Renato by Heather Carmel

RENATO
I took her as leverage. A debt to be collected.
Pressure on her groom. Nothing more.
Camilla was never supposed to matter.
But she didn’t break like the others.
Now she’s in my house, in my head, under my skin.
She calls me a monster, and maybe she’s right.
But monsters don’t beg. They take. And I always take what’s mine.

CAMILLA
He came to collect what my groom owed.
Instead, he took me.
What was meant to be a message became my world.
He expects fear. He expects obedience.
I should have crumbled. I didn’t.
Every look I give him is a plan he can’t see coming.
He wanted control. Now it’s mine.