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[polykrom]

"Portraits"

2024

François

[alarwynnwhispers]

🧜🏻‍♀️ᴇᴠᴇɴ ᴀꜰᴛᴇʀ ᴇᴠᴇʀʏᴛʜɪɴɢ - ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ 1: ᴛʜᴇ ꜱɪʀᴇɴ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ɴɪɢʜᴛ🧜🏻‍♀️

ꜰ1 x ʀᴇᴀᴅᴇʀ | ʟᴀɴᴅᴏ ɴᴏʀʀɪꜱ ᴀᴜ | ꜰᴏʀʙɪᴅᴅᴇɴ ᴀᴛᴛʀᴀᴄᴛɪᴏɴ + ᴍʏꜱᴛᴇʀʏ + ꜱʟᴏᴡ ʙᴜʀɴ

⚠️ ᴄᴏɴᴛᴇɴᴛ ᴡᴀʀɴɪɴɢꜱ:

ᴛʜᴇᴍᴇꜱ ᴏꜰ ʙᴇᴛʀᴀʏᴀʟ ᴀɴᴅ ᴀʙᴀɴᴅᴏɴᴍᴇɴᴛ

ᴍɪʟᴅʟʏ ᴅᴀʀᴋ ᴜɴᴅᴇʀᴛᴏɴᴇꜱ

ᴍᴇɴᴛɪᴏɴꜱ ᴏꜰ ᴇᴍᴏᴛɪᴏɴᴀʟ ᴍᴀɴɪᴘᴜʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴ

ᴀʟᴄᴏʜᴏʟ ᴀɴᴅ ɴɪɢʜᴛʟɪꜰᴇ ꜱᴇᴛᴛɪɴɢ

ꜱᴜʙᴛʟᴇ ʀᴏᴍᴀɴᴛɪᴄ ᴛᴇɴꜱɪᴏɴ

The night in Italy held the kind of warmth that did not demand attention. It moved subtly, like a lover’s breath on the nape of a neck, brushing past open shutters and gliding across rooftops aged by centuries of forgotten secrets. The cobblestones, smoothed by time and footsteps, shimmered faintly under a half-hearted moon, and the air, velvet and still, carried the scent of orange blossoms, distant firewood, and slow-burning memories. There was a rhythm to the country after dark, one that couldn’t be taught, only felt. A hush that suggested something sacred, something waiting.

Beyond the revelry of the more boisterous piazzas and away from the spectacle of tourist-fed alleyways, there existed a place most could only dream of, or fear. It had no signage, no identifiable name. Only those invited knew where to find it. And even fewer had the privilege of returning. To the world, it was myth. To those within, it was sanctuary.

Nestled in the shadow of a dormant chapel and shielded by a towering iron gate wrapped in flowering ivy, the bar stood like a secret promised to no one. Guards flanked the entrance, tall, silent men in pressed black suits with eyes that missed nothing. Inside, the air did not merely shift—it cloaked. Dim lights swam through gentle smoke, amber bottles glinted like ancient treasure, and the music, a syrupy jazz that curled around every edge, seemed to slow time itself.

But even that faded when she sang.

(Y/n) Amato was not a performer. She was a presence. Under a single golden spotlight, framed by a curtain the color of deep wine, she stood like a relic of another era. She did not dress to impress. She dressed like she had nothing to prove: sleek silk in unforgiving cuts, heels that clicked against marble with intention, and gloves that hid the only parts of her she refused to show. Her eyes, though—eyes that saw through the bluff and bravado of the room—remained bare, defiant, and quietly aching.

The voice that spilled from her lips held contradiction: delicate but powerful, restrained yet raw. She could silence the room with a single note, not because she demanded it, but because something in her tone dared you not to listen. It wasn’t simply beautiful. It was haunting. It carried within it the ghosts of a girl who never got to be one.

Men tried, of course. They always did. They brought diamonds and declarations, hoping to buy her time. But she entertained only those who intrigued her mind, not her ego. She dismissed socialites and influencers without so much as a glance. Actors were ignored. And race car drivers? They were forbidden.

Because her story did not begin with song. It began with betrayal.

