Guns And Roses(Complete)

Chapter 26

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(A well needed) Dante POV

"If you touch me I'll cut off your hands" I deadpanned, not looking up from the paperwork on my desk.

Raphael groaned, him and Bella decided to stick around a little while longer.

"Dante, you've only done the same two things for the past week" Raphael said, plopping down in a chair.

I sighed and ruffled my hands in my hair, "Enlighten me" I said, putting on a visibly fake and forced smiled, rolling me eyes.

"You go out to work and destroy people, then come home and destroy people from a desk" he said.

He wasn't wrong necessarily, the past days without Stella have been empty, meaningless. And I used to do this everyday for the past 2 years.

I never realized how empty I was without her till I had her, just a hollow shell of darkness and death.

And what scared me most is that I liked how she did that to me. I liked that she gets under the skin of a Gangster like it's nothing.

I like the way crawled into my head at every moment and refused to leave, she was like the water that drowned me but also the air I needed.

I was completely selfish when it came to her, and I knew that with every ounce of poison she put into my blood. I'd come back for more every time.

She was the type of woman to be down to ride no matter how bad it was, the type of woman to accept me and my sins.

The woman I craved at any night, was without a doubt Stella.

"What's wrong with that?" I asked Raphael.

"Nothing, necessarily. Look I know you, Dante, better than lots of people. Just, take a deep breath" he said, not waiting for my answer and walking out, closing the wooden door.

I put down my paperwork and looked at a framed picture of me and Stella on the corner of my desk.

It was the day on the beach at Florida, she was in her nude bathing suit. Her body was extremely curvy, the whole day my gun came in and out of my bag due to wandering eyes.

I was in my black swim shorts, I was holding her up with her legs wrapped around my waist and my hands gripping her ass.

Her wavy hair was free from the confinement of a hair tie and mine was wet and stuck to my forehead. My lips were pressed on her neck and she stared at the camera with the most beautiful smile I'd ever seen, putting the beach in the background to shame.

I rested my head on the cold wood of my desk.

I was such a pussy

Stella POV

The anticipation of this moment was wreaking havoc on my nerves.

I was walking through the cold stone halls to Javier's technicians office.

Apparently, he would be helping me out with the contracts Javier wanted diminished within the next hour.

My heart beat rapidly in my chest and my breathing was uncontrolled. I had no idea if Jason had successfully inserted the bug and I don't know how I'd stall or avoid the situation.

I arrived at a metal door, a small sign inscribed with the words T.A on it. I knocked twice on the door, flinching at the abrupt opening of the metal.

"Stella?" A man asked. He seemed to be in his early twenties, his hair was messy and dirty blonde and his eyes were dark blue.

He sported a pair of glasses hanging on the tip of his nose and a flannel that was unbuttoned slightly.

"Yes" I answered, my voice flat.

He poked his head out of the door and looked both ways, before pulling me in and slamming the door shut.

"If you wanted me to come in, you could've just asked" I scoffed, my voice declamatory.

"Sorry bout that, Your virus didn't work by the way" he said, typing a password into a computer, sitting down.

My body tensed as the words left his mouth.

"Don't worry I'm not gonna tell" he said, spinning back in his chair to face me. "What?" I asked.

"I wanna get out of here too, Stella, With Jayda" he said, spinning a pen in his hand.

Confusion struck me like a bolt of lightning, I was instantly eager to hear more.

"Continue" I said, observing the paper and wire crowded room.

"I'm Teddy Sinclair, Jayda's older brother. I worked in one of Javier's shops on the street when he was making cash like that, he asked me if I wanted another position. So I accepted, me and Jayda haven't had contact for a little over a year now. But I saw her getting dragged in, eventually I found out she worked for the Devil himself. So I got in contact with him, asked what the hell happened to my sister. I talked, he answered, we came up with a plan at the cost that I'd be working undercover for him here and help you. That was a little more than a week ago" he finished.

"How do I know your not lying?" I asked. He sighed and pulled the shoulder of his flannel down to reveal Dante's brand.

It was one of the Mafia's symbols stamped with hot iron into his skin. It was a symbol of their respect to Dante and Dante's trust to them, a vow that they go down before the King does.

It was a nearly primal way of pledging, but that's the way it goes.

"So then what now?" I asked.

"Well, we pretend we can't reach it. A firewall is blocking us and the passwords are changed. That story gives us a couple of weeks tops, we'll stall as long as we can. But still, we need this done quick" Teddy said.

I nodded and looked down, "I'll be in contact and I'll let Javier know what 'happened'. Other than that, your free to go" he said, spinning back in his chair and typing computer language into a green screen.

I turned and pushed the metal door open, making a screeching sound as it shut.

Teddy was nothing like Jayda, while she was energetic and exuberant, he seemed calm and focused.

They couldn't differ more then light and dark itself.

Regardless, thanks to Teddy we got 3 steps ahead, if all goes smooth we'll be out in no time. But it never hurt to keep my ears and eyes open at once, this mission solely depends on a couple of factors, one of those not being caught.

I walked up the gray stairs and pushed the door open to the main level, being greeted by wandering eyes and empty faces.

I felt eyes burning the back of my head and turned to see Vladimir leaning against a rusting door frame, whispering to someone as he kept his deranged pupils on me.

I scowled and flipped him off unapologetically as I pushed the door open and walked to the car Javier had given me for the time being.

The dirty snow was thawing under the suns rays, letting glimpses of spring peek through.

I hopped in and pulled out, driving back to the house.

By the time I arrived, it was already sundown and dinner was ready.

It was hard eating, all I thought about was Dante and how much I just wanted to be in his arms.

I was walking back up to my room when my phone began to ring, walking in and locking the door I set my gun down on the nightstand and looked at my screen.

"Unknown number"

To be continued