Chapter 14
Romano
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I’m in the middle of a video conference when Niko storms into my office, and as he bows, I see the anxiety etched in his gestures.
“Boss, there is a problem, Gianni…
My ears tense at the mention of my son, and I snap the laptop shot, pinning him with a fierce glare. “What the fuck happened to my son?”
As Niko begins to explain, I spring to my feet” The nanny and the men watching over him called, but they cannot find him.
A toxic mix of anxiety and rage surges through me. Gianni had complained of being bored while I worked, so I allowed the nanny and several bodyguards to take him out; how the hell could they lose a four–year–old boy?
Niko starts the car while my heart seethes with fear for Gianni’s safety and also the compulsive urge to kill anyone who will dare to harm my most precious person.
We arrive at the mall, and several people are fleeing from our path as though sensing an aura of danger. My men scatter the whole building to begin the search when my unsettled gaze suddenly spots Gianni rushing towards me.
My heart spikes to my throat as my men quickly open the door.
“Daddy!” He jumps inside the car, landing on my thigh and I crush his small body into a hug, relief making my breath come out in short pants.
I
pause to survey every part of his body, he doesn’t appear to be hurt, or by the heavens, I don’t know what I would have done.
“I am sorry, sir,” The nanny apologizes.
“I didn’t keep a good eye on him, and s–someone almost took him a–away.” She shivers, her face rapidly turning ash beneath my deadly stare.
“It’s alright. It’s not her fault. I ran around,” Gianni tells me and my eyes soften slightly. He is still a kid, but he always tries to take responsibility. My angry gaze returns to the nanny and the bodyguards,
“You all are fired, get out of my sight!”
They are lucky that they get to keep their useless heads, and that is only because Gianni is safe and sound.
As they scurry away from my presence, I return my gaze to see Gianni pointing at something or, rather, someone.
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“That pretty woman saved me, I almost got kidnapped,”
I tense at his words, and he goes on to describe how she used a pepper spray to torture his attacker, but when I look in the direction Gianni is pointing, there is no one there.
Finished
“Oh, she left, why didn’t you look on time?” Gianni’s dark brows, which are so similar to mine, knit together in a disapproving scowl.
“So, who was the kidnapper?”
“No idea. When I got separated from the bodyguards, the guy covered my mouth and dragged me into a corridor,”
Rage ignites in my veins, who dares kidnap my son?
I will find him.
And I will make the man die a slow agonizing death.
“Find that man, I expect you to bring him to me before today elapses!” I bark out the order to Niko.
Holding Gianni in my arms doesn’t abate my worries, what if that man had gotten to him and tortured him… Or worse?
My gaze falls on the piece of paper Gianni is firmly gripping, “What is that?”
His
eyes flash with excitement as he suddenly looks at the
paper.
“This is the number of the lady who saved me, You should call her and say thank you,”
I nod at his words, but Gianni isn’t done.
“Daddy, can you buy her expensive things? Or take her out for dinner… .”He looks up at me hopefully.
This little brat.
Is he trying to play matchmaker?
Throughout the car ride, he continues to speak about this strange woman, “She’s beautiful and not yet married, You also don’t have a wife like Uncle Niko… Why don’t you bring her to live with
Us?
I grimace and meet Niko’s stare through the rearview mirror.
This is all his fault.
Since he got married three months ago, Gianni started to pester me too to do the same.
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Once was already enough.
Since the day I allowed her to leave, I completely lost interest in relationships
It’s been four years, yet the memory of her face in the hospital remains fresh in my mind. Her burning hatred for me, her resentment
I want to forget all about it, everything about her. Jasmine had completely driven me crazy because in those first weeks, it had been an agonizing hell, forcing myself not to go to her and drat her back to me
All this time. I never realized that by caging her, I had also imprisoned myself and tossed the key
into the sea
Letting her go was the hardest thing I had ever had to do. I became a fucking captive of my own desire
It took a very strong will of mine not to search for her all these years, and to date, I have not committed to any other woman.
Once the sexual urge comes, I simply fuck the nameless faces and send them away after I’ve satisfied myself, that is all to it.
Also, I have a strong reason not to meet Jasmine, because I fucking stole her son.
A secret that should remain buried.
It is already evening when Niko sends me the footage of the abduction.
Watching that son of a bitch attempt to take my son fuels me with renewed rage… The man has also been caught and is currently chained in one of my warehouses, but he has refused to say a word about who sent him.
I have so many enemies that it’s difficult to say who exactly is bold enough to cross me by attempting to use my own flesh and blood.
My body is already tingling darkly with anticipation, thinking of the several ways I’m going to ge the answers from that bastard.
I’ve watched the CCTV video several times. However, the complete scene where the woman save Gianni is nowhere to be found.
The footage only shows her back and I cannot help but feel that it’s strangely familiar.
Almost like…
What the fuck am I thinking? No way in hell that is Jasmine!
Fuck!
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I need a distraction, and I stare at my wristwatch, it’s almost Gianni’s bedtime, but first, I will ensure that the person who has dared to hurt him sleeps with the fishes in the gold waters this night.
