his neck, the way Carlo had narrowed his eyes like he could smell something off but couldn’t name it. The door clicked shut behind Matteo. I looked up. He stood there for a second, hands in his pockets, just watching me. Not angry, not even annoyed. Just... assessing. Like I was a new map he was trying to read. “You did something yesterday,” he said quietly. No hello. Straight to it. I closed the book and set it on the small table beside me. “Yeah, I did.” He crossed the room slowly and dropped into the chair across from me. The same one he’d sat in when we talked about the bond before. He leaned forward, elbows on his knees, dark eyes steady on my face. “Du

  • CONTRACTED TO THE DON...AND HIS TWIN   NICO'S CLAIM

    AURORA'S POV Nico came back close to midnight. I felt him the second the elevator doors opened... that cool, sharp edge of the bond slicing through the warm afterglow I still had from Matteo. The penthouse was dark except for the low city lights bleeding through the windows. I was in the bedroom,

  • CONTRACTED TO THE DON...AND HIS TWIN   JUST STARTED

    AURORA'S POV The laptop showed up at six-fifteen. Some staff girl I didn’t know...not Maria, dropped it on the corner desk and bounced without saying shit. I waited till her footsteps disappeared down the hall before I moved. Brand new, still wrapped in that plastic sleeve. Top-of-the-line shit,

  • CONTRACTED TO THE DON...AND HIS TWIN   RULES

    Nico came back at noon. I knew because the entire penthouse seemed to tighten the moment he walked in... staff moving a little faster, voices dropping, the air itself feeling heavier. I was in the library pretending to read a book I hadn’t turned a page of when I heard his voice in the hallway, lo

  • CONTRACTED TO THE DON...AND HIS TWIN   MORNING

    I woke up alone in the middle of the enormous bed, sheets tangled around my waist, morning light cutting cold and white through the floor-to-ceiling windows. My body ached. Not just a little soreness...deep, throbbing reminders between my legs, on my hips where fingers had gripped too hard, on my

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