In Love With The Mafia

Chapter 4

Dominic's POV

I have been standing outside of Belle's apartment since 7am. There has been no sign of her and I'm starting to get worried. I don't know why but i have a bad feeling. I call one of my men and ask them to do a background check on her.

5 minutes later I get a call saying he sent me all the information he could find. I look through what he sent me and I become sad. Her mother died when she was born and her father passed away when she was 10. I read the rest and nothing seemed to be out of order.

I was getting impatient so I went to her university. I'm a powerful man so I made the principal tell me if she came to school today. He then told me something that made my blood run cold. "She was admitted into the hospital yesterday evening after being found passed out with multiple serious injuries." I punched the wall, and walked out. My whole body was shaking with rage and a need to protect her. What happened. Who did this to her. I swear to God I will kill them.

I call my best friend Lucas and he finds out which hospital she was admitted into. It was a hospital that I owned, so I stormed inside and demanded to know where she was. Everyone here knows me and is terrified of me so they all obeyed. I was lead to her room, but before I entered I calmed myself. I quietly opened the door and found her asleep.

I almost screamed when I saw her hooked up to so many tubes and there were brushes all over her body. My breathing was labored and I tried to calm down. I have never felt this way before. As if she felt my presence she started to wake up. I quickly went to her side. She looked up at me confused with those gorgeous eyes, but then recognition dawned on them and she relaxed. It felt good to know she wasn't scared of me. "Hi, what are you doing here?" she asked in her sweet voice. I stared at her "Who did this to you" I demanded to know. She shook her head and didn't answer. I am not used to being ignored. "I SAID WHO DID THIS TO YOU" i yelled. She flinched back. I immediately regretted yelling.

"Look I'm sorry for yelling, I just really need to know" I said. "Why?" she asked confused. I paused, because I also didn't know why. "I don't know, I just feel this need to protect you" I mumbled quietly. Then the doctor came in. A male doctor. And he started touching her. I immediately felt angry to see another guy who isn't me touching her. I know he was only doing his job but I was still mad. "Get out" I said. He looked at me confused " I'm sorry sir I'm just doing my job". "I SAID GET OUT. THIS IS MY HOSPITAL AND I TOLD YOU TO DO SOMETHING SO DO IT" I roared. Both the doctor and Belle looked at me with frightened eyes. "Yes of course sorry sir" he just said and left. "What was that about" Belle said accusingly. I sighed and left the room to find a female nurse.

Belle's POV

When the handsome man left I just lay there confused. He owns this hospital? What's his name? Why is he so insistent on knowing who hurt me? Why did he get mad at the doctor? So many questions. I jumped when the door opened and he walked in with a nurse. The nurse had a scowl on her face and didn't look very friendly. She checked me over and a few times I had to hide a whimper of pain when she poked my bruises. The whole time the man just stood there staring at me. When the nurse was done she left and he came to sit down at the side of my bed. "What's your name?" I asked because I didn't know what else to say. "Dominic De Luca" he says. Damn a sexy name for a sexy guy I thought to myself. I looked at him and saw him grinning. "Why you grinning?" I asked. "Well why wouldn't I be grinning. You said my name was sexy and so was I" he said grinning even more. I think my face turned into a tomato after that. "I said that out loud" I squeaked, so embarrassed. He nodded at me. "Are you Italian?" I asked. "Yes gattino I am" he said. I looked at him with confused "what's a gattino?" He started grinning again. "Gattino is Italian for kitten." "Oh" was all I said.

"Now I'm going to ask again who did this to you gattino?" he asked using a husky tone of voice. I knew I should probably tell him otherwise I might set him off again, but I was scared of Adrian. "I don't know" I said turning my head away. He reached up and made me look at him. "Listen here Belle I'm not a patient person. I will find out who did this to you one way or another, and it would make it way easier for me if you just told me." I turned away again and heard him groan in frustration. The door opened loudly and I looked, only to see the person who put me in here in the first place. Adrian.

Dominic's POV

I groaned in frustration when she still wouldn't tell me who did this to her. The door opened and I saw her tense visibly, her face horrified and her body curling up. I looked up and saw no one but her boyfriend. He smirked at her, then turned to me. "Why hello again...what are you doing here?" I glared at him since I'm getting bad vibes from him, and because of the looks my Belle is giving him. Yes, she's mine. Once she's getting released, I'm taking her to my home, where she'll be safe. Once I didn't answer he turned away from me and back to Belle. She looked at him, basically frozen. "Hey babe, what happened to you?" Adrian said, not sounding concerned at all. He then sat down beside my Belle and tried to kiss her. She winced away and started having what looked like to be a panic attack. I quickly got up and ripped him away from her, punching him in the face. "GET THE f**k AWAY FROM HER YOU SICK FUCKER" I roared and him angrily. What surprised me is that he laughed. He started f*****g laughing. "Oh and why should I do that? She is MY girlfriend after all." I saw red. I took out my gun and pointed it at him. "Get out" I said with gritted teeth". He stopped laughing. He glared at me and walked out.

I put my gun away and rushed towards my Belle. She was crying and struggling to breathe. I quickly enveloped her in my arms, hoping to calm her down, but she started screaming and struggling. I quickly let go and cupped her face. "Shh, Gattino it's me, calm down, you're okay" i say and she stops screaming. She continues to cry and hiccup, so I try to hug her again. This time she grabs onto me and doesn't let go. I hugged her tighter and swore to myself that I would rather kill myself than let anything happen to her again.