Chapitre Douze

Nazaire's P.O.V

I didn't miss the glint of desire or the way she sucked her bottom lip into her mouth as she made her exit, I hated to see her go, but I loved watching her leave.

Staring at the door, all I wanted to do was drag her ass back here and punish her for her behavior. We have been avoiding any interaction with her since our mind blowing night together and to be honest one night wasn't enough. Whenever she's around, she brings out something in me, I crave her.

The same feelings I feel for Sebastian are the same feelings I'm beginning to feel for her and I'm not sure how Sebastiano would feel about that.

"What the fuck was that?" I hiss, glaring at Sebastiano

"I don't know amore, the sight of that boy made me snap"

"You can't let your emotion control your actions like that, your disrespectful words hurt her Sebastiano." I tell him

"I know baby, and I'm sorry"

"I'm not the person you should be apologizing to darlin"

Running his hands through his hair, he heads out the door and I follow. Together we made our way towards Imani's office, her door was ajar and she looked to be on the phone.

"I don't want you to ever call this number again, do you hear me" was all we heard her say, before she angrily ended the call.

Sebastiano pushes the door open and we step in, Imani, whose back was facing us, turns around so quick, I'm surprised she didn't catch whiplash. I study her features and immediately get concerned. Imani looked....scared. An emotion I never wanted to see on her face.

"Principessa, what's the matter?" Sebastiano questions, his voice full of worry, obviously noticing the same thing.

Clearing her throat, I watch as she quickly masks her emotions and I don't like that she's doing that with us.

"It's nothing, umm I have to go. Good night Mr.De Luca, Mr.Durant." She tells us before running out of her office.

"We're going over tonight." I tell Sebastiano

"I know baby"

We didn't even bother finishing up the rest of our paperwork, we locked up and headed straight to Imani's. Our first priority was to find out what was wrong with her. Whether it was from her or not.

Getting out of the car, I knock on her door, it opens to reveal a pajama clad, Izaiah. Of course he was here, he was Imani's go to person, and that made me want to kill him even more and I would've if it wasn't going to hurt Imani.

"What are you guys doing here? I thought dinner was tomorrow?"

Shrugging my shoulders I tell him "We left work early, and had nothing else to do"

He doesn't seem to fully believe me but he lets us in anyway.

"Where's Imani?" I question, looking around

"She's been locked in her room, ever since she came back from work. So that means I'm cooking but did something happen?" Izaiah's voice is filled with suspicion.

"Damn it boy, All we know is that she received a call and then she was gone." Sebastiano snaps

"A call? What kind" Izaiah looked shocked, I don't know if it's from Sebastiano's outburst or cause of the information we told him.

"What the fuck do we look like." I snap my head towards Sebastiano with narrowed eyes, which he returns with a sarcastic smile.

"Mr.Durant, Mr.De Luca, what are you doing here?" Turning towards the stairs, I spot Imani leaning against the banister looking sexy as hell with her messy bed head in her grey sweats that hung off her hips loosely and a tight white crop top that shows off her flat stomach. Her face was fresh of any makeup but I noticed her eyes were red and she looked stressed.

I'm about to talk but Izaiah moves past me and grabs Imani's hand.

"We have to talk" he turns towards us "the living room is just down the hall" he informs us before pulling Imani into the kitchen.

"I contemplated going there or eavesdropping, Sebastiano answered for me when he moves to stand behind the kitchen door. Eavesdropping it is.

"I don't know how but they found out a way to contact me, they called me today"

"Imani, who called you?"

"Don't act so dumb Izaiah, MY SISTER!" Imani sounded like she was about to have a meltdown and my heart constricted at the thought.

"What would she want after basically four years"

"Oh my God Izaiah, what did she want the first time, huh? SHE WANTED ME BUT I RAN and if they managed to get my number, it won't be long before she finds out where I am."

Peeking through the crack, I spot Imani leaning against the counter, with her head in her hands, her body slightly trembling, indicating she was crying.

"Babygirl, you know I won't let that happen" Izaiah mumbles, pulling her into his arms.

I had to control my anger from rising as jealousy coursed through my veins.

Suddenly I'm grabbed and dragged into the living room, Sebastiano let's go and starts pacing, he looked like he was out for blood.

"We will find whoever these people are and show them why people don't mess with what's ours" I tell him, making my way to the sofa and situating myself on it. Sebastiano doesn't look shocked because he knows the only reason I'm getting involved is because Imani's involved.

"I'll tell my men to gather information on her family right away" he informs me, while pulling his phone out of his pocket.

"If you were to need help, I'll be glad to assist" We both snap our heads towards the door to see a tense Izaiah standing there.

Narrowing my eyes, I watch as Sebastiano stalks towards him and grabs him by his shirt. "Why did she run?" His deep voice demands

"Her sister and her husband are big alcoholics, they needed more money and borrowed it from the wrong people, and as payment they sold Imani off. What they didn't know was that Imani was listening in on the whole thing, so she packed up and fled." He confesses but as I'm watching, I notice something, he's keeping something out, something important.

Sebastiano let's go and Izaiah walks away, probably to go finish dinner. "He's hiding something darlin"

"And we plan on finding that out as well, when it comes to OUR girl, no one's getting in our way" He teases with a smirk on his face.

Blushing I go to explain how the words from earlier were just word vomit, but he shakes his head, before making his way towards me. He grabs my hand and pulls me up to stand up before wrapping his hand around my waist.

"No mio amore, you were right, she is ours and no one's going to stop that or take her from us, they could try but won't succeed" he whispers seriously before smiling and pulling me in for a kiss.

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