DOMINIC POVHer eyes open in shock at the present, “Dominic” Her eyes rise to meet mine nervously and then down back at the neckpiece with a lion pendant.Because she was going to work for me as well as with her father and I used devious means to make it happen, I realized I had made a mistake, I had hurt her, but I also wanted her to work with me, so after our talk, I went to Paris to have this custom made for her.“You are right Isabella, even if you marry me, even if you're Mrs Deluca, you will always remain a Mariano,” I say softly unclipping the neckpiece and she immediately turns around.“Even if you work for me,” I clip it in turning her around and her eyes meet with mine, sweet and perfect, my heart pumps in my chest slightly, my fingers brush her hair to the side and at this moment realize I might have fallen in love with my debt wife, after promising myself I would never fall for any woman again, here I am, sunken.“You will always be your father's daughter, his chief financ
ISABELLA POV“Not pregnant yet I can see” Dominic’s mom starts as soon as my butt hits the chair.I sigh, quietly signaling the waitress to walk over and take my order.“where is Dominic?” His sister Rachel starts “He will be here soon,” I say quietly, he had left earlier this morning to catch up with Raffaelle regarding the threat I got earlier.They had discussed the fact it could be someone close to us, like his sisters, they were the only ones with enough audacity and hate for me. His sisters and Grace.Of course, I didn’t say anything about Grace to avoid us arguing over nothing but I had a tiny Inkling that she could do something like this also, maybe to scare me off after her former theatrics didn’t work.Today was going to be a good day, Dominic had promised me he would be here to defend me from his sibling's and their attacks but he was late.He promised me dinner with him tonight and just maybe we could finally-“ I blush at the thought of it.I look down at my phone, minute
ISABELLA POV “Bella you have to tell me what’s wrong” he enters the room after me, his voice soft and wanting. I stay quiet pulling my hair into a bun. “I don’t like it when you do this Isabella, it’s immature and we will never move anywhere if you keep on doing this” he follows after me his fingers gripping my arm and turning me around. “Where did you go to before lunch?” I raise a brow at him my voice hard and low “I told you I was with Rafaelle” He lied to me plainly, with no remorse My eyes harden under his watch, they narrow and I turn away, “wrong answer Dominic” I say pulling off my jewelry and walking into the closet. “What do you mean by the wrong answer?” He frowns deeply following me inside. “Stop following me Dominic, you are only getting me angrier” I turn away from him grabbing a few clothes to spend the weekend with Bianca, there is no way I can stay in the space with him, especially with the lies piling up. “Isabella” he grips my arm pulling me closer with h
ISABELLA POV I punched in more numbers in my calculator, I had spent the entire weekend. With Bianca, she didn’t ask me what was wrong and I was not willing to talk about Grace anymore with anyone so I ignored the photos, the threat everything. We went out the entire weekend, partying till the very next day, my guards were probably tired of me, I knew they reported everything I did back to Dominic, so I had as much fun as I could. I wanted him to see I could be happy without him. I came home a few hours ago and our home almost seems foreign, renovations had started and the building was filled with contraction workers, so the guards around me had doubled, thankfully Dominic is not home so I immediately sunk myself into work hiding myself in my office. I still didn’t want to see him, I didn’t want him around me, I didn’t want him touching me, especially with the same body he used to touch Grace, to do the same things he did to me in Monaco. I frowned deeply almost distracting
ISABELLA POV The room is filled with murmurs at his introduction, were they not expecting me? “She is my new finance officer and a magician with numbers” He continues pulling me into the room, and my eyes meet with the six men all of different ages “Mr. Giovanni” he turns me to the first man, he is older with a lot of smile lines and wrinkles, I’m right, he smiles happily at me grabbing my hand in his hold in a firm handshake. “It’s good to finally meet you, Mrs DeLuca, I’ve only heard nice things about you, we couldn’t imagine we would see you today” he sends me a soft smile, but if there’s one thing I’ve learned with living with the DeLuca’s, nobody is your friend. “And with such a title,” The man beside him says, a man in his thirties, a bit older than Dominic, he looks angry. Dominic frowns turning to him, “Do you have a problem with my wife being here Theo?” He raises a brow at him, his shoulders straightens and the guards in the room do the same. Tension fills the air, he
ISABELLA POV The car ride back home is silent, my hands shake slightly, anxiety filling them at the view I just saw. “Bella” he whispers beside me trying to over fight but I back away, if possible I would enter the doors “I did that to defend you, if I didn’t do it,-‘’ he sighs, “Theo would have rubbed it off on the other men and the gang would lose respect” “The way you killed him was cake for you Dominic,” I say my hands shaking, “You stabbed him, and’. I look down at his hands still covered by blood, “You did it so easily, how many men have you killed like that?” ”Isabella,” he mutters softly, his finger pulling closer to brush mine, but I move away, fear running through my veins, I can’t look at him the same way anymore He sighs turning his head away, “Fine, think what you want or say whatever you want but I did that. To protect you and our family name, I can't ever regret protecting you” The worse sting at my center, I turn my head away and my eyes meet with the moun
ISABELLA POVDominic frowns, turning to me slightly, “Did you tell anyone where we traveled to?”I shake my head nervous, “I didn’t tell my family or Bianca.” I turn my head to the white box as the guard drops it stepping away, “Is something wrong?” I raise a brow at him.He looks nervous but says nothing, I frown, our time again interrupted by something, it is always something, “Open it” I tell the guard tired of all the tension, I just need peace is that too much to ask?“Sir?” The guard turns to him slightly, he gives him a nod and he pulls the box open.The box is very similar to the one I received at the mansion so I take a step back, the smell of a dead animal filtering into our nose, but this time it's not a bunny.“Dead fish?” I mutter the words covering my nose, “what does this mean?”The music halts and Dominic holds my hand tightly in his, his voice barely a whisper his eyes move around the beach mansion.“Bella, I need you to listen to me well” he turns his head to me, “
Isabella POVWe finally get home safely, “I can’t believe we couldn’t enjoy the vacation for even twenty-four hours” I whisper helping him lay down Thelma behind me with a first aid kit.“We can do it another time, but after we catch who is doing all this” he winces I turn to Thelma, “I will take it from here, you can go” I nod at her“Are you sure mam? He looks badly Injured” she says her brows upturned and lips pulled into a tight smile, a worried expression plastered on her face.“I’m sure, there are just bruises, I will fix it” I nod reassuringly at herDominic sends her a nod and she passes me the first aid kit walking away.“You don’t know who it is yet?” I raise a brow at him, now my face filled with worry, I sit beside him pulling open the first aid kit.He sighs heavily, his eyes empty, but he turns to me slightly, knowing he can’t lie to me, “I sent my best hunters to find out who it was and they came up with nothing, the attack at the island was just random assassins sent
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