Her mother had once stood in that very same spotlight, long before (Y/n) took her first breath. She was the bar’s prized jewel then: poised, magnetic, and devastating in satin. Her voice wrapped around men's ambitions and unraveled them effortlessly. Among her admirers came a man who drove fast and spoke softly. A race car driver, calm in chaos, charming in silence. He did not chase her, and that, of course, was the trap.

The seduction was slow, strategic. He paid for her time and earned her laughter. He touched her gently, spoke like he meant every word. When he finally asked for more, she gave it, not out of obligation, but belief. But the next morning, his bed was cold, and so was the room. He was gone, as if he had never existed. Only, he had. He had left a heartbeat behind.

The betrayal broke her. Not publicly—no, she was too proud for that. But something inside her, something essential, shattered. Her voice lost its clarity. Her smile its spark. She stopped performing. The bar’s Madam, once her confidante, tried to intervene. But nothing could coax her back from that ledge of quiet despair. When the child came, she refused to hold her. The bitterness that bloomed in her chest eclipsed any chance of maternal grace.

And so (Y/n) Amato became the bar’s daughter, but not her mother’s.

Madam, formidable in posture and commanding in grace, took the child in without hesitation. She, along with her three most trusted women—Sabine, Mireille, and Camille—raised her as their own. Each woman had carved a reputation for herself within the establishment. They were not merely performers. They were symbols. Of elegance. Of command. Of survival.

(Y/n) was bathed in silence and chandeliers, in the scent of perfume and the rustle of silk gowns. Her lullabies were rehearsals. Her bedtime stories were whispered conversations between powerful men. The bar was both cathedral and fortress, a place where rules were not enforced, they were embodied. And she learned them all.

She learned how to walk without sound. How to speak with precision. How to observe before responding. Her eyes became sharper than any blade, her expression unreadable. But beneath that was something else, something no one dared acknowledge aloud: loneliness.

Her mother left when she was four. No farewell. No trace. Just silence. As if the woman who had birthed her had never existed. And yet, (Y/n) still remembered the back of her gown as she walked away. The soft click of heels. The scent of her hair. The absence that followed was a phantom she never quite stopped chasing.

By sixteen, she began helping at the bar—never at the forefront. She was a waitress first, blending into the folds of silk and shadow, watching, listening. It was then that her voice made its quiet debut. A slow night, a broken microphone, a dare. She sang, barely above a whisper. But the room stilled. And Madam knew.

What followed was no swift rise. It was meticulous. Her performances were rare, her appearances curated. She did not advertise. She did not announce. But when she sang, the room swelled with people willing to trade power for presence. She became a myth in motion.

By twenty-four, she was legend.

They called her La Sirena della Notte, the Siren of the Night. Not because she lured men to ruin, but because she reminded them what it meant to feel. To long. To ache. And yet she herself never seemed moved. Her rules were clear. She would not entertain actors, nor kings of illusion. And if your hands had ever gripped the steering wheel of a Formula car, your name was poison.

Because (Y/n) Amato knew the damage men like that could do. Not just to hearts, but to lineage.

And then, on an evening painted in gold and garnet, Lando Norris walked through the doors.

He did not belong there. Not by tradition. Not by her rules. He was young, too publicly adored, and worse, a driver. But he had not come with arrogance. He had not come seeking her. In fact, he had not even looked at the stage. He sat quietly in the back, next to a well-connected engineer and a media mogul’s son, speaking in hushed tones about a business venture unrelated to motorsport. He drank water. He checked his watch. He seemed… tired.

(Y/n) noticed. Against her own protocol, she studied him. Not because he was famous. But because he seemed, in that moment, utterly uninterested in being anyone at all.

When she stepped onto the stage that night, her song shifted. She chose an old Neapolitan piece, wistful, rooted in memory, aching with restrained longing. Her eyes scanned the room slowly. They never landed on him.

But he looked up.

It was brief. A flicker of eye contact across the haze of candlelight and distance. He didn’t smile. He didn’t avert his gaze. He simply listened. Fully. And for the first time in years, her voice trembled—not with fear, but with something unfamiliar.

Recognition.

When the performance ended, he stood. He did not approach. He nodded at the engineer, murmured a farewell, and slipped out before the applause finished. No rose. No message. No offer. Just departure.

