All Chapters of THE DON'S DOCTOR : Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

34 Chapters

Chapter Twenty-One Almost Everything.

Frank was already through the door before it fully opened.I was two steps behind him.Marco was sitting up against the pillows when we walked in. Pale. But his eyes were open, slowly tracking the room like he was relearning where he was.Frank crossed the room immediately, gripping his brother’s face in both hands like he needed proof he was still alive.“Boss finally decided to visit?” Marco rasped, his voice hoarse from weeks without speaking.Frank ignored the joke."Hey." Frank's voice came out wrecked. Just that one word. "Hey.”Marco huffed a weak breath. “Jesus, Frank.”Frank’s shoulders lowered slightly, like some of the tension finally left his body. “You look like hell.”“Feel worse. I feel like I got hit by a truck.”Frank pulled a chair closer and sat down beside the bed. Up close, the control on his face slipped just enough to show the exhaustion underneath.“You had us thinking you were dead,” he said.Marco smirked faintly. “You’d miss me.”“Of course I did.”“You foun

Chapter Twenty-two Stay Safe

I knew he was there just after midnight.I didn’t hear the door. Frank never made noise when he moved. I only noticed when the mattress dipped and his weight settled behind me.I was still awake.I don't know if he knew that or assumed it or didn't care either way."You should sleep," he said."So should you."“Aren't you tired, baby girl.”“No,” I breathed.“Can I stay in your room tonight?”“Of course you can.” I answered him, sliding the blanket sheets back so he could climb in.He curled closer under the covers. I nuzzled my face into his neck, and he wrapped his arms around me.“I'm sorry about what I said earlier.”I sighed. “You’re right. I shouldn’t have doubted you.”“That’s not it. You are a grown woman and capable of making your own decisions. I should’ve trusted you.”I let out a soft laugh. “That's fine.”I wrapped my arm around his chest and slid a bare leg over his, pulling him into a tighter hug.I slid one of my arms across his chest, stroking it. I arched back and fe

Chapter Twenty Three A Secret Shared

Rosabella stepped into the room and nudged the door shut behind her with her heel.The soft click of the latch sounded louder than it should have.I moved aside while she walked in, setting the cups on the small table by the window.Steam curled up from the tea in thin white ribbons.“Couldn’t sleep,” she said lightly. “Thought you might be the same.”I picked up one of the cups.The porcelain was hotter than I expected. I shifted it between my hands before bringing it to my mouth.The first sip burned my tongue. I swallowed anyway.Rosabella sat on the edge of the chair across from me, crossing one leg slowly over the other.Her eyes moved around the room once.Bed. Window. Door.Then back to me.“Rough night?” she asked.I let the cup hover near my mouth.Frank’s scent was still on the sheets behind me. Leather and smoke and something darker that never quite left him.“Something like that.”She hummed softly, like she already knew the answer.Her fingers wrapped around her own cup b

Chapter Twenty-Four.

The house was quiet again by the time the clock on the wall crept past five.I sat on the edge of the bed with the lamp on low, a glass of whiskey in my hand that I hadn’t really meant to pour.I froze mid-sip, sensing him before I looked as headlights cut across the courtyard outside the window.The beam slid across the walls, across the floor, across my bare feet. Then it disappeared.An engine died.My fingers tightened around the glass.Car doors slammed outside. One. Then another.Low voices followed. Quick. Urgent. I couldn’t catch the words.The front door opened somewhere downstairs. A dull thud as it shut again.Silence.The glass in my hand was empty before I realized I had finished it. I set it down on the table beside me a little harder than I meant to.The knock on my door came a minute later.Two short taps.I stood up too fast. The room tilted for a second before steadying again.When I opened the door, Darius stood there.His jacket was gone. His shirt sleeves were rol

Chapter Twenty-Five The Memory Of Him.

Morning light crept through the blinds. Frank was already moving when I woke. I found him in his office an hour later. I lingered in the doorway, watching him. His office was quiet but alive: files stacked neatly, papers being sorted, a phone cradled between shoulder and ear as he barked low instructions.He didn’t notice me at first. And then he did. Something shifted at the edges of his face almost imperceptible, just for me. A small tightening at the jaw, a soft exhale, an eye flicking toward me that made the air bend differently.I stepped inside, letting the door click shut behind me.“Coffee?” I asked quietly, settling into the chair across from him.Frank glanced up, offering a faint nod, returning to the files in front of him. After a while, he paused, resting his hand over a stack of papers.“Busy day?” I asked. His eyes flicked to mine. “Yeah. Going through some papers Darius had presented to me.”Frank leaned back in his chair, hands steepled, eyes narrowing slightly as h

