THE DARE | BWWM 18+ (editing)

xxv - space

U N K N O W N

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Good job Iris.

You led me straight to the lion's den...

And to make everything better, I caught him red-handed.

L E O N A R D O

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Space

Who knew one little word could hurt someone so much? I thought that she'd only need a couple of days but it's been almost a month. 25 days to be exact. If it was December, it'd be Christmas by now. Really Iris?

I mean Jesus, she is taking the meaning of space and time a little too literal. Good thing she didn't use the word distance because I'd have to feel guilty about stalking her.

What? I kill people for a living, stalking isn't exactly out of my book.

So what if I follow her to work sometimes... and park by her office... and watch her work... and send her flowers under an anonymous name... And I definitely didn't steal her keys... and fill her car up with gas and wash it too... That's normal right?

I mean it's not like I leave my hoodies behind her couch and under her bed, so her living room and bedroom can smell like me... Or pay her bills anonymously because I want to spoil her... Yeah, definitely didn't do those things.

Okay so maybe I did. But there's nothing wrong with having my guys guard her apartment and follow her everywhere when I'm with Bella so I can make sure she's safe or threatening guys that give her their numbers. I mean, I didn't kill any of them. Yet.

I'm just very protective and territorial over what's mine. And Iris is mine. We're just taking some space and time apart right now and that is completely normal. So why can't I leave her alone? I mean, I kinda feel like I'm dying.

Ugh. How long is she going to take to process this? I kill people for a living and I'm the head of the mafia. It's not that complicated. And I have a daughter I didn't tell her about. And I'm the most wanted person alive. See? It's not that complicated. Right?

Fuck.

She's gonna need more than a month to process this because I've had almost my entire life to deal with it and I still get shocked by it every now and then.

But I miss her and I need her now. Maybe I can speed her processing along. I don't know how, but I'm definitely going to try. How can I show her that I care about her and that she should give me another chance?

I have a plan. It's devious, but it's a plan nonetheless. Oh, it's so bad that it's amazing. And Xavier is going to help me, because the more that I think about it, the more I realize that my plan is a great idea.

X A V I E R

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This is a terrible idea.

Like the whole thing is bad, and there are so many things that can wrong. Definitely worse than my plan for Iris to surprise Leo because instead of them making up, she walked in on him literally committing murder, and now they're further apart than before. I mean it was a great plan, just poorly executed.

And it's not entirely my fault because Leo shouldn't have been killing someone in the living room. He should've been doing it in the basement. Duh.