The stress winds tightly round us, and I need to shut the hole between us. My jaw clenches as I take reign of my management, refusing to offer into the urges that wreak havoc with out my say-so.

I can’t kiss her. I can’t fucking do something with out doubtlessly jeopardizing my children’ nanny scenario. I don’t want her to stop on me and my children.

“I—uhm,” Diana stammers, my phrases clearly catching her off guard. There’s a male type of satisfaction that rushes by me at how flustered she seems, taking a step again. “I’m gonna get up the youngsters,” she says rapidly, earlier than hurrying out of the kitchen whereas making an attempt to seem like she isn’t hurrying.

I rub my jaw as soon as she’s gone. That was a harmful sport I simply performed, and but I don’t suppose I can completely deliver myself to cease.

Chapter 13

BRUNO

“If I see you wherever close to considered one of my golf equipment, I’ll do a lot worse than this. Perceive?”

The person in entrance of me—he appears like a boy, now, with ache and tears glassing his eyes as he retains his mouth shut from crying out—nods rapidly, desperately. That is the second man in as many weeks I’ve had glued to this chair, on this very room, as I exploit the blade to have my method with irritating, sniveling idiots who’ve carried out nothing however piss me off.

Final week, Spencer had been proper right here due to sticky fingers, pondering he might pull one over on me and steal from me. The dumbass forgot I’ve eyes and ears all over the place, and the second issues appear off, I handle them. Higher to nip issues within the bud earlier than they will blossom into larger grievances.

Now I gaze on the man sitting earlier than me, and I’m totally conscious that no matter he did, it hadn’t been a private slight in opposition to me. However I had watched him; I’d seen the best way he touched and kissed Diana in my membership, danced along with her. Diana just isn’t mine to be jealous over, I do know, but I don’t care. As a result of I had acknowledged the fireplace that had flooded by my veins, electrical and licking down my backbone once I watched her with this man—this Derek Porter.

Moreover, Derek isn’t on this chair along with his blood dripping onto the hardwood flooring as a result of he was merely dancing with Diana. If that was the one cause, I might’ve introduced within the others Diana had danced with too. No, Derek is in right here as a result of I watched as he held her in opposition to her will when she had clearly been making an attempt to push away from him.

I had watched, as lights flashed, music pumped by the audio system, and the group pulsed as Derek gripped her nearer. There had been a flash of panic that had flickered throughout Diana’s face, and that was once I’d pushed myself away from the banister, prepared to move down there and rip the fucker away from her. However then Diana had managed to free herself from his maintain, shifting again towards her pals—however not earlier than sending a scathing glare towards Derek. She’d saved herself.

Nonetheless, I’d memorized Derek’s face and had simply tracked him down, and now I’m ensuring he understands to not contact what doesn’t belong to him.

With how deeply I sliced throughout each of his palms, I believe he understands the message loud and clear.

His pores and skin wears a slick sheen of sweat, tears mixing in on his face as he whimpers in opposition to the tape that’s positioned over his mouth. He’s only a boring, insignificant man who isn’t used to this type of ache, and though the room is soundproof, I’m not too eager on listening to his pathetic screams.

As soon as I’ve had my enjoyable, Raf hauls Derek’s ass away and I stroll again to my workplace, pulling out a cigarette and lighting it up. I really feel way more relaxed than I had earlier than, sitting on the sting of the desk as I blow out a plume of smoke, too conscious of each Raf and Leo looking at me.

It’s simply the three of us within the room, and the load of their stares prickles in opposition to my pores and skin. “What?” I demand sharply.

Leo raises an eyebrow. “Is there a cause why you sliced that child’s fingers? He’s a no person.”

He is aware of rattling effectively why I did. There’s not often something I try this Leo doesn’t know the motives behind. He and Raf are my high two enforcers, more often than not, they know all of my strikes. “Have I ever wanted a cause?” I ask dryly, cigarette between my lips as I repair the cuffs of my sleeves.

Raf sits down on a chair, fingers interlocking on his abdomen as he leans again. “I’m stunned he didn’t piss himself.”

Leo pours himself a drink from the trolley within the nook of the room. He meets my gaze and pours me one as effectively, realizing I like a drink or two after having somebody within the chair. Somewhat torture all the time makes me a little bit thirsty.

The metallic scent of blood nonetheless lingers in my nostrils, and I’m solely completely happy to eliminate it. “The child was on the Hideaway final night time,” Leo feedback, and I’m not stunned he is aware of that. His eyes could be sharper than mine typically. It’s why he’s my underboss. He fingers me a glass of Scotch, arching a forehead. “This wouldn’t have something to do with Diana, wouldn’t it?” he asks knowingly.

I maintain the cigarette between my fingers and take a sip of the Scotch with the identical hand. One thing tightens in my chest, however my expression stays stoic. “For those who already know the reply, why are you asking?”

“To listen to you say it your self,” Leo smirks in response.

I down the drink in a single go, the alcohol burning a path down my throat. I do know what he’s doing, however I received’t give him the satisfaction. If it was anybody else, I’d make them remorse questioning me in any sense. Nevertheless it’s Leo, so I select to disregard his realizing appears and sharp eyes by ingesting my Scotch and smoking my cigarette.

However there’s no distraction from the ideas that whip round in my head. With every day that passes, I discover myself pondering an increasing number of about Diana, and all of it got here to a head final night time once I noticed her on the membership. She is a beautiful girl, there’s little doubt about it. However, kind of, she’s forbidden. As my youngsters’s nanny, that trumps the rest, together with no matter attraction I’ve for her. If I fuck issues up by pursuing her in any method and drive her away from taking care of Monica and Matteo, I will likely be pissed—at nobody however myself. On the finish of the day, Diana is the perfect at what she does, and my youngsters deserve a minimum of the perfect.

I’ll must maintain it in my pants if I need to maintain her because the twins’ caretaker. What a cliché would that be, for me to fuck my children’ nanny? One as younger as she is?

It’s a cliché, I resolve, that can’t come true.

*****

There’s music taking part in once I stroll into my home. It’s barely distant, telling me that it’s coming from the again of the home the place the kitchen is. I shrug off my go well with jacket, hanging it for now on the spherical high of the banister of the steps as I move by it, heading into the kitchen. The nearer I get, the extra outstanding turns into the sound of my youngsters’s giggles over the sound of the melodic music that’s taking part in. I acknowledge it—it’s Disney music that Monica loves listening to.

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