The Don’s!$^, Obses=si^%.on

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x%-ed-race college .stude
-nt E /.lia)_s% is cornered by l#o)an sha\/rks a=.ft\%#er his fa-#the]]/r f:l^ #ees the c\,ountry with
millions.-  Then Lucius Vance, the iron-fisted don ]_of the Vance family, descends. =He f ? orces Elias to si+gn -+ a contract—n/@ot as a:.
/n assistant, but as his p(ersonal )/play))!t]!;hing. He_`? shoo\ts throu,gh the (h_and of anyone who co;?!$vets Elias,
\@ an)d sha@tte[($rs his w$ ill! in %@ a d,`a/%rk win
:(e cell*?;ar. Elias never fully surren.!ders. O][n a yacht un`(# d?er [,enemy f[*i@re, h e+[ makes a r@un for  ^a lifeboat—but# it w\as %a game all along. Luci*us ca^^tches him in the ra,;^in.
En`raged by his defianc?
\e, (he binds Eli=as';+s wrists, to th@e \)\bed wi
th hi_s? own belt(?. W:)ith absolute +
power a? [/nd a  -bra::nding mark, Luc ,iu)s d$ eclares one +),thing: t)h:,is forbidden/ contract ,[h\as no escape. N!,!ot ; anymore.