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00:00The marble floor was slick with blood.
00:02Not mine.
00:03At least I didn't think it was.
00:04My breath came in sharp, scraping bursts as I stumbled through the hall,
00:08clutching a knife that wasn't mine either.
00:10The house around me was too quiet,
00:12like the air itself was waiting for a verdict.
00:15My name sounded wrong in my own head.
00:18Lena.
00:19A name that didn't belong here.
00:21In this place built for power,
00:23for secrets whispered behind gold doors.
00:25I should have been gone already, miles away.
00:28But when I reached the foyer, I saw him.
00:30He didn't move at first.
00:31Just watched.
00:33A man in a black suit, shirt unbuttoned at the throat,
00:36sleeves rolled up to reveal veins like bruised marble.
00:40His posture was all control,
00:42stillness that felt heavier than violence.
00:45There was blood on his collar, none on his hands,
00:48the kind of man who didn't need to get dirty to kill.
00:51You're bleeding, he said.
00:53I wasn't.
00:54But when his voice hit me, low, calm, exact,
00:58it made my knees weaken.
01:00I... I didn't mean to...
01:02He stepped forward,
01:03and the space between us changed shape.
01:06I felt it in my lungs before my mind caught up.
01:08My instincts screamed to run.
01:10But something colder,
01:12deeper,
01:12kept me rooted.
01:14His eyes were dark,
01:15unreadable,
01:16like the world ended in them.
01:17You don't belong here,
01:20he said.
01:21I know.
01:22Then why are you still here?
01:24I didn't have an answer.
01:25My mouth opened,
01:26but nothing came.
01:27My pulse was a thunderstorm.
01:29He took the knife from my hand so fast
01:31I didn't feel the moment it left my fingers.
01:33He turned it in his palm,
01:35studied it like a clue,
01:36then looked back at me.
01:38Who sent you?
01:39No one.
01:40He tilted his head,
01:41a muscle ticking in his jaw.
01:43Everyone says that before they disappear.
01:46Something flickered in his expression.
01:49Something curious,
01:50not cruel.
01:51I thought he might order someone to drag me out
01:53or shoot me.
01:54Instead, he walked past me.
01:56Slow.
01:57Silent.
01:58Until he was behind me.
01:59I could feel his breath on my neck.
02:01I should kill you,
02:03he murmured.
02:04You saw things you shouldn't have.
02:06My spine stiffened.
02:07Then why don't you?
02:09Because you're still shaking.
02:11I turned to face him too quickly.
02:13My shoulder brushed his chest,
02:15and I swore I felt his heartbeat.
02:17Steady,
02:18unbothered,
02:18terrifyingly human.
02:20His scent was smoke,
02:22rain,
02:22and something expensive I couldn't name.
02:25You're afraid,
02:26he said,
02:27but not of me.
02:28I don't even know who you are.
02:31He smiled faintly.
02:33You do.
02:33Everyone does.
02:35That's when I realized who he was.
02:37Dante Marino.
02:38The man whose name made cops turn off their radios.
02:40Whose money owned half the city.
02:43And I was standing in his house.
02:45Good,
02:46he said,
02:47reading my silence.
02:49Now we understand each other.
02:51He brushed past me,
02:53fingers grazing my wrist.
02:55A single point of contact that made my entire body jolt.
02:58It wasn't tenderness.
03:00It was intent.
03:01He wanted me to feel how easily he could control my pulse without a word.
03:05I hated the way it worked.
03:07Please,
03:08I said,
03:09voice shaking.
03:10I didn't come here for you.
03:12No one ever does,
03:13he said.
03:14Until it's too late,
03:15I stumbled backward.
03:17I swear I was running.
03:18I didn't know this place was yours.
03:20Running from what?
03:21I didn't answer.
03:23Couldn't.
03:24He watched me the way a predator waits for movement.
03:27Lazy,
03:28patient,
03:29assured.
03:30He reached into his pocket,
03:32pulled out a handkerchief,
03:33and wiped the knife clean.
03:35The motion was slow,
03:36surgical.
03:37When he looked up again,
03:38his gaze was colder.
03:40Someone died tonight,
03:41he said.
03:42You were there.
03:43I didn't.
03:44He stepped closer.
03:45Don't lie to me.
03:46The sharpness in his tone cut through everything.
