Dec. 19, 2024
Frost and Fire: (Xmas episode 3 of 4) - "Melting Point"
In the aftermath of a violent confrontation with her past, Lucia finally reveals the full truth about her history with the Winters crime family to Gabriel. As he tends to her wounds in his suite, their professional boundaries dissolve completely,...
In the aftermath of a violent confrontation with her past, Lucia finally reveals the full truth about her history with the Winters crime family to Gabriel. As he tends to her wounds in his suite, their professional boundaries dissolve completely, leading to passionate confessions about Monaco, Paris, and the real reasons behind their years of cat-and-mouse. Lucia admits to leaving Alexei Winters at the altar and stealing the family's secret ledger, while Gabriel confesses his growing obsession during their long chase.
But their intimate revelations are cut short when news arrives that the Winters' inside man is talking – exposing a Christmas Day plan that has nothing to do with stealing jewels and everything to do with exacting revenge on Lucia. As the storm outside subsides, Lucia and Gabriel form a dangerous alliance, preparing to face her former family in what promises to be a deadly holiday reunion.
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Calorogu Shark Media, Hello, and welcome to Romance Weekly. This
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episode is titled Frost and Fire, Episode three. Melting Point.
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Blood looks different on snow, brighter, more accusing. I watch
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it drip from my shoulder onto pristine white, Each drop
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a memory I'd rather forget. Hold still, Gabriel's voice is
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tight as he cleans the Gray's wound. We're in his suite,
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the storm still raging outside, the echo of gunshots still
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ringing in my ears. It's nothing, I say, but my
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voice shakes, not from pain, from how close that bullet
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came to something vital, how close they all came.
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Nothing.
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His hands pause on my bare shoulder. Alexei, Winter's just
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tried to kill you. That's not nothing, No, but it's
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not surprising either. I'd known the risks when I'd chose
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aen FBI protection over family loyalty, known what would happen
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if the Winter's ever found me. He wasn't trying to
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kill me. I closed my eyes, remembering the look in
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Alexey's eyes before he fired. He was sending a message,
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which is that I have until Christmas Day to return
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what I stole from them. Gabriel's fingers tightened on my skin.
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And what exactly did you steal? The real question, the
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one I've been avoiding since he arrived, since Monaco, since Paris,
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everything I whisper, I stole everything. His hands still on
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my wound. Tell me. I turned to face, not caring
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that I'm half undressed, that his fingers are still on
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my skin, that the line between agent and lover blurred
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long ago, five years ago. The Winter's had a master
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ledger every contact, every fence, every dirty deal for the
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past twenty years. It was their insurance policy. I swallow
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hard until I took it. That's why you ran His
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eyes search mine, why you went straight. I gave most
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of it to Interpal, kept enough to ensure my safety.
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My laugh is bitter, fat, lot of good that did,
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And now they want it back. No, I stand, letting
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his hand fall away. They want revenge. The Ledger was
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just business, but betraying the family. I moved to the window.
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Watch snow. Paint everything clean and white. That's personal. He follows,
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his reflection, appearing behind mine in the glass, not telling
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me everything. No, I turn to face him, just like
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you're not telling me why you were really in Monaco?
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His smile is sharp. You think that was a setup,
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wasn't it? Instead of answering, he kisses me hard, demanding
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nothing like the playful kisses in Monaco, Nothing like the
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heated ones in the vault. This is raw truth, stripped
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of pretense. Feel like a setup. He breathes against my mouth.
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My back hits the cold window as he presses closer. No,
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I gasp as his mouth finds my throat. Doesn't feel
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like a setup. What does it feel like? Like danger?
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My hand's fist in his shirt like truth? His laugh
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vibrates against my skin. Since when does Lucia Frost care
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about truth? Since you? The words escape before I can
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stop them. He pulls back, studies my face in the
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storm dark room. Prove it? How tell me what else
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you stole from the winters. His thumb traces my bottom lip.
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Tell me why Alexey looked at you like a man betrayed,
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not just a thief betrayed. The truth burns in my
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throat like the first sip of expensive whisky, like desire.
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I was supposed to marry him. I whisper unite the families,
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continue the legacy. His hand tightens on my hip and
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instead instead I took their secrets, their connections, their trust.
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I meet his eyes, their future. When the night before
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the wedding, my laugh is shaky, left him at the
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altar with an empty safe and a good bye note.
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Gabriel's other hand slides into my hair, grips gently. That's
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why they won't stop hunting you. Would you? I arch
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into his touch if I'd done that to you? His
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kiss is the answer, possessive, demanding, full of dark promise.
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I did hunt you across three continents, and now that
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you've caught me. Now his hand slide lower, making my
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breath catch. I have to decide what to do with you.
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What are your options? I can barely think with his
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mouth tracing fire down my throat. Turn you in, protect you,
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or or his teeth graze my pulse point Help you
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end this once and for all. I pull back enough
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to see his face. Why would you risk your career
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for me? Because Monaco wasn't a set up? His eyes
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hold mine intense in the storm light, because Paris wasn't
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just a chase. Because every time I got close to
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catching you, I fell a little harder. Gabriel, let me
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help you, Lutia, His forehead rests against mine, let me
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in the storm, howls outside, matching the chaos in my heart.
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Trust isn't in my nature. The winter's taught me better.
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But here, with his body pressing me against cold glass,
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with his hands mapping my scars, with truth finally spilling
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between us, there's a safety deposit box, I whisper in Geneva.
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Everything the winters want is there, including including proof that
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Alexey's father ordered three hits on rival dealers, that the
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family's been laundering money through legitimate jewelers for decades. That
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his kiss silences me, hungry, desperate, like he's trying to
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taste the secrets on my tongue. When we break for air,
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his smile is dangerous, You beautiful, brilliant thief, ex thief,
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still brilliant. His hands slide under my thighs, lifting me.
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Still beautiful, Still dangerous, I warn, even as my legs
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wrap around his waist. Good. He carries me toward the bedroom,
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because what I want to do to you?
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Right now?
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A phone rings, his phone, the official one, Reality cres back.
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He sets me down, carefully, answers with his FBI voice Chase.
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I watch his face change as he listens, see the
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agent replace the lover. When he hangs up, his eyes
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are grim. They found Marcus Kane, the maintenance man dead. No,
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his jaw tightens talking. He gave up the whole plan,
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the Christmas Day heist, the real target. My blood runs cold,
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which is not the Petrov exhibition. He moves to the window,
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stares into the storm. You. They're coming for you, Lucia,
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all of them, the whole family. I think of the
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ledger in Geneva, of Alexey, at the altar of everything
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I stole and everyone I betrayed. Let them come. I
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press myself against Gabriel's back. Feel him shiver. I'm done running.
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His hands cover mine. Then let's give them a Christmas
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they'll never forget. Outside, the storm begins to ease, But inside,
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something far more dangerous is brewing, and this time I'm
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not facing it alone.
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