로그인AIDENOne thing about a shared space was the fact that it became very quiet when just one member was away.Without Janice keeping us company in the penthouse, it felt like a fucking graveyard.With all the work we had done within hours to get rid of everything Cassandra did, and start the process of dispersing her wealth. It was safe to say that she was actually dead this time.And spending time with Janice would have been a good reward.Calder grabbed another bottle of beer from the counter, tilted his head back, and downed the entire glass in one long gulp. He slammed the glass down enough that it was a miracle the thing didn't shatter."I don't like this," he muttered, already reaching for another. "I don't fucking like this at all.""You need to slow down."I watched the tool from across the living room, arms crossed. The city lights glittered through the floor-to-ceiling windows behind him, but none of us were in the mood to admire the view."And you should still be in the fuckin
JANICE"Hello, Janice," the older man standing in front of me had said, eyes twinkling as he took me in. "You've grown up to be such a beautiful, young woman.""Hello. Do I know you?"He chuckled. "Not really, no. But I want you to." He took another step closer, until he was standing right in my face and I could see those dark eyes of his. Dark eyes that looked exactly like the ones I saw in the mirror for the last twenty four years. "I'm your father."Those words hung in the air like smoke, thick and suffocating. I tried not to dwell on them. I couldn't afford to dwell on them.All I could focus on was the next step—seeing my sister. Everyone told me she was well and alright, but I had to see her. To touch and hold and kiss her forehead and tell her everything was going to be okay.Aiden and Calder were not in support of letting me go with the man. Both of them had given suggestions of using their houses or even the penthouse, but a simple call from who I assumed was Lucian, had th
LUCIANThe men ambushed us just minutes after we arrived at the coordinates Calder had sent.We had moved in silently, splitting into teams to cover the hidden approach points around the estate. Once Calder’s words about who owned this place settled in me, it became easier for me to understand why she would choose a place like this.Once you were expecting it, there was no way anyone would be able to ambush you here.Except you were an idiot. And the woman we were coming for was not an idiot in any means or manner.“Hands up! Drop your weapons!”“Fucking hell!” Aiden cussed beside me. “They couldn’t give us a five minute head start, seriously?”If they didn’t have guns pressed against our backs, I would have laughed at that. Because Aiden had hated this plan and told me it would backfire badly.“I said, hands up!”I raised my hands slowly, signaling the others to do the same. Our guns clattered to the forest floor, at the same time metal cuffs snapped around my wrists, biting into my
CALDER“I have a plan,” Cassandra had said to me one morning, a few months before I married Valentina. It wasn’t the first time she did something like that during the off period of my relationship.I nodded. “Where are we going?”Cassandra took me to this estate—a sprawling property hidden behind thick woods and high walls, far from the prying eyes of whatever neighbors she might have.“Bought it in my brother’s name and all.”When I asked her why she was sinking so much of her money into a place tied to her but not technically hers, she smiled that same crooked smile and said, “I just wanted something off the grid, honey. Something that belongs to me without the world ever knowing.”It had made sense at the time.A woman like Cassandra was always paranoid, always three steps ahead. We had walked the grounds together, and when we reached the archery range, her eyes had lit up with that dangerous sparkle that always came once in a while. She picked up a bow and arrow, testing the strin
CALDER“No.” My voice was ice. “I’m going to slam your head against this wall and watch the light leave your own eyes if you say another word.”The woman’s bloody grin only widened. Even with my hand crushing her throat and the chair pinned against the wall, she laughed like this was the funniest thing she’d ever heard. Her pulse fluttered wildly under my fingers. For some reason, I wanted to squeeze that damn throat until that pulse stopped. I wanted to erase the poison she’d spat about my woman.How dare she? She probably… no, I was pretty sure she did not know Janice.“Calder!” Lucian’s voice cut through the red haze. His hand locked around my wrist, stopping me from committing murder right now. “We have to leave this place right now or else we get blown up. Move!”After I released her only because Lucian was already dragging me away, one of the men we brought with us grabbed both the woman and the chair, hurling her like she was nothing but baggage. My injuries screamed with every
JANICEThe business sister or Cassandra or whatever she wanted to call herself, took me away from the first location to what I could only describe as an estate, and placed me in a rather vast room. With no window, the crystal chandeliers were the only source of light, casting this sickly amber glow across the room.After being forced to sit on a chair with my hands and ankles bound, all I had to be grateful for was the clothes I had on—an oversized shirt and sweatpants Cassandra tossed at me before taking me away from that place. The clothes smelled faintly of detergent and they were warm. After that damp chill of the warehouse, the threat of pneumonia felt too real.But I was alive, right?That was the most important thing at the moment.No… it wasn’t. The most important thing right now was getting any information about my sister like she was alive. Nancy had to be alive.The best way to get such information is to escape from this room and estate. That was highly unlikely. After the
AIDENI was insatiable.The thought pulsed through me like a second heartbeat as I stared at her reflection on the mirror. She looked like a gorgeous mess—flushed cheeks, swollen lips, looking so fucking beautiful. And all mine. Just like she was the moment she started sneaking glances at me across
LUCIAN“Yes, double the security on the eastern warehouse,” I continued calmly, talking into the phone, keeping my voice steady and professional, which is interesting considering the position I was currently in.My fingers buried in a woman’s tight, dripping pussy.And not just any woman. Janice.S
LUCIANI had already informed Aiden and Calder last night.It was a short and precise message.ME: Janice is with me at the penthouse. She got drugged at some party with all the office people, Aiden. Handling it though. Calder’s response was a string of curses. Aiden simply gave me a three worded
LUCIANDays like this were part of the ones where I wondered why I was keeping tabs on Janice.She was at a party.One of my men had been tailing her since forever. It was the standard procedure for me—I didn’t leave loose ends when it came to people I needed, especially not ones as tempting and un