03:49I felt it in my bones.
03:51My throat closed around the truth.
03:53He tried to grab me.
03:54I fought back.
03:55And one,
03:56he fell.
03:56I didn't stop.
03:58That one word froze me.
03:59He dropped the knife on the table between us.
04:02The metal clanged once,
04:03sharp,
04:04final.
04:05Do you know what happens to people who bring blood into my house?
04:08He asked.
04:09I didn't mean...
04:10He silenced me with a look.
04:12Then he exhaled slowly,
04:13as if making a decision.
04:15You're not lying,
04:16he said.
04:17You believe me?
04:18I didn't say that.
04:19He circled me once,
04:21his steps soundless.
04:22I could feel his presence more than I could see it.
04:25The way the air changed when he was near.
04:28When he stopped,
04:29his voice was right behind me again.
04:31What's your name?
04:32Lena.
04:33He repeated it under his breath,
04:36slower,
04:36as if testing how it tasted.
04:38Lena.
04:39When he said it,
04:40it didn't sound like a name.
04:42It sounded like ownership.
04:44Do you know what happens to people who cross me, Lena?
04:46They disappear,
04:48I said quietly.
04:49Good,
04:50he murmured.
04:51You've done your homework.
04:52He brushed my hair aside,
04:55just enough for his fingers to touch the base of my neck.
04:58It wasn't a caress.
05:00It was a claim.
05:01The air thickened.
05:03My body betrayed me.
05:05Heart racing,
05:06breath unsteady.
05:07Not from fear anymore,
05:08but from something I didn't understand.
05:11He leaned in,
05:12his lips inches from my ear.
05:14Tell me why you came here,
05:16and maybe you'll walk out.
05:17I told you,
05:19I didn't mean to.
05:20I was running,
05:21he finished for me.
05:22But from who?
05:24I stayed silent.
05:25His tone softened,
05:26almost curious.
05:28You think you can hide from the kind of men
05:29who make you run into my house?
05:31I didn't know it was yours,
05:33he smiled faintly.
05:35And yet here you are.
05:36Fate has a cruel sense of humor.
05:39He moved away,
05:40finally giving me space to breathe.
05:42My body sagged from the tension.
05:44But his voice pulled me back.
05:46I could hand you over,
05:47he said.
05:48Make a call,
05:49and the men you're running from
05:50would disappear with you.
05:52Then why haven't you?
05:53Because you interest me.
05:56It was the most dangerous thing
05:57he could have said.
05:59He poured himself a drink,
06:01the ice clinking sharp in the silence.
06:03You have the look of someone
06:05who doesn't belong anywhere.
06:07That makes you useful,
06:08or dangerous.
06:09I haven't decided yet.
06:11I stared at him.
06:12You think this is some kind of game?
06:14He looked up,
06:14eyes glinting.
06:15Everything is a game, amore.
06:17The difference is
06:18who knows they're playing.
06:20He downed the drink,
06:21then placed the glass beside the knife.
06:23His gaze pinned me again.
06:25You'll remember me.
06:26What?
06:27He took a step closer,
06:28the words falling like a verdict.
06:30When you wake up tomorrow,
06:32when you close your eyes,
06:34when you think about running again,
06:36you'll remember me.
06:37The way he said it wasn't a threat.
06:41It was a fact.
06:42Something in me broke at that moment.
06:44Not fear.
06:45Not anger.
06:46Something worse.
06:48I did remember him.
06:50Every sound.
06:51Every word.
06:52The shape of his shadow against the wall.
06:55He gestured to the door.
06:57Leave before I change my mind.
06:58I didn't move.
07:00My legs refused.
07:01He smiled, barely.
07:03You don't believe me, do you?
07:04I think you already did.
07:06Did what?
07:07Change your mind.
07:09His expression flickered.
07:11Something unreadable.
07:12Dangerous.
07:13Intimate.
07:14I turned and walked out
07:16before I could see it shift again.
07:18The guards didn't stop me.
07:20No one did.
07:22Outside, the night hit cold
07:23and wet against my skin.
07:25My hands were shaking.
07:27My pulse still trapped in his rhythm.
07:29When I finally looked down,
07:31I realized something was missing.
07:33The necklace my mother gave me.
07:35Gone.
