I woke up tasting him. My body ached in the sweetest places: thighs bruised from his grip, neck throbbing where he had bitten me, cunt swollen and tender from the pounding he gave me on that terrace. I shifted under silk sheets and felt the sticky mess between my legs, his come dried on my skin, fresh wetness already starting again at the memory. Fuck. I was in trouble. The sapphire necklace sat on the nightstand, eight million euros of cold blue fire mocking me. I had planned to fence it by noon, vanish to Prague by nightfall, add another clean score to my name. Instead I lay here throbbing for a masked stranger who had stolen it from me mid-f**k and then handed it back like a down payment. My phone buzzed on the pillow beside me. Unknown number. One photo attachment. I opened it an

