Meetings
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"f**k" Nero whispers behind me. He makes to go after her but I stop him, ignoring the confused look he sends my way.
"Have clean up do something about the bodies" I say to him and then make to leave.
"What about...." He makes to ask about the girl but I don't respond as I walk out of the house and into the rain.
I don't understand what the f**k just happened, but it has made me feel things I haven't felt in a long time...I don't know who that was and I sure as hell ain't allowing any of my men to chase her....I feel excitement and I will be the one chasing my little lamb.
Alessandra's POV
My car peels out of the street as I run. Oh my God. oh my God. I was so dead, I was so so dead. Apart from the fact that I literally just walked in on a f*****g murder! I also just saw Alpha Dom Armani. Dom Armani!!
It was him, I would never forget a face like his. Never. Jet black hair that was just long enough to reach his collar, a scruff a long his jaw, black black eyes and a jaw that could cut granite. I didn't think I would ever see Alpha Dom again but here I was... literally took myself to him. I was so dead. What was I going to do? What was I going to do?
Tears were literally pouring down my face at this point and I already couldn't see with the rain falling so the tears just made driving worse. I drove as fast as I could back to my shop and it isn't till I see Ana sitting inside drinking a cup of coffee that I realize that I actually didn't see her back at the house. It was her boyfriend and another.... person.
The relief that flows through my body has me sagging against the door of my car. I probably look like a crazy person as I walk into the store and head straight to Ana
"Hey. I kept calling you to tell you Ana got here the moment you left but you weren't picking" Todd says from where he stands behind the counter
"Hey you okay?" Ana asks as she sees the tear stains on my face.
"Yeah. Just a little cold. I have put my stuff upstairs" I say casually "you are here" I add
I look at her and nothing on her face shows that she went through any ordeal. She looks okay.
"You got your stuff done? You didn't see your boyfriend?" I ask her, trying to find out what she knows
"No. He wasn't in when I got there Thank God" she says happily and continues to drink her coffee
I get up to make my way to my apartment and to have some space. Apart from the coffee shop s***h bookstore I got from my grand father I also got the apartment building on top of it and it is where I live. A small two bedroom apartment where I lived.
I walked through the side door inside the store and up the stairs and into my apartment and I immediately slide down the door and my butt hits the floor
The image of the things I saw hits me. The body of the very dead boyfriend on the bed with his head blasted off, and he is on top of a very naked female I have never seen before, also very dead. The i***t was cheating on Ana when Alpha Dom found him. What has he done to Dom for him to kill him like that?
I wondered if Dom recognized me and shook my head. I wasn't anywhere in his league and he doesn't know me. So thinking from Dom's POV, there was an omega out there who has seen him murder someone and I was walking the earth...alive and fine.
I know sooner or later Dom or one of his Commanders would find me and finish the job. I was soooo dead. I groaned and covered my face with my trembling hands.
What was I going to do? Pack my things and leave town? Change my name and identity and get protection from the police? Go back to my father and tell him what has happened??
No no no no....none of that was going to work.
One. Dom Armani was a powerful Alpha who had all the resources in the world to find me wherever I hid and he would find me if I ran. Two. He had all of the police and FBI and even the government in his pockets so if I ran to them to hide, they would just hand me over to him. And three, I had zero intentions of going back home and I shouldn't even be considering it. So what do I do?
Lightening flashes across the sky and It reflects inside my home. What was I going to do?
I went to sleep that night with a heavy heart, scared out of my mind that Dom would break into my home any second and shut me up for good. I could hardly sleep as I turned over and over in bed, trying to find a way to get out of this and finding nothing. At some point Ana came to say goodnight before heading to the guest room where she probably have her stuff. I couldn't show my face and even now I didn't know what I was going to do.
