Chapter 7 Chapter 6 – Empire of Ruin

Alessandro didn’t speak after reading the text. He simply rolled Elena onto her stomach with one fluid, brutal motion, knees shoved wide, face pressed into the black silk. The mattress dipped under his weight as he mounted her from behind—no preamble, no gentleness, no warning. His cock—still slick from their last round—slammed home in a single punishing thrust that punched the air from her lungs. She screamed into the pillow. Not pain. Not pleasure. Something sharper. Something that lived between the two and wore teeth. He didn’t give her time to adjust. His hips snapped forward again and again—deep, vicious, relentless—each stroke driving her forward until her bound wrists (he’d re-cuffed them to the headboard without her noticing) scraped the