DOMENICO

I hadn’t been standing there long, but already my patience was thinning. Every second Reina spent away from home, away from me, was a second I felt like I was losing a piece of myself. Whoever had been tailing her hadn’t been identified yet, and that thought alone was enough to make my blood boil.

I couldn’t leave her alone. Not now. Not ever. My chest ached with the need to see her safe, to make sure no one could touch her or scare her the way I had feared in those past days.

Her apartment wasn’t far, but staying there meant she was exposed to her stalker. I’d...