And something in (Y/n) shifted.

She told herself it was nothing. But she remembered his face. Not because it was handsome, though it was. Not because he was famous, though that too was undeniable. But because he had not tried to possess her. And yet, somehow, in those few minutes, he had seen her.

The bar returned to its rhythm. The days moved forward. And yet, the next time he came, a week later, her heart raced before she even saw him.

He never asked for her. He never lingered. And still, he kept returning.

The guards noticed. So did Sabine. And for the first time, Madam watched (Y/n) with a kind of worry she hadn’t worn in years.

Because even queens can fall prey to the echo of old wounds. Even sirens, for all their strength, can drown in the tide they thought they mastered.

And Lando Norris, with his quiet eyes and careful silences, was not like the man who had broken her mother. But that did not mean he couldn’t break her, too.

Only time would tell if she was singing to warn him away… or calling him closer.

To be continued...🧡

🧜🏻‍♀️ᴇᴠᴇɴ ᴀꜰᴛᴇʀ ᴇᴠᴇʀʏᴛʜɪɴɢ - ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ 2: ᴀ ɢᴀᴍᴇ ʜᴇ ɴᴇᴠᴇʀ ᴘʟᴀʏᴇᴅ🧜🏻‍♀️

📝 Note from the Author: Hello, Alarwynnites! After what feels like a century-long exile in the dark, uncharted lands of University Assignments (yes, I survived, barely), I have emerged to bless your timelines once more. I am BACK serving you with another title—WOOOOHOOO—ready to feed your craving for overly dramatic prose and characters with more baggage than a baggage carousel at NAIA Terminal 3.

This chapter is moody, dangerous, and possibly the lovechild of a romance novel and a mafia movie that spent too long brooding in an Italian wine cellar. If it stabs you in the feelings, know that it stabbed me first while I was writing it.

To my dear Alarwynnites and every single reader still here, thank you. Whether you like, comment, reblog, or simply read quietly while sipping your tea and judging my life choices… your support means the world. Truly. Even your silent lurking fuels my unholy power.

Alright, I’ll leave you to drown in the candlelit tension and unspoken longing. See you in the next chapter. Ciao~

With love, me 🧡

[2k115]

2k115 NYC Night Drive #NYCNight #CinematicVibes #BokehLights #UrbanRain #StreetCarPhotography

[alarwynnwhispers]

🧜🏻‍♀️ᴇᴠᴇɴ ᴀꜰᴛᴇʀ ᴇᴠᴇʀʏᴛʜɪɴɢ - ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ 2: ᴀ ɢᴀᴍᴇ ʜᴇ ɴᴇᴠᴇʀ ᴘʟᴀʏᴇᴅ🧜🏻‍♀️

ꜰ1 x ʀᴇᴀᴅᴇʀ | ʟᴀɴᴅᴏ ɴᴏʀʀɪꜱ ᴀᴜ | ꜰᴏʀʙɪᴅᴅᴇɴ ᴀᴛᴛʀᴀᴄᴛɪᴏɴ + ᴍʏꜱᴛᴇʀʏ + ꜱʟᴏᴡ ʙᴜʀɴ

⚠️ ᴄᴏɴᴛᴇɴᴛ ᴡᴀʀɴɪɴɢꜱ:

ꜱᴜʙᴛʟᴇ ꜱᴇxᴜᴀʟ ᴛᴇɴꜱɪᴏɴ

ᴘᴏᴡᴇʀ ᴅʏɴᴀᴍɪᴄꜱ ɪɴ ɪɴᴛɪᴍᴀᴛᴇ ꜱᴇᴛᴛɪɴɢꜱ

ᴀʟᴄᴏʜᴏʟ ᴜꜱᴇ

ᴍɪʟᴅʟʏ ꜱᴜɢɢᴇꜱᴛɪᴠᴇ ꜱɪᴛᴜᴀᴛɪᴏɴꜱ

ᴇᴍᴏᴛɪᴏɴᴀʟ ᴍᴀɴɪᴘᴜʟᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ᴛʜᴇᴍᴇꜱ

Two months passed, and the soft breath of the Italian evening once again wrapped itself around the shadowed entrance of La Notte Alta. The bar remained unchanged, still tucked in the chest of old stone alleys, still guarded by men with silence in their bones, and still cloaked in that familiar air of danger disguised as sophistication. But that night, something felt subtly different. Not in the architecture, not in the lighting, but in the weight of the room itself.

