Always Been You

~Dante’s POV~

“Get me, Doctor Blackwoods, now! Hunt him down if possible.” I yelled at Lev, but I was actually mad at myself. I was supposed to be her husband, her brother, and I knew her better than anyone else-not even her mother knew Lola more than I did. I failed her yet again. I kept failing her; when she became of age, I failed to confess my love for her but left clues for her. I told her how I felt so many times but in riddles. How the fuck was she supposed to know I meant I loved her? Like a coward, when she didn’t get the riddles, I stepped back, and as I was thinking of how much of a coward I was, my thought took me down memory lane to when I took her hiking.

“Hey look!” I said while looking passionately in the direction I wanted her to look.

“Oh, my goodness! What do you call those? They are beautiful.” She said as she looked at me expectedly and lovingly.

“I know, right? These are called larkspurs. I was curious, like you, the first time my mother showed them to me,” I honestly answered.

“Larkspurs! So those are larkspurs?” It seemed like she had heard of them but had never seen them before.

“Yep!” I clung to her and back-hugged her, hoping she would know how much I loved and cherished her, but I just couldn’t tell her and ruin our friendship. I have been with different women, but none of them comes close to the way she makes me feel. Lola is and will always be my home; I feel safe with her, and she makes me want to go back to my teenage life. How do I tell my best friend that I love her and that it has always been her all along?

“And you know the meaning of larkspurs, my lady?” I continued, and she shook her head. I leaned closer to her neck and smelled her. God! I want to do a lot of things with her, but I am scared I will lose her,

“Larkspurs represent the strong bond of love. It represents an open heart. The blue larkspur represents dignity and grace. The pink one symbolizes fickleness, love, and affection. White symbolizes happiness and joy, and the last one is the important one: my Lolita. The purple larkspur. Everywhere you go, you always see that one. Think of Dante Monroe, and I’ll be waiting for you.”

For years, I thought she would go about and find out what the purple Larkspur meant because Lola was my first love. I wanted her to find that out as soon as possible, but it took ages.

“What exactly does it mean?” She asked, and I smiled as I kissed her forehead while answering her.

“It’s you and me.”

“Oh, come on, tell me!”

“When my Bunny grows into a giant rabbit, she will know the meaning and come back home, right where she belongs. No matter where in the world she is,”Property of Nô)(velDr(a)ma.Org.

“That’s not fair, Prince Charming. You always use that line on me.” She was right. I always expected her to know everything, but Lola was just a girl, a girl who had only gone out with me every time. She never had friends to share anything with, she only had me. How the fuck was she supposed to figure everything out?

I pressed the intercom button. “Get me the head of security.” I wanted to check everything that had been going around. There was no way Mason would be coming here alone. Someone who knew this place helped him. It didn’t take the head of security long to get to my office; he came with his assistant, and I told them I wanted all the footage from when Lola came to work. They kept searching, and, of course, I hired the best, and I got the footage. We started watching, and there I saw a woman I hated with a passion. She was supposed to be playing far from me and my family, according to the protection order we made against her. So she was the one helping Mason? Why am I not surprised? I never thought that Doctor guy would stand this low. I brushed it away and continued watching, and I could see the smirk on her face when she looked at Lola. Lola looked confused, and it was evident that she didn’t know who the woman was; this meant that Mason had been drugging her for a long time. I watched as Candice sashayed her fake ass and stopped right in front of Lola. She said something to Lola and walked away; whatever she said left Lola dumbfounded.

“Take it back; I want to hear what the lady said to her.” The security team did as they were told, and there I heard it.

“Hello, Janet.”