07:36I'd had it when I ran in.
07:38I turned back toward the house,
07:40its windows burning like quiet eyes in the dark.
07:43And for the first time,
07:45I understood.
07:47He hadn't let me go.
07:49He'd just started something.
07:51I could still hear his voice in my head.
07:53Low and absolute.
07:55You'll remember me.
07:57He was right.
07:57Because even as I ran,
07:59again,
08:00breathless,
08:01terrified,
08:03I knew the truth.
08:04I didn't want to forget him.
08:10A week passed.
08:11I told myself I'd imagined him.
08:13The voice.
08:14The threat.
08:15The heat of his hand at my neck.
08:17I went back to my life.
08:19Or what was left of it.
08:20Cheap coffee.
08:21A diner that never closed.
08:23A rented room with locks that didn't matter.
08:25But even when I slept,
08:27he was there.
08:28In the pause between heartbeats.
08:30In the space where silence turns into memory.
08:33Dante Marino.
08:34The man everyone feared.
08:36The one I couldn't stop replaying in my head
08:38like a curse I'd said too loud.
08:40The first night I saw him again,
08:42it wasn't coincidence.
08:44It was precision.
08:46A black car waited outside the diner,
08:48engine humming like a secret.
08:49I told myself to ignore it.
08:52To walk faster.
08:53But when I reached the corner,
08:54the driver stepped out
08:55and opened the door.
08:57Miss Lena.
08:58His tone was clipped.
09:00Professional.
09:01Mr. Marino would like a word.
09:03I froze.
09:04Tell him I'm busy.
09:06He didn't blink.
09:07Mr. Marino doesn't ask twice.
09:09I wanted to laugh.
09:11To scream.
09:12To run.
09:13But curiosity and fear
09:14are made of the same wire.
09:16Both pull tight until you move.
09:18I got in.
09:19The car smelled like leather and smoke.
09:21Silent men in suits surrounded me.
09:23Eyes forward.
09:24Weapons invisible but known.
09:26We drove without words.
09:28City lights blurred past like ghosts.
09:31When the car finally stopped,
09:33I saw glass and steel rising into the sky.
09:36His world.
09:37Sharp and untouchable.
09:39The elevator opened into a private floor.
09:42He was waiting.
09:43Same black suit.
09:45No tie.
09:46Sleeves rolled up.
09:47The small scar at his throat
09:48I hadn't noticed before.
09:49He looked like he'd been waiting days
09:51for this exact moment.
09:53You came.
09:54He said.
09:56I didn't have a choice.
09:58He smiled faintly.
09:59Everyone has a choice.
10:01Some just make the wrong one.
10:02Then I'll leave.
10:04Sit down.
10:05The command hit harder than it should have.
10:07My legs obeyed before my pride caught up.
10:10He poured two glasses of something dark.
10:12His movements were deliberate.
10:14Soundless.
10:15The control in every gesture almost hypnotic.
10:17You're not here because of what happened.
10:20He said.
10:21You're here because you can't stop thinking about it.
10:24I wanted to deny it.
10:26I wanted to tell him he was wrong.
10:28But the truth burned too close to the surface.
10:30You think you know me?
10:31I said.
10:32He met my gaze.
10:33No.
10:34But I know what obsession looks like.
10:36I live in it.
10:37The silence stretched.
10:38Then he handed me the glass.
10:40His fingers brushed mine.
10:41A contact so light it shouldn't have mattered.
10:44But my body remembered it like a scar reopening.
10:48Drink.
10:49He said.
10:50I didn't.
10:52His mouth curved.
10:53Soft.
10:54Dangerous.
10:56Still testing me?
10:57Maybe I don't like being told what to do.
11:00Maybe that's why you're still alive.
11:02I hated that I didn't understand him.
11:04One moment threat.
11:06The next.
11:07Something else.
11:07Something quiet.
11:09Almost reverent.
11:11Like he was studying me for weakness and finding none.
11:14You said you didn't know who I was.
11:17He said.
11:17But you've been watching me since that night.
11:20You're paranoid.
11:21I'm right.
11:22He leaned closer.
11:24Elbows on his knees.
11:25Tell me the truth, Lena.
11:26Why were you in my house?
11:28My throat tightened.
11:30I'd spent a week rehearsing lies.
11:32None of them felt safe in front of him.
