HOPE

It should have been an easy sell.

He was just another client, a wealthy target.

I offered him what I had.

He stole the rest.

Beautiful. Confident.

His mafia lineage made him a conqueror.

He dominated my senses.

He planned to rule my body as well.

I didn’t have a chance at keeping my heart.

AXEL

Her name said it all.

Hope.

She came to me in my darkness.

The compass that would guide me out of the storm.

A goddess.

She’s with me as I fight the enemy that took everything from me.

I am at war now, but the moment the dust settles I’m taking Hope as my prize.

She’s a challenge. Resistant.

Catching her will be like catching a wind.

But the Gustavon men are wolves. We know how to tame the wind.

And I’m a patient man.

Victory is my only option.