Fated In Shadows Caged Fire

Caged Fire

Serena Vale

You think you can just claim me?

Leonardo De Luca

I don't think. I know.

Serena Vale

Go to hell.

He smirks, stepping closer, too close.

Leonardo De Luca

Been there, angel. Didn't like the view.

Serena clenches her fists, her breath hitching as his scent wraps around her--dark spice and danger. But she refuses to be weak.

Serena Vale

Let me go.

Leo tilts his head, amusement flickering in his cold, unreadable eyes.

Leonardo De Luca

You really don't remember me, do you!?

Her stomach tightens.

Serena Vale

Remember what?

He reaches in his pocket, pulls out something small, and tosses it onto the table.

A rusty silver locket.

Her breath catches.

No. It can't be.

Serena Vale

That's.....

Leonardo De Luca

Yours. The night we got lost, you told me to hold onto it. Said you'd come back for it one day.

Serena Vale

That was years ago.

Leonardo De Luca

And I waited.

She should feel something----gratitude, relief. Instead, all she feels is trapped.

Serena Vale

I'm not the same girl you knew.

Leo steps even closer, his voice dropping to a lethal whisper.

Leonardo De Luca

Good, I don't want that girl. I want a woman who can handle the monster I have become.

Her pulse skitters.

This isn't just reunion.

It's a reckoning.

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