ISABELLA POV His lips moves with mine desperately, his fingers clutch my hair in his hold pulling me closer like he’s scared of letting go. “I love you so much Bella, so much” he whispers into my mouth shaking his head, “I want to spend the rest of my life with you Bella, I swear, Grace will never be in the picture again” he promises helping me stand up but our lips don’t leave each other “Are you sure?” I detach my lips from his my eyes meeting with his as our gaze is locked. “I promise” he whispers pulling me back to him “I promise to be yours and only yours forever” he continues slowly leading me to the bed. I nod, as his finger grazes my bare skin softly, his finger caresses my cheeks, my chin landing in his hold. “Can I-“ he points to my lips with his eyes My eyes lock with his and I don’t know if I should tell him I love him too or allow him to make love to me first. He answers the question himself when his lips lock with mine in a passionate hold, he pulls me closer to
Isabella POV“Hmmm,” I moan to myself, my eyes pulling open to meet with the windows wide open as we left it last night.My eyes adjust to the bright light, my brows wrinkling before I can finally see properly.I move my eyes around the bed and the first person they land on is Dominic.In all his naked glory, stretched across the bed, the sheets covering only his bum his back turned to me, and his eyes close shut.He looks almost angelic, I want to touch him but scared of waking up as we were up almost the entire night I decide to let him sleep.The smile on my lips widen when I remember last night, the man was a stallion, no wonder Grace always bragged about him fulfilling her.I shake my head off Grace, there's no need to think about someone so insignificant anymore, after all, Dominoc made a promise to stay away from her, I know he had said it before but there was something about last night's promise, it filled me with hope and so much happiness that I could ever phantom.I wet my
Isabella POV I tap the screen multiple times, confirming the video of Grace crossed over Dominic's lap while they share a kiss, accompanied with that picture are several pictures of her removing his clothes and him helping her out, my fingers shake as I stare at the picture, the video plays multiple times. My lips quiver and my eyes blur over with tears, these were clothes he wore last night, “He really went to see Grace?” I whisper to myself my voice cracking as I speak. My eyes meet with the tray of food, anger floods my veins and I grab the tray throwing it to the floor, they shatter as I think over his vivid promises. “Did he have sex with her last night and decide to come back home to lie to me and pacify me?” my eyes fill with more tears as they run down my cheeks, “Always the second choice” I mutter to myself my hand closing in on my phone tightly. My phone rings, “Bianca calling” the automated voice follows. I immediately pick up the call, deciding on what to do at this
Isabella POV The car drives into the family compound and I frown when I catch my dad’s car parked haphazardly in front of the house. “Did Dad mention anything about coming home early?” I ask frowning at the sight, it looks like it was parked in a rush also. “No mam, he frowns also, Mr Rufus was meant to exchange with me though,” he says referring to my Dad’s driver, he parks the car behind my dad’s car. My eyes meet with a horrible sight, my father on the stairs leading to the door, choking on his blood, his eyes are swollen, his suit thorn in many places and covered in sand and mud, his body filled with open wounds, a scream erupts from my throat, my eyes filling with tears, my heart beat slows down and it feels like I’m about to pass out. “Call the Ambulance!!!” I scream, running to him, my purse falling to the floor, I hold his head in my lap, my eyes filled with tears to the brim, my heart pounds hard in my chest, and my view becomes blurry with more tears as I turn to hi
Isabella POV“Mr Deluca. If you could just listen to me” I quickly follow him up the stairs, “I can assure you, I’m not wife material, and I am in no way interested in getting into some sort of marriage with you,” I say, his back turned to me He pauses, turning around, his bright blue eyes meeting with mine, my breath hitch as he moves closer, the intoxicating smell of exotic perfume filtering into my nose, “Again, Miss Isabella,” he pauses, a smirk popping up on his face, “I am in no way interested in being in a marriage with you either, it’s a simple contract between two families” he pauses, placing his hands in the pocket of his trouser, swinging on his heels, “it’s a marriage of convenience, coming from your background I’m sure you didn’t expect to marry for love did you?” he raises a brow at me, a know it all expression on his face I ignore him, “We want to spread the payments, I want you to give us three years and we will pay you back in full” I nod confident, we just have to
Isabella POV I quickly leave the penthouse and head back home, the entire ride home involved me thinking through every detail, the money, his rules, I frown, at least he doesn't plan on being a serial cheater. “Goodnight ma’am,” the driver says to me “Goodnight Rupert” I reply entering the house, I’m greeted by my brother who looks worried “Where is everyone? Nobody was home when I got back he frowned, coming into view, and he paused staring at my expressionless and tired face, “are you okay?” “Dad is in the hospital I say, he ran into a small accident and we had to rush him to the hospital, he’s fine I stop him before he starts to worry, he’s with mom and will be discharged in a few days” I place my hand on his shoulder, “he will be fine” I reassure him “Will you take me to see him tomorrow?” he frowns a worried look still on his face I nod walking past him, “and dinner?” I ask remembering I haven’t eaten since brunch “The cooks are at their quarters all ready for the
