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"Never knew the princess could carry such a venomous tongue." Dimitri greets me as I make my way into my headquarters. The confrontation from Adrianna ended in her leaving after my comment. She's easily flustered and I think I love it.

No one can deny how attractive Adrianna is. Her full lips, black and utterly long eyelashes. She's the definition of beautiful but that didn't mean I didn't hate her. I couldn't afford feeling something towards her other than lust, and from her body language and her actions, she felt the exact same.

"Surprised you didn't leave with a stab wound again." He mumbles and I narrow my eyes at him, he was my assistant and probably my only friend but that wouldn't make me hesitate on killing him.

"Any luck for the plan?" I take the seat next to him, but I don't forget to readjust my cock in my sweats that's making my life a living hell. I couldn't help it, the way she was riled up and so adamant on letting it out on me was enough to make me as hard as a brick. And as a result, I have to walk around with a hard-on like a raging horny teenager.

"We haven't got enough information on her yet, boss. I'm thinking of hacking into their whole security system. If I'm able to gain access, I could probably look into years worth of security camera footage. However, I don't know if that's too risky or not." He says all this whilst showing me the current information he was able to gain, which was very little. She held secrets, and a whole bunch of them which just made everything more difficult for us. Specifically me, just because she knew how to hide it all.

"Dimitri, you have the best firewall in North America. It's never too risky, especially for you. I chose you for a reason, just don't do any stupid shit that I wouldn't do." I pat him on his shoulder and stand, leaving him to it.

But of course I couldn't leave without him saying a stupid comment. "You do a lot of stupid shit." He snorts, and I roll my eyes in response. I do it for a fucking reason.

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As I finish tattooing one of my clients, Dimitri rushes in, eyes as wide as fucking shit. Seemingly panicked. "Boss, mne udalos' vzlomat' yego." My ears prick up like a god damn dog, and I swiftly finish wrapping the arm of Elena. (translation- Russian. "Boss, I've managed to hack it.")

As soon as Elena leaves, without packing up, I follow Dimitri into the headquarters and avert my gaze to his computer. Live images of their whole mansion is displayed on the monitor, and all I can do is smirk. And right now, I could see the princess talking to her father. And another man.

This game just started, princess.

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𝐀𝐃𝐑𝐈𝐀𝐍𝐍𝐀 𝐀𝐋𝐂𝐀𝐑𝐀𝐙

Whole heartedly, I fucking do not want to be here. Talking about marriage makes me gag, but the thought of an arranged marriage? Even fucking worse. It's almost like I'm selling my whole body away to a man that I hate.

The thought of staying with one person your whole life, waking up next to them, them seeing your most vulnerable moments. I hate it. I despise everything about that. But marrying Lorenzo out of all people makes me want to grab my pistol and shoot myself in the head.

And I am not bluffing.

"Adrianna, it's a pleasure." Lorenzo sinks down to his knees and grabs my hand, pecking my knuckles. Absolutely fucking not. I snatch my hand away and throw him a look that directly tells him don't fucking touch me. As much as I love men who get down on their knees, right now I loathe the sight of it.