《The Devil's Favourite Obsession 》全部章節：第 31 章 - 第 37 章

(Melissa Pov)Living inside Adriano Rossi’s mansion sounded exciting in theory. In reality?It was unbelievably boring.At first the luxury distracted me.The massive rooms, the indoor pool, the private cinema, the endless expensive furniture that looked like nobody was ever allowed to touch it, but after days of constant security, locked gates, armed guards watching every hallway, and Adriano disappearing for mysterious “meetings” half the time, the place started feeling less like a mansion and more like a beautiful prison and I was losing my mind.By noon I had already wandered through the kitchen twice, annoyed three different guards for entertainment, watched half a movie without paying attention, and nearly started an argument with Luca simply because he looked too calm for my liking.“You need a hobby,” Luca muttered while typing something on his laptop inside the office downstairs.“I had hobbies before your boss kidnapped me into organized crime.”Luca barely looked up.“You me

(Adriano Pov)The meeting room inside the eastern wing was silent except for the sound of rain striking against the tall windows, I stood near the table reading documents Luca had placed in front of me while several men waited quietly around the room for instructions.No one spoke carelessly in rooms like this, not when tension was already hanging heavily in the air, not when war was slowly approaching, Luca leaned back against the chair with exhaustion written across his face while another man projected surveillance photographs onto the large screen mounted on the wall.Photographs of Melissa, leaving class, entering cafes, walking across campus laughing with her friends completely unaware that powerful men were discussing her existence like the center of an international conflict, rage simmered low inside my chest again.One of Romano’s captains had been caught two hours ago carrying more photographs in his car, Melissa from different angles, different days, different locations, the

(Adriano Pov)The mansion was finally quiet again.Melissa’s friends had left hours ago after turning half the house upside down with laughter, questions, stolen desserts from the kitchen, and enough noise to confuse my guards into believing an actual attack was happening at one point.Now silence had returned, but unlike before Melissa entered my life, the silence no longer felt peaceful, It felt temporary, like the calm before something terrible.I stood alone inside my office staring out through the massive glass windows overlooking the city while rain continued falling steadily across the streets below.Somewhere upstairs, Melissa was sleeping, completely unaware that her father had returned from the dead.Completely unaware that powerful men were preparing wars around her existence, completely unaware that every decision I made now could either protect her or destroy her, I loosened my tie slowly before sitting down heavily against the leather chair behind the desk.For the first

(Adriano Pov)Yes.One simple word, yet somehow it hit harder than gunfire ever had, for several seconds I could only stare at her.Melissa looked back at me calmly, completely unaware that she had just altered the course of my entire life with one quiet answer.Yes.Not hesitant, not afraid, not conditional, just certain, the terrifying thing was how badly I wanted to believe her, how desperately some ruined part of me wanted to hold onto that single word and build an entire future around it.A future, again that impossible thought, I brushed my thumb slowly against her cheek while my mind struggled between instinct and emotion, instinct told me love was weakness, emotion told me she was becoming the only thing keeping me human which was a dangerous combination.“You shouldn’t say things like that so easily,” I murmured quietly.Melissa frowned immediately.“I wasn’t lying.”“I know.”That was the problem, she meant every word and somehow that terrified me more than manipulation ever