Chapter 71

~Dante~

"Get me, Doctor Blackwoods, now! Hunt him down if possible." I yelled at Lev, but I was actually mad at myself. I was supposed to be her husband, her brother, and I knew her better than anyone else—not even her mother knew Lola more than I did. I failed her yet again. I kept failing her; when she became of age, I failed to confess my love for her but left clues for her. I told her how I felt so many times, but in riddles. How the fuck was she supposed to know I meant I loved her? Like a coward, when she didn’t get the riddles, I stepped back, and as I was thinking of how much of a coward I was, my thought took me down memory lane to when I took her hiking.

"Hey look!" I said while looking passionately in the direction I wanted her to look.

"Oh, my goodness! What do you call those? They are beautiful." She said as she looked at me expectantly and lovingly.

"I know, right? These are called larkspurs. I was curious, like you, the first time my mother showed them to me," I honestl