Daphne's POV My eyes fluttered open in succession when I felt something warm collide against me, a hand draped around my waist. Tilting my head to the side, I stiffened when I noticed it was Lorenzo, who had just a brief on, looking devastatingly handsome as always with a face that I could stare at all day long. Propping myself properly on an arm, I ran a finger alongside the dainty lines on his face curled up into a scowl as though he were deep in thoughts instead of sleeping. “ You can't have enough of me, can you?” I jolted up when he spoke, a smile tugged at the edge of his lips, as he stretched, before he flashed his pearls at me. Beaming awkwardly, I tried to pull away by standing upright, when he yanked me back, and I found myself crushing hard against sturdy chest and chiseled abs. I gulped in, parched when he broke into a chuckle, snuggling me in his arms. “Good morning butterfly, where exactly were you going? Flapping those wings already?” My stomach tingled, dainty w
Lorenzo's POV “ You can leave” I rolled my eyes lazily at the charade they were putting on. I had succeeded in deflating Trisha's massive ego and that was everything that I needed. Her father gritted his teeth as he uttered. “When will you get the name off the blacklist? We have done everything you wanted us to”.My hands clasped together, firmly at my back. “At my leisure time. Let me go back in and have a rethink if indeed what you have done is enough to appease my rage, have a wonderful day” I dismissed them when I noticed Daphne was quiet. I suppose I was supposed to be glad, but if there was something that I have learned, it was never okay if she was quiet. “Is something bothering you?” My hands wrapped themselves around her waist as I placed my lips against her neck. “She is limping,” she replied. “Trisha is limping, did you do anything to her?” “Me?” A feigned look crept on my face. “Why would I ever hurt her? Let's just say she just got a good punishment for hurting my
Daphne's POV A whirlwind of blue and dreamy white rushed past, startling me as I tried to comprehend what exactly might be wrong. I swirled fast enough to meet with its pace while moving swiftly toward it when the kids walked in, pouting their lips. “Mother” they both clung to me, which was unlikely of them. Their lips contorted as they squeezed onto me. My hands smoothened their hair. I was glad that I had taken a bath and I looked fresh because how exactly was I supposed to explain to them why exactly I was in a jacket when it was late in the afternoon? They were surely bound to ask. “Are you fine?” I pulled them off, staring at their features while my heart slammed hard against my rib cage at what might be possibly wrong. Lorenzo hasn't acted that way before. He didn't even acknowledge my presence. He had looked like a man chased by demons. “ Sure?” I wanted to know when they bobbed their heads, just enough to assure me, but that tingling sensation in my heart remained. “ H
Lorenzo's POV My hand pulled the fridge inside the study open as I drifted a bottle of fresh juice at her. “Father doesn't know that I am here.” That had to be it because if he did, he wouldn't have wanted her out of his sight. Three days wasn't far away, and he wouldn't want to lose any time that he had. “Did you find him? Jack?” Her hands closed around the bottle as our eyes met, breath sizzling through the air. My throat felt stuffed as I tried to breathe. “No, I have my men on it, but there is no news yet, we have to get you out of here. The helicopter should be here any minute soon, and you will leave with it, once you are settled in. I will come visit you soon”. She bit on her lips, nodding numbly before she threw her hands around me. “Thank you” a tear soaked my shoulders and I held her close. My hand wrangled her closer. “I am glad that I have you as a sibling, although you can be annoying most times” I couldn't force the smile on my lips down, it stayed persistent as
Warning; Rated 18+ Daphne's POV Lorenzo fucked me like I had imagined when he had pushed me against the wall of the movie room, my legs dripped wet then. I didn't know if it was the urges that flooded my mind, but at that moment, I wanted to help him, even if it were to get the thought off his mind for a moment. He kept looking lost and like he needed to think properly. I knew Helena had left, I had heard the helicopter spinning at the roof, but I never thought this was going to be it. The image of me bent over the snooker board, my ass exposed to him while the fluffy air tousled into the room felt just right. His hands around my waist, as he thrust hard into me while ordering that I kept shooting weakened me to my knees. “Lorenzo” I moaned, with eyes shut, savoring the moment. My hands pleaded to hold something else aside the cue stick but anytime I peeled my hands away, he forced it back with a thrust harder than the last. The image was filthy, hands on the cue stic
Lorenzo's POV The days went by in a blur with Drago not saying a word, if he knew about Helena's disappearance, he didn't say a word about it, and although I knew that I wasn't supposed to feel unsettled, I just couldn't. I had a lot on my plate, from Daphne telling me she wasn't ready for marriage yet, to coping with Jack's disappearance. It was something that I had finally agreed upon that I had to live with. There had been no report about his whereabouts, I wasn't going to lie, a part of me was excited because there was a prospect that he wasn't dead yet while the other part of me was worried about what exactly might have happened. As a last demand, I had changed my team, from my driver to anyone who would guide my family leaving just Tessa behind. She was going to stay by Daphne, and they had been coming along recently just fine. I tried to push away the slush of doubt that had settled in the pit of my stomach, but it was there, so stubborn that I just had to do it. Placing