The next morning came sooner than I expected and it dawned on me exactly what I had to do. I felt nauseous just thinking about it but it was the only honorable thing I could think of doing. It made sense to me because instead of running away and hiding for the rest of my life I was going to walk towards him and face him. I know no one has faced him and come out of that alive but I was going to offer him my loyalty...it wasn't much but from the family I came from and what we were to the Armanis...it was a lot
I got dressed in my most formal clothes. A blood red gown that held me tight from my neck down to my knees before it flared out. Then a blazer to cover up my arms and a red clutch...blood red lips and black heels to finish the look. I took my hair up in a beautiful up do at the back of my head and I left the house without a word to Ana before she even woke up
Armani Industries has several locations all over America and Italy but I was going to their head quarters which was here in new York and an hour away from where I lived. I was also sure he was here since there have been no recent news of him living new York.
Since I left around seven am I got there a little after eight. I stopped in from of the skyscraper that was Armani head quarters and looked up....I was either leaving this building dead or alive.
Fear that I have been trying to act as if I wasn't feeling tried to resurface and I squashed it back down. I will feel fear later, right now I was Alessandra Romano and I was a beautiful woman about to proposition a man. I was powerful and could do this
I took a deep breath and took the step into the building
Dom's POV
"The file has been sent to your email" Gideon says to me through the loud speaker of my phone
"Thank you. I thought I would see you this morning" I say to my best friend and he chuckles
"I have to represent your ass in Germany since you don't want to be here...my flight back to the office got delayed...so maybe this evening" he responds
"Who is this chick though? It's been a while you have asked me to run a profile...you usually just run it by tech" he notes and I don't like that he is fishing. I mean what did I expect, he is my best friend and I just reached out to him to run a profile on a young female. If course he was going to be curious
"Mind your business and make sure you have that contract signed or you better rot in Germany" I say gruffly then I cut the call
I look out the full wall glass that takes up the entire wall of my office, and the top most building in Armani headquarters. New York spreads far as I take in the tall buildings all over the place. I couldn't wait to get my hands on that file and go over it. There was a reason I asked Gideon to look into it himself, because whatever this was with his girl I wanted it quiet and I didn't want my men reading too much into it hence why I asked Gideon to do it.
"Sir. Your nine o clock is here" my executive assistant says through the speaker and then goes off
I sighed as I looked away from the scenery. It was fine to earn some legitimate cash
"Bring them in" I respond to him and take my seat
Four meetings, one brunch and lunch meeting later I walked out of the office and into the elevator to take me down. The elevator opens and I see a flash of red in my periphery. I walk past and Nero and King get behind me as I make to leave the building
"Sir!" I hear a scream and that same flash of red rushes to stand in front of me. The small female is breathing hard and she looks...angry.
"I...have been waiting hours! To see you and that receptionist won't even allow me go up or set an appointment so I have been waiting for you" she rushes to explain through her breathes
It isn't until she stops that I actually see her well and I go still. Little miss runaway was here in front of me. She looked.... horrible
I interrupt her as she is talking and stalk to her, grab her arm and swipe my thumb over her lips. I don't like that colour on her lips. She seemed shocked as she goes still then regains her sense as she wants to pull away but I am not letting her have it.
"Still" I growl at her and then clean it up and step back
Her eyes are wide as saucers as she takes me in and I can see her trying to swallow
"Not everyone who has seen me the way you do actually puts their self in my path again. I wonder if you are crazy or just have a death wish" I say to her
It seems to snap her out of her haze and she stands up straight
"I have a proposition for you Dom Armani" she says loud and clear
Alessandra's POV
I say the words and the hall is quiet for a second and my voice carries. This night is going stranger than I thought it would. First when I arrived here in the morning and finding that I couldn't and wouldn't be allowed to see him until I had an appointment and I didn't and I couldn't just make one today. Then deciding to wait and see if he went for a meeting or sometime in the building's waiting room for hours and hours and nine hours gues past before he is done for the day....and all I feel now is anger. Not dear or apprehension...just straight up angry
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