Chapter 257: Think Of It As A Vocation
Chapter 257: Think Of It As A Vocation
Camilla
Domenico didn't let go of me right away as I stood, almost like he was wanting to savor the contact between us. In turn, I didn't try to stop him, knowing that a secret part of me deep down like the feeling just as much.
By the time the four of us had sat down and talked, I knew we had come to an agreement. It was one I was most definitely going to regret but I had said yes either way. For now it was in the best interest for all of us and that was the most I could ask for.
"Are you fucking crazy?" Jacob exclaims, looking like he wanted to shake me as he processed this new information.
After my talk with the three of them, they had agreed it was safe enough for me to come back to my apartment as long as I kept a few escorts with me, ones who were now standing outside my door. After what I heard that man in the first picture had planned for me, I didn't have much compliance with the additional support at least not for now. My main priority had been making sure Jacob was still in one piece anyways, walking into my apartment later in the day to find him once again on my couch and pantry mostly raided.
"It is only for a few days." I assure him, dropping myself onto the couch where I could sit down and rest for a few minutes.
"If they don't have to worry about my safety, they can put all of their efforts into figuring out who this Ofomata person is." I explained to him everything I had spoken specifically to Adriano about before my coming back over here.
"Yes, put effort into that and try to coerce you into telling them all of our secrets." He said, seeming tense and extremely unhappy about the idea of me living elsewhere for the next week.
Jacob still hasn't told me what he had talked about with Gregorio last night when he was abruptly interrupted from his sleep but I wondered if it has not just been jealousy but also information about the Mafia.
"Need I remind you that they almost killed your father a few days ago?" He continued, telling me things I have already considered.
"One of our agreement was that they couldn't try to pry any questions out of me that I wasn't comfortable answering." I reassured him again, the deal between us having been made anyways.
This was something I agreed to at my own free will, I could have chosen the safe house on some private island only them had access to but this option still let me see Nancy and Susan and roam where I wanted to.
"And anyway." I began, hoping to provide him with some sort of a bright side.
"They are all either the leaders or future leaders of one of the most powerful Mafias in the world. Living under the same roof as them temporarily doesn't mean I will be around them all the time."
"But…."
"No but," I interrupted him before he could go down a spiral of logic I don't need to hear right now.
"They have work and a person to hunt down, the last thing they will have on their mind is me."
He still looks like he wants to protest but I can tell the distrust in his eyes was slowly starting to simmer down as I continued to speak.
"Think of it as vacation." I encourage, smiling and brushing some of my hair back from my face.
"You are off babysitting duty for at least the next seven days and maybe I can actually get some sleep in what is probably the most secure building in the country."
To be honest, the whole secure thing was only a half truth considering I had gotten in pretty easy with Harper but my initial words seemed to pull Jacob over to my side of things as a sigh fell from his mouth, his hand rubbing down his face. When he looked back at me, I knew I had won.
"A vacation?" He repeated, almost as though he were trying to get a feel for the idea.
"Funny," he shook his head.
"They said the exact same thing to me this morning."
This morning when they thought they could break into his room and question him like he was a well known criminal. I still couldn't believe it when I found him so relaxed on my couch, looking as though he had already known I was coming back when I did.
We had spent enough time now talking about my bad decision and bargains, it was now time to talk about him even though nothing looked like it was missing.
"They didn't hurt you, did they?" I asked, my eyes giving him another quick glance over just to find him looking like the same old Jacob as usual.
He smiled at my question like the idea of anybody hurting him was cute, however if I could beat him in a fight, I am sure the three men I will be staying with tonight wouldn't have too many issues either.
"No," he said in response, only continuing at the raise of my eyebrows to indicate I knew their encounter may not have been violent but most certainly wasn't friendly either.
"However, they may or may not have threatened to cut off my dick and feed it to me if I ever thought of you as more than a friend." He blurted at the end, still grinning and obviously finding my horror entertaining.
"Oh my goodness!" I groaned, not surprised but not exactly thrilled either. This only made him smile more.
"That was after threatening to carve my eyes out if I ever looked at you inappropriately." He added, acting like it was all just a game.
Jacob was smarter than that, though. He knew all three of them would make good on their promise if he tried to become more with me. I can't imagine what Gregorio's reaction would be if he found out Jacob had asked me out some months back. Hopefully the scolding I planned on giving them later about this would be enough to prevent it from ever coming up anyways.
"Now that hasn't been the first or even the worst threat I have received from someone in my life. However, it did make me wonder what would evoke the whole jealous boyfriend response in three men who haven't even seen you in over a year."
He was fully looking at me now, clearly prying to see if anything had happened last night with Gregorio that would have brought on his intrusion this morning. Of course my mind first traveled to the conversation we had but I knew my rejection of his offer to stay wasn't even close to why he had spoken to Jacob later on. I don't think their want for me ever died off after I was taken and having Jacob in such close contact with me all of the time drove them out of their minds.
My memory snaps back to part of our conversation only hours ago after Domenico had helped me up from the bathroom floor, thinking of the things Adriano and I had said to each other in a temporary moment of heat. I had tried to lay down my own terms while I was still considering their offer to stay with them for the next week, ones that protected my heart instead of just my body. I wanted my own room where they weren't allowed to come in without permission and although there had been no protest, Adriano had still managed to make a comment about how I would want their presence there soon enough.
'Don't think for a second this is going to end with you climbing into my bed, Adriano because I can assure you it won't.' I said breathlessly, blinking as he flashed me an amused yet feral kind of smirk that had my pulse quickening.
'Believe me, Princess by the time I am done with you, you will be climbing into mine.'
My mind snapped out of that train of thought when I remembered Jacob had made a conversation that inquired for an answer, knowing that I would be gone soon for my first night at the mansion before dark.
"I don't know." I simply shrug it off while trying to stop thinking about everything that has already happened today.
"What I do know is that they are my best shot at staying safe right now. Be happy about it." I said in what was hopefully an uplifting tone, just to get a little bit of a weird response.
I knew he wouldn't try to stop me from leaving and was ultimately glad Ofomata couldn't get to me for at least the next week but he still seemed kind of off. He seems, dare I say disappointed?
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