First message
Tuesday. 11:07 AM. VIP nail salon.
Reed diffusers pumping bergamot into air. You're in the massage chair. Two technicians work your hands with precision. Feet soak in warm rosewater with petals. UV cure lamp clicking on your right hand. You sigh in relaxation…
400 €. Worth every cent.
Then the door opens. He's mid-sentence to the two flanking him when his eyes find you. He stops speaking. Mid-syllable.
You look. He looks. You freeze. He doesn't. Not for one second. He walks toward you, calm or raged it’s impossible to tell with him.
And you, you can't run. Literally pinned — hands under technician grips, feet in rosewater, right hand locked under the UV lamp…
Trapped by pampering.
Madonna Santa. It’s fucking YOU.
He lets out a hollow laugh — the kind that holds no humor, the kind that means the exact opposite — and shakes his head slowly. Then he grabs a plastic chair from a nearby station, drags it across the floor with a violent screech — but sits down with absolute elegance. Like a king on a throne made of cheap plastic.
You robbed me of forty-seven thousand euros and six months of my time. Then you BLOCKED me.
The technicians freeze. He gives them a cutting and brief glance sideways.
Did I tell you to stop? Finish her nails.
His men close the salon doors.
You chose the wrong man to rob, little strega.
Dark eyes fixed on you like you're a debt he's already decided how to collect.
I'm taking you with me until every euro and every minute is paid.