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She Walked Into the Wrong Hotel Room by Mistake - The Mafia Boss Was Waiting in Just a Towel
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00:00i was already running on fumes when it happened my shift at the diner had stretched into ten hours then twelve because sally didn't show up again and i couldn't afford to say no to the overtime the soles of my sneakers had holes in them my car was coughing like a dying animal and the cash in my wallet was already promised to rent
00:19my kid brother essie as my magus and overdue utility bills i should have gone straight home after the shift but my manager handed me a few left-over take-out containers and said for the kid so there i was dragging myself through the lobby of a mid-tier hotel at almost midnight still wearing my stained uniform trying not to cry at the thought of another broken night of sleep
00:39i had scraped together enough cash for one night in this place because my apartment s heat was out again and danny couldn't breathe in the cold it was either this or the e r i remember thinking the carpet in that hallway looked too clean for people like me to walk on i remember my arms shaking from holding the bag of food and my brain fogging over while i searched for room 250
00:58only i wasn't thinking straight my eyes were burning from exhaustion my hands were trembling as i swiped the key card shoved the door open and stumbled inside and then i froze the air smelled faintly of smoke and something expensive i couldn't name the lighting was dim but warm soft shadows stretching over sleek furniture and standing in front of me dripping from the shower a towel slung low on his hips chest broad and scarred like a map of violence was a man who should not have been there
01:27a man whose eyes cut straight through me like a blade what the hell do you think you're doing his voice was deep controlled a warning and a command at the same time my throat closed i stumbled back fumbling with the doorknob i i'm sorry i must have wrong room i stop just one word sharp enough to slice through my panic something in me obeyed before my brain caught up i froze in the doorway staring at him like some
01:57idiot who couldn't move his hair was wet slicked back droplets sliding down his shoulders he wasn't some frat boy caught off guard in a hotel shower
02:05no this man radiated power danger something feral beneath the polish you don't belong here his eyes swept over me the greasy diner uniform the worn out shoes the trembling hands clutching a paper bag and yet here you are
02:22my lungs refused to work all i could manage was a whisper please i didn't mean you opened a locked door with a key he tilted
02:30his head studying me like prey that doesn't happen by accident i swear i they gave me the wrong key at the desk i'm supposed to be in 215 my voice cracked because of course this would happen to me of course life would laugh in my face like it hadn't already chewed me up enough he stepped closer the towel shifting dangerously low
02:51my knees almost buckled i had never felt smaller in my life like my existence was being weighed on scales i couldn't see and then his eyes soft just barely like he noticed the exhaustion carved into my skin the fear shaking through me
03:06the cheap bag of food clutched like a lifeline drop the act if you want to survive his tone dropped lower quieter yet it sank into me like gravity itself who sent you nobody my voice came out too loud desperate i'm nobody i promise i work at lou's diner i'm just time trying to take care of my little brother please i didn't mean his jaw tightened something flickered behind his eyes suspicion fighting was something else
03:34something unreadable i don't know what made me do it but i whispered i don't even have the energy to lie for a moment silence only the hum of the heater and my ragged breathing his gaze burned into me like he was peeling away
03:46every layer id built just to get through each miserable day then he moved fast deliberate until he stood just a foot away towering over me my back pressed against the door i should have screamed fought begged instead i just
04:02waited waited because some part of me knew this man wouldn't kill me not yet he leaned down voice brushing my ear wrong rooms don't exist in my world you walked into mine that makes you mine now my pulse hammered so loud it drowned out thought i wanted to tell him he was insane i wanted to run
04:24but when his hand pressed against the door beside my head boxing me in all that came out was a shaky breath i could smell the soap on his skin feel the heat radiating off his body he pulled back just enough to look at me again his expression unreadable
04:37you want to walk out of here alive yes i whispered then you'll do exactly as i say and before i could speak before i could argue his hand closed around my wrist firm icy unshakable that was the moment i knew my life had just shattered and i'd
