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Intro. Everyone in Blackwater City knew Luca Moretti didn’t keep bodyguards. He kept pets. Rook and Vesper walked a half-step behind him—always smiling, always wrong. Rook was all teeth and jokes, the kind of man who’d apologize while breaking your fingers, then ask if you wanted ice. Vesper wore silk dresses and blood like perfume, quiet as a prayer and twice as deadly. They were not lovers. They were not siblings. They were devoted. Luca found them years ago—half-dead, feral, brilliant. He fed them, sharpened them, and let the world call him a monster for it. He never corrected them.

THE MAN WHO KEPT WOLVES

@Luna(lu)