Chapter 53 53 Victoria I wake up choking on heat. And not the warm and cozy kind of heat. This is different. I feel like I’m suffocating. Like there is a fire under my skin, yet it feels like my bones are brittle and made of ice. It makes no

Chapter 52 52 Lorenzo I stand in front of the security monitors, watching surveillance footage that Dom hacked into. Eventually, we will find this fucker. Connor might be good at hiding, but I’m better at tracking. “Back it up,” I say, signaling to the video currently playing in front of

Chapter 51 51 Victoria The house feels different when I come back. I’m not sure why, but it is. Hell, I can’t even put my finger on what’s different about it. Maybe it’s me. Maybe I’m different. I step inside, the front door shutting behind me with a soft click.

Chapter 50 50 Victoria I swing my legs over the edge of the bed, and my bare feet hit the cold floor, making a chill run up my spine. Socks would be nice right now. Where did they go? I could have sworn I fell asleep in them… As I

Chapter 49 49 Lorenzo We all take positions at the warehouse. Two of my uncle’s men are stationed at the front door. One stands in the back of the building, and another looks bored while his hand rests on his gun. I sit at a folding table with a scale

Chapter 48 48 Victoria I sit at the long table with my arms crossed. I’m still wearing yesterday’s sweater, and if I’m being honest, I’m also still in a bad mood. My foot bounces under the table. I feel like I’m going to crawl out of my skin. There’s no

Chapter 47 47 Victoria One snowflake. Then another. Next thing I know, it’s handfuls swirling in the darkness. It hardly looks real. It almost feels like I’m in a movie. Where giant fake flakes float down from the sky, blanketing the ground with artificial fluff. But this is real. I

Chapter 46 46 Lorenzo Time to get my head out of my ass and get back to work. I’ve been dicking around at home for too long, and I’m about to get gutted if I don’t give my uncle some useful intel. The good news is these idiots out of

Chapter 45 45 Victoria The library is the only room in this house that doesn’t make me feel like I’m suffocating. It’s exactly what I need… It smells like paper and dust and the amazing fragrance of old leather. Also, from what I can tell, no security monitors stare at

Chapter 44 44 Victoria I’m halfway down the hallway with the stolen burner when I hear a noise. What is that? It’s not a doorbell, and I’m pretty sure it’s not a phone either. It sounds… I’m not even sure how to describe it, maybe like a metal door opening?

Chapter 43 43 Lorenzo I’m spiraling. As much as I’d like to pretend I’m not, I’m about to murder every person in this fucking mansion because they breathed the same air in as Victoria. If that doesn’t mean I’ve lost my mind, I don’t know what does. I don’t bother

Chapter 42 42 Victoria As my bare feet hit the marble, I spot one of Lorenzo’s men standing at the end of the corridor. For the past week, ever since our showdown in the foyer, I’ve had a constant shadow. He’s not blocking anything, and surprisingly, he’s not standing in

Chapter 41 41 Victoria I know he’s home before anyone says a word. The door to my room is closed, but even tucked away, I can hear the voices from down below. For as large a house as this is, it’s odd how voices travel. Right now, I can clearly

Chapter 40 40 Lorenzo Steel screeches against stone. The knife doesn’t need sharpening, but it always relaxes me to do it. Something about the sound scrapes my brain and halts all my thoughts. I love it. Rafe stands across the table, arms folded, watching the blade. Vin’s to my left,

Chapter 39 39 Victoria I find the asshole in the foyer, shrugging into a black jacket. Guess he’s going somewhere today… again. It’s not that I like his presence, but I don’t like being alone in this big estate. At least when he’s here, my brain is busy thinking of

Chapter 38 38 Lorenzo The report hits my desk. When I look up, I see it’s Rafe who dropped the folder in front of me. His jaw is tight, and his eyes are darker than usual. I’m not going to like whatever is inside. “Start talking,” I spin my pen

Chapter 37 37 Victoria Dinner feels like a hostage negotiation. I’m currently sitting across from him, which isn’t saying much, because this room certainly isn’t intimate. It’s huge. This place doesn’t fit the man I know… knew. I don’t know him now. The table is long enough to seat a

Chapter 36 36 Lorenzo Victoria’s footsteps echo down the hall. Her retreat should make me happy, but instead, the farther she gets, the more it pisses me off. Every click of her shoes feels like I’m being stabbed. When she turns the corner and disappears out of sight, I want

Chapter 35 35 Victoria I wake up with a start. It feels like I’m choking. My eyes blink against the bright sunlight streaking across my room, and apparently my face. Wait. Something feels wrong… Where the hell am I? My brain scrambles to place the room: the towering ceilings, the

Chapter 34 34 Lorenzo An hour has passed since I placed her in her new room and left her. It’s too quiet. Not the usual silence that happens in the dead of night, when my men do their rounds. No. This is different. It’s because of her. I stand outside