DANTE'S POV
I can't explain what I felt when I saw her in the club last night. It was happiness, fear and arousal all at once. I shouldn't have been filled with so much joy when I saw her given that we basically spent the majority of yesterday together. As soon as I dropped her off at her place, I had to fight the urge to go right back and take her to my place so I could spend the night with her.
So I could feel her on my skin all over again. However, I couldn't help but feel a sense of fear when I saw her alone. She looked drunk and vulnerable as hell. If the wrong person decided to get close to her, I don't even want to think of what could have happened to her. she told me she got wasted because of me. She said she can't stop thinking about me and I can't even begin to explain how happy her confession made me.
She must not like it very much though considering she basically wanted to drink me out of her system.
"I can feel you staring at me." She mutters sleepily as her eyes flutter open. She squints her eyes as she raises herself in a sitting position. My back is to the wall as I gaze at her. She's so beautiful.
"It's creepy to watch people while they sleep." She says rubbing her eyes with a yawn. At least she knows where she is. When I brought her back to my place last night, she stripped right in front of me and got into bed in nothing but her panties. I wasn't going to touch her even if my life depended on it. I won't have sex with her while she's drunk just so she can wake up the next day and hate me for it.
If I'm going to fuck her, it should be consensual and not influenced by alcohol.
She's comfortable around me and that warms my heart. If I were someone she didn't feel safe around she wouldn't have been so calm after waking up half naked in my bed the day after getting wasted. She trusts me and I have no idea why.
I take slow strides towards her small form in bed and hand her a glass of water and a pill for her headache. "Drink."
She obeys and gulps down the pill with ease, a bit of water dripping down her chin. I'm attracted to everything this woman does.
"I'm sorry for the trouble." She says getting out of bed, standing in front of me in still just her panties. Her breasts are perfectly shaped and her nipples tight. I'm not sure if it's from the morning cold or of she's turned on but seeing her stand in front of me with nothing on is sending heat straight to my groin.
I look away from her and walk towards my wardrobe. I grab a t-shirt and toss it at her. "Put it on." I order.
"Are you mad at me?" She asks with a pout as she puts on the white t-shirt. "Because I got drunk, acted like a slut and forced you to drive me home? Did I become an inconvenience to you Mr. Russo?" She smirks. How is she even joking right now? She's either still very drunk or she has become less uptight since the last time I saw her.
She takes slow strides towards me and places a hand on my chest. "Relax Dante. I'm not drunk anymore. You can fuck me now." She looks up at me with siren eyes but I can't lose my shit. She's not drunk anymore but she's still not a hundred percent sober. I keep my hands at my sides and refuse to touch her. If I do, I won't be able to control myself.
"Don't you have work today?" I ask her.
"I can cancel." She argues.
"I made breakfast." I say with a smirk because after throwing up last night, I'm sure her stomach must be empty. She looks towards the small table next to my bedroom window hungrily and frowns as she walks past me to take a seat. I would have served her breakfast in bed but she decided to stand naked in front of me.
"Why are you avoiding me?" She asks me with a mouthful of eggs.
"I'm literally in the same room wit you right now. I even made you breakfast. I'm not avoiding you." I say as I take a seat opposite hers.
"But you won't have sex with me. It makes me sad." She pouts still with food in her mouth making her jaws puff up and I actually chuckle out loud. I can't remember the last time I laughed.
"I didn't fuck you last night because you were drunk. Believe it or not, if I had touched you, you would have hated me the next day for taking advantage of you in your drunken state. You have no idea how much I want to wrap my hand around your hair and slam into you from behind. But you just woke up. You need to eat, take a bath and then rest." Her mouth opens and then shuts the next second as her cheeks turn red.
I lean on my elbows on the table and look straight into her eyes as she tries to swallow the food in her mouth.
"Being with you in the same room, with you dressed, it fucks with my head Adeline. You have no idea how much it takes for me to resist you. I can't stop thinking about how you smell, how you feel, those sounds you make when I'm thrusting in an out of you. I would do anything to hear it again."
I push back from the table and stand to walk out of the room. "Take a bath once you're done and meet me downstairs. We're gonna watch a movie."
I wink at her and shut the door behind me, letting out a deep breath once I'm out of her sight. She doesn't know why I was in that club last night, but I was spying on my next victim.
I'm so close to finding the men who hurt my sister and putting an end to their lives and last night, I was following someone who had potential information about the men who killed my sister.
I was just from beating the guy up and torturing the information out of him when I bumped into her in the hallway. I was still agitated and angry as heel, but as soon as I saw her, all that rage softened up and all I could think about was getting her the hell out of that club.
I'm so close. So close to all of this ending. So close to giving my sister the justice she deserves. So close to sending all those men six feet under. My sister was all I had and she was taken away from me by some creeps who don't even deserve to be in this world. I don't want Adeline to have anything to do with that part of my life and I'll keep her away from it with everything I have.
I've been with other girls before but they were just hookups and one-night stands. I've never let another woman sleep over at my house before. I've never wanted to be this serious about anyone before because when your enemies, find something you care about, they use it against you.
I kill people coming from an entire organization of pedophiles and if they one day trace their kills to me, I don't want Adeline to be the one targeted. She's the one for me.
I want to be the only man she thinks about. I want to be the only one able to drive her crazy.