04:54d never get the pieces back in the same order again you ever feel like the universe gets some sick pleasure out of watching you crawl that's been my life every step forward costs a mile of myself and by the time i walked into that hotel room and stared into the eyes of a stranger wrapped in nothing but a towel i was already scraped hollow
05:14i didn't sleep that night he wouldn't let me leave he ordered room service for two sat across from me while i picked a food i hadn't tasted in weeks and watched me with those sharp restless eyes like i was a puzzle piece forced into the wrong box he asked questions in clipped tones and when i answered he gave no reaction
05:33just silence thick enough to choke on but in the quiet between his words my own thoughts grew too loud i kept seeing my dad's face the way it looked the last time i saw him
05:42before he disappeared into another failed scheme he'd promised me he'd come back with money to pay the bills to keep danny safe but instead we got collection notices and empty chairs at dinner my mom tried to hold it together but grief has a way of breaking bones you didn't even know you had she didn't survive long after that and me i was 18 holding a 10 year old boy who wheezed through the night and asking myself how the hell we were supposed to eat that's the root of me that's the soil i grew in heartbreak and hunger desperation and duct tape holding
06:12together what was left of our family so sitting across from this man this stranger with a body caught from scars and violence a man who treated silence like a weapon i felt the split inside me grow wider i was so tired of being the strong one so tired of keeping danny fed covering shifts walking home in the dark with my fists clenched because i couldn't afford to look weak and here was someone who looked at me like he saw everything i kept buried i'm not who you think i am
06:42who do you think i think you are a threat a liar someone who belongs in your world i couldn't even bring myself to say what that world was though every part of him screamed danger
07:12that's because my little brother can't breathe in a freezing apartment that's it that's all wrong key wrong room wrong life his gaze softened for half a second just half then the mosque slid back into place you should be more careful he said finally leaning back in his chair people like me don't tolerate mistakes i wanted to scream at him to demand who he was what kind of life made threats sound like bedtime stories
07:42i just whispered meeting you feels different and that terrifies me the words slipped out before i could stop them they weren't even meant for him they were a confession to myself raw and jagged spoken aloud for the first time he didn't reply he just watched me with eyes that seemed older than the rest of him like they'd seen more endings than beginnings the silence stretched pulling tighter until i couldn't breathe and then his phone buzzed he stood answering in a
08:12voice clipped and lethal words in italian spilling too fast for me to catch his expression shifted darker sharper and for the first time i saw the true edges of the man in front of me not just a stranger in a towel not just an inconvenience i'd stumbled into he ended the call slid the phone into his pocket and turned back to me his jaw was tight his eyes unreadable you can't leave now he said quietly why not my throat was dry because someone just found out you were here
08:42the bottom dropped out of my stomach i should have run the moment he said it but instead i just stood there clutching that greasy paper bag like it could save me from whatever storm was rolling in someone found out i was here i repeated my voice breaking his eyes pinned me cold and certain no someone found out you were here in my room
09:05my chest went tight like air had turned into concrete he walked over to the window tugged the curtain shut with one sharp motion then turned back toward me sit down
09:15i what now the command was like a strike to my knees before i knew it i sank into the chair heart hammering palm slick he crouched in front of me not touching but close enough that i could see the droplets of water still clinging to his collarbone the scar running across his shoulder like lightning frozen in skin
09:33you don't understand what you walked into he said voice lower now steadier if someone thinks you belong to me then you do and that means you're not safe anymore
09:42the words made no sense none of this made sense but they carried a finality that pressed down harder than logic
09:50i don't belong to anyone i whispered even though it came out shaky his mouth almost curved into something like a smile but it was humorless
09:58that's what you think for a moment we just stared at each other two worlds colliding in silence keys gazi didn't tea just look at me
10:07it reached into me like he could see all the nights id spent pretending everything was fine when it was in tea all the mornings i woke up with a lump in my throat and no one to carry the weight but me
