VENGEFUL

DANTE'S POV

Kent and I are planning for Veronica's meeting with Adrian which is in a week's time. Kent and I walk into Adrian's room and hand him a phone so he can call Veronica and confirm the meeting and date.

Veronica answers as soon as he dials and she sounds stressed. "Your little doll you sent to us is not very pleasant to our guests Adrian. If she doesn't learn a thing or two soon, she'll die." The words make me flinch and lick my teeth in annoyance.

"But still, majority of the buyers love her. They came to visit yesterday and she recognized one of them." Veronica says.

"She did?" Adrian asks in curiosity as he fakes up an authoritative voice. "Who did she recognize?" He asks.

"I think I'll have to withhold that information from you until we meet. I know you said you're okay, but I still do not trust you." She says from the other end of the phone and I almost groan in frustration. Kent listens to the call with great concentration, like a real detective, trying to pick up as much information as he can get.

"You know I'm in hiding from Dante. That man tried to kill me and he's still out there giving even you a hard time is he not. Just make sure nothing happens to the girl. She'll make us millions and I want my share. I was the one who gave her to you after all."

Veronica laughs. "Now that is the Adrian I remember. The meeting is confirmed Adrian. Same date, same time and same location and don't worry. Even if Dante is one step ahead of us and somehow finds out about this meeting, I will take every precaution necessary that everything goes extremely well. You won't have to die anymore Adrian. I promise." She says and hangs up abruptly.

"She knows." Kent says and I raise my brows at him contemplatively.

"What are you talking about?" Adrian asks.

"I mean maybe she doesn't know that you have Adrian, but she knows that you know about the meeting. I don't know how but she knows. She'll come prepared. I'll get you back up." Kent says to me.

"Aren't you worried your director will ask you questions?" I ask him.

"He put me in charge of the case. I can do whatever I want." Kent assures me and then just as he's about to leave the room, I get a call from a familiar number. Colton.

"Yes." I answer immediately.

"I don't have much time." He says rapidly. "Adeline recognized someone. The director of the FBI branch in New York. He was here and he…" Colton stops himself from finishing his sentence. I can hear him breathing at the other end of the call. Kent's eyes widen as he listens to Colton's words. He shakes but I can see the joy in his eyes at the fact that he has been right about his boss all along. So that's who Veronica was talking about.

"Look." Colton continues. "I know this isn't part of the plan, but that pervert hurt Adeline when he came here. When she saw him, she spiraled and…" The blood drains from my body and the sound of his voice. From the way he sounds he doesn't need to finish his sentence for me to figure out what happened.

"Make him pay, Dante." Colton finishes and hangs up. I look over to Adrian with a deadly look on my face. I feel everything and nothing at the same time. He touched my girl. That fool touched Adeline. I'm going to kill him. I want to take my anger out on something and I launch at the only person in the room that I can blame bur before I get to him, Kent pulls me out of the room and the last thing I see before he shuts the door are the scared and frightened eyes of Adrian Wellington.

"LET ME GO!" I shove Kent off me and start punching the wall aggressively until my hands start bleeding! I breathe heavily and I'm fuming inside. All I can see is red and all I feel is blue. I'm so angry I don't know if I can hold it in.

"I'm going to kill your director, Kent! I'm going to fucking kill him. I'm going to torture him until he tells us everything there is to know about that sick place and then I'm going to kill him!" I say as I pace back and forth. In my head, all I can see are images of Adeline under him, fighting and screaming for help with no one coming to save her. All I can see are tears in her eyes. I can't even imagine how alone she must feel. I can't imagine how terrible she must feel.

"Someone has to pay Kent. I don't care about the stupid fucking laws right now, okay? If you can't deal with what I'm going to do to that man then I suggest you leave this place immediately. And I'm telling you right now that there is nothing you can do to stop me!" I say and shove him to the side as I walk towards my weapons room.

The director is a popular man and he has managed to keep his involvement in erotica well hidden. But not anymore. If he was there, that means he knows the location to erotica and that means if I torture him well enough, he'll lead us there. Oh I'm going to give him a slow and painful death for what he did to my Adeline.

"We need to think this through Dante! You can't just act on impulse. If you do this everything changes. The entire plan changes!" Kent tries to reason with me as I start typing on my computer. The director's house isn't that well-guarded. I can find him and bring him here in two hours and I don't even need help. I've never needed help anyways.

"What's going on here?" Liam walks in the room with a worried expression on his face as well as the other men.

"Colton called. Something happened to Adeline." Kent explains and I'm glad he's taking the words out of my moth for me. Right now I don't want to talk to anyone. I don't want to listen to anyone. I just want to do.

"Can someone tell me what the fuck is going on!?" Liam screams at the top of his tongue as he watches me pack aggressively.

"The fucking director was at erotica Liam! He was there and he took advantage of Adeline and now Dante si going after him and I just want to try and stop-"

"What?" Liam's voice breaks as he falls to the floor. At the realization of what Kent trust said, tears start streaming down his face.

"Dante is going to get him." Kent repeats.

"So, why the fuck are you trying to stop him!?" Liam asks. I knew he would join my side if he found out. Kent can't understand. Right now, he's only thinking like a detective but he's not the one who's love was taken advantage of and he's not the one who has been working on this case since he was just a fucking teenager.

"Like I said Kent. You cannot stop me. If you want to be stubborn and try, don't. You'll only get hurt." I say and grab my bag as I shove past him.

"I'm coming with you." Liam says and grabs a gun from the table.

"Shit shit shit." Kent says in the midst of the chaos, pacing back and forth in the room. Liam wipes his tears and his expression is replaced by a sinister look of death.

"We have the director right under our noses, Kent! We have enough proof now that he is more than linked to erotica. He was there! In the flesh! Not even Adrian has been there before. This is our chance to speed up plans and get the location! This is our chance to bring one more member of that organization down! You want to follow normal procedures? Bullshit! You know that'll lead to nothing so don't stand in my way!"

I stare him down and he knows I'm right. "I want revenge Kent! And I'll get it, no matter how far I have to go."

I look over to Liam who is looking at Kent with the same anger in his eyes. "Let's go." I say to him.

"We'll be back in two hours." I say to Kent as Liam and I walk out.

"I don't know if I have it in to not out a bullet in his head the second I spot him." Liam says.

"He deserves more pain than that and trust me Liam, we'll give it to him."