His Ruthless Redemption (Isabella and Dominic) novel Chapter 57

Chapter 57

ded, but I couldn’t get my mind off of it

Regres Shame Anger Want. They tangled inside me like wires sparking in the dark.

I pressed my forehead to the bar, the wood cool against my skin. The music thumped through my bones, too loud, too bright. Someone laughed nearby Luca said something I couldn’t make out. Chiara rubbed my back, telling me to breathe.

I wouldn’t feel him before I saw him even when I was drunk out of my mind.

The room seemed to narrow, like every doorway and shadow curved inward towards one point. Towards him. My spine

My brea

“Isabela

low and lethal cut through the bar’s noise like a blade.

Domnic stood there, black shirt sleeves rolled up, jaw clenched, eyes dark and furious and worried. For a moment I thought

alcohol was playing tricks on me, because he didn’t look like the cold, distant man I once ran from.

He looked like something beautiful, like something dangerous.

He moved towards me and the crowd parted instinctively, like their bodies knew better even if their minds didn’t.

Time to go.” he said

“I’m not done,” I slurred, lifting my glass like proof.

Hi jor flexed “Yes, you are.”

Tad I’m not

He leaned down, breath warm against my cheek, voice quiet enough only I could hear.

“If I have to pick you up and carry you out of here, I will. Don’t test me right now.”

The threat shouldn’t have felt like protection.

But my stupid beart couldn’t tell the difference.

Luca appeared at my other side like a shield. “She doesn’t have to go with you if she doesn’t want to.”

Dominic didn’t even look at him. His eyes stayed on me. Only on me.

“Isa?” he asked voice no longer sharp, but unbearably soft

had that was somehow worse.

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I hated how it made something inside me uende

My throat tightened I don’t know what I want

His brows pulled in, and for the first time, he looked lot

Then he finally turned to Luca, voice controlled to the point of breaking “Thank you for taking car of

with her But I’m taking her home

Luca ignored him, studying me quietly instead Ita

I swallowed hard. “It’s fine.” I said, even though nothing was fine

Dominic stepped closer, slipping an arm around me just as the world tited. The bar owayed. My legs withed and ne how naturally my leaned into his

Like muscle

word as he guided me out the door, but I could feel the storm inside him with every day

night air hit like a slap. Dominic opened the passenger door and paused, blocking me from getting m

e drunk,” he said.

that a crime now?”

“No. But thinking you mean what you said to me on

My heart stuttered. “I meant it.”

His breath hitched, barely audible, but I hea

“I don’t understand,” he said, voice low

“Oh, right, I forgot,” I muttered

His eyes flashed. “Don’t p

“I wouldn’t have to

might be

1 feel. But you’re wrong

ponsible. Not attached. Not anything”

We were to

early.”

re our breaths mingled. The kind of close that made the edges between anger and one was killing me faster. The kind of close where if I leaned forward an inch, wed inch, and we’d be kissing.

“Get in the car.”

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When we reached the villa, he helped me out, his hand warm on my waist even though neither of us acknowledged it. T house was quiet. Maria must’ve already tucked Mateo into bed.

At my door, he stopped.

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