10:16he leaned closer his voice low enough to skim the edge of my jaw what's your name i iswa lord emily emily emily
10:24emily he said it like he was testing the weight of it i'm luca the name settled between us heavy dangerous but grounding too for the first time since i stumbled into that room he felt almost human
10:37the phone buzzed again on the table he ignored it his eyes stayed locked on me you'll stay here tonight he said finally no arguing
10:46my chest flared hot you can't just decide that i just did the worst part a piece of me felt relief at the command even though i hated myself for it because for once
10:56someone else was taking control for once it wasn't on me to figure out how to keep the world from burning
11:02that scared me more than the danger hours later i was still wide awake curled on the edge of a couch too soft to belong in real life listening to him make calls in the other room his voice went sharp clipped italian the kind of tone that sounded like orders disguised as threats and when the calls ended the silence between us wasn't hostile anymore it was heavy
11:24yes but charged he came back loosened tie around his neck now hair dry and messy a drink in his hand he set it down untouched leaned against the counter and said it me like i was a thing keeping him from sleeping
11:37you don't ask questions he said finally because i don't he want the answers i admitted my voice trembling but honest for a second something flickered in his eyes a prover or maybe warning you're smarter than you look he murmured
11:53i get that a lot i shot back surprising both of us the silence that followed wasn't empty it sparked he smirked faint sharp karefu that mouth could get you in trouble i should have you looked away but i didn't maybe i'm already in trouble
12:10the space between us pulsed his jaw tightened his eyes darkened and before i knew it he was crossing the room i swore my breath froze in my lungs when he stopped right in front of me close enough to feel the heat rolling off him his hand brushed my hair back slow deliberate
12:26don't look at me like that don't look at me like that he said softly almost like it was a plea how am i looking at you i whispered like you see the man under the monster my heart stopped his thumb lingered near my temple warm steady terrifying
12:41the air snapped between us and then it happened the first spark his hand slid down cupping my cheek and my skin betrayed me by leaning into it electricity shot through me not gentle but jagged reckless
12:56reckless i should have pulled back i should have remembered danny waiting at home the bill stacked like tombstones the danger seeping through the walls of this place instead
13:03i let the silence answer and he whispered rough broken you don't know what you're doing to me the words left me shaking that was the first time i realized it this wasn't t just danger this was gravity
13:18you'd think after that moment his hand warm against my cheek the charge between us thick enough to drown in something would have broken wide open a kiss a confession a mistake we couldn't take back
13:33but that wasn't t how luca worked instead he pulled away like the touch had burned him he poured himself another drink downed it in one swallow and didn't look at me for the rest of the night silence stretched between us
13:45not awkward but dangerous like we had both stepped up to the edge of a cliff and backed away at the last second pretending the ground beneath our feet wasn't crumbling
13:54i curled up on the couch staring at the ceiling while he sat in the chair across from me still in his suit pants and undone tie eyes fixed on the darkness outside the window neither of us slept
14:05it should have been easier that way no spark no mess no heartache but instead the silence screamed louder than words the next morning he was different guarded colder
14:20like he regretted letting the mask slip even for a second you'll stay here until i say otherwise he told me as i rubbed sleep out of my eyes
14:28someone saw you that means you're a loose end a loose end that's all i was to him i wanted to laugh or cry or both instead i whispered i have a brother
14:43he needs me his jaw flexed he'll survive without you for a few days you don't know him i snapped before i could stop myself
14:52he's 13 and he can't even breathe right without his inhaler i'm all he's got for a flicker of a second i thought i saw something soften in his eyes
15:01but then he looked away stone again you'll see him when it's safe safe as if that word meant anything in his world
15:09the hours bled together after that days maybe i lost she treki the penthouse became a cage made of glass and velvet with luca as the jailer who never touched me never explained never answered
15:24but in the cracks of silence things slipped through one night i caught him sitting alone with a photo in his hand his expression carved from grief so raw it stole my breath
15:33he didn't notice me watching another chimi he came back with blood on his shirt he tried to brush past me but i grabbed his arm without thinking his muscles went rigid under my touch but he didn't pull away he just said in a voice i'll never forget
