LOGINDante Pov
I sat in my study room handling the document that my men submitted to me to go through and sign.
Being one of the wealthiest in the country wasn't just playful or easy work. To get to this position which was feared by the government and the business world, I had gone through knives and bullets, and this had made my heart cold.
I trust no one and this is also why I still haven't gotten married at this age. Oh! I now have a fiancée, and speaking of the devil, my phone rang and when I looked at the interface, the name “Geneva” could be boldly seen on top.
I looked at the call indifferently but didn't pick up and only continued to read through the contract, and just like I predicted, the phone didn't ring again.
Geneva is a wise woman and this is also one of the reasons I chose her among the women who satisfy my pleasures. She knows her places and doesn't break my rules and she also knows how to satisfy my sexual needs.
The engagement to her had been deliberate but it was not something real. I had only done this to shut the mouths of investors and media who had kept on yapping about my marriage status.
Suddenly, the face of a young woman appeared in my mind and I couldn't help the irritation that filled my heart.
I lit a stick of a cigar and stood up to walk to the window, and my eyes couldn't help but trail to the window on the other side. The window was one I had been unconsciously paying attention to for the past few days since she came.
“Little Lily…” I gasped at those names and then closed my eyes to inhale a deep breath.
Her image conjured in my mind and I could feel myself going stiff. The words she had asked me that day sounded again and a scoff appeared on my face.
“Have I thought of her?” I muttered, and when I think about it now, I know the answer would still be my reply to her.
No! I hadn't thought of her until her father suddenly came to me one day to demand that I help him take care of her and that was when I remembered that dainty young 18 or 19-year-old girl who had boldly confessed to me.
I had felt all this was just a child’s fantasy and it’d fade away with time, but—
The image of her standing in front of me, now grown and mature with the boldness, sexiness and charm of a woman as she whispered, “Dante, I'm back!” appeared in my mind.
To be honest, I really didn't want to think much about those words, but the moment I looked into those emotion-filled eyes and saw the single tear that rolled down her face, I knew clearly that the little girl had grown up and she hadn't forgotten her feelings for me, but…
She is my friend’s daughter! Someone I'm meant to protect, how could I let that happen—
KNOCK!!
My thought was interrupted and my brows furrowed in a tight frown.
Who would dare come to my study without being called?! The workers know these rules in this house and they wouldn't dare….
My thoughts suddenly strayed as the image of someone popped into my mind again. With curiosity, I walked back to my seat and commanded, “Come inside!”
The moment the door opened and the sweet scent of jasmine flowers hit me, I just knew I had guessed it right.
“Dante..?”
Her soft and nervous voice sounded, but when I raised my head and turned towards her, my fingers which held the cigar tightened and my breath spun rapidly.
My eyes widened and the calmness I had been proud of was shattered with the view I saw.
Lily, dressed in a black night gown that was decent enough but also made one's imagination go wild, stood in front of me.
The black night gown accentuated her beautiful, sexy figure, her hair was left unpacked and it cascaded down her back, and her face which was bare of any makeup looked so beautiful that it made my heart skip, and when my eyes trailed down to her long, beautiful model-like legs…
My blood surged, my breathing slowed down and my mouth became parched. I gulped then forced my gaze away from her legs and returned to her face, but it seemed to be the biggest mistake.
Her face was flushed red and those eyes… they stared at me with obedience, trust and infatuation.
Fuck!
What the hell is this girl trying to do?! Is she trying to seduce me?!
To calm my heart, I took a long drag of my cigar and finally returned to my indifferent state.
I threw her a sharp glance, “Why are you here and not sleeping?”
Lily looked startled, then her fingers intertwined and loosened in nervousness but I acted like I didn't notice and just kept my eyes on the document I was reading.
“Well… I can't sleep. I'm worried about my father. I just wanted to ask you some questions, and…and..” She stammered, then paused and bit her lips which was enough to make my mind surge again.
Shit!
“Little vixen!” I cussed in frustration. I didn't know why she was able to affect me this way but I have been finding everything seductive and it's making me lose my mind.
Now, I couldn't help but doubt my decision to let her live here.
Suddenly, I slapped my palm on the table which made her flinch. She looked at me with shock.
“Little Lily…” I bit those words out, then glared at her, “Are you trying to seduce me?! Didn't I tell you not to have delusions and stay obedient if you want to live here?!” I snapped, clearly pissed off not with her, but at myself for reacting heavily to her tactics.
“What do you mean?! And don't call me “Little” I'm not little anymore! I'll be 23 years old in two months!” She snapped back in annoyance and I couldn't help but be shocked by her boldness.
As the boss of the underworld and business world, it was rare to see a bold person like her but… I could do nothing about her.
I stood up, then gritted my teeth and walked towards her. Then with the hand that held the lit cigar, I held her chin and tightened my fingers on it.
“Urggh…! You—” She groaned from the pain but I didn't let her go.
I looked into her eyes with my cold ones, then leaned in closer to her and blew some air on her face which made her cough.
“Stop those delusions you have, girl… You’re inexperienced and can't take me. I love it rough, wild and crazy and I’m sure you can't take it. Let's maintain this decent status we have and stop seducing me. I don't want to lose control and make things—”
“Then do it! Make things crazy, Dante. Who knows? I might be able to take that wildness, the roughness and craziness. What do you think?”