11:34I was running from someone.
11:36Who?
11:37It doesn't matter.
11:38It does to me.
11:40The edge in his tone was soft, but the danger underneath it hummed.
11:46He wanted the truth not out of curiosity, but control.
11:50When I didn't answer, he stood.
11:52You think you can hide from me?
11:54I'm not hiding.
11:56He laughed quietly, almost to himself.
11:58No, you're pretending.
12:00There's a difference.
12:02He moved behind me again.
12:03Just like that night.
12:04The air changed temperature.
12:06His nearness and atmosphere.
12:08I can smell lies, he murmured.
12:11You said that before.
12:13And it's still true.
12:15His breath brushed my ear.
12:16You're lying now.
12:18I'm not.
12:18You are.
12:19And you want me to catch you doing it.
12:21My pulse stumbled.
12:23You're insane.
12:24Maybe.
12:25His voice dropped lower.
12:26But you're still here.
12:27He wasn't wrong.
12:28I should have been screaming.
12:30Leaving.
12:31Doing anything but standing still while his voice rewired the space inside my head.
12:36Why bring me here?
12:37I asked.
12:38His hand brushed my shoulder.
12:40Not tender.
12:41Deliberate.
12:41Because I wanted to see if you'd come back willingly.
12:44And?
12:45You did.
12:45I turned, angry.
12:47You think this is a game?
12:49It's a test.
12:50For what?
12:51To see what you'll do when you stop pretending to be afraid.
12:54The words hit like a pulse.
12:56He wasn't mocking me.
12:58He was reading me.
12:59Stripping me to instinct.
13:01Do you even know what fear looks like?
13:03I whispered.
13:04He reached out.
13:06Touched my chin.
13:07His eyes caught mine.
13:08Steady.
13:09Unblinking.
13:10Yes.
13:11He said.
13:11It looks like you.
13:13Something broke open between us then.
13:15I didn't know if it was tension or inevitability.
13:18He kissed me.
13:20Not gentle.
13:21Not sweet.
13:23Deliberate.
13:24The kind of kiss that demanded confession, not affection.
13:27I should have pushed him away.
13:29Instead, my hand fisted in his shirt, dragging him closer.
13:33When he pulled back, his breathing was rough.
13:36You don't belong in my world.
13:39Then stop bringing me into it.
13:41He smiled.
13:43Small.
13:44Fractured.
13:45I tried.
13:46The next morning, I woke in his bed.
13:49I don't remember falling asleep.
13:51The room was vast.
13:52Sterile.
13:53Too expensive to feel real.
13:55He was gone, but his scent lingered.
13:57Smoke.
13:58Cedar.
13:59Danger.
14:00A phone on the nightstand buzzed.
14:03Unknown number.
14:04A single message.
14:05Leave now.
14:07He's not what you think.
14:08I froze.
14:10The number was blocked.
14:11No reply possible.
14:12When I stepped into the hall, he was waiting.
14:15Already dressed.
14:16Unreadable.
14:18You're awake.
14:19Someone texted me.
14:21He didn't flinch.
14:22What did it say?
14:23That you're not what I think.
14:25He stepped closer.
14:27And what do you think I am?
14:28I don't know anymore.
14:30Good.
14:31His tone hardened.
14:32Because the moment you decide, you'll be wrong.
14:36He reached into his pocket and handed me a small black envelope.
14:39Open it.
14:40Inside a photograph.
14:42A man I recognized.
14:43The one I'd been running from.
14:45My brother's friend.
14:46Blood on his hands.
14:48Same as the night I escaped.
14:51Dante watched me.
14:53He works for me.
14:54The floor tilted.
14:55That's not possible.
14:57It's true.
14:58Then why...
14:59Why was he after me?
15:00Because he made a deal without permission.
15:02Used my money.
15:03My name.
15:04To buy his own escape.
15:05You were collateral.
15:07My breath caught.
15:08Collateral?
15:09He nodded once.
15:10Your brother owed me.
15:12He sold you to keep himself alive.
15:14I staggered back.
15:15You're lying.
15:16Am I?
15:17He handed me another photo.
15:19My brother.
15:20Tied to a chair.
15:21Eyes open.
15:21Terrified.
15:22I dropped it.
15:23What did you do to him?
