Chapter 7 Crescendo Of Control

• TORI
• The car slowed, rolling up to the massive gates of Dante’s estate. A fortress. Tall walls loomed, guards posted at every corner, armed and alert. My stomach twisted as the gate buzzed and slid open.
• I knew this kind of place too well. Opulent prisons wrapped in gold and silence. I had grown up in one. Power disguised as elegance. Secrets hiding behind every smile. Men who treated control like currency. Dante wasn’t just a CEO. He was something worse. Something familiar.