Chapter 43Dante’s POV“We cannot just storm the place,” I said, leaning over the table with the map spread out between us, my finger tapping the building layout while Damson stood across from me with his jaw tight and his eyes hard like he was already halfway into a battlefield, “I know that is your instinct and believe me it is mine too but there are too many things we do not know and too many ways this can go wrong.”“She is my daughter,” Damson replied, his voice low but sharp, his hands pressing flat on the table as if holding himself back, “and I have men, resources, authority, I can pull strings you cannot and I can bring this place down in one night.”“And that is exactly why we cannot do that,” I said, meeting his stare without backing down, “because someone in authority is already helping them and if we move loud they will know before we even get to the door and Lily will disappear again or worse.”He exhaled through his nose, clearly angry but listening, and I pressed on be
DANTE’S POV“You did what,” I asked immediately, my voice tight as I leaned back in the chair, my hand tightening around the edge of the desk as if it could anchor me against the weight of what I was hearing, and even though I tried to remain calm I could feel my pulse rising because I had spent days thinking that Lily was gone and that every lead was cold and that nothing could save her and now Damson words had thrown everything into a new light.“I implanted a tracker when she was still a child,” Damson said calmly, leaning against the doorway, his arms crossed, his military posture straight and rigid even though he was here in my office and not on a mission, “I had to make sure that if anything ever happened to her and she was in danger we would have some way of finding her.”“You what,” I repeated, more slowly this time, my chest tightening, “you implanted a tracker in her body when she was a kid, and you never told me.”“I did not tell anyone,” he said, “because the technology is
DANTE’S POV“I should have called you earlier,” I said into the empty office, my voice sounding rough and unfamiliar as it echoed back to me without answer.The chair across my desk was empty and the silence in the house pressed down on me harder than any enemy ever had, because every room reminded me that Lily was still missing and that time was slipping through my fingers while I stood still, afraid of one call I had avoided for too long.I sat there with my phone in my hand, turning it over slowly like the weight of it could change if I looked at it long enough, because calling her father meant saying the words out loud, it meant admitting failure, and failure was something I had never allowed to exist around me.“You do not lose,” I muttered to myself, gripping the phone tighter.But Lily was gone.And every hour that passed made the danger feel heavier in my chest, sharper, more real, because the longer she stayed missing the more I imagined what could be happening to her, what s
DANTE’S POVI walked through the penthouse slowly that night with no destination in mind, every room feeling empty even though nothing had changed physically, and the quiet pressed against my ears until it became impossible to ignore my own thoughts, which had been circling the same memories again and again since Lily disappeared.I stopped in the hallway outside her room and stared at the door longer than I should have, my hand hovering near the handle before I finally pushed it open and stepped inside, letting the door close behind me as I stood there breathing in the space she had occupied for months, and I sat on the edge of the bed without turning on the lights because I did not need them to remember her.“She was acting strange,” I said aloud to no one, my voice low and rough.I leaned forward, elbows on my knees, my hands clasped together tightly.“She was quiet,” I continued, “always distracted, always somewhere else.”The more I replayed it, the heavier my chest felt, because
Dante’s POV“I don’t understand how someone could just erase her like she never existed,” I said, my hands clenching around the edges of my desk so hard I thought I might leave a mark on the wood and I could feel the tension twisting in my stomach because everything about this felt unreal and wrong, like someone had reached into my life and pulled out the part that mattered most and left a vacuum behind.Trevor Calder, who had been my friend since before I had any reason to trust anyone outside my circle, just stood there leaning against the doorframe of my study with that calm ex-military expression I had come to rely on when nothing else made sense, and he said, “Dante, I am not going to sugarcoat it for you, the people who did this to her, they knew exactly what they were doing and they left nothing behind to track, nothing that even someone like me could follow and I have seen a lot of things in my time that people would think were impossible but this is something different, this
DANTE’S POVI was standing in the center of the control room of my private security headquarters and the hum of computers and monitors was like a background pulse I could not ignore because my mind had been racing ever since I found out that Lily was missing and the room itself felt too small and too quiet for the chaos I felt pressing down in my chest as I stared at dozens of screens stacked on top of each other showing feeds from every camera on the property and beyond, but every time I looked at one I saw nothing I needed, nothing that gave me the slightest clue, nothing that made sense, nothing except empty rooms and static air and the faint shimmer of time passing too slowly and my fingers curled into fists at my sides because every second she remained missing made the panic grow a little more inside me.I swore under my breath when I realized the feed from the east gate had been cut and jumped hours ahead, leaving only the image of a black SUV leaving the premises and then nothi
Dante’s PovThe scent hit me the second I walked into the room. It was sweet and unmistakable, the smell of a turned on pussy. Lily's pussy, i knew she had been in here, the little trespasser. I saw the whip on the floor and the curtain pulled slightly out of place. I pretended not to notice anyth
Dante POVThe sun was barely up, but the house already felt too small. I was heading toward the kitchen when a sound stopped me dead. It was Lily—laughing. It wasn’t the polite, forced laugh she gave me; it was bright, genuine, and intimate."Oh, Kelvin, stop it," she giggled through her bedroom do
Lily's POVI stood in the doorway of his bedroom, frozen. The air felt thick, like I was trying to breathe underwater. My heart hammered against my ribs, but it wasn't the fast, excited beat I felt when he looked at me. This was a cold, sharp thumping.Dante was sitting in his large leather chair.
Lily's Pov He woke me up by pulling the blanket off my bed. The room was cold, i was naked. He didn't say anything. He just stood there looking at me. Then he grabbed my arm and pulled me out of bed. We went to the sex room. The door was heavy and it made a loud sound when it closed."On the benc