Daphne's POV The slushing of the water came to an abrupt stop as I turned off the faucet, splashing the running water on my face as footsteps halted outside the door before throwing on a bathrobe. “ Lorenzo” a gasp snaked out of my mouth when he leaned forward, his head against my shoulder as he sniffed in and the heavy scent of alcohol wafted into my nostrils. “You have been drinking?” My words came out in a statement rather than a question with him standing upright. He sank into the couch. “I know you don't like me drinking, but I needed to clear my head” his eyes were in slit as he gazed upon me so tenderly that my heart twitched. He looked so devastatingly cute, and I couldn't bring myself to scold him. “Did something happen?” I pushed. Everything had been fine when he left, but now he looked as if he had been ridden over by a truck, wasted and sad. “The designer will be coming in an hour for your dresses. Mine and Alexis are ready, tomorrow you will be introduc
Daphne's POV I knew that I had to get used to the fact that Jaden was always going to show up at my face, but this was becoming unbearable, his very existence disgusted me, making me want to puke. “ What are you talking about?” He squinted his eyes, inching closer when a guard stepped in front of him. “ You should leave” his icy tone threw Jaden off guard who peered at me so hard with his fist clenched and teeth gritted. “The don wouldn't want you in here, and you know that.” Jaden raised a hand up, with a piercing gaze he stepped away. “ Is everything okay?” Lorenzo questioned when I had a hand on my chest, stuffing in a smile, I bobbed at him when his face was probing.Hooking his arms around mine, he gestured. “ Let's go, Helena will be out any time soon”Our feet moved with us in silence, not saying a word. Everything felt numb at a point but when the wind rustled against my hair revealing Trisha to me something burnt in me. She quickly hid herself, tucking in the crowd wh
Lorenzo's POV “ She wouldn't like this,” Don Dawson said to me as I offered him the drink I had managed to win at an auction. “ I know right? Daphne would hate it if she knows that I am here with you, but it doesn't seem like I have a choice here” He shook his head to the side, snapping them gently before he uncorked the wine, the pop going off as I glanced at it, he poured a bit into a glass which he handed to me, and another which he kept for himself. “ She actually told me to settle things with you, smooth things out, she had said,” he gave the only reason which I could say made sense. That she had an idea about what exactly was happening, because if she hadn't found me in bed with her, I knew she would have blown up my phone with calls right about now, and I was loving it. It showed that I was loved just as much as I loved her, with how she didn't hide at all to show that. I bobbed my head, gulping down the drink in a go when it hit the back of my throat, I swallowed, letti
Lorenzo's POVWhen she had asked, wanting to make sure that I was fine, I didn't know what else to say aside from the fact that I was fine.I didn't want her to worry, I didn't want the crest on her face to deepen, I hated to see her worry, so I just couldn't bring myself to give her an answer that would break her again. When we had walked into the decorator greenhouse, the makeshift one that I had ordered to be made before all the ruckus happened, I found myself saying the word that I hadn't even practiced for. I had thought about this moment for years, kept it in mind for hours, thought about her expression when she saw it, but none of them had prepared me for when I was there, kneeling before her. I found myself stuttering, the words I didn't plan came out of my mouth instead, was I perhaps tense? I probably was, but it helped me get away of the thoughts that my father was dead. The doctor had given a heart attack as the answer, and we hadn't pushed on, neither had the workers
Daphne's POV My hands held Alexis, as my hands went on his back, smoothening it gently, Lorenzo was still, not saying a word, but I knew he had a lot in mind. My hand held his hands, squeezing it gently, as I tried to get him back to me when he gave a small smile at me, his eyes deepened as he stared at me. “ I am fine” he assured me, that I wondered if he knew if he had any idea that his face was a sharp contrast to what he had just said. “ It is fine to let the tears down if you want to” His lips curved into a small smile, which did little to help, before he glanced outside. “ Chad will be waiting for us, we have to be sure that everything is fine, and whatever is it wouldn't harm him, you know with everything that has been happening” I nodded, bobbed my head in understanding at what he had just said. It was going to be fine. “ Wouldn't you go back? To take him to the morgue?” He bobbed. “ I will have to do that tomorrow, I would prefer that we bury him tomorrow, but first
