LOGINI was hired to eliminate the untouchable. Matt Davis, the ruthless leader of Lawson City. I took my shot, but instead of hitting him, he caught the bullet with his hand. At that moment, my existence as a ghost ended. What followed was a swift and terrifying punishment: hours of forced intimacy that broke both my training and my will. I pleaded for death, but Matt wouldn’t grant it. He claimed my submission was the sweetest thing he’d ever known and swore I would never leave his side, chaining me to his dark world forever. Now, I live in luxury, spoiled by the man who broke my virginity, fighting off the pain of my violation and the shock of his protection. The organization that hired me knows I failed and is coming for me, convinced I have the key to defeating their obstacle. They want me dead, and Matt, my captor, is my only shield. In the middle of this war, I realized the monster who shattered me is the only one who truly sees me. I confessed my love, and now, bound by chains and vows, we fight side-by-side.
View MoreChris POVI didn't dream often.This was a function of training rather than psychology — the Monkey Group had been very deliberate about sleep conditioning, understanding that an operative who dreamed was an operative whose unconscious mind was processing things that should have been filed and closed. They had techniques for it. Methods of mental architecture that pushed the processing down into something quieter and more manageable than dreams.The techniques had worked for nine years.They stopped working on a Tuesday night three weeks into my residence in the east wing suite.The dream wasn't about the hand in the box.It wasn't about Carter or the playing card or the four minutes or any of the operational content of the past weeks that would have made sense as dream material — the things that were active and unresolved and generating ongoing assessment.It was about before.The specific before that the file had opened up — the back section, the conditioning records, the mother who
Chris POVHe was gone for four hours.I knew the duration precisely because I had been counting — not obsessively, just the automatic interval-tracking of a person with nothing to do but sit in a window seat and watch a grey garden and wait for the specific atmospheric shift that meant Matt Davis had returned to his house.It happened at two in the afternoon.The shift.The gravity coming back.Damon came to my door twenty minutes after.He didn't knock — Damon never knocked, knocking implied a social contract he had apparently decided didn't apply to his interactions with me — he simply opened the door and stood in the frame and said:"Mr. Davis wants you at the east window. Third floor."I looked at him."Now," he said.The third floor east window was in a room I hadn't been in before — a narrow, functional space that felt like an observation point rather than a room anyone used for anything else. One chair. One window. No other furniture. The window faced the front approach to the
Chris POVI read the full documentation on a Saturday morning.Matt left the tablet on the window seat before I woke — I found it there when I came back from the bathroom, screen dark, sitting on top of the book I had been reading with the quiet deliberateness of something placed rather than forgotten. No note. No instruction. Just the tablet and the decision about what to do with it returned to me entirely.I picked it up.I sat in the window seat with the morning garden outside still grey and I opened the back section of the file and I read.I will not recount it in detail.Not because the detail wasn't there — it was all there, documented with the clinical thoroughness of people who understood that an undocumented process was an unrepeatable one and repeatability was the point. Every stage. Every method. The specific sequence of conditioning techniques applied to a nine-year-old boy who had fought every stage as a problem to be overcome.I read it in the same register I used for ev
Chris POVThe file arrived on a Friday.Not physically — Matt didn't slide a folder across a table or hand me a stack of documents with the casual authority of a man delivering a verdict. It arrived the way most things arrived in this house: through a fact stated plainly in the course of an evening that was otherwise unremarkable.He came in at his usual time.Sat in his chair.Looked at the garden.And said: "I want to show you something."He brought a tablet.Thin, expensive, the kind of device that existed in a different category from the consumer products I had occasionally used in the field. He unlocked it with a print and turned it toward me and set it on the window seat beside me without explanation.I looked at the screen.Then I looked at him.Then I looked at the screen again.It was a file.My file.Not the Monkey Group's internal records — though those were there too, I would find later, folded into the back sections with the specific clinical language of people documentin
Chris POV I thought Matt was going to give the signal to kill me. It felt like I was waiting forever. I could feel the warmth of the red laser dots on my skin, steady and patient waiting for his signal. Matt Davis just stared at me in silence. Then, instead of ordering my execution, he raised on
Chris POV I was standing still on the balcony. So was one of the shadows I had seen before. The air felt really heavy like something was hanging over us. The curtains behind Matt Davis were swaying gently in the breeze making sounds against the glass doors. The moon was shining down on us. It ma
Chris POV I started walking back toward my hideout, keeping my pace even despite the hot, stinging feeling in my shoulder. The night air was sharp against the drying blood on my sleeve, but I paid it no mind. Hurt is just proof you’re still breathing. About halfway there, the phone in my pocket
Chris POV The hoodie of my black sweatshirt sat low on my head, brushing my cheekbone when I shifted. Across my chest, the word Ghost was printed in clean white letters. Sharp and simple. Exactly how I liked my work. I lay flat on the rooftop, the concrete cold beneath my chest. My rifle rested












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