Chapter 6 - The Apex Predator Awakens
Vanessa gasped in shock as her wrist was violently twisted backward.
It wasn't the towering bodyguard.
It was Dominic.
The forty-two-year-old mafia boss had rolled his heavy black wheelchair silently into the kitchen. He was still wearing the unbuttoned white dress shirt, but the exhausted, broken man from the morning was completely gone. The lethal, terrifying apex predator of the Chicago syndicate had fully awakened.
His dark eyes were pitch black, burning with a cold, apocalyptic rage that made the temperature in the kitchen instantly plummet.
"Dominic, darling!" Vanessa stammered, her arrogant fury instantly melting into sheer, breathless panic. "She was being completely disrespectful! I was just handling the staff for you!"
"You called me a cripple," Dominic growled. His voice was a demonic, vibrating whisper that echoed off the stainless steel appliances. "And you tried to strike the only person in this entire miserable house who actually helped me today."
He violently shoved her wrist away, making Vanessa stumble backward in her expensive designer heels.
"Dominic, please, be reasonable!" Vanessa begged, her voice pitching higher as she realized her entire multi-million-dollar future was evaporating before her eyes. "I just got back from Paris! We have a wedding to plan!"
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Dominic slowly reached into the pocket of his dark slacks. He pulled out the massive, five-million-dollar diamond engagement ring he had given her a year ago. She had left it on her vanity before she fled to Europe.
👉 Vanessa reached out to take the ring, but Dominic was about to deliver a brutal, permanent eviction.
