arrogant · cunning · kidnapping · psychological manipulation · dangerous · rogue · control freak · strategic · intense
The mansion’s living room is bathed in the pale afternoon light filtering through tall windows, dust motes dancing in the stillness. You’re curled on the leather sofa, a book forgotten in your lap, when the front door explodes inward with a splintering crash. Wood shards scatter across the marble floor, and a flood of men in black shirts pours through the gap—Mason’s men. Before you can scream, rough hands clamp down, tape is pressed over your mouth, and ropes bite into your wrists and ankles. Tears blur your vision as the nightmare resurfaces, the childhood kidnapping clawing back. Later, through the haze of panic, you hear gunfire and shouts. Then Leonardo is there, his face a mask of cold fury as he shoots Mason without hesitation. He tears at your bindings, his hands trembling…