Chapter 21 ~ Adriano’s POV~ I sat in a private meeting room surrounded by men all eager to join my empire. They talked too much, each one trying to impress me, but their voices faded into background noise. My mind wasn’t in the room. It was still stuck on the kiss I had with Elena. Her lips felt so damn right against mine that I nearly lost it savoring those lips. I didn’t even know what came over me. I was never a man to lose control or let emotions get in the way, but whenever I was close to her, it always seemed that way. I was certainly no man who does love, the word alone sounded foreign to me. Maybe I was just woman deprived, that’s all. This marriage was only an agreement and nothing more. It stays that way. “Don, what do you think?” one of the men asked. Taking a sip from my glass, I was about to answer when a knock came on the door. Ethan, the bodyguard I assigned to watch over Elena, stepped in, breath quick, face drawn."Sorry for intruding, Don,” he said, bowin
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