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Chapter 37(C): Contractually Yours
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Author's POV The morning was still gray when Dante began getting ready.Jem sat on the edge of the bed and watched him move through the room with the same controlled efficiency he brought to everything. Jacket. Cufflinks. The quiet, practiced routine of a man who had been doing this alone for a very long time.Dante stood in front of the mirror and reached for his collar.Jem stood up.He did not think about it. He crossed the room and reached up and adjusted the collar himself—straightening it, smoothing it flat with two fingers. A small, automatic gesture. The kind that belonged to people who had been living beside each other long enough that the line between my space and yours had quietly dissolved.He did not realize what he had done until Dante went still.Completely still.Jem looked up.Dante was watching him in the mirror. Not with surprise exactly. With something quieter than that. Something that looked like a man who had just been handed something he did not know how to hol
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Author's POV Shark did not come to Dante with rumors.He was not that kind of man. He dealt in verified information, confirmed movements, names he could trace. So when he knocked on the study door that morning and closed it behind him without being asked, Dante knew immediately that whatever he was carrying was worth paying attention to.Shark placed a single printed page on the desk."This came from one of my contacts in the intelligence network," he said. "Last night."Dante picked it up.He read it without expression.The information was thin — whispers moving through certain criminal channels about activity near the Williams business routes. Nothing specific enough to call a confirmed threat. But specific enough in one detail that made everything else secondary.The date matched Thursday.Dante set the page down."How reliable is this contact?""Reliable enough that I'm standing here," Shark said.Dante was quiet for a moment. He leaned back slightly in his chair, his eyes moving
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Author's POVJem did not know he was dreaming.That was the strange part. There was no moment of confusion, no blurry edges, no feeling of unreality. Everything was simply there — present and clear and vivid in a way that ordinary dreams never were.He was standing in an open space that had no name and no era.Not ancient. Not modern. Just vast and still, the way a place feels when time has decided not to apply to it. The ground beneath his feet was solid. The air carried a warmth that had no source. Above him, the sky was neither day nor night — just a deep, luminous quiet, like the moment between one breath and the next.And in the distance, there was a figure.Tall. Still. Dressed in robes that belonged to no specific century — heavy fabric, deep in color, moving slightly though there was no wind.Jem looked at the figure.And the figure turned.The face was not his own.But it carried something of him. Something in the line of the jaw. Something deep in the eyes — a particular ste
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Author's POV Mara did not rush.That was the thing about her that most people never understood. She was not impulsive. She did not act out of anger or emotion or desperation, even when all three of those things were sitting inside her chest at the same time.She acted out of calculation.And she had been calculating this for a very long time.***The folder on her desk was thin.It did not look like much. A few printed pages. Some handwritten notes in the margins. Dates, times, names written in her neat, careful handwriting.But every single detail in it had cost her something to collect.Dante's travel schedule for the next three weeks — pulled from careful observation and a source inside the logistics team she had cultivated quietly over months.His security rotation patterns — she had watched long enough to know which hours had the thinnest coverage, which guards rotated at what time, which gaps existed in the pattern that Dante himself probably never thought to question.The timi
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Author's POV The car arrived early.Earlier than Jem expected.He was still in the sitting room when he heard the gates open, and something in him shifted before he even stood up. Like his body knew before his mind caught up.He walked to the entrance.The door opened.Dante stepped through it.He looked composed. Suit in place. Expression controlled. Everything about him said nothing happened, nothing is wrong, everything is exactly as it should be.Except the color of his face.It was slightly off. Not dramatic. Just enough that someone who had been paying attention would notice.Jem had been paying attention.They looked at each other across the entrance hall.Neither of them spoke.Neither of them needed to.The silence between them said everything that words would have taken too long to explain. Dante knew that Jem knew. Jem knew that Dante knew he knew. And for a long moment they simply stood there, two people on either side of something that had shifted between them permanentl
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Author's POV Night came heavy over the estate, the kind of night that did not feel like rest but like waiting. Everything inside the mansion had gone quiet hours ago, the corridors dimmed, the staff withdrawn, the world outside reduced to distant sounds that never quite reached the upper rooms. Jem had fallen asleep without realizing how tired he was, his body sinking into the bed as though it had finally accepted silence as normal again. But somewhere deep in the stillness, something changed.It started as pain.Sharp. Sudden. Right in his chest.Jem jerked awake immediately, breath catching in his throat as his hand flew to his chest. His eyes snapped open in the dark room, the ceiling above him barely visible, but the pain was so real it didn’t feel like his own. It was foreign, like something being pulled through him from far away. His breathing became uneven as he sat up quickly, his back pressing against the headboard. For a few seconds, he couldn’t even think properly, ju
Contractually Yours Chapter 37: Contractually Yours
Jem's POV And in that silence, something shifted between us—unspoken, but clearly felt. I suddenly became very aware of how small I looked sitting there. Dante stood over me like a wall. Tall. Broad-shouldered. Unmoving. Of course, he had just come out of the shower so his hair was still sligh
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Jem's POV I couldn’t bear the closeness between Dante and me on the bed anymore. It suddenly felt suffocating and before I could even think it through properly, I jolted up from the bed and stood there abruptly, my arms hanging loosely by my sides, my body stiff and unsure of what to do next.
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Jem's POV I hated the idea of this situation. And I was certain something must have happened that triggered such an unsettling dream. Oh hell! How the hell could he make me want him this badly in reality, and still have the power, the right… the audacity to crawl into my dreams and make me scr
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Jem's POV The question caught me off guard and I almost felt my heart jump into my mouth, blocking every trace of air from my lungs. I looked away immediately, swallowing hard, trying to steady myself. My mind went blank. Then panic took over. “My girlfriend,” I stammered. “She’s my girlfriend.
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