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Chapter 83

Maybe it was how close Dante had been standing to me, or the way his eyes.
burned through mime like he could read every thought that had ever crossed my
mind, or maybe it was the smell of his cologne that charged my nerves and
brought back the reaction and thrill I had to him once before. Maybe it was
because it had been weeks before we were ever in such close proximity with
each other that caused a shift in the air.

It could have been the sum of all of these things all coming together, knitting itself
in one big ball of deprivation and realisation.

I didn’t want to be attracted to Dante after everything that had happened between
us and for a long while I might have convinced myself that there was no longer
any thing there but I was questioning every thing in this moment. The way Dante
had been looking down at me was nothing but the opposite of what I had
expected. My own reaction to him felt like a rug had been yanked out from
beneath my feet.

“Who exactly do you think Jessica is to me, Sophia?” My name rolled of his
tongue like velvet over a metal sword.

Smooth with a sharpness to it.

I swallowed unable to look away from him since he had my gaze trapped with his
own eyes.

“I- Well, I-" I stuttered but then took in a breath. “The tabloids were clear about
your relationship. Jessica and you are dating, to put it simply.” I said to him and
scoffed, his eyes alight with amusement and the corner of I*ps lifted to display a
satisfied half smile.

“You should know better than to believe the tabloids by now.” He leaned forward,
his nose brushing against the tip of mine and a shiver ran down my spine at the
contact, despite how brief it had been.

“Then who is Jessica?” I asked as firmly as I could with his b*dy nearly almost
brushing against every inch of mine.

“Jessica is my cousin. She moved to the states recently in hopes of expanding
her practice.” He explained and I was about to start feeling like a complete fool
but I caught myself,

There had been plenty a times where I'd allowed myself to be gullible and foolish
with Dante. From believing what ever he had to say and only go be proved the
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That was enough to snap me out of the trance he had me in and I took a step
away from him but my back had his the cold, hard door of the bathroom.

He saw the look of doubt plastered over my face and his I*ps thinned before he
sighed. He ran a hand through his hair before dragging it over his face roughly.
“Forgive me. I forgot that nothing I say ever gets taken seriously by you.” He
snapped and while his eyes were pained, his tone was cl*pped.

“Dante, I-"

He held a hand to stop me from continuing. “No. Forget I even said any thing
about anything.” He gritted before stepping back.

“Do you blame me? All the times I had believed you blindly in the past had only
come back to bite me. Am I that horrible for trying to look out for myself?” My
voice had began growing tighter and high pitched.

Dante shook his head. “You're not but did you ever consider that none of it was
intentional? His question hung in the air for a moment.

I could very well give him the benefit of the doubt in this moment but why would I
do that? Dante may stand in front of me and claim that he was misunderstood,
and perhaps he was, but his move to take my company had been deliberate and
calculated to attack and hurt me.

“I did. Many times but then you came after the company and I could no longer
find it within me to make excuses for you!” My voice rose an octave and Dante
looked at me in utter disbelief.

“You are utterly maddening! That agreement was as accepted by you and it had
been by me.” He frowned and his I*ps twitched. “Where is that even coming
from?!” He looked at me in bafflement.

“It is coming from the part of me that knows just how hard you're working to take
the only thing I have in my life from me.” I snapped at him for not getting it. “Sure,
we made this agreement but it was done out of spite on your part and with the full
knowledge that I wouldn't have been able to achieve those figures in such a short
time. You set me up on purpose!” I really wished that I had not seen the look of
guilt on his face.

But it was clear as day.

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“It was the only way I knew how to get to you, Sophia. You were shutting me out,
heck, you still are. Unless I fight with you, I have no other contact or access to
you. When you returned back catching me off guard and after all those years, I
realised in a heart beat just how much I had missed your presence, just how
much I had truly missed you. Nothing felt right since you left and I didn't think too
much of it until I saw you again and that’s when I realised what it was.” His tone
had lowered and had been a gentle, soft carress but it was gone in a second.
His eyes flashed ablaze. “But you had no intention of letting me in and I didn’t
know how else to interact with you but to challenge you.” He concluded looking
away from me and at the door.

I heard every word he said. It all had vibrated through me and

rang in my head over and over again but I couldn't accept this. Not now. Now
after every thing that happened in that time. I knew how I had felt then about the
way he had treated me and depsite his heart melting confession, I couldn't find it
in me to just become putty in his hands all over again.

“Dante, I- I can't do this. Not right now.” I let out a slow breath. “It is all too much
to take in and reconsider.” I swallowed the lump that had formed at the back of
my throat.

He didn’t say a word after that. He simply nodded with his face a complete mask
concealing what ever had been going through his mind at present. Dante strided
to the exit my room and I heard his footsteps fade until the front door slammed
shut and he was gone.

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