Dominic POV “Isabella Mariano?” why her? Rafaelle pulls up next to me in the bar where I settled after my squabble with the Mariano girl at the penthouse. I shrug turning to him, “Why not her?, Her father owes me a shit ton of money, so she has no choice but to do only what I say” I take a gulp of my drink “And at least she won’t betray you” he smirks turning to me knowing he stroked a cord in me with that statement I mean what woman would betray the richest, most influential, and the number one bachelor in the country? My Ex Grace Rossi was a woman who could do that and possibly more, and she did it when I was about to propose “Chin up man, who knows? You might fall deeply in love with her?” He mocks “Yeah right” I snort, “I am never falling in love with any woman for the rest of my life, never again” I bit my lip downing the rest of the drink. “Finishing your drunk so fast? Work? Or Work? He raises his brows at me refreshing to the dangerous part of me, the mafia part of me”
Isabella POVIt is 7 pm by the time I’m finally done with work for the day, I remove my glasses, massaging the nape of my neck from bending over files for hours, I look around me and the entire office is empty and dark, the only illuminated room is my office, my phone ringing brings me out of my reverie.“Hey girl” Bianca’s happy voice fills my ears“Where are you? I came over to your house, and the only one here is Matteo, say hi to your sister Matteo” she says happily which comically is followed by a frustrated Hi from Matteo“You stress that boy a lot” I laugh into the phone“Oh he loves it, so where are you?” “did you immerse yourself in work and forget our plans for tonight madam CFO?” she giggles into the phone“Of course not,” I yawn, “I’ll be there in 30 minutes I’m on my way right about now,” I say while I’m packing up my bag, grabbing my lunch plate and water bottle and haphazardly throwing it into my bag.“Yeah I believe you” she laughs slightly, she probably knows I’m not
Isabella POV I tap the screen multiple times, confirming the video of Grace crossed over Dominic's lap while they share a kiss, accompanied with that picture are several pictures of her removing his clothes and him helping her out, my fingers shake as I stare at the picture, the video plays multiple times. My lips quiver and my eyes blur over with tears, these were clothes he wore last night, “He really went to see Grace?” I whisper to myself my voice cracking as I speak. My eyes meet with the tray of food, anger floods my veins and I grab the tray throwing it to the floor, they shatter as I think over his vivid promises. “Did he have sex with her last night and decide to come back home to lie to me and pacify me?” my eyes fill with more tears as they run down my cheeks, “Always the second choice” I mutter to myself my hand closing in on my phone tightly. My phone rings, “Bianca calling” the automated voice follows. I immediately pick up the call, deciding on what to do at this
Isabella POV“Hmmm,” I moan to myself, my eyes pulling open to meet with the windows wide open as we left it last night.My eyes adjust to the bright light, my brows wrinkling before I can finally see properly.I move my eyes around the bed and the first person they land on is Dominic.In all his naked glory, stretched across the bed, the sheets covering only his bum his back turned to me, and his eyes close shut.He looks almost angelic, I want to touch him but scared of waking up as we were up almost the entire night I decide to let him sleep.The smile on my lips widen when I remember last night, the man was a stallion, no wonder Grace always bragged about him fulfilling her.I shake my head off Grace, there's no need to think about someone so insignificant anymore, after all, Dominoc made a promise to stay away from her, I know he had said it before but there was something about last night's promise, it filled me with hope and so much happiness that I could ever phantom.I wet my
ISABELLA POV His lips moves with mine desperately, his fingers clutch my hair in his hold pulling me closer like he’s scared of letting go. “I love you so much Bella, so much” he whispers into my mouth shaking his head, “I want to spend the rest of my life with you Bella, I swear, Grace will never be in the picture again” he promises helping me stand up but our lips don’t leave each other “Are you sure?” I detach my lips from his my eyes meeting with his as our gaze is locked. “I promise” he whispers pulling me back to him “I promise to be yours and only yours forever” he continues slowly leading me to the bed. I nod, as his finger grazes my bare skin softly, his finger caresses my cheeks, my chin landing in his hold. “Can I-“ he points to my lips with his eyes My eyes lock with his and I don’t know if I should tell him I love him too or allow him to make love to me first. He answers the question himself when his lips lock with mine in a passionate hold, he pulls me closer to
