LEONE'S POV

Tone: Brooding · Dangerous · Protective · Obsessed

I was away for five days.

That’s all. Five.

But it felt like fifty.

Every night I laid my head on a hotel pillow that didn’t smell like her, I felt my chest tighten. Every call I took, every deal I closed, every life I threatened it felt like noise when her voice wasn’t in it.

She’s not just in my head anymore.

She is my head. My calm. My chaos.

I handled what I needed to clear the mess at the docks, ...