LOGIN“Ride it,” Damien said, voice low and rough against Lennon’s ear.Lennon sank down slowly, taking every thick inch until he was seated fully. Damien’s hands gripped his ass hard, controlling the pace from the start. He slammed him down again and again, forcing Lennon to take him deep with every bounce. The wet sound of skin meeting skin filled the quiet penthouse. Lennon moaned openly, head tipping back as Damien’s cock hit that spot inside him over and over.Damien leaned in and sucked hard at the side of Lennon’s neck, leaving dark marks, then bit down at the curve of his collarbone. Without warning, he lifted Lennon off his cock, turned him around, and pulled him back down in reverse. Lennon braced his hands on Damien’s thighs and rode him hard, ass bouncing with every thrust. Damien reached around and stroked his cock in quick, tight pulls while fucking up into him.He pushed two fingers into Lennon’s mouth. Lennon sucked them greedily, moaning around them, tongue working between
Roman moved first.He took the northeast service corridor with two contacts at his back while Damien came in through the south entry. Archer stayed with the vehicle, the live feed still open on his phone. The lower level smelled of salt water and rust, that cold industrial damp that clung to buildings sitting too close to the waterline. Roman kept to the wall, silent. Marcus held up two fingers at the far end. Two personnel. Roman nodded once.It took forty seconds. No gunfire. Both men were down before they could react. Roman moved straight to the storage unit and opened the panel.One container. Not two.He looked at Marcus.“One’s gone,” Marcus said quietly. “Seal’s still cold. Recent.”Roman secured the remaining container and headed for the internal staircase. Upstairs, the situation was louder.Damien had come through the south side and met resistance at the second door. The sounds of it carried down before Roman reached the top. He took the stairs in eight steps.Four rooms on
Damien waited four minutes.He told himself it was because Lennon had asked for two. The extra two minutes were an exercise in restraint—the version of himself that didn’t count every second Lennon was out of sight. At the four-minute mark he looked at Roman.Roman was already staring at his phone.“His location stopped moving three blocks north,” Roman said.Damien stood. “How long ago?”“Seven minutes.”“Seven.” Damien’s eyes went to the restaurant exit. “He left seven minutes ago.”“He told you two,” Archer said quietly.“Yes. He told me two.” Damien was already moving toward the door. “Someone sent him something. He didn’t show it to me.”“How do you know?” Roman asked, falling in behind him.“Because he checked his phone at the table. He looked at it differently than he usually does. Then he looked away from me.”They moved north fast.The building on the third block had a ground-floor unit with the door closed. Damien reached it first and tested the handle. Locked.Roman produce
Scarlett had sent the full file just after midnight. Financial records for Clara Voss stretching back fourteen months, three investment vehicles linking her money to the Marchetti network’s eastern port operations. The amounts were substantial. The trail was anything but accidental.Roman printed the pages and spread them across the kitchen island.“She’s been funding them since the engagement ended,” he said. “Six weeks after the breakup. Not a coincidence.”Archer stood on the opposite side of the island, arms folded. “She started building this the moment Damien ended it.”Damien’s voice came from the doorway. “She didn’t end it. I did. She wanted to keep going. I didn’t.”Lennon studied the documents. “So she spent four years putting this together.”“With Marchetti as the instrument,” Roman confirmed.Lennon’s eyes moved over the numbers. “She knows the network well enough to move money through it without raising flags.”“Her family has adjacent holdings,” Roman said. “The eastern p
The conversation with Patricia Lowe happened at nine PM.Roman found her in the apartment twelve blocks from the clinic. She was still there. She had not run, which meant either she had nowhere to go or someone had told her to stay. Roman's read was both.Lennon was there. Damien was not.That had been the agreement after forty minutes of disagreement. Damien negotiated with the network contact he had identified. Lennon handled Patricia with Roman.They did not love the division, they agreed to it.Patricia Lowe opened the door after the second knock. She was in her forties with the specific appearance of someone who had not slept since the early hours of the morning. She looked at Roman. She looked at Lennon and tried to close the door.Roman put a hand on the frame."Five minutes," Lennon told her. "Nothing you say goes to the police. We are not here for that."She looked at him."Then what are you here for.""Information. In exchange for the leverage they have on you being removed."
Damien flipped him onto his side, lay behind him, and entered him again. He wrapped one arm around Lennon's chest and fucked him with short, powerful thrusts. His other hand stroked Lennon's cock roughly. "Cum now," Damien said. Lennon moaned loud and shot thick ropes across the sheets. Damien kept fucking him through it, not slowing down.After Lennon finished, Damien pulled out, pushed him onto his back again, and straddled his waist. He stroked his own cock fast. Thick cum shot out across Lennon's stomach, chest, and neck. Damien groaned deep as he emptied everything.They lay on the bed afterward, breathing hard. Damien pulled Lennon against his chest and held him tight. Lennon stayed there, tension slowly leaving his body."I love you," Damien told him."I know," Lennon replied."We are going to get them back.""I know that too.”After a while of silence, Lennon broke the silence."Who has that kind of access," Lennon asked. "Not just to the clinic, to the code and the specific
Chapter 49Lennon was sprawled on Archer’s bed like he’d been poured there—legs dangling off the edge, hoodie rucked up around his waist to expose a thin strip of pale skin above the waistband of his sweats. His phone balanced precariously on his stomach, screen glowing soft blue against the late-a
LENNONDamian pulled into the underground garage just after dusk. The engine’s low growl faded into silence as he killed it. The day had dragged—every lecture an eternity, every stolen glance at Lennon in the back row feeling like a live wire sparking under his skin.
DAMIEN Damian was fucked.Completely, gloriously, irreversibly fucked.Heat pooled low in his stomach, thick and molten—the kind that made his balls tighten and his pulse hammer against his collar like it wanted out. Lennon’s small, wicked hand was wrapped around him again, stroking with slow, fil
LENNON Lennon froze. His hand still curled around Damien's now soft, spit slick cock. The faint tang of pre come was still on his tongue.The sudden knock cracked through the quiet like a whip and every muscle in Lennon's body locked tight.Panic slammed into him with full force, hot, blinding an







