Page 108 of Divine Obsession

Have me and Natalia – not only their best hackers, but the East Coast’s – lead together on the job to take down whoever it was that was carrying out these cyberattacks.

Despite everything, my family might have loved Natalia as Kali’s best friend, but they didn’t trust her with our money, personal intel, or resources.

As for myself, the Moretti Crime Family saw me as an enemy on their home ground. I knew they were watching me closely.

If Salvatore even caught me looking at his daughter with anything but apathy, he’d put a bullet between my eyes. Love or hate – they were both just as bad in his eyes.

And yet, none of that had stopped me from pushing Natalia into her dark bedroom and eating her sweet pussy on that five-million-dollar, princess bed until my spit dripped down between her ass cheeks, and stained those pretty, pink, luxurious Italian sheets.

I shouldn’t have fucking touched her. But then again – when had I ever been able to keep that promise around her?

The heavy oak door closed behind me with a soft click, as I entered Salvatore’s office. Massive, dimly lit, the scent of leatherand aged whiskey lingering in the air. A meeting table stretched long enough to seat ten, but all I could focus on was the woman sitting directly across from me.

Miss Perfect.

Her posture was straight, her expression blank. She didn’t glance at me.Not once.

Salvatore sat at the head of the table, surrounded by his trusted men. Soldiers leaned against walls, their hands resting too casually near their guns.

My men were seated on my side of the table, five of them, all dressed sharp, all with the same unyielding confidence as me.

The tension in the air was suffocating.

“We’ve all seen what this threat is capable of.” Salvatore’s gravelly voice started the meeting. “And I don’t think I need to tell anyone in this room how catastrophic it would be if certain information got out.”

I nodded curtly. “We can handle it. But to do this right, we need full access to everything. Every network, every server, every device. Otherwise, it’s a waste of my time.”

Natalia’s gaze finally snapped to me, sharp as a blade. “Full access?” Her voice was calm, but there was a sharpness to it that I wasn’t familiar with. “You think we’re just going to hand over every piece of intel we have?”

I held her stare, letting a smirk upturn my mouth. “Are you suggesting your people can handle this on their own?”

“I’m suggesting that my people don’t need babysitting. We’ve been handling ourselves just fine without you for decades.”

One of my men, Tao, shifted in his seat, his expression darkening. But I lifted a hand, keeping him in check. “If you were handling things just fine, we wouldn’t be here.”

“And you’re here because the Dynasty’s doingsucha good job.” The sarcasm in her voice made my jaw clench.

“Your systems were breached, Moretti.”

Natalia leaned forward, her hands pressing harder into the table. “Don’t mistake a single breach for incompetence, Su. You don’t know anything about how we work.”

I leaned back. “I know enough to see your flaws.”

The temperature in the room seemed to drop as the silence stretched. Every man in the room tensed, and I caught a soldier on Natalia’s side shift his weight toward his gun.

Then Natalia stood.

Her chair scraped the marble floor like a knife. Slamming her palms onto the table, she glared down at me. “You’re walking averyfine line, Trevor. I don’t give a fuck how good you think you are at what you do – push me again, you’ll regret it.”

She didn’t raise her voice. Didn’t need to. The threat in her tone was clear enough to make even my men glance at me for direction.

Tao, seated to my left, leaned forward, his expression as cold as steel. “You think you’re in a position to threaten him? If we weren’t sitting here out of respect for your old man–”

I held up a hand, silencing him without looking away from Natalia. I pushed my chair back slowly, standing to match her height, until mine dominated hers. The tension in the room cracked like static.

“You don’t scare me, Natalia,” I said, keeping my voice calm. “You’re good at what you do. But don’t think for a second that your threats mean anything to me.”

Her lips twitched, almost like she wanted to smirk but was too angry to let it surface. She straightened further, tilting her chin up just enough to make the challenge clear.

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