Chapter Twenty-Six. I'll Be Home Soon

I sank back into the leather seat as the car merged into traffic. The second car pulled out behind us as we left. The guard's vehicle.The city moved past the window in slow pieces, shops closing for the evening.Seeing Elowen had felt strange. Familiar in a way that almost hurt. Like touching a life that didn’t belong to me anymore.My phone buzzed in my hand. Frank.“How long does it take to visit your friend?”I could hear the quiet impatience in his voice.“As long as it takes.”A small pause.“Are you on your way back?”“In the car now.”I leaned my head against the cool glass of the window and watched the city lights blur past.“I miss you.”The words slipped out of him without decoration. No humor. My hand tightened slightly around the phone.It didn’t surprise me.What surprised me was how easily the warmth spread through my chest when he said it.“I miss you too,” I said quietly.“Be careful,” he said.“You already said that.”“I know. I’m saying it again.”I turned my face

Chapter Twenty-Seven The Wrong Room.

Pain woke me before the rest of the world did.A slow, heavy throbbing pulsed behind my eyes, each beat spreading through my skull like something alive under the skin. I lay there in the dark, trying to understand why my head felt like it had been split open.Then I realized the dark wasn’t natural.There was thick fabric over my eyes. Black, complete, no light at all. Memory slammed back into place all at once. The road, the gunshots, Vito's blood across the wheel, hands dragging me out of the car.My breath caught.My wrists jerked instinctively, but the movement stopped almost immediately. My arms were tied behind me.My whole body ached in the particular way that meant I had been unconscious for a long time. I pushed myself upright too quickly and nearly collapsed."Who's there?" My voice came out shaking. "Please. Who's there? Please answer me.""Shut up," a voice snapped. "Be quiet."Footsteps shifted across what sounded like concrete. Men. At least two.My pulse began pounding

Chapter Twenty-eight Ask Me Again.

For a moment, Frank didn’t move.The name had barely left his mouth when the silence in the room seemed to press in from every side, thick with something heavy and unresolved. His eyes stayed on Sofia, searching her face as if trying to confirm that she was real and not some cruel trick of memory.Then the moment passed.The shock did not disappear, but it hardened into something colder. The kind of control that had made men fear him long before I ever met him.His gaze shifted back to me.The change in his expression was immediate. The disbelief that had flickered across his face vanished, replaced by a dark focus that settled over him like an armor.He crossed the room, moving towards me. One of the remaining men moved as if to stop him, but the warning in Frank’s eyes was enough to freeze him in place. No one spoke.Frank stopped directly in front of me and crouched down, his attention completely fixed on the ropes binding my wrists. His hand came up, steady and precise, as he rea

Chapter Twenty-nine I Ended It.

The question hung between them unresolved, the weight of it pressing into the silence that had already stretched too far.Frank's eyes remained locked on Sofia, waiting.For a moment, it almost seemed like she might answer him and give him the truth he was demanding, clean and direct, something that would settle the tension tightening in the room.Instead, her expression shifted slightly, something quieter settling into place as she held his gaze.“Did you order the shot on my father?”For a second, I thought I had misheard her. But the look on Frank’s face told me I hadn’t.“What did you say?” he asked.Sofia didn’t look away.“You heard me.”Her voice was calm, almost too calm for the weight of what she had just said.Frank let out a slow breath. Something in him coiled tight and ready to snap. “That’s not an answer.” “No,” Sofia agreed softly. “It isn’t.”She took a step closer. “But it is the question that matters.”Frank’s jaw tightened slightly, his expression hardening as he s

Chapter Thirty.

Frank stood by the closed door, shoulders squared, his presence pressing against the air itself. Then, slowly, he turned. Every movement measured. Every step intentional. His eyes found mine across the concrete floor, dark and unwavering. And then he spoke. The words were sharp in the silence, as bare and cutting as a blade. “No.” The room seemed to shrink around that single word. Every heartbeat, every thought, every fear pressed in tighter. I blinked, swallowing hard. There was nothing to argue with, just him. And the quiet, absolute weight of his answer. “Why,” I asked, my voice calm, just needing to understand. “Because it wasn’t relevant to you.” I blinked. I didn't know when it started.My hands found the nearest chair, and I threw it. The sound it made hitting the concrete wall was enormous in the empty room. The echo of it bouncing back at me. It wasn't enough. I screamed. Not words. Just sound. The raw, unformed sound of something that has been compressed too lo

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