DANTE'S POV
"We need to do something about Adrian's body guard Dante?" Adeline says as soon as she hops int my car and all my senses immediately go on full alert at the mention of Adrian and his pesty bodyguard Xavier. I furrow my brows and snap my face towards her with a look that could kill.
"What happened?" I ask her quickly.
"I think he was here." She says taking deep breaths. "I mean I wasn't scared or anything. I've taken many karate classes and I know how to fight off a big man. But it was very disturbing the way he was just watching me. It didn't look like he wanted to do anything to me, but the way he was looking at me felt so predatory. I was just eating and I don't know how to explain this but I felt eyes on me and when I looked up, he was right there at the restaurant where I usually go to for my lunch breaks. It was weird Dante. I mean I know by now that Adrian Wellington is crazy but I think I'm going to have to get a restraining order against him and his guard."
"No need to get a restraining order because I'm going to kill the fool." I say gripping the steering wheel of my car so hard it feels like it will snap under my hold. I was trying to be calm all this time because I wanted to gather mote information about Adrian and the organization but he's going too far now. I'm not always going to be around Adeline to protect her and he knows that.
I wish I could be close to her every single second of every day but I need to press forward on my plans and I need to do it fast.
"You're not going to kill him Dante." Adeline says looking at me with curious eyes and I know she thinks I'm just talking. She doesn't know that I really do plan on killing the bastard. Adrian Wellington is going to go missing one day and no one is going to be able to find him after I'm done with him.
"I'm so sorry I wasn't here. I'm sorry I wasn't with you." I say, my eyes softening as I think of all the horrible things that could happen to her every time I'm not with hr. Adrian is a fucked up man and I know if he ever gets his hands on Adeline… I don't even want to think about it because all it does is make me murderous.
"It's okay Dante. I'm fine. I don't expect you to be my personal bodyguard you know? You have a life of your own and I understand you can't be with me literally all the time." She says grazing my cheeks softly with her palms. Her touch immediately calms the fire brewing inside of me until all I can feel is her.
We stay silent in the car for a few more seconds before she withdraws her hand from my face and my entire body immediately feels cold again from the absence of her touch.
"I think I have an idea, but you're not going to like it." Adeline blurts out and I raise my brows at her curiously. From the look on her face, I can tell I'm really not going to like whatever she's about to tell me.
"What is it?" I ask.
"Just hear me out, okay? My idea is crazy and diabolical and you're probably going to call me crazy but I just thought about it now and I can't think of any other way of making Adrian pay" She starts saying. If only she knew I practically invented the word diabolical.
"My parents have been in town for almost two months now. They have approximately four more months in New York before they launch their new company and officially sign the contract with Adrian. I want to pretend to want to marry him, get him to sign contracts but those contracts will be fake. The contract won't make him a shareholder in the company. The contract will be him funding my parents with a hundred million dollars but he won't have any right over their company whatsoever. From what I know my parents haven't signed any contract with him yet because he wants to be sure he'll have me first. I can trick him Dante. I can make him pay." The look in her eyes as she said is purely diabolical as she said.
My eyes widen in genuine surprise and shock because I would have never thought that Adeline Fitz would be the one talking to me about tricking a business man and stealing his money.
"I mean it's just a hundred million dollars and it's more than enough help for my parents to kickstart their new company. They'll have their money from Adrian like they always wanted and I'll be free of him since he and I won't even be married while all this is happening." She further explains, but when she raises her head to look at my face, the adrenaline completely fades from her eyes and her cheeks turn red as if she were embarrassed for proposing something like that.
"I'm sorry. I know it's a stupid and disrespectful thing to ask since you and I are in a relationship and all. I'm being selfish. I don't know what go over me. I just…"
"Hey. Hey princess." I say cutting her off and cupping her cheeks with my hands looking straight into her eyes. Her plan has one flaw even if she doesn't know it yet. She doesn't know Adrian is a killer and he might come for her and her entire family if she pulls something like this on her but I've got that part covered.
If I accept her plan, the second she gets Adrian to sign those contracts and the hundred million is transferred to her parents, he'll be a dead man. That way, there'll be no one to come after Adeline or her family. We'll final be rid of Adrian Wellington and I'll have probably found out more about the organization before I kill him.
"I think it's a brilliant plan." I say and she looks at me with surprise on her face, as if she didn't think I would ever agree with her.
"Are you serious? If we do this Dante, you understand we'd basically be scamming him. We'd be breaking the law." She says. I wish I could tell her just how good I am at breaking the law. I wish I could tell her everything but if she doesn't want to do this, all she has to do is say the word and we'll forget she ever even mentioned this to me.
"Can you get him to sign those papers, Adeline?" I ask and she nods her head slowly. I know she may seem like she's so angry at her parents, but deep down, she wants them to succeed with their new company. I mean why else would she wants to scam Adrian Wellington? They may be the stupidest parents on earth but they're still her parents and she loves them.
"Then I'll help you. Whatever it takes. However, there has to be rules." I say.
"You can't have sex with him while you're pretending. We'll be trucking him for four months so when he realizes you're stopping him from getting touchy with you, he might have some suspicions. You can't be in the same room alone with him because I don trust him and for the love of God you can't move in with him." I say seriously.
I know I may be agreeing to this plan, but that's only because I too am desperate. It gives me more time to spy on Adrian and if he thinks Adeline and I are broken up, then he'll stop seeing me as a threat. I'll be able to spy on him as I please without him ever suspecting that I'm just under his nose.
I always knew Adeline has a bit of a rebellious spirit in her. She's only so good at hiding it because her parents have trained her to be an obedient and proper daughter.
"I already have excuses for all that Dante." She says with a cunning smile.
"I'm a busy woman. I have a job so Adrian won't be so possessive with me if we aren't married yet. I know I may seem naïve but I know exactly what kind of man Adrian is. He'll be sweet while he thinks we're together but as soon as I marry him, I know for sure he'll be abusive. A man who sends his bodyguard to stalk me? I know for certain he beats women up. Good think I can fight." Adeline chuckles and I flash a proud smile at her.
She has thought about this more than I think.
"Plus, my family is very conservative. All I have to do is tell him that I only want to have sex with him after we're married. I'm a woman. I know how to feed into a man's fantasies." Just hearing her talk about it is making me so jealous I might just tell her to drop this plan and go strangle Adrian to death right this instant.
"Plus, I think I can convince my parents to move up the launching date. Maybe I can get them to move it up to two or three months because I think I'll go crazy pretending to be with Adrian for that long. Also, we can't tell Liam about this. He'll never be okay with it." She looks at me with sparkle and adventure in her eyes.
I don't know what it is about this plan but I have a feeling Adeline is excited about it. She has this evil look in her eyes and I'll be here every step of the way to see it unfold. Adrian Wellington might think I'm a nuisance but he has no idea the rage that Adeline has prepared for him.
"He messed with my family Dante. He messed with you. I want him to pay. I'll make the bastard pay."