hapter 61

Dominic

As soon as I break the news to Carmella, she pulls her hand away, her face twisting in an ugly sneer.

“Did I hear that right?” she asks. “You can’t be serious with what you just said to me?

“Calm down and listen t-”

“Don’t tell me to calm down! You’re seriously going to fuck her? And what about us?”

“You’re getting the wrong idea. I’m only doing this for the sake of the company. That moment will mean nothing at all.”

Even as I assure her of all this, there’s a part of me that doesn’t seem convinced of everything coming out of my mouth.

“How could you do this to me? Do you mean to tell me I’ve been patient for nothing

As she goes on a rant about how long she’s been waiting, I rub my temples, trying to get her to lower her voice but that does nothing until she finally gives it a rest.

“Are y

“Are you done?” I ask.

“No, I’m not yet done. What do you think? Am I supposed to be smiling right now, knowing that you’ll be fucking that bitch? This is all her fault. You know what? I’ll make sure I put her in a place for this

As she attempts to get out of bed with her burns, I hold onto her hand and stop her.

“Enough,” I say to her. “Who told you that Vanessa’s behind all this.? I am. It was my decision and I told her about it. I already told you what the company means for me and this is what it’s going to take for my father to finally let me ta

“But there are other ways to get her pregnant. Why not go to the hospital or something?”

“And what happens if people find out? Have you thought about that?”

take over.”

“I just can’t stand the idea of you being in bed with her. How do you think it makes me feel? No, this won’t happen. I’ll make sure she loses her eyesight or something before I let her have you in bed.”

“Don’t you dare hurt Vanessa My voice is a little threatening.

you’re being protective

need, I’m not going to let anything happen to her. Nothing is going to

at herself. “Not even

“Not even you.

minute, but suddenly, she hurls

married any time soon and starting our own family, I clearly went to that damn

right to be, her words catch me by surprise and I find

you went to the damn orphanage

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Shapter 61

some fun? Well, let me tell you something, it definitely wasn’t fun being around all those kids and I regret wasting

the orphanage over and

say what’s on my mind and when I do, I firmly shake finally

head as

get you to understand what’s going on with the company but you

I get

leave, but she grabs onto my

go. I… I didn’t mean any

that right now?” I pull my wrist away without looking back, heading straight

me the opportunity to

lock it, then set on my couch with

door, I don’t bother to open it. How could she openly admit to hating her time at the orphanage and disrespecting the

back to her bedroom, but she starts banging on another door and I know

stop this, but I don’t want to see her face

gets no response from her, and that just makes her return to my door and beg for me to open up. I really don’t want to deal with her right now. The last time

do, but I need to find out, so I wait a few minutes before heading out I can only hope Carmella doesn’t follow me. Even

Vanessa

the cologne Dominic modeled for, I’ve

I should go upstairs and try to figure out the final looks

events.

a little at how Dominic offered to guide me. It doesn’t matter if he’s doing it for selfish reasons. I’m glad he’s going to get me on the right–track because I really want to work on these

be time for us to do it. Now that I think about it, why didn’t I just use that moment to give him a heads up? Because now I’ll have to tell him again and can’t even imagine myself doing

I was drunk, especially because he’s been away for a while, I have to admit that I’m still curious about what we talked about. We had to have talked about something.

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