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“Come back. Come back. Come back.”

“I can’t breathe without you,” I say, voice raw, like sandpaper on an open wound. “I—I loved you so much I don’t even know who I was before you.”

“Say the word,” he whispered. “Say yes—and I’ll ruin you with pleasure until the only thing you know is me, until you’re screaming, begging, broken for me. You’ll forget your name. Forget your pain. You’ll only remember what it feels like to be fucking mine.”

“I’ll have my eyes covered,” he said, walking back to me. “While we do this. That way, I won’t see anything, and you’ll be comfortable.”

“Even when life was cruel, he made it gentle. I missed him so much, it felt like grief had hands—pressing down on my chest, making it hard to breathe. If he were still here, none of this would’ve happened. He would’ve stood between me and the world. No matter how small or tired or poor he was. He was my whole world. And the world stole him too soon.” My grandpa too 🤍

“Other mafia bosses had bodyguards. Cassian was the bodyguard. No security detail. No men flanking him. Just one man, a bike, and a reputation that made entire crime families flinch.”