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June 30 - July 1, 2025
“Wanting you isn’t hard, princess. It’s all the rest that makes it difficult.”
“All I’ve been able to think about since I first saw you tonight is how good it would look wrapped around my fist.”
In the span of a single second, I realized three things: I should’ve told her about the inspector a long time ago. I would do anything to keep her out of his hands. And, most dominant of all those developments, I was hopelessly falling for my wife.
“I’ll buy you another one. Drop the dress, Milla. I won’t look until you beg me to.”
“Wait.” Please, don’t leave yet.
“Milla, don’t do this. Let me in.”
“Every day I sat in Hightower, I prayed to whatever divine wove the fates of our lives. I hoped that the girl in the train car hadn’t perished. Your name was the first I thought of when I walked out of that prison.”
“I was satisfied, learning you had lived—at peace even, with my choice to have saved you at the expense of my freedom. I was fine with the fact that the spoiled little Marchese heiress was safe in her tower over the Steam District. So imagine my frustration when a beautiful woman comes into my pub and hikes up her dress to reveal she’s the same girl I’ve been trying to forget about every day for the last seven years of my life.”
“And not only did she turn out to be a fucking Marchese, a name I once hated more than anything else on this Isle, she had to make it worse by being so unbelievably perfect. The object of all my frustrations and desires, the one I can’t go an hour without thinking about. Tell me, Milla, am I supposed to regret you now? After all we’ve been through, tell me none of it was worth finding each other.”
“I would do it all again,”
“I would run through fire and burn for you. I would lose arm and leg and limb. I’d do it all over, knowing what would happen to me, if it meant eventually having you as I do now. Milla, I don’t regret anything about you but this,”
“that now that I finally have you, I must...
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“You once asked me why I let my brothers treat me so terribly when I had no problem putting you in your place. It’s because you make me feel safe enough to do so. I know that with you, I can say exactly how I feel, what’s on my mind, and you won’t ever hold it against me. With you I can speak my mind, I can be myself no matter how ugly that is and even if you get angry, you don’t stay that way. I can trust you’ll still be there for me, that you won’t shut me away. You have made me feel safe for the first time in my life.”
“Your safety has expanded the boundaries that used to contain me. A safe house, a freezing train car, beneath the city in a tunnel of sewage, no matter where we are, I’m always home when I am with you. Now, I’m navigating this new freedom you’ve given me, and I’m bound to get it wrong more often than right. But I will work at it if you are willing to wait for me. Because I want to feel like this every day. I want you, Nico.”
“I’ve spent nearly a decade now trying to fix the past, but for the first time since I lost my family, I think about the future—a future with you. I thought my heart and my head were too broken to care for anyone, that this hole in my existence could only be filled with retribution and power.
“Now there is a weight there, and it gets heavy when you are gone. You are what I want every morning when I wake, every need of my flesh, every dream when I close my eyes.”
“Fuck it. I’ve fallen hard for you Camilla Mercy Marchese-Attano. I don’t need a piece of paper to tell me or anyone else you have my name and my heart and the rest of my life. You are mine, and I am wholly and irrevocably yours.”
“You’re about to find out what it truly means to be mine, Milla. I’m going to claim you first with my fingers, then with my cock. And when I’m finished with you, a contract won’t mean shit. You’ll belong to me the only way that matters.”
“Your heart.”
“It’s yours,”
“Whatever you want, princess. The heart in your chest, the air in your lungs, I’ll take whatever you offer me, and I won’t regret it. I never do.”
“Whatever you want, and I’ll give it to you. I’ll lay this world at your feet if you ask it of me.”
I think they are afraid of you, Camilla. I think they know how capable you are, and they are making sure you never realize it for yourself.
You are enough. You could do anything you want.
“Where is my wife?”