Lando Norris had returned.

He did so without announcement. Without spectacle. The staff barely noticed him until he was seated in his usual corner, beneath the low-hung lamp that swayed gently in the evening’s breeze, illuminating nothing but the edges of his expression. His suit was tailored, expensive but not ostentatious. His demeanor was relaxed, almost bored, but beneath it pulsed something guarded, distant, almost impenetrable.

He was still the same as before: quiet, observant, enigmatic. He watched the room with the kind of stillness that made people nervous, but not because he was dangerous. No, it was because he made you question whether you were interesting enough to hold his gaze.

(Y/n) noticed him the moment she walked on stage. Not because he made himself known, but because her eyes had been searching for him ever since he first disappeared weeks ago. And though she wouldn’t have admitted it, not even to herself, his absence had lingered longer than she’d liked.

That evening, her performance carried a different note. She sang as she always did: poised, elegant, haunting. But her melody meandered, dipping into minor keys, subtle inflections, moments of hesitation that betrayed an inner unrest. Every few verses, her gaze drifted to the corner of the room where he sat, expression unreadable, posture precise.

But it wasn’t Lando who beckoned her after the final note fell silent.

It was his companion, a sharply dressed engineer with an easy smile and wandering hands. His request passed through Madam’s lips like any other, and (Y/n), as always, obeyed without question. It was routine. A ritual. A dance they all knew.

She moved through the crowd like water, gliding between tables, trailing silence in her wake. When she reached them, she didn’t even look at Lando. Instead, she perched herself delicately onto the lap of the man who had asked for her, her laugh low and syrupy, eyes half-lidded with practiced seduction.

The engineer was all too eager, hands curling around her waist, fingertips ghosting along the outer curve of her thigh, lips brushing the skin just beneath her ear. She let him. She always did. That was her power: to grant desire without ever giving herself.

Across the table, Lando watched.

He didn’t shift. Didn’t frown. Didn’t offer so much as a glance of disapproval. His face remained impassive, a mask of detached interest. But his gaze met hers, briefly, and in that moment, something unspoken passed between them.

It wasn’t flirtation. It wasn’t disdain.

It was curiosity.

She held his gaze for longer than necessary, lips parting slightly as if she wanted to say something—then turned back to the man beneath her, giggling at some throwaway comment. Lando’s gaze dropped. He picked up his glass of neat whiskey and took a slow sip, unbothered. Or so it seemed.

And that, infuriatingly, intrigued her more than she cared to admit.

It became a pattern. A slow, deliberate ritual that stretched over the course of several months. Lando would return, always unannounced, always part of a small group—usually engineers, sometimes CEOs, men of influence who understood the language of power. They’d sit at their usual table, whispering about things she neither cared for nor understood.

And eventually, someone would request her.

She entertained each request with the same elegance she was known for. She draped herself across laps, whispered soft nothings into ears, accepted touches and compliments as part of the game. But her eyes, her eyes never stopped watching him.

She never once saw him smile. Not at her. Not at anyone. He rarely spoke during those evenings. He observed, a flicker of thought always behind his eyes, but he never once reached for her. Never asked. Never even suggested. He remained on the fringes of the game, untouchable.

Until, one night, the rules shifted.

It was late spring. The scent of jasmine drifted in from the open terrace doors. The room was quieter than usual, the crowd smaller, more intimate. The lights were dimmer, casting long shadows over polished marble.

(Y/n) had just finished a slower number, her voice trailing off like the final curl of smoke from a dying candle. Applause swelled politely, and as she stepped off the stage, Madam caught her with a single look.

"Table three," she said, lips barely moving.

(Y/n) didn’t have to ask. She walked.

Only when she reached the table did she realize the difference.

It wasn’t the usual engineer or sleek media executive who had called for her. It was the CEO—a powerful, confident man with a jaw like stone and fingers that drummed constantly against the table. He gestured lazily toward Lando.