Grace POV My eyes scanned the area, Rafaelle and Dominic visited this bar at least once every week, no I was not stalking them, but I had paid off his driver to always send me his location when he was coming here. It was a small price to pay for a bigger plan, my eyes meets with my phone, my screen saver was still a picture of Dominic and me, he had taken me to Paris for the first time and it was heavenly the cars, she shoes, the perfumes, the luxury, it was everything a girl could ever ask for, and it was stolen from me by that bitch Isabella. I bit my lip still scanning the room as Rafaelle enters, my smirk picks up, I had a specific plan tonight and it was not going to fail, the other pictures I had secretly recorded and augmented didn’t do anything to Isabella She stayed in the damn marriage, she is so hell-bent on keeping Dominic all to herself but I’m not going to allow that, I’m going to get my man back. It was the plan all along, after our breakup we stayed friends, someh
Isabella POV “What?” I frown looking down at him, seeing him on his knees looks different “I’m sorry,” he says again, this time his eyes rising to meet mine and our eyes lock with each other causing tension in the room. “What do you mean you are sorry? You can’t just waltz in here hours after meeting your prized and loved mistress and you come in here and apologize and say I’m sorry?” I frown standing up having enough of his shenanigans. “What did you do go to her and you come back and you do this and allow me to look like a fool?” I pace the room, “Is this for your personal entertainment and pleasure?” He shakes his head, still on his knees as he allows me to vent and have my say. “Then what is this!!” I yell pointing to him on his knees “You don’t get to come in here and apologize and expect me to forgive you just like that do you?” My eyes meet with my reflection in the mirror and you can see the confusion and stress printed on my face. “Isabella” he whispers pulling my atte
Isabella POVThe words shock me but I stand there and listen to his grievances, he storms out of the room leaving the room with a bang just after his confession.Tears well up in my eyes, my lips quivering as they start to pour freely on my face, the mirror is a few feet away from me but I can see how pathetic I look, mascara streaks on my face, mucus pouring for my nose as I struggle to wipe them off, more tears pour from my eyes as I rethink his words over and over again. “I never wanted to be right” I whisper to myself curling up on the floor at the edge of the bed, “He really loved her, he truly loved her” I whisper again like a mad woman talking to herself. He admitted it straight to my face, my eyes meet with the broken glass on the floor, I had never seen him so angry before, his eyes brewed like a storm and his veins almost popped out of his skin. I shake my head, Does he really love her so much? So much to admit it to his wife, “And I thought he had started having feeli
BIANCA POV “One more time Bianca, come on give me that pose” the photographer yells at me one more time. I sigh in annoyance, my manager is right at the door, a different set of clothes in her hands, I can’t believe she would fill my schedule so much today. I give off one more pose at the camera and the blinding lights flash at me one more time, he’s about to continue but I climb off the stage walking towards my manager. “You have to be at another shoot in twenty minutes and you have a meeting with the Coach magazine later and after that-“ she continues but I cut her off. “If you really wanted to kill me today, you should have said it, I could think of much more exciting ways” I comment grabbing the clothes from her hands and entering the changing room. “Perks of being an international model uh” she giggles standing outside the door. I push the door open in another outfit for the day, I grab my phone wanting to call Isabella, maybe we could hang out later tonight. The phone ri
DOMINIC POV The room is dark when they finally make their way to the house, my temper had calmed down finally after getting drunk, and I only sat in sorrow on the floor at the corner of the room. I didn’t want her to see me like this, kicked down like a dog on the street, and at the same time I wanted her to see me this way, the way she left me, broken and tormented by her irrational moves. I wanted a bit of pity, even if it wasn’t love, I could settle for pity. I wanted to laugh at myself, at my thoughts, at me, a full-grown man planning to himself because he was in love and needed a bit of attention. The door being pushed open distracts me from my thoughts. She peeps inside, her eyes wide and filled with fear, she closes the door and turns around not spotting me and she sighs in relief. “I can see you’re not very happy to be back home with me,” I say in the dark making her jump in fear “Dominic!!” She exclaims, her eyes wide in shock as she tries to point me out in th
DOMINIC POV“Where did she go this time around Thelma?” I say watching my cold dinner in front of me.“Uh…” she stutters, “She left to see Bianca and her mother, they are planning a business banquet for her father’s company,” she says but I can easily see through her lie.“Take it away, I don’t want to have dinner anymore,” I say my head thrown back and my eyes meet with the ceiling, the emotional and psychological pain from her ignoring me and running away from me for weeks is getting to me and not only that it’s starting to physically hurt.I rub my chest turning to Thelma, she already knows what I need, “My bottle of scotch and a glass” I tell her and she pulls it out a worried look on her face.“Sir,” she says her eyes almost teary, like she has no idea what to say to me, I’ve been in love one time in my life and that was with Grace, but after her betrayal and us staying friends, I couldn’t bring myself to love again.Even with Grace's betrayal I never felt this way, so hurt, I ne