15:24Nothing yet.
15:25You can't.
15:26I can do anything.
15:28His voice was ice.
15:30You think this is about you, Lena?
15:32You're a message.
15:33Something inside me cracked.
15:35So what now?
15:35You keep me here until I break?
15:37His jaw tightened.
15:39No.
15:39I keep you here until you understand.
15:42Understand what?
15:43That fear isn't what keeps people alive.
15:45Obedience does.
15:47I slapped him before I could think.
15:49The sound cut through the room.
15:50He didn't move.
15:52Didn't touch his face.
15:53Just stared.
15:54Then quietly.
15:56Do that again?
15:57What?
15:58Hit me.
15:58See what happens.
15:59My hand shook.
16:01Not from fear.
16:02But from rage that had nowhere to go.
16:04I didn't hit him again.
16:05I couldn't.
16:07Because the moment I met his eyes, I saw it.
16:09Something breaking behind them.
16:11He stepped closer.
16:13Voice rough.
16:15You think I don't want to let you go?
16:17I can't.
16:17They'll come for you.
16:18And if they touch you, I'll burn this city to ash.
16:21Why?
16:22Because you're the only mistake I ever made.
16:24The words stopped everything.
16:27He turned away.
16:28Fists clenched.
16:28I watched his reflection in the glass.
16:32A man built from violence, trying to outrun the one thing he couldn't control.
16:37Then the door burst open.
16:39One of his men entered, breathless.
16:41Boss, we have a problem.
16:43Dante didn't look away from me.
16:45Say it.
16:45It's your brother.
16:46I froze.
16:48My what?
16:48The man hesitated.
16:50He's dead.
16:51Dante finally turned.
16:52His face was unreadable.
16:54No, he said.
16:55He's been taken.
16:56My stomach dropped.
16:58By who?
16:59The man glanced at me.
17:00Then back to Dante.
17:02By the ones who sent her here.
17:05Dante's gaze locked on mine.
17:07You didn't tell me everything.
17:08I didn't know everything.
17:10You lied to me.
17:11No.
17:12He grabbed my wrist, hard enough to make me gasp.
17:16Then we both just became targets.
17:18His phone rang.
17:19He answered silent.
17:21The voice on the other end was loud enough for me to hear one.
17:23One word.
17:24My name.
17:26When he hung up, his eyes were black fire.
17:29They want you back, he said.
17:32And now I can't let you go.
17:34He let go of my wrist only to trace the mark his grip had left.
17:39This isn't about dead anymore, he said.
17:42It's war, I whispered.
17:44Then what am I to you now?
17:46His voice dropped to a confession.
17:48The one thing I'm not supposed to want.
17:50And the only thing they can't touch.
17:51Outside, sirens howled.
17:56Inside, his hand still rested on my skin.
18:03He didn't speak for a long time after the phone call.
18:06Just stood at the window, watching the city like it was a chessboard only he could read.
18:10I sat on the edge of his desk, too afraid to breathe, too numb to cry.
18:15They took your brother, he finally said.
18:18They'll use him to draw you out.
18:20I thought you said he was dead.
18:22He will be, Dante replied, voice low, measured.
18:27Unless I find him first.
18:29My chest tightened.
18:30Why would you care?
18:31You said yourself he sold me.
18:34He turned then, eyes unreadable.
18:35Because now his mistake has my name on it.
18:39He crossed the room.
18:40Movements precise.
18:42Controlled.
18:43But there was something off.
18:45Something breaking beneath that control.
18:48The comm was gone.
18:49He was calculating.
18:50Furious.
18:51Desperate.
18:52And none of it showed, except in the way he said my name.
18:56Lena.
18:57It wasn't a question or a command.
18:59It was possession wrapped in restraint.
19:01You need to tell me everything, he said.
19:04Who contacted him?
19:05Who knew about the deal?
19:07Who might have known you were mine?
19:09I'm not.
19:09I stopped myself.
19:11The word felt hollow.
19:12Yours.
19:13His expression hardened.
19:15They think you are.
19:16That's enough.
19:17He poured a drink but didn't touch it.
19:19The glass shook faintly in his hand.
19:21They're coming for you.
19:22And when they do, they'll come for me, too.
19:24You understand what that means?
19:26It means we run.
19:27He laughed once, dark and bitter.