"Tonight," he said with a smirk, "he gets the honor."

(Y/n) hesitated.

Lando did not look at her. He looked at his glass, jaw tight.

"It’s just a game," the CEO added, grinning like a man who never got told no. "Loosen him up."

Lando’s voice came low and clipped. "I’m fine."

"Nonsense," the man countered. "She doesn’t bite. Unless you ask nicely."

(Y/n) looked at Lando, weighing the air between them. He didn’t give permission. But he didn’t object again. He simply leaned back, shoulders tense, eyes cast elsewhere. That was enough.

She stepped forward, slowly, and settled herself on his lap.

The first thing she noticed was how still he was. Not rigid, not recoiling, just still. Like a statue carved from hesitation. His hands remained at his sides. His breathing shallow. He didn’t look at her, and she didn’t speak.

So, she leaned in.

A whisper against his ear, nothing intelligible. A test.

No response.

She brushed her fingers lightly down his tie, adjusted the knot, let her hand rest briefly on his chest. Still, nothing.

He was made of stone.

And for reasons she couldn’t explain, that challenge lit something inside her.

So she tried again. Different tactics. A compliment murmured against the corner of his jaw. The softest laugh, practiced but not fake. Her fingers toyed with the edge of his cuff. A woman used to being wanted had met a man indifferent to want.

And something about that felt like provocation.

From that night on, a new ritual formed.

He never requested her. Never suggested it. But each time he came back, it was as if the table expected it. Someone would summon her, and she’d find herself, against all better judgment, seated once again on Lando Norris’s lap.

She learned quickly that he did not like being touched without warning. That he preferred silence. That his discomfort did not stem from shyness, but control. So, she adjusted. Sometimes, she said nothing at all. Sometimes, she leaned close enough for their breath to mingle, and did nothing else. Sometimes, her presence alone was the performance.

Weeks passed like this. And through them, she remained unaware.

Unaware that he disappeared for days at a time not because of business, but because of circuits and podiums and roaring engines in countries she never thought to pronounce. That the man who sat so still beneath her was not a financier or an executive, but a driver whose name echoed through stadiums across the globe.

The irony, of course, was cruel.

Because (Y/n) Amato had made one rule for herself, forged from pain and legacy and all the hollow spaces her mother had left behind: never race car drivers. Never again.

And yet, there she was. Night after night. Perched. Poised. Intrigued by the one man she thought exempt from her past.

And he, for reasons unknown, kept letting her.

Neither of them spoke about it. Neither of them acknowledged the strange rhythm they had fallen into. But it was there. Lingering in glances, in silences, in the frictionless space between proximity and permission.

Lando Norris knew exactly who he was. But (Y/n) Amato still didn’t.

And if fate had a sense of humor, it was only just beginning to laugh.

To be continued...🧡

🧜🏻‍♀️ᴇᴠᴇɴ ᴀꜰᴛᴇʀ ᴇᴠᴇʀʏᴛʜɪɴɢ - ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀ 3: ᴠᴇʟᴠᴇᴛ ᴋɴɪᴠᴇꜱ ᴀɴᴅ ʀᴀᴄɪɴɢ ʜᴇᴀʀᴛꜱ🧜🏻‍♀️

📝 Note from the Author: Hello, Alarwynnites! （￣︶￣）↗　 Second post for today, yes, it’s scheduled, by the way, HAHAHAHA. Look at me, being organized like my life isn’t a dumpster fire with a scented candle on top.

This chapter is basically two emotionally repressed people slow-burning their way into mutually assured emotional destruction. One of them is a siren who vowed never to go near race car drivers, the other is literally a race car driver pretending to be a decorative wall plant. What could possibly go wrong?

To my loyal Alarwynnites and the readers who are still here, thank you. Whether you like, comment, reblog, or just quietly read and vanish into the void like a cryptid, your presence means more than you think. Even lurking fuels my villain arc.

Alright, I’ll stop talking before I make this darker than it needs to be. Goodbye for now, see you in the next chapter.

With love, me 🧡

[polykrom]

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[2k115]

“Neon Reflections: Night in New York” #CyberpunkVibes #StreetPhotography #NYCNight #NeonLights #UrbanMood

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