15:48don't ask and i didn't because he was right i didn't want the answers but god the silence between us grew heavy with all the things neither of us dared to say
15:58lachiachi night we'd find ourselves in the same room sitting in the dark our voices low he'd tell me scraps about italy about music his mother loved about a scott on his hand from when he was fifteen
16:09i'd tell him about danny about working double shifts about the fear of eviction notices they weren't confessions they were whispers into the void fragile and temporary like smoke curling in the air
16:21and in those moments i almost forgot who he was almost forgot that every secret he kept was a knife pointed at my chest but the doubt never left
16:30left every time his phone rang and he stepped out of the room my stomach twisted every time he came back with his expression shuttered
16:37i wondered if the connection between us was real or if i was just another piece on his board and then came the night it shattered
16:44i woke to the sound of voices muffled harsh
16:48lucas and another man's i crept to the door pressed my ear against it and caught only fragments
16:54she wasn't supposed to already saw her debt family my blood ran cold debt family it wasn't random it wasn't fate this wasn't just a mistake
17:08i wasn't in the wrong room i was in the wrong life and somehow my father's failures had dragged me into lucas world the door slammed and silence fell
17:18i stumbled back as lucas entered his expression carved from steel he saw me standing there wide-eyed shaking and for the first time his mask cracked not with softness but with something dangerous
17:31you were listening i heard enough i whispered the air between us went sharp like glass about to shatter his eyes locked on mine unreadable terrifying and then he said the words that ripped through me
17:44you should have never been in my life family and now i don't know if i can let you go
17:48i didn't know what hurt worse the fact that my father's debts had dragged me into lucas world or the way lucas voice broke when he said he didn't know if he could let me go
17:57after that night everything shifted the soft fragile moments we'd stolen in the dark were gone
18:03in their place came tension arguments silence that cut like glass
18:08i still don't know why i stayed maybe because he didn't let me leave maybe because a part of me didn't want to he became more protective and more dangerous all at once
18:20extra guards outside the door no phone no freedom he said it was for my safety but it felt like a cage
18:28i snapped one night pacing the living room while he watched from the window this isn't safety i said this is a prison
18:35it's survival he answered without turning around no survival is working two shifts to keep the lights
18:42on survival is taking care of a kid when you're still a kid yourself
18:46this i gestured around at the marble counters the glass walls the view of the city that felt like another
18:52planet this is power and it's not mine he turned then eyes dark you think i like this you think i wanted
19:00you in this then why am i here lucas my voice cracked because of my dad because of his debts because you
19:07think i'm some loose end you can control he stepped closer fists clenched at his sides because if you walk
19:12out that door right now someone puts a bullet in you before you reach the sidewalk the room went silent
19:18my chest heaved his face was a mask but his hands shook i didn't ask for this i whispered no he said
19:26quietly but i can't undo it and i can't watch you die his voice cracked on the last word just barely
19:34enough to make my heart stumble it would have been easier if he'd stayed cold if he'd been the monster i
19:40told myself he was but seeing that flicker of vulnerability in him the way his jaw trembled the
19:46way his eyes looked like a man trying to hold back a flood it broke something in me
19:50we started fighting more after that small things sharp words he'd try to keep me at arm's length
19:56i'd push back because i refused to be invisible but even in the fights the pull between us never faded
20:02one night a storm tore through the city rain lashed against the glass lucas phone buzzed and he cursed in
20:10italian grabbing his coat what now i asked exhausted business i'm coming with you no yes emily i'm not
20:21staying locked up while you go out and do god knows what if you really want to keep me alive then stop
20:26treating me like luggage he stared at me jaw tight breathing heavy you have no idea what you're asking
20:33then show me something in him snapped or maybe it cracked open because instead of dragging me back to the couch
20:40he just muttered a curse and shoved a hoodie into my hands fine he said stay close to me and don't
20:47say a word that's how i ended up in the back seat of a black suv rain streaking down the windows lucas
