Chapter 46

CORNELIUS

Something wasn’t right.

I had almost gone nuts searching for her. Ready to fucking go back to La and confront Mafioso and yet here she was.

Apparently rescued by one of my workers in the estate. I had looked into the man the minute he called saying he had rescued Lydia.

A little digging and the slate came back clean. Not a single thing that could have connected said man to Mafioso. Still, there was something wrong with…her.

It was in the way she looked at me. The way she’d avoided me for days.

I mean sure telling her I loved her in my not so graceful way might have spooked her but I wanted her to at least say something to me.

To talk to me damn it.

To tell me she hated me and this agony of watching her from afar would end.

Jesus Christ even Dog had gotten more words out of her than I had these past few weeks.

The mutt went with her everywhere and I was stuck in my office making calls, watching her from my window, lusting over her, getting choked in her presence and God knew,