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MILO The water runs down my skin, yet her moans echo in my head, not the steady drum of the shower. I lean against the cool tiles, trying to calm the storm inside me. Knowing she’s out there with him and belongs to us is maddening my desire to claim her. And my body responds to the thought with a hunger that rivals Leone’s. As I step out of the shower, wrapping a towel around my waist, I shake my head, trying to dispel the images that threaten to consume me. But they’re etched too deeply. My loyalty to Leone has always been ironclad, yet this... This sharing of Fallon feels foreign. We’ve shared women before in the past, in our early twenties, but to share his now wife, I never could have imagined this. My mind wanders as I dry off. Is this the beginning of something inevitable? Is he hoping to just get her out of my system and then kill her once he gets what he needs from her? Leone’s actions, of late, are a riddle, one that has me on edge. Because if there’s one truth I know, it’s th