Chapter 69
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"So you're saying the whole boyfriend thing was a joke?" I questioned feeling a little hurt 'You lied to me?"
He saw it and walked over to me and sat on the bed. He tilted my chin up to look at him.
"I did fall in love with you but there's a line between us." he responded softly "I'm your guard and you're my mistress. I did what I did for a reason but after a while the playing became serious but I couldn't love you because of our ranks. I never lied to you. I'm still eighteen and everything we talked about was true. I didn't mean to lead you on but believe me when I say I'm sorry about that."
I looked into his eyes and knew he was telling the truth. He leaned in and kissed my again before pulling away.
"This house is fathers and since I'm the only son its mine." he got up again "The maids are downstairs. Get something to eat while I give orders to the men around here. I asked one of the men back at the mansion to ship your stuff secretly so it's all here and in your room. I put you over the harbor. The view is better."
"Thanks." I threw off the sheet and swung my foot off the bed "I'm starved."
"Ask for anything and its yours." he stuck his tongue out at me "You're the lady of the house now. Explore all you want. I have nothing to hide."
Nothing to hide.....
The sentence brought back what happened with Xavier as he was hiding Jennifer. I dismissed the thought quickly and followed Damanico down the stairs and into the huge kitchen.
"Holy cow!" I exclaimed looking around "I could fit a whole hotel kitchen in here and still have room for a diner!"
Damanico laughed.
"It's not that big." he said then snapped his fingers "Gina!"
A middle aged woman came from the back kitchen with flour on the front of her apron and her blond hair in a ponytail.
"Royalty this is Gina the main cook." Damanico introduced us and the lady smiled "Gina this is the lady of the house, RoyaltyLemeire."
"Pleasure to meet you." Gina warmly smiled
"Likewise." I shyly smiled
"She's starved so treat her well while I go deal with the guards Roberto hired for her." Damanico stated
"Roberto?' I asked "Who's that?"
"You'll meet him later Nobildonna." Damanico grinned "Go eat."
He turned and walked off down a few stairs before disappearing at a right turn and down a corridor behind the staircase.
"What would you like for breakfast Milady?" Gina asked
"Is pancakes and orange juice fine?" I asked
"It's your choice." Gina chuckled "This way around the extremely long counter."
I giggled as I followed her around the counter until she seated me at a table in the middle of the room.
"Any special way to prepare the pancakes?" Gina questioned sweetly
"I like them light a fluffy with syrup." I told her and she nodded and disappeared into the back.
A few minutes later I was cutting into two really light and fluffy pancakes. Damamico came back and with him was a guy as tall as he was.
"Milady, this is Roberto." Damanico introduced the guy and I nodded "He's who hired the outside guards for you and he'll be your limo driver."
"I have a limo." I almost choked on a mouthful of pancake
"Yes Milady." Roberto answered in a thick Italian and Spanish accent.
"Really?!" I swallowed in excitement "What colour? Black or white?"
"Both." Roberto was enjoying my childish behavior
"Yeah!" I laughed "I've got to go meet Judy at eight. She's to send..."
I stopped and looked at Damanico.
"Where's my phone?" I asked
He pulled it out his pocket.
"All your contacts are there but Xavier and the mafia's contacts are locked off." Damanico handed it to me "They're out of bounds until you could stand on your own two feet after everything."
"Ok." I looked at the floor
No Neveah.
"Don't be so sad." Roberto said "It's for your own good Milady. Which do you rather, to at least recover from all the dram or having to face it every day and live with a broken heart?"
"To recover." I answered softly
"C'mon Milady." Roberto smiled "Don't be so sad. You're spoiling the pretty face."
I looked up at him and smiled.
"What time are you leaving?" Damanico asked "It's almost eight."
"Now." I said leaving the kitchen in a hurry and I could hear Damanico and Roberto snickering.
I changed fast in Damanico's room and got into the limo with Roberto.
"Where are you going exactly?" he asked
"The mall." I answered
Roberto nodded and pulled the limo out the driveway and threw the harbor traffic.
Maybe this wasn't so bad.
Xavier's POV
Royalty's gone......AGAIN!!!
That's all my mind has been thinking for the last few hours. She just disappeared and everyone's worried as we all found out a few hours after that Damanico escaped.
"He could have taken her." Geovanni suggested as we sat in the office at the club
"What?" Cristiano asked "I doubt he'll go after her a second time."
"He's not even at the house he and Lucario were at the first time Royalty went missing." Jianan shrugged "It's the most confusing thing ever. Two disappearances at once!"
"Where does Damanico live?" I asked trying to process all of this.
"It's currently unknown." Geovanni showed me his application file "He could be with Cardinal now or somewhere in the world."
"And Lucario?" I questioned
"He's still locked away." Geo shrugged "This is confusing."
"All her clothes disappeared too." Neveah said softly from her seat in the corner on the floor
She had been crying for a while over losing Royalty and had hardly spoken to me since.
"WHAT?!" Cristiano slammed his hand down on the table "When?"
"Since after she disappeared." Neveah replied not looking up from the floor as she ran her finger over the tile she was sitting on.
