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Dominated By Him Chapter 138
Sophia POVSomewhere in Vermont. Day four.The room cost forty-two dollars a night.I'd paid for two nights in cash at the front desk without making eye contact, and the man behind the counter had handed me a key on a plastic fob without looking up from his phone. The room was at the end of the ground floor, away from the parking lot, facing a stand of pine trees. I'd asked for that specifically. He hadn't asked why.The bed had a yellow quilt. The carpet was brown. There was a small bathroom with a showerhead that dripped and a mirror mounted too high on the wall. I didn't adjust it.I'd been here for four days.The first day I slept almost the entire time, which I knew was my body's way of settling a debt I'd been accumulating since the warehouse. I woke up once in the middle of the night with my heart hammering and my hands braced against the mattress, already halfway upright, listening for footsteps that weren't there. Then I lay back down and looked at the ceiling until my pulse
Dominated By Him Chapter 137
Vito POVThree days.Tony had put the count on the board in the operations room the morning after the warehouse, and I'd told him to take it down. He'd taken it down. But I still knew the number. I knew it the way you know the time when you haven't slept—not from looking, just from the weight of it.Seventy-two hours since she'd walked out of that basement and disappeared into the dark.I sat at the desk in the study with the lights low and her file in front of me. Not her legal file—the Romano family paperwork, the contracts, the documents my lawyers had drafted. The other one. The one Tony had built over months without being asked: photographs, notes, patterns. The route she took when she went to visit Alfonso. The coffee she ordered when she was tired versus when she wasn't. The way she held a pen.I pressed two fingers against the edge of a photograph and didn't look up when the door opened."Nothing new," Tony said. He'd stopped prefacing these reports with sir after the second d
Dominated By Him Chapter 136
Vito POVRomano Estate. Early morning.Tony came through the side door at just past four AM.I knew from the way he moved. Not the measured, deliberate pace he used when delivering information I could work with. This was faster. Tighter. The walk of a man carrying something he didn't want to carry."Tell me," I said before he could open his mouth."The warehouse." He stopped a few feet from the desk. His face was pale under the overhead light. "We arrived at the perimeter at oh-two-thirty. All four of our men on the ground confirmed entry. Sir—" He stopped again. "The kidnappers are dead. All three of them. When we breached, the building was empty."I didn't say anything."No sign of her," Tony continued. "No sign of Isabella. The basement had a chair with cut rope and a second exit through the back of the building. A coal access. It had been forced from the inside." He paused. "She got out on her own. We think she was already gone before we arrived. Before Luciano's people arrived."
Dominated By Him Chapter 135
Sophia POVI ran until my lungs gave out.The tree line was dense, and I went in fast, not thinking about direction, just away from the warehouse, away from the voices that had gone up behind me when the basement door scraped open. Branches caught my face and arms. I put my hands up to protect my eyes and kept going.A cramp hit me low and hard. I grabbed a tree trunk and doubled over, gasping. The pain was a tight pull across my lower abdomen, deep and insistent. I pressed my free hand against my stomach and stood very still, breathing through it.Not now, I thought. Please. Not now.It eased after maybe thirty seconds. I didn't know if that was long or short. It felt long.I straightened up, wiped my face with my sleeve, and kept moving. Slower this time, watching the ground. The light was coming in gray through the tree cover. I oriented toward it.The road appeared about twenty minutes later. A single-lane blacktop running through scrubland, no shoulder, no markings. I had no idea
Dominated By Him Chapter 134
Sophia POVThe cold had moved past uncomfortable a long time ago.I sat in the dark and kept very still and tried not to think about what Vito had said on that call.You're overestimating the sentiment involved.She walked out.You've misjudged the situation.I'd heard those words maybe a hundred times already, replaying on a loop I couldn't turn off. Each time they landed the same way—flat and final, like a door shutting. Not slammed. Just closed. The quiet kind of closed that meant it wasn't going to open again.He's not coming.I pressed my back teeth together and stared at the floor. The concrete was cracked in a long diagonal line that ran under the chair and disappeared into the shadows. I focused on that. The crack. The pattern of it. Anything other than the voice on the phone.Not worth it. Just a contract. She walked out.I knew what those words were supposed to do. I'd heard Vito use that register before—the flat, disinterested tone he put on when he wanted someone to think
Dominated By Him Chapter 133
Vito POVI put the phone down and sat with it for a moment.Fifteen percent. That was what they'd asked for. Fifteen percent of Romano Holdings, transferred clean within forty-eight hours, in exchange for a woman they'd described as my wife.I already knew this wasn't my father's operation.Luciano Romano had been patient for twenty years. He had spent that time building leverage, positioning Clark, chipping away at the board piece by piece. He didn't make moves like this. Snatching Isabella off a bus route in Connecticut and calling me with a ransom demand — that was reckless. That was the work of someone who thought proximity to the plan entitled them to run their own version of it.Someone had gone off-script."Tony."He came in from the side door. He'd been standing outside the study since the call ended."The voice on the phone," I said. "Run it.""Already started." He set his phone on the edge of the desk. "We'll have something within the hour. The accent had a regional trace —
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