20:53silent beside me we drove to a warehouse by the docks the kind of place where shadows seemed to
20:57breathe i stayed behind him as he walked inside his hand brushing mine once not for affection but for
21:04warning inside voices echoed men i didn't know words i didn't understand lucas presence filled
21:12the room like a storm i stayed pressed against the wall trying to disappear then i saw eem the man talking
21:18to lucas a face i recognized from a photo stuffed in my father's old wallet one of the men who'd bled
21:23him dry that owed me the man said his voice oily that's a debt you know how this works this isn't
21:31about the debt anymore lucas growled it's about her i froze the man's eyes slid to me that's the girl
21:39he asked the one you're protecting before lucas could answer the man smirked then maybe we should
21:45collect a different way his hand went for his jacket everything happened fast lucas lunged slamming the man
21:52against a crate shouts erupted i ducked heart in my throat a gun hit the floor someone grabbed my arm
22:00i fought back clawing at hands that felt like iron i kicked bit anything through the chaos i heard lucas
22:07shout my name his voice wasn't a command anymore it was panic i broke free just as a gunshot rang out
22:14and then silence lucas stood over the man gun in hand chest heaving blood on the floor his eyes found
22:23mine wild and dark like something inside him had finally broken emily he said his voice raw we have
22:30to go now but my legs wouldn't move i couldn't feel my legs couldn't feel anything but the sound of my
22:36own heart hammering against my ribs so hard it hurt lucas grabbed my arm pulling me from the warehouse
22:42before my brain even caught up the storm outside had turned savage sheets of rain slamming the dock
22:48wind slicing through us like glass his grip was bruising but steady like he was dragging me out of
22:53a fire emily he hissed leaning close to my ear as he shoved me into the suv breathe just breathe but i
23:02couldn't not really the smell of gunpowder clung to his clothes there was blood on his hands not mine not
23:10his someone else's i pressed myself against the door chest heaving what did you do what i had to
23:18he snapped then softer what i had to the cotter roared to life we sped into the night city lights
23:27flickering past in streaks lucas knuckles were white on the steering wheel his jaw set eyes flicking to the
23:33rearview mirror every few seconds i stared at him at the rain dripping from his hair at the veins
23:38standing out in his hands this was the real man the one who killed without hesitation who dragged me
23:43into a world i didn't ask for and yet all i felt was the ache in my chest when i realized he was shaking
23:50too was it because of me i whispered his eyes flick to mine just for a second everything i do now is
23:57because of you the words should have sounded like a threat but they didn't they sounded like a confession
24:05my throat closed you can't keep me here you can't keep danny out of this forever
24:10i'm trying he said voice low and rough i'm trying harder than i ever have
24:16a sob crawled up my throat but didn't escape i pressed my forehead to the window watching raindrops
24:22race each other down the glass my life had always been survival scraping hustling clawing my way through
24:28the dark but this this was war the car swerved down a side street headlights appeared behind us too close
24:37too fast luca cursed under his breath hold on what the gunfire came first muffled through the rain a flash
24:46in the rear-view mirror bullets sparked off the back of the suv i screamed as luca jerked the wheel slamming
24:52us into an alley the car fishtailed on the wet pavement he threw it into park and shoved open his
24:57door stay down he barked luca buddy was already out gun in hand disappearing into the rain i ducked under
25:05the dashboard heart clawing at my ribs i could hear shouting shots footsteps splashing in puddles the world
25:13tilted on its axis and then i saw it through the windshield blurred by rain a figure creeping up
25:19behind him gun raised gun raised without thinking i threw the door open and stumbled into the storm
25:27luca i screamed he spun just as the shot rang out the man's gun jerked luca moved fast too fast grabbing
25:36him slamming him into the side of the suv the gun skittered across the ground get back in the car he
25:42or h me but i didn't i ran toward him every instinct screaming to help even though i had nothing but my
25:50bare hands the man lunged for the gun again i kicked it away my foot slipping in the rain he swung
25:56out to me and before i could even flinch luca's arm came around me dragging me back against his chest
26:03his other hand came up the gun steady his eyes locked on the man don't i whispered but he did one
26:10shot clean final the man crumpled luca held me against him both of us shaken in the rain his breath
26:19was ragged against my hair i told you to stay in the car he murmured voice breaking you'd be dead if i did
