pacing like that, you’re going to wear a hole in the carpet.” Isis walked behind him and wrapped her arms around his waist. He loved this woman with every breath in his body. He shuddered when he thought about how he nearly destroyed his chances at love and all because of his stubborn pride.
“I’m sorry, bellissima . I have a lot on my mind.”
“Like what?”
Dante gently removed her arms from around him so he could turn to face her. “It’s probably nothing, but I have a premonition that something is wrong and it feels like it has something to do with one of my brothers, but I’ve contacted them all and everything is fine with them. Better than fine actually.”
Isis stroked his face and placed a light kiss on Dante’s lips. “Maybe part of the problem is the fact that you can’t relax. You’ve spent the majority of your life focused on taking down Il Diavolo . And now he’s no longer a threat you don’t know what to do with yourself. Sure there will always be rouges and problems and evil that The Underground will have to deal with, but nothing on the magnitude of what we recently faced. Maybe one day there will be another villain of that caliber but for now there isn’t. Stop looking for trouble when there is none.”
A smile tilted his lips. She was probably right except his sixth sense when it came to his family had never let him down before. “I wish I had your confidence, but something just doesn’t sit well with me.”
Isis ran her palm down the center of his body stopping just above his cock. He groaned. “Are you trying to distract me, woman?”
She grinned. “Is it working?”
He pulled her into his arms and buried his face against her neck, inhaling her magnificent scent. Just as he was about to carry her to their bedroom where he could make love to her properly, an image of red eyes flashed in his mind. That feeling he’d experienced hit him harder than ever. He pulled away from his bloodmate.
She furrowed her brows in concern. “What is it?”
“Something is definitely wrong.” Dante raked his fingers through his hair
“But you said yourself that your brothers are fine unless….”
“Unless what?”
“What about Giovanni? He is your brother too.”
“Shit,” he muttered. “That must be it. He’d built such a strong barrier around himself over the years that I never felt the connection to him except when he wanted to let me in. Other than that, I could never feel him. If it is indeed what I feel right now, he’s in trouble of some sort. But I have no way of getting in contact with him.”
“You could always have some of your agents go on a lookout for him.”
“Yes, but he’s my brother, and this is probably something I should do myself. I’ll talk to Marco, Ro and Nico to see what they have to say about it.”
Isis sighed. “Looks like you’re gearing yourself up for another mission.”
“I wouldn’t call it that exactly, it’s more of a family matter. Giovanni took Adonis’s death hard. And while I can’t say I’m sorry Adonis is gone, he was our brother as well. Giovanni knew him before he did all those horrible things, so it’s understandable that he’d mourn that loss more than the rest of us. The last time I spoke to him, his pain was deep, he was hurting and there was no way I could convince him that it wasn’t his fault that Adonis died. It was either us or him.”
“Maybe he needs to realize that Adonis died long before his body actually did. He wasn’t the same person.”
“I thought about that but with the events being so recent, I doubt Giovanni feels the same. But now he’s in some sort of trouble and I’ll be damned if I let him suffer on his own.”
“Then let me help. Wherever you go, I go.”
Dante released a deep breath and pressed his forehead against his bloodmate’s. He didn’t know how he’d gotten by without her for so long. “Thank you,” he whispered.
“For what?”
“For being you. I love you.”
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