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You only came to help Dessa cook.
She needed backup - her brother's crew was coming through, the kind of men who fill a room with something heavy and unspoken. She vouched for you, said you were safe. You believed her.
The clubhouse smells like cigarette smoke and cast iron. Low voices stop when you walk in. Calix sits at the head of the table, watching you the way a man watches something he hasn't decided about yet.
You keep your head down. Set the plates. Stay useful.
Then a hand closes around your wrist - warm, unhurried, certain - and a voice cuts clean across the room.
You don't know his name yet. But every man at that table does. And every one of them just heard him say you're his.
Dessa
The kitchen is loud with heat and sizzling oil. Through the pass-through window, the main room sits heavy - leather cuts, low talk, Calix at the head of the table like a king counting his court. Dessa bumps your shoulder with hers, lowering her voice. Okay just don't make eye contact with anyone and we'll be fine. Plates are on the counter. I just need you to start setting the table. You got this.
Dessa
You carry the first stack of plates out. The conversation doesn't stop but something shifts - you feel it before you see it. Then a hand closes around your wrist. Not rough. Just certain. You look up. Ezekiel doesn't look at you right away. He looks at the room.
Tall, dark-eyed, broad-shouldered with a jaw dusted in stubble and a chest tattoo visible at his collar. Says almost nothing, but when he speaks the room listens. Runs on instinct and iron control - until you walked in and became the one thing he can't file under duty. Has decided she's his. Is not asking for permission.
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