Semua Bab Claim by the Don: Bab 251 - Bab 260

Melanie’s POVThere was no way, Alice could be the one banging on my door, which left me thinking there was an intruder in the house.But would an intruder knock and how on earth did they know that of all the rooms in this house, I was in this one.I was frozen in shock and fear stopped me from moving to the door.Then I heard, Adriano’s voice boom, “Melanie!” that had me scrambling off the bed so quickly and I opened the door so fast."It was you," I whispered but then I saw the look of urgency in his eyes. "What's wrong?"“I need your help,” he said.I stared at him open-mouthed. A quick glance at him from head to toe revealed he was unharmed so I let out a breath of relief. That didn’t stop me from noticing the fact he was wearing a freaking bulletproof vest.Which got me thinking that maybe he was hurt somewhere I couldn’t see.“Are you hurt?” I asked.“I’m not hurt, little nurse but this i

Adriano’s POVI was in my study with, Nik debriefing what happened tonight."It could have been way worse if you didn't have quick reflexes," Nik said.I nodded. “I can’t say the same about, Mateo,” I said.“Mateo has always been fucking slow,” Nik replied. “he could have easily dodged that swing if he’d been paying attention.”He wasn’t wrong. Mateo was fucking slow.When that, Russian fucker took a swing at me with a knife we didn’t know he had on him, my reflexes kicked in almost immediately and I swerved to the side, narrowly missing a blade to my face.Mateo, who was standing beside me did get slashed by the knife before I could disarm the fucker and once I did, the last thing on my mind was extracting any sort of information from him so I slit his throat with his own knife.“You know by killing that fucker, we lost out on finding out the rest of their hideout,” Nik said.“We didn’t really need him. I admit it would have been easier but there are other ways to find that out,” I s

Adriano’s POVThe last thing I wanted was to go searching for an adult male by this time of the night.I’d had a long day and after my briefing with, Nik, I wanted to take a shower and crawl into bed.But no, that fucker had to go wander off. Ralph left him alone for a few minutes to go get the car from where he parked it earlier so he could drive, Mateo home but when he got back in the room where he had been sown up, Mateo was nowhere to be found.“Go tell the guys outside to search the grounds,” I told Nik. “He might have wandered outside but I’ll check the house just in case.”Nik nodded. "You got it, boss."We went separate ways and I started my search from the empty guest rooms, maybe he was looking for a place to sleep and stumble into one of them, but he wasn’t in any one.I even went to the gym and movie room, but still, I came up empty. That was when I took my search downstairs and started he

Melanie’s POVIf someone had told me that I was going to spend most of my night stitching up a man with a stab wound, I would have laughed in their faces.And it would have been more unbelievable if the person had added that the same person I stitched up would try to harass me.I’d been living here for weeks and even though, Adriano and I had tethered on the edge of our attraction towards each other, he had never done anything inappropriate to me or even made me uncomfortable.I didn't communicate much with the ground guards in the house but I assumed they'd be like, Ralph. Grumpy, quiet, and focused on their jobs. The last thing I expected was for Mateo to come on to me considering I didn't think he was dumb enough to have been oblivious to my conversation with, Adriano in the medical room which would have given him a pretty good guess on the dynamics of my relationship with, Adriano.The look on, Adriano's face when

Melanie’s POV“You didn’t get enough sleep, huh?” she asked.“It’s not what you think,” I said."Oh, it sounds like you were busy with your hot, Italian boyfriend which ended up with you being sleep-deprived," she said. "Now it makes sense why your eyes look so huge."I sighed. When was I going to learn to keep my damn mouth shut?"Okay, I am sleep-deprived and it has something to do with, Adriano but I promise it's not what you think," I repeated. "You need to get your mind out of the gutter."“Girl, my mind lives in the gutter and it’s beyond saving so don’t even bother,” Hayley said. “Now tell me, does Adriano look as bad as you do or is it just you?”“Hayley!”"What?! I'm just trying to find out to what degree he tired you out last night. On a scale of one to ten, with one being not at all and ten being out of this world, which is it."I shook my head. “I don’t know why I even bother