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“You gave me that whole speech about marrying me and securing my future, when you only made that choice because your father forced you to. I guess if I wasn’t pregnant with your first-born, it would have been a much easier decision for you? Just kill me and move on to the next one?”
His dark eyes narrow as he glares at me.
“And that’s kind of your MO, right? When they become too problematic, then just toss them aside like trash? Is that what happened to your last fiancée?”
His jaw ticks in annoyance. “Enough,” he says, his voice low but dripping with menace but I’m not scared of him anymore. I won’t be quiet like the good little hostage he’s trained me to be.
“Did your father give you the same ultimatum with Nicole? Kill her or marry her?”
The veins in his neck bulge as he clenches his fists by his sides.
“Did you decide to marry her first and then realize the other option was a better fit for you the night before the wedding, Dante? Is that why you murdered that poor woman?”
“I said enough, Kat,” he warns me but I’m too swept up in my anger and the deep feeling of betrayal.
“Was she pregnant too?” I hiss.
He slams his fists onto the table with such force that the entire room seems to rattle and the papers on his desk scatter onto the floor. “Enough!”
I flinch, taking a step back as I wait for him to come for me. But instead, he sits back on his chair. “Don’t you ever get tired of this?” he says with a sigh.
I frown at him. “Of what? I’m tired of a lot of things, so you’re going to have to be a little more specific.”
“Of fighting with me on everything. Of finding something new every single day to be pissed at me about?”
I open my mouth and blink at him in shock. “Don’t you and your family get tired of finding ways to piss me off?” I retort. “You only asked me to marry you so that your father wouldn’t force you to kill me and our child instead, and I’m not supposed to be pissed about that? I’m supposed to roll over and be thankful for the fact that you are not as cruel and awful a man as you might be? Is that right?”
“My father hasn’t forced me to do anything for a long time, Kat.”
“I don’t believe you, Dante. I don’t believe any words that come out of your mouth, because every single time I find a way to make some peace with whatever the hell this thing is between us, you throw me a massive curveball.”
He stares at me, unflinching.
“But this time it feels even worse, because this time I believed you.” I wipe my eyes as they fill with tears.
His tongue darts out as he licks his lower lip.
“And now I find out thatwe’renot in this at all. I’m not in any of it. It’s just you and your family and whatever is best for the Moretti empire. So, congratulations, Dante, you have finally won. I give up. I’m defeated. You do whatever the hell you want and I will stand by and nod and smile like the perfect little wife. If that’s what it takes to keep myself around here so that I can see my child grow up, then so be it.”
His eyes darken as though what I said just pained him in some way. Before he can feed me another line, I walk out of his office. The fact that he doesn’t even try to stop me only proves my point further.
Chapter34
Dante
The door closes behind her, and I sit in stunned silence. She says I’ve won, so why do I feel like I just lost? Because I don’t want to win with her, and definitely not like this. Seeing her so broken feels like a shard of ice slicing through my heart.
I could throttle my sister for telling Kat about my father’s ridiculous ultimatum. Joey causes way too much drama around here. I need to find her something to do to keep her occupied before she drives my wife-to-be, and by default me, completely crazy.
Joey isin the den when I find her a few minutes later.
“Hey,” she says with a grin when I walk into the room, completely oblivious to the carnage she has caused in my life today.
I take a seat on the armchair. “Why are you so cruel to her, Joey?”
She blinks at me. “Cruel to who?”
“Mother fucking Teresa,” I snap. “Kat, obviously. Who the hell do you think I mean?”
