Page 103 of Venomous Vows

ADRIAN: Where the fuck are you?

ADRIAN: I swear to God, Elena, I will punish you to hell and back if you don’t answer me.

ADRIAN: This isn’t a fucking game. Where are you?

I’m almostsorry that I started this, but with Marcella on my side with her reassuring comments, I’m not.

And where I am is easy.

I didn’t even need to call a secret car. I didn’t need to sneak past guards or out the front or back door. All I needed to do was hide in Marcella’s closet until a few of the men asked if they had seen me, have my sister fake freak out over my whereabouts, then sneak me to one of the spare bedrooms.

Adrian has so many that all I had to do was hide inside his house. I wasn’t about to go out on my own and disappear somewhere else. I figured what better way to drive Adrian insane than to do it right under his nose.

And now he knows how I felt and what I’ll continue feeling if he’s off in the middle of the night doing fuck knows what while we have a child.

Because we do have a child.

If things do not change with how Adrian handles his safety and time, he’ll leave me with no other choice than to leave him. I understand that he has a plethora of responsibilities, and I can deal with that.

But I won’t when he has men who he hires to do things for him.

And, unfortunately, I do understand that everything he’s doing is personal. My sister popped that into my head several times, even though she assisted in helping me do all this. With a child, we both knew we couldn’t risk me leaving and I really don’t want to. I don’t wish to be away from Adrian, but he’ll get a piece of what he did to me without blinking or pausing.

It hurt.

Because this man is under my skin, has been there for years, and I don’t want him to be anywhere else but there.

ADRIAN:Piccola diavola,at least tell me you’re okay.

ELENA: Why? So you can track my phone?

ADRIAN: I’m going to kill you.

I smirk because someone is hella mad.

Honestly, his alpha, possessive bullshit turns me on. I never wanted a man to control me, but Adrian only controls my safety and the fact that he wants us together.

And Celine working at the bakery, but that’s, again, safety in his eyes.

It’s not going to stay that way forever because I have plans to talk to her and get Adrian to release his little temporary hold on our relationship, but that’ll come with time.

After the wedding.

If there is a wedding and he gets his shit together.

I need to see progress before I take his name. And Adrian has to take the baby seriously, too. He required a child. He’s going to need to learn what that means because he can’t be selfish anymore.

ELENA: That’d be a double homicide then, Adrian.

ADRIAN: You’re already killing me without me knowing where you are. This little temper tantrum has gone far enough, Elena.

ELENA: Why? Because it doesn’t work in your favor?

ADRIAN: No, because I need to make sure you’re safe.

ELENA: I am safe.

ADRIAN: Where?

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