OBSESSION OF THE FALLEN

eep in your bones and made you feel like the world had stopped, if only for a

ts running down the glass in thick streams, blurring the distant city lights. She barely noticed it anymore-the rain, the darkness, the mansion itself. It all

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call. She'd heard about the gunshots, the bloodshed, the way power had shifted in an instant. But none of it had prepared her for the

ed to look to know who it was. Marcus, her father's right-hand man, the only person

rength that came from years of surviving in a world where weakness was a death sentence. He didn't speak immediatel

ring. It was the first time she'd said it out lou

Miss Russo. The Morettis are already making their

r dreams. Xavier Moretti-the man she had been warned about her entire life. Cold, ruthless, and

s themselves might be listening. "And with your father's death, they

m. "I don't want any part of this. I don't want

on't have a choice, Miss Russo. Not anymore. The empire is fractu

me. She knew exactly who Marcus w

ice cracking for the first time. "I didn't ch

oor. "You might not have chosen it, but it

She had spent her entire life running from the darkness her father had built around he

s one more thing, Miss Russo. Xavier... he'll come for you. He a

ind reeling. She wanted to scream, to lash out, to somehow make it all go away. But no m

ti would nev