Quiet Wealth

<p class=ql-align-center><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>**This is the start of a series. It may contain triggers and ends on a cliffhanger.**</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p class=ql-align-center><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This empire is built on the bones of our enemies </strong></p><p class=ql-align-center><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>surrounded by shadows that hide our twisted deeds and quiet wealth. </strong></p><p><br></p><p class=ql-align-center><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Sienna</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>After a decade what remained was a lone pendant and a shattered heart.</span></p><p><br></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>If not for the photo I'd think he was a ghost.</span></p><p><br></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>With no other choice I redefined my life mending the broken pieces.</span></p><p><br></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But like all things that haunt us he's back engulfing my once simple life into a raging storm surrounded by crime and bloodshed.</span></p><p><br></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>The trouble he brings is more than just his secrets; it's the weakness he brings out of me.</span></p><p><br></p><p class=ql-align-center><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>But just one taste can't hurt can it?</strong></p><p><br></p><p class=ql-align-center><br></p><p class=ql-align-center><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Elio</em></strong></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>My existence is tangled with darkness and mayhem where we live by a code</span></p><p class=ql-align-center><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>-family power loyalty and protection.</em></p><p><br></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Until her.</span></p><p><br></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>She was the light.</span></p><p><br></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>And I left.</span></p><p><br></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Everything I've done has been to protect her. </span></p><p><br></p><p class=ql-align-center><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>She resists our connection consumed by the betrayals of the past.</span></p><p><br></p><p class=ql-align-center><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Too bad. I refuse to stop until she becomes mine again.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><br></p><p></p><p><br></p>