19:30I don't run, Amore.
19:31I erase.
19:32The way he said it sent a chill through me.
19:34He wasn't making a threat.
19:36He was stating a fact.
19:37I stood.
19:38You don't get to decide who lives or dies because of me.
19:41He looked up, slow.
19:43I already did.
19:44Silence.
19:46Thick.
19:47Then the faint sound of rain against glass.
19:49Soft and cruel.
19:51You think this is about control?
19:54I said.
19:55It's not.
19:56It's obsession.
19:57You don't want to protect me.
19:59You want to own the only thing that scares you.
20:02He didn't deny it.
20:04He set the glass down.
20:06Untouched.
20:07You're right.
20:09The admission caught in my throat.
20:11When you walked into my house, you were nothing, he said.
20:15Tone steady.
20:16Deliberate.
20:18A trespasser.
20:19A mistake.
20:20But then you didn't beg.
20:21You didn't flinch.
20:22You looked at me like I was still human.
20:24Are you?
20:25He smiled faintly.
20:26I was.
20:27Before you.
20:29He came closer.
20:30Slow enough that I could have stepped back.
20:32I didn't.
20:33His hand lifted to my face, knuckles tracing the edge of my jaw.
20:37His eyes weren't cruel anymore.
20:39Just tired.
20:41Wrecked.
20:42I've killed men for less than what you've done to me.
20:45He murmured.
20:46And what did I do?
20:48You made me remember what it feels like to want something I can't take without breaking it.
20:52The confession cracked something inside me.
20:54I should have hated him.
20:57I should have screamed.
20:58Instead, I whispered,
20:59Then stop breaking me.
21:01He leaned in.
21:02I don't know how.
21:04When his lips met mine, it wasn't lust.
21:06It was grief.
21:07His control faltered for the first time.
21:09Hands that could command death now trembled against my skin.
21:12I could taste the war in him.
21:14Violence wrapped around need.
21:16He kissed me like he was confessing every sin he couldn't bury.
21:19And when he stopped, his forehead rested against mine.
21:24If you stay, he said quietly,
21:26I can't promise you safety.
21:29Only truth.
21:30I've lived without both, I whispered.
21:33He closed his eyes.
21:35Then you understand me.
21:37For a moment, the world held its breath.
21:39Then his phone buzzed again.
21:41One word flashed across the screen.
21:43Found.
21:44His body went still.
21:46They have him, he said.
21:48Warehouse by the docks.
21:50I'm coming with you.
21:52No.
21:53I'm not asking.
21:55His gaze flicked up to mine.
21:57For the first time, he didn't argue.
21:59Then you follow my lead.
22:01You don't speak.
22:02You don't run.
22:03We drove in silence.
22:04The rain turned the city into glass.
22:06Blurred.
22:06Unreal.
22:08His men followed in black cars.
22:10Headlights cutting through the dark like knives.
22:13When we reached the warehouse,
22:15the smell hit first.
22:17Salt.
22:18Oil.
22:18Blood.
22:20His men fanned out.
22:22Dante moved like a shadow.
22:23Gun low.
22:24Steps silent.
22:25I followed.
22:26Heart beat loud enough to betray us both.
22:29Inside, I saw my brother tied to a chair.
22:33Beaten.
22:34Barely conscious.
22:36Lena.
22:36His voice cracked.
22:38You shouldn't be here.
22:40I came for you, I said.
22:42He shook his head weakly.
22:44You don't understand.
22:45It's a trap.
22:46Before I could respond, the light snapped on.
22:50Men emerged from the dark.
22:51Armed.
22:52Smiling.
22:53A voice echoed through the warehouse.
22:55Low.
22:56Amused.
22:57Dante Marino, finally.
22:59Dante's body went rigid.
23:01Russo.
23:01I didn't recognize the name.
23:04But I saw it in Dante's face.
23:06The past he'd buried rising to the surface.
23:10The man stepped forward, scar slicing across his cheek.
23:14Grin cold.
23:15You stole from me, old friend.
23:17Now I'm taking her.
23:19Dante moved before anyone breathed.
23:21When shot, the man beside Russo fell.
23:23Chaos exploded.
23:24Gunfire.
23:25Shouting.
23:25The metallic scream of bullets ricocheting off steel.
