All Chapters of Claim by the Don: Chapter 271 - Chapter 280

Melanie’s POVI didn’t expect such an intense reaction from, Adriano. In fact, I didn’t think there was even a cause to make a big deal but boy did he prove me wrong.Not only was he freaking mad, he also looked ready to take the shirt off me by himself. Thankfully, I was able to use the distraction caused by, Alice to escape him. If not for her, Adriano would have succeeded in stripping off my shirt in the middle of the living room.And the thing that shocked me the most was that, even though I was surprised and a lot confused by his intense reaction, I would have let him take the shirt off me. The only reasonable explanation I had for his behavior was jealousy.Adriano was jealous of a man he had never even met. Albeit, the man was my dad but it made me feel flutters in my belly and I smiled at the memory of it.Hopefully, now that he knew the shirt belonged to my father, he would let me wear it in peace.The sound of a knock on my door distracted me and I groaned.I honestly would

Melanie’s POVI didn’t speak for fear that, Hayley might laugh and tell me she was joking all along. I allowed myself to process what she had said thinking I might have heard her wrong.“Say something, Melanie. Aren’t you excited?” Hayley asked.“I don’t know,” I whispered and she frowned.“You don’t know if you’re excited?”“No, I don’t know if what you said is real or you’re just trying to mess with me,” I said.“You think I would joke about a surgery as complicated as a Whipple!?”“I don’t know what to think, okay!” I replied. “I thought student nurses weren’t allowed to scrub in on surgeries.”"It's not a strict rule. Doctors choose interns for their surgical team all the time. How else do you expect to learn?"”This is really exciting,” I finally allowed myself to admit. “How did you find out?”She shrugged. “You know me, I have my ways and I never disclose my sources but en

Melanie’s POVI took a quick shower and went down to the kitchen where Alice was.“That looks better than any pizza I’ve ever had,” I said.“Americans don’t know how to make pizza,” she replied.“I believe you now.”Through dinner, I told her about the surgery opportunity and how many of the nurses believed I was the most likely choice.“That sounds very exciting,” she said.“It is more than exciting,” I said. “This would be my first surgery and it is a very complicated procedure.”“Anyone ever told you that you get this glint in your eyes when you’re talking about your job?” she asked and I shook my head."Now you know. Seeing you talk about your work reminds me of how I feel when I'm cooking or learning a new recipe," she said.“But you’ve never even seen me do my job,” I said.“I don’t need to. It’s all in the eyes. Someone who lights up this much talking about her jo

Melanie’s POV“I didn’t see you the last few hours,” I said. “Where have you been?”"I was on the surgical floor," she answered, throwing me completely off-guard.“Surgical floor? What on earth were you doing up there?”“I told you I needed to get some answers,” she said.“So you went to the surgical floor to what, catch him in a crime?”She smiled. “Something like that.””That’s not funny. You need to let this go, Hayley.”“You won’t be saying the same thing once I tell you what I found out.”That had my attention. I could already tell she had some news but I was hoping it was just my imagination.“What did you learn?” I asked."First, let me just say that I called it from the beginning," Hayley said.“Called what?”“The fact that you really deserved to be in that surgery and were cheated out of the opportunity,” she answered.I sighed. I already resigned myself to the fact I missed out so no matter what she said, nothing was going to change.“Okay, now that you’re so sure that I got

Adriano’s POVIf I died at this moment, I was going to die a very happy man, but I would be pissed that I had to die when I finally got a taste of sweetness.Melanie kissed me. She fucking kissed me and I didn’t have to threaten or ask her to. She did it of her own free will.Not a lot of things surprised me but this took me by surprise, so much so that I held still trying to convince myself that this was really happening.But I felt her lips disentangling from mine all too soon. She probably thought my unresponsiveness was because I didn’t want to kiss her but she couldn’t be more wrong and I’ll be damned if I let her go.Grabbing her neck just as she drew back from me, I crushed my mouth to hers, tasting the goodness that was all, Melanie but it wasn’t enough so I thrust my tongue into her mouth and deepened the kiss.She moaned lightly and responded to me, letting me lead her the way I wanted. It was like I