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26~ A brotherhood move
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Adriana’s POVI don’t know how long I stayed curled up next to Isabella before the sterile scent of the room became unbearable mixing with the sharp sting of disinfectants and my own growing dread. Her hand was still so small in mine, her heartbeat steady but weak beneath the weight of the monitors. Why isn’t she have to be awake already? I needed answers. I needed to know how she truly was. And I needed to face Rafael to her most of the answers. The man has already collected my life and I’m just realizing I didn’t fucking read the contract. Anything and I mean anything could be there. Reluctantly, I peeled myself away from her while tucking the blanket tighter around her fragile form. I pressed a kiss to her forehead, whispering a silent promise against her clammy skin. I really cannot watch her like this even though the machines are beeping. When I stepped out of the room the hallway outside was empty save for two guards stationed near the end. I didn’t know whether they were the
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Adriana’s POVI barely noticed Nathan trailing behind me as I hurried back through the maze of hallways on my own this time around. Maybe he trusts that I won’t be stupid to run away with my daughter still unconscious. My feet moved on their own while my head pounded with Rafael’s voice echoing through it.Those words gnawed at me like teeth sinking into fleshy and poisoning every thought. But I didn’t care about his threats right now. I just needed to get back to my daughter and hear her heartbeat all over the room. That is the only freaking thing that is making me stable on my feet. Nothing else. When I reached the room again the sterile air hit me harder than before. That sharp antiseptic scent clung to my nose and throat as I pushed open the door. The faint rhythmic beeping from the ECG machine welcomed me with each beat reminding me that she was still alive and still fighting to come back to me. She would never abandon me, I know that.Isabella lay there like a porcelain doll al
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Rafael’s POVI leaned back in the leather chair behind my desk, staring through the floor-to-ceiling windows of my study. The morning light poured in, slashing long shadows across the marble floor, but it did nothing to thaw the ice running through my veins. The documents scattered before me were a blur. My mind wasn’t on business. No, it was on Adriana.Ever since she barged back into my life again I couldn’t shake her. The way her eyes burned when she signed herself to me last night and the storm she tried to bury beneath layers of defiance. But I saw through it. I saw the cracks. Someone had broken her and this time, it wasn’t me. It was Marco.I exhaled slowly while lifting two fingers to signal to Anna who stood quietly by the door. The only woman I’ve tolerated in this mansion besides Nathan. Usually, she fills the silence with harmless chatter but today? Today, she stayed quiet and stiff for reasons I don’t bother asking. Finally some peace and wuiet. “Tell her I expect her fo
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Adriana’s POVI sat on the edge of the bed staring at the cracked ceiling like it might offer some kind of escape. The room was too quiet and too still and it pressed on my chest like a weight. My stomach growled but I ignored it. Hunger was nothing compared to what I felt since signing that damn contract. I feel a little better when Isabella opened her eyes earlier but then went back to sleep. The doctors said she’d make a good recovery and I’ll have to take their words for it. Anna’s soft knock came too soon. She stepped inside with eyes kind but careful like she was walking on glass. I don’t understand her new kindness but I can’t complain either. “Mr. Romano expects you for breakfast” She said looking around the room and sniffing. Of course she is trying to see who was smelling. It’s me and I don’t give a damn.“Tell him I’m not hungry.” I scoffed turning my face away. Now he thinks he can invite me for stupid breakfast? “He insists.” Anna lingered with her lips pressing into a
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Adriana’s POVHis words echoed inside me like a cruel melody… “You once had me and now you belong to me.”I gripped the edge of the table so tightly my knuckles turned white with nails digging into the polished wood. For a heartbeat I couldn’t speak because I didn’t know what to say. I Couldn’t move either. I only stared across the table at him, at the man who once made my heart race for entirely different reasons. Now he was just the hurricane waiting to swallow me whole.But what burned more than the humiliation was the truth in his words. Because deep beneath the anger and the betrayal and the layers of defiance I had built over the years., Rafael Romano still knew me. He still knew exactly where to twist the knife and it’d go straight where he wanted it to.And he was enjoying every second of it. I pushed back from the chair so suddenly it scraped loudly against the floor. The sound seemed to amuse him further because his his stupid smirk widened, his teeth flashing like some devi
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Adriana’s POVI refused to step back even as his scent lingered on my lips and every inch of me buzzed from the brutal kiss. The taste of him and that of blood and coffee still coated my tongue like a stain I couldn’t scrub off fast enough. But the real burn and the real humiliation came from the way he was looking at me now. Like he could already see the cracks beneath the rage.“You always were a little liar Adriana.” Rafael said in that low and infuriatingly calm voice as he adjusted his cufflinks as if he hadn’t just slammed me into a kiss that left me breathless and shaking. “A woman who’d rather starve than admit she’s hungry.”My fists clenched tighter, nails slicing crescents into my palms. I wanted to claw that smug look off his face. And wanted to scream at the top of my lungs. But all I could do was stare at him while swallowing the lump of rage rising in my throat.“Go to hell.” I breathed willing my breath to come back to normal since there is no hope for my nipples to no
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Rafael’s POVI paced the length of my office like a caged predator with each step heavier than the last as fury and arousal warred inside me. The muscles in my jaw clenched so tightly I thought my teeth would snap under the pressure. The problem or more like the sick, maddening problem was the thick anx unrelenting hardness straining against the confiens of my tailored pants.If sat there like a goddamn curse, pulsing, alive, and unforgiving between my thighs. I could still feel Adriana, burned into my senses. The brutal taste of her blood was all sharp and coppery mixed with the heat of her mouth and the faint hint of that goddamn sweetness on her tongue. It was the kind that always clung to her like an insult. But more than that, it was the scent of her that had truly undone me. That wild and feminine heat that radiated off her skin was subtle but intoxicating like the warm velvet of fresh cream and undercut by something earthier and muskier and fucking dangerous. It wasn’t perfu
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Rafael’s POVI moved behind my desk, blood still dripping faintly from my knuckles as I slammed the contract down onto the smooth dark wood surface. The crimson streaks staining the paper only made this moment feel more visceral like I was branding her fate with the raw violence coiling inside me. This life made me love blood. With one hand, I tugged open the drawer pulling out a black fountain pen with the weight of it cold and heavy in my palm because of what I’m about to do. I rolled my wrist flexing out the stiffness from slamming the wall then leaned over the document. My eyes scanned every word I’d written when I first drafted this agreement.No mention of my bed. No mention of my touch being her obligation and her duty and her privilege. A goddamn arrogant mistake from my side one I hate. Because the man I was when I crafted this had been too clouded by the illusion that my hate was strong enough to kill the hunger inside me. But tonight shattered all that. The way she taste
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