Daphne's POV I racked my brain, trying to ascertain that it wasn't who I was thinking, he wouldn't have been so stupid, he wouldn't do something like that. “ Daphne…. Daphne..” Irene's voice pulled me out. I threw her a glance, when footsteps glided in, and my father rushed in, rage stomped over his face. “ You said something about Alexis missing, have you seen him? Where exactly would he be? Do you think it would be from my side or Lorenzo's?” He tried to make certain that we would curtail this problem. I knew there was just a person, one person in Brooklyn but this wasn't how I wanted it to end, I didn't want to give him an easy death, he didn't deserve that. I needed Drago to be in pain, I needed him to pray for death, but he wouldn't see, I wanted him to watch my face as he died, I wanted to see his car slide down the bridge as mine had done. What exactly had been my offense? His son loved me.“ Drago” I uttered, loud enough to his hearing. “ He is the one who has him” Hi
Lorenzo's POV I traipsed into the lift a happier man that I thought I was going to be, I watched gently as she sat on the chair, holding the kids firmly, before dropping the bags on the table. I couldn't have been happier, she was back in my life and back to me. I didn't know if I was thinking too fast, but I found myself inching to give her the ring I had gone to customize before the accident happened. I hadn't forgotten, nor forgiven Drago but I didn't want to think about him, not with this new joy that I felt. “ Do you think that I should apply it in, now?” “ Mother, I will help you with it,” Avery offered. “ I will do so also” Alexis offered also, and I was relegated to the background. It had barely grazed her arms, so Chad had said, but we had to be careful. It was so close to her arm socket, that if the bullet had gone in even further, it might have caused her an arm. I didn't know what to say, but I kept taking in air, and found myself saying prayers also. Of course,
Daphne's POV I tried to force my eyes open but it stuck adamantly, I let out a hiss before trying again before whistling out in pain. I hated how I felt, it seemed as though I had been rammed over by a lorry and thrown over here, I tried to push myself up but I just couldn't. Sighing in resignation, I tried once more, gentle at first and the sharp ray of lighting that flashed through caused me to clasp it shot again. I gnashed, took in air before I flickered them open once more,this time swerving a glance around. I was stunned when warmths sipped into me. Flipping my head to the side, my eyes watered when I noticed Avery by one side, and Alexis by another, and Lorenzo holding my hands. I bit hard into my cheek, taking in the pain while I tried to force myself not to shed a tear. This was everything that I wanted, everything that I had imagined, my family back with me. I laid back, letting the warmth cascade down to my side, let it drap itself around me when I ran my hands thro
Lorenzo's POV Broken, I had never been this broken as I clung onto her, tears racing down my face while I glanced around, an empty shell. Hands held me, voices echoed around me, pleading for me to let go, but I just couldn't, I held her, squeezed my hands around her, pleading for her to come back to me. “ Lorenzo” Jack's voice thundered above me, as he shook my shoulders. I flipped my head around, barely considering his face before I stared at my hands. Coated with blood, my beloved blood, and I forced myself up. “ Where are you taking her?” Dawson's voice drilled into me, he forced himself forward, as he stretched his hands at me. “ You will get out of my front, or else, I will shoot you the fuck now” I warned, my eyes glazed with rage. “ Drop her down, she is mine and…” “ Father” a hand held his shoulder. “ Let him go with her. She will be safe with him” I didn't so much as spare him a glance as I sauntered through, my eyes darkened with rage before settling her on the seat.
Lorenzo's POV I knew that something was up, I knew there was something Daphne wasn't telling me, and although I had tried countless times not to think about it, I was so sure that it made sense now. I had felt her salty tears, the one that ran down my back countless times, and even when I thought that it was from the fact that she was enjoying it, my two senses told me that she wasn't okay somehow, but she wouldn't just say. I couldn't push her either, I was never going to do that, not when she was hiding the fact that she was Daphne so good that I didn't know what to say nor do. I had tried numerous ways that I knew about just to have her to talk, but we were tight lipped,still insisting that she was Talia and not Daphne. Now, with the card in my hands, I didn't know what to say. My heart was in shreds as I glanced at it, the names fading the more I glanced at it. I swallowed, in a world of my own, when I noticed a hand shook my shoulders. “ Get back here man, I have been call
Daphne's POV His lips slid into my mouth, making me miss all the times that we hadn't had time together. His teeth bit into my tongue, possessively, fiercely, while I fought for him to let go. My cunt pooled before he could slip a finger in, while I ached my back properly, giving him a proper view of my face. I held myself, my hands by my side as I forced myself not to run my hands on his face. I inched to do so, wanted to do so, found myself inching and aiming to do so, but I just couldn't. He pulled away gauging my expression. “ What?” I asked, his eyes softened as I stared into them. His hands drew pretty lines over my face, his love filled eyes pierced through me as he exhaled. “ You look so beautiful, so beautiful that I wouldn't mind gazing at you for the rest of my life, and I also wouldn't mind giving you my heart. I want you to own it all” My heart slammed at his words, as I drowned in them. They sounded perfect to me. I sniffed in, keeping my emotions at bay, befor