ADELINE'S POV
"So, how've you been without me present to brighten up your life Mr. Russo?" My voice comes out sweet as I focus on the breakfast in front of me. Dante and I had sex again and then he made me delicious scrambled eggs, toast and bacon and I'm devouring it like I haven't eaten anything in a year or so.
"Miserable is the only correct word to that question." He says with a smirk as he watches me. I can't seem to take my eyes off him and my face won't stop smiling but I can't help it. I've missed him so much it felt like I was losing my mind. I want to spend the entirety of today with him and not think about Adrian or my parents or everything wrong about my life.
Today, it's all about Dante and I. No one else.
He watches me as I take slow bites from my breakfast with a smile on his face. His eyes on me makes my skin tingle pleasurably and I can't but feel hot on my cheeks as a huge smile engulfs my face.
"My food isn't going to digest properly if you keep staring at me like that." I say with a mouthful of scrambled eggs.
"What do you want to do today?" He asks.
"I just want to spend the entire day with you. I swear to God if I have to entertain Adrian for another minute, I might kill myself. he's so full of himself it's disguating."
"You know you don't have to do this right? It's not too late to back out. Just say the word and we'll find another way. I don't want you doing this if you're uncomfortable." Dante proposes but I'm already in too deep. Quitting now will only cause more complications so the only option I have now is to finish what I started.
"It is too late Dante. This what my idea and it's my responsibility now so I have to finish what I started. Things will only get worse if I back out now and I'm not really looking to find out what Adrian will do if he finds out this early that I'm just tracking him. You know he saw Dain the other day at the restaurant where I get lunch and he asked me if I wanted him to do anything about him. And he asked me in this devilish tone that just made my skin crawl. I just have this feeling that Adrian is not a good person Dante. I don't know how but I'm a therapist and I can feel it. I've studied humans enough to know a psychopath when I see one."
Dante walks towards me with a determination and protectiveness in his eyes. He grabs my face gently and looks me deep in the eyes.
"If that bastard does anything to hurt you, you tell me right away okay baby? Promise me." The way he's taking and the look in eyes tells me there's something about Adrian that he fears. Something that he knows and not telling me, but I don't know how to ask him. Instead, I shut up and nod my head gently.
"I promise Dante, but I don't think Adrian will hurt me. He's too obsessed with me and he thinks I'm perfect. He's the type of person who likes his things intact. The only thing that might give Adrian a reason to hurt me is if he finds out I'm tricking him. I'm so sacred of what he'll do when this is all finally over."
I wrap my hands around Dante's waist and rest my head on his chest, listening to his heart beating steadily to the rhythm of my own.
"Everything's going to work out just fine princess. I won't let anything happen to you. I promise." He places a soft kiss on my forehead, making me shut my eyes in satisfaction as I breathe him in. Dante is the only thing keeping me safe at the moment. He's the thin thread I'm hanging on to and if that thread snaps and I fall, I don't know if I'll ever be able to pick myself up again.
"It's going to be so weird when Adrian starts making sexual advances towards me." I say in a teasing voice at an attempt to lighten the mood and Dante tenses up immediately, the rate of his heartbeat increasing as he holds me in his arms.
"I swear to God, Adeline, if I find out that bastard put his hands on you, I'll flip this plan of yours upside down and kill him instantly." I flinch from his words but I don't let him see the look of horror on my face. I'm definitely not scared of Dane but lately, when he mentions the word 'kill', I have a hard time deciding whether or not he's joking and if he's actually capable of killing someone.
The sound of his voice and the way he says the word so casually forces me to think it's something he's actually capable of and it occasionally plants a seed of worry in my chest that keeps growing. I trust Dante and I know he's nothing like Adrian and I know he'll never hurt me, but what do I actually know about him.
"I'd die before I let him put his hands on me." I say with a chuckle that I have to force. Dante lets go of me and reaches into his back pocket.
"I almost forgot, I got something for you. It's been sitting in my house for days now and I was waiting for the right time to give it to you but then I realize there's never a right time to give a gift to someone who's special to you." He says nervously and my eyes light up in surprise. Surprise because my brain cannot comprehend the fact that Dante of all people could ever be nervous about anything.
All uncomfortable thoughts and mistrust immediately escape my mind as he holds up the most beautiful necklace I've ever seen. It's so shiny and the diamonds that lace every corner of the necklace sparkle with the light of a thousand stars. It's simple, elegant and breathtaking and I just know it must have cost a fortune. I've never received a gift like this from anyone in my entire life.
"Dante oh my God." I say covering my mouth with my hands and I gaze at the beauty held up in front of me. He gestures for me to turn around, then he places the cold metal around my neck. It fits perfectly and I feel like I should never take it off.
"It's beautiful Dante. This must have cost you a fortune. I can't even imagine how much money you spent and-"
"Just say thank you and accept the gift, Adeline. I have more money than I can use. What better way than you spend it on you." He looks down at me with raw passion in his eyes.
"I couldn't agree more Mr. Russo." I beam at hm, my mind spiraling with a billion emotions per second. "I love it." I whisper.
"And I love you." The words leave his mouth so softly and delicately. His hands cup my cheeks as he lifts my face by my chin to gaze intensely into my eyes. His eyes soften and he repeats the words again.
"I love you, Adeline." He says, his voice coming out stronger this time but still with the same sweetness, conviction and compassion. I can hardly believe my ears. My heart beats frantically in my chest, my eyes start to water and my entire being is filled with an emotion that can only be described using one word: 'Love', and I know in my heart that I've never been so sure of anything else in my entre life.
I've always wondered what I felt like to be completely consumed by a person. To live and breathe for that person, to light up in complete and utter happiness when that person walks into a room, to do anything for that person.
Dante is my person. He consumes me. He turns me inside out and he makes me burn. He makes me burn for something that only he can give to me. My lips part and although my voice comes out shaky, I voice out what my heart and body and soul has been telling me for the longest time.
"I love you too Dante. I love y-" His lips meet mine before I can finish my words. Entire universes crash and fold into each other as out lips move in the perfect rhythm. My body explodes and travels to a million other galaxies. I ascend to cloud nine, completely giving myself over to this feeling I've been craving for the longest time.
I love him. He's mine and I'm his.