Destined

Chapter 24

Kat's POV 

I woke up the next morning draped around Dino. The sun was beaming in through the window and it looked so peaceful. As peaceful as shirtless Dino sleeping in my bed, all night.

Last night after he came back we talked a lot over wine. He was explaining to me how no one other than the two of us should know about Dimitri being such a good friend of mine. He already called Paulo on the phone last night explaining that if he was asked what happened he would only reply that he was knocked out and sent back without me.

I somehow felt bad about lying to Rafa, Niko and Nikki but when the boss says jump, you ask how height not why. Suddenly there was a movement next to me and Dino's piercing blue eyes were looking at me.

"Good morning" he said in his husky I-just-woke-up-from-sleep deep voice. I could control myself as I touched his cheek and ran my hands through his hair.

"Good morning. It's almost 9 am" I replied, my hand still combing out his beautiful locks. Dino fully turned towards me and tried to kiss me.

"Hey don't do that, I haven't brushed" I said swatting his hand away.

"Hygiene is not really my biggest concern right now" he replied as his hands snaked around my back and pulled me on this chest. His shirtless chest was radiating heat and his chest rose and fell as he filled pulled in my head and planted an open mouth kiss on my lips.

"Don't you have work today?" I questioned as I pulled back from the kiss. He stretched his arms and put them behind his head to support his neck. "Not really, Rafa is going back to Rome to handle the people there who will be following leads and Paulo is headed back too. My mother went to India last night to attend a family friend's daughter's wedding. Nikki and the maids have a holiday today so except the guards around the compound and the mansion. We've got the place pretty much to ourselves" he replied as he recollected everyone's whereabouts.

Suddenly I heard some scratching on the door and I leaped outta bed because I knew who it was. As soon as I opened the door, Simha and Juno came in the room wagging their tails and desperate to be patted.

I sat down on the floor and snuggled them both whispering to both of them asking "Who's a good boy."

I felt Dino come and sit behind me on the floor. He spread his legs in a V so my back was to his chest. As I continued to scratch, rub and pat the dogs, Dino had his arms wrapped around my waist as he placed small light feather kissed on my exposed shoulder to the nape of my neck and then moved on to the other shoulder and repeated this.

"Piccolo tesoro can I ask you something?"

"Sure"

"Will you stay with me even after we find the mystery mob boss? I know you are starting your job but can you stay here? In my house"

"I will have to think about it. But I will let you know"

"That's all I want" he said. He slowly got up from behind me and walked towards the couch chair to pick up his shirt. He put it on and walked towards the door.

"Stay put. I'm going to bring us some breakfast"

"Are you going to make breakfast?"

"No I had the maids prepare our meals then take the rest of the day off. So I'm sure the dishes are in the kitchen. I will go and get them"

"Okayy, be back soon" I said as he walked out the door. He came back within 15 minutes with a giant tray in his hand. He placed it on the coffee table and beckoned me to come and join him.

"Do you do this often? Get your own food? I mean there are hundreds of people working for you"

"Yes I do. I know they work for me but I also realise that they are human beings and we all deserve a break. I will tell you this incident that happened two months after I took over the Mafia"

"Sure. Continue"

"So basically on a random Sunday I decided that I was feeling pretty overwhelmed with everything that was going on so I asked everyone to take a holiday and reconvene the next day. The minute I said that they thought I was testing them to see who would quit and leave and who would stay. What they didn't know was I was actually giving them a holiday. When I explained myself they were so shocked because apparently my father never gave them a break. Being a mafioso boss was a 24 hour 365 days job for him."

"Hells that is funny" that is when I realised that Dino was a good person. A young gentleman who was not given a choice of profession. He could have become anyone and he had the smarts for it but once you are born in a family like his, you must become a successor. You don't get options.

That's when I felt bad for him. I wiped my face from the pancake syrup and got up from my seat. I walked and sat on Dino's lap and hugged him then I pulled back and kissed him. I loved making out with him. He has the softest and most plush pink lips with his warm tongue that hit the right spots. His hands joined behind my back as we continued to kiss and suddenly I felt his hands grabbing my ass.

The matter of fact, I didn't mind this at all. He pulled back from the kissed "is that okayy?" he asked.

"It's fine" I answered back. As we kissed again Dino suddenly broke it off and looked into my eyes, like he was studying me. 

The intensity of his stare was smoldering. He was handsome, he was respectful aside from the whole kidnapping and threatning stuff, he was intelligent and ambitious. 

"Capricia, with your permission, I would like to make our relationship exclusive." Did he just ask me to date him?

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It was getting all to honeymoon-y for me but it was great. I mean it's not great that I'm with a mafioso boss but it's just great that I'm with a man. I haven't been in a proper relationship since high school and even then all the guys were too scared of Dmitri to actually mess around with me.

Oh shoot. That reminds me, maybe I should Dmitri come have a business dinner with Dino and make an agreement or something. Because Dino doesn't want me to involved. I got up from the reclining beach chair and shouted to Dino who was doing a breaststroke across the lap pool. Both the dogs were sitting near the leg of the chair enjoying the mix between cloudy and sunny.

"Hey, let me know when you're done. I have an idea" I said.

"Okay piccolo tesoro" he said and continued with his lap. Oh yeah. My boyfriend is hot. I'm his girlfriend or his lady friend. Because girlfriend sounds so high school.

Dino got out of the pool a few minutes later. His shorts hanging low as water dripped all the way from his hair over his gorgeous abs to the V-line. It was still the day off so no one was around which made this day even better. 

He walked towards me a planted a kiss on my cheek as he sat on the chair across.

"Hey careful, you'll get Simba wet" I snorted out.

"So what's your idea" he said as he picked up the towel and hand-dried his hair.

"Well. You don't want me to be involved in your 'gang' stuff so why don't you call Dmitri for like a business dinner and sign up an agreement. I mean I promise not to interfere but if you'll put up a front then maybe it will force the mystery mob boss to take up some new action against you'll being allies and then you can catch more of his men and question then" I rambled out trying to make sense.

"Sounds like a plan. I'll have it set up soon" said Dino "now will you join me in the pool or not?"

"Well why not" I said as I was getting up but Dino picked me up from the chair and threw me in the pool.

As I emerged out of the pool, Dino got back in. The dogs started barking at us. 

"Get in here fur balls" I shouted and they jumped in the pool with us. 

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