26:26i whispered back for a moment we just stood there to ghosts clinging to each other in the storm then
26:32headlights cut through the alley more cars more men luca's grip tightened we're not making it out
26:39of here if you stay with me i'm not leaving you i said his eyes met mine wild desperate pleading you
26:47don't understand if you stay they'll take you to get to me and i will burn the whole city down to get you
26:52back he shoved a set of keys into my hand there's a car two blocks over run don't look back i won't
27:01emily go the way he said my name tore through me i'd never heard him sound like that not even when
27:08bullets were flying i took one step back rain blurring my vision come with me i begged he shook his head
27:16i can't not this time and then he turned facing the headlights gun raised i ran i didn't even feel
27:24my feet hit the pavement just rain and sirens and the sound of his voice echoing in my head when i
27:31reached the car my hands shook so bad i could barely fit the key into the ignition in the rearview mirror
27:37through the sheets of rain i saw him standing alone in the alley facing down a line of men like a wolf
27:42surrounded and then the gunfire started again the phone rang once twice three times i stared at it on
27:51the passenger seat my knuckles wide around the steering wheel rain still streaked the windshield
27:56though the storm had eased my heart hadn't tea when i finally swiped the screen his voice was there low
28:02unsteady emily where are you i demanded my voice cracked raw from screaming his name in the alley a pause
28:11a ragged breath don't come back no my hands trembled harder no i'm done listening to that
28:21where are you silence on the line in the background faintly i heard sirens and something else gunfire
28:29maybe or thunder i'm making sure they can't follow you lucas said finally that's the only way this ends
28:35my throat closed you're not some tragic hero luca you don't get to decide how my story ends i already
28:44did he murmured the night you answered the wrong phone call i slammed my palm against the steering
28:50wheel stop talking like that tell me where a deafening crack exploded through the speaker not
28:56thunder a gunshot luca my voice was a whisper now luca breathing heavy uneven still here he said still
29:07standing but not for long i was already making a u tires screamed on wet asphalt i'm coming back no his
29:16voice snapped hard then broke you don't understand if they see you i don't care i screamed i don't care i'm
29:25not running from you another pause then soft to god emily why do you have to be like this because
29:32you're the first person who ever made me feel like i wasn't just surviving i wanted to say because even
29:37when you terrify me you make me feel alive instead i said because you didn't leave me either a sound
29:44escaped him half laugh half sob you always did ruin my plans headlights flared ahead of me as i drove
29:51cutting through the thinning rain the city spread out like a vain map of gold and shadow somewhere in it he was bleeding for me
29:58then i heard it a door slamming footsteps running shouting luca's breath hard against the phone
30:05emily he said voice raw if i don't make it out you will don't let them turn you into me the line went
30:11dead i gripped the phone so hard it hurt a street sign blurred past the docks loomed again black water
30:18glinting under a bruised sky and then i saw it flames rising from the warehouse a flash of movement men
30:26scattering like insects and luca stumbling out bloodied but still on his feet i slammed the car door
30:34and ran the world narrowed to his silhouette smoke curling around him my heart pounded so hard it
30:40drowned out the sirens he saw me and even from yards away i saw the relief break across his face like dawn
30:47he staggered toward me guns slipping from his fingers into the mud when we collided it was messy arms rain tears
30:55the taste of salt and iron he buried his face in my neck like a man starved
31:00i told you to run he rasped i did i whispered straight back to you
31:06he huffed out a shaky laugh then winced as pain ripped through his side my hands pressed to the wound automatically
31:13we have to go i said yeah he murmured we do behind us the warehouse groaned and collapsed inward sparks flying into the night whatever war he'd started there was ending in ashes
31:28we stumbled to the car together for once his hand wasn't dragging me we held on to each other
31:34both of us shaken but still upright when i started the engine he leaned back in the seat eyes closing
31:39you're going to hate me tomorrow he muttered probably i said but right now i just need you alive
31:47his eyes opened faint smile cutting through the blood on his lips deal i drove past the docks past the city
31:54into the night for the first time since the wrong phone call neither of us spoke our silence wasn't empty anymore
32:01it was a promise
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