Chapter 38. Run Him to the Ground

ADELINE’S POV

“I’m going to kill him, Adeline,” Dante says, pacing back and forth in my office. “I swear to God, I’m going to kill him.” The look on his face is pure anger, and he looks even scarier than Adrian did, but the difference is I know Dante would never hurt me, threaten me, or ever put me in a situation where I don’t feel safe.

He grabs the bouquet of roses on my table and tosses them in my trash with all the disgust in the world. “Fucking roses. Are you kidding me?”

Adrian didn’t even bother to find out what my favorite flowers were and I’m filled with some kind of pleasure by seeing the roses he got me in the trash. It just proves how shallow the man is. He came here with flowers only to end up threatening me instead, and what’s sick is that he doesn’t even see anything wrong with what he did.

“He threatened me, Dante,” I say, shaking and looking up at Dante with teary eyes. “And I have a feeling he wasn’t bluffing. He’s dangerous. I’m so s