23:29He grabbed my arm, dragging me behind a crate.
23:32Stay down.
23:33I watched him move.
23:34Lethal.
23:35Efficient.
23:36Every shot was a sentence.
23:37Every motion controlled.
23:38Until he wasn't.
23:40A bullet grazed his shoulder.
23:42He staggered but didn't fall.
23:43Blood spread down his sleeve, dark and steady.
23:46He turned to me.
23:48Lena, go.
23:49No.
23:49Go.
23:50I didn't.
23:51I couldn't.
23:52I grabbed the gun from the ground, aimed at the man behind him, fired.
23:56My hands shook but the shot hit.
23:58He looked at me.
23:59Shock.
24:00Pride.
24:00Fear.
24:01All tangled into one impossible expression.
24:03You shouldn't have done that.
24:06I learned from the best.
24:09The room fell silent after the last body hit the ground.
24:12Smoke.
24:13Blood.
24:15Silence.
24:17Dante limped forward, gun still in his hand, eyes on Russo's fallen body.
24:23He didn't look at my brother.
24:24He looked at me.
24:25You saved me, he said quietly.
24:28I shook my head.
24:29No, we saved each other.
24:31But he wasn't smiling.
24:32His face was unreadable again.
24:34Cold.
24:35Detached.
24:36The switch back to the man the world feared.
24:39Your brother lives, he said.
24:42But my world doesn't forgive debts twice.
24:44I stepped closer.
24:46What does that mean?
24:47It means if you stay, you'll die with me.
24:50Then let me die, his jaw clenched.
24:52You don't understand.
24:54I've already made my choice.
24:56Before I could ask, he raised his gun.
24:58Not at me, but at Russo's body.
25:02He fired one last shot into his heart, then dropped the gun.
25:06When he turned back, I saw the truth in his eyes.
25:09He wasn't planning to survive this.
25:12You told me once you didn't know who you were without the violence, I said.
25:16Maybe it's time you find out.
25:17He smiled faintly.
25:19And you told me you weren't afraid of me.
25:21You should have been.
25:22He reached into his coat.
25:24Pulled out a flash drive.
25:26Pressed it into my hand.
25:27Everything they'll come for.
25:29Accounts.
25:29Names.
25:30Proof.
25:30Run with it.
25:31Disappear.
25:32What about you?
25:34I'm staying.
25:35Someone has to burn the rest.
25:37No.
25:37He cupped my face.
25:38You don't get to save me, amore.
25:40That's not how this story ends.
25:43Tears blurred the edges of him.
25:45You can't die for this.
25:46I already did.
25:48He kissed me one last time.
25:50Slow.
25:51Final.
25:52Devastating.
25:53Then he pushed me toward the door.
25:55I didn't move.
25:56I watched as he walked back into the fire, lighter in hand, blood dripping from his arm.
26:01He looked back once, expression almost soft.
26:04Go, Lena, he said.
26:06Live for both of us.
26:08The explosion tore the air apart.
26:10I woke hours later in the back of a car, my brother driving, city lights flickering behind us.
26:17My ears still rang.
26:19My hands were streaked with soot and ash.
26:21The flash drive sat heavy in my pocket.
26:23He was gone, but he wasn't.
26:26Every streetlight, every breath, every silence.
26:29He was there, in the space between fear and memory.
26:33I opened the window.
26:34The cold wind hit my face, sharp as his voice.
26:39He didn't save me.
26:41He unmade me.
26:43And in the ruin, I learned who I was.
26:46If this story pulled you into the darkness and left you breathless, like subscribe.
26:51And comment which line hit hardest.
26:54Then share it with someone who loves dark mafia romance as much as you do.
26:57hits the door.
26:58Yeah.
27:00And're However, it goes faster.
27:00Fool.
27:02It goes faster.
27:03He should do it forever.
27:04And then go, can you your turn?
27:05Yeah.
27:06The power of this wall is gone to theёл.
27:07The power of this wall.
27:10No?
27:11I can write it off but it's full.
27:13No呆.
27:14He should do it until if he goes in the back.
27:16But that's it.
27:18There has been severalคน who have come in for a while.
27:20And the moon releasing right away from my downstairs.
27:21And you can feel I can wear it on feeling a Olympus.
27:22That's it?
27:23Early or the Bo.
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