Page 1 of Stolen Tutor

Chapter One

Niccolò

Pacing back and forth with rage boiling in my veins, I contemplate how I’ll handle the problem. My second, Vittorio, stands nervously by with tension rolling off him, knowing I’m crazy and liable to snap in any minute. The men in our family have been known to have a screw loose. The only problem is I’m the last male in my family line.

Still, I’ll gladly go down in a fiery hell as long as I take my enemy with me, and Ms. Masters has made an enemy out of me.

The Leone family has ruled this part of Florida for two fucking decades, and I refuse to let some crooked cops steal it from under my thumb.

One cop, in particular, has been a thorn in my side for the past few years, having operated under the guise of a law-abiding citizen, but he’s just as crooked as the next bastard out there and without a doubt worse than me. Now he has aims at the most innocent of us all.

Pressing my fingers to my temples, I massage them while thinking about little Anna. She needs the utmost protection at all costs.

I thought keeping her at the isolated boarding school my brother set up for her was smart, but they infiltrated the place, putting her in great danger without my protection. Violence is nothing new to me, but this is different.

It doesn’t matter that it’s noon or not; I stride over to the liquor cabinet and pull out a tumbler and a bottle of whiskey, pouring myself a glass. I move over to my desk and settle in my chair before taking a drink.

I lift the file on my desk, staring at it before slamming it down with a burning pain in my gut. “Do they think they’re fucking slick?” I snarl, staring at my underboss after having read the name of my niece’s tutor again.

This woman penetrated the boarding school for two months and has been integrating herself into my niece’s life. Word had gotten to me from her female guard, who alerted me to the matter.

Lucy Masters has been working side by side with my ten-year-old lonely niece unchecked mere months after her parents were murdered.

“Boss, I don’t know what he’s playing at, but what are you going to do?” he asks me. I can’t appear weak. It already seems that my enemy has had a two-month head start, infiltrating my world easily. It wasn’t as if I knew anything about Anna’s life before my brother died. She’d only come home for the funeral before I sent her to school where she wanted to be.

“She’s coming home tomorrow, and we’re bringing the tutor as well.” I take a long drink of the amber liquid from my glass, letting the cold fluid burn my throat. It’s too convenient that she ended up in a position close to Anna.

“What? Are you sure that’s—”

My eyes meet his, and his mouth instantly clamps shut before he dares to finish his next words. I must meet this woman who believes she has the right to be this close to Anna.

“Are you questioning me?” I ask with a tilt of my head, knowing he better correct himself.

“No, Boss. It’s just… she’s the chief’s daughter.”

We learned that lovely detail this fucking morning when we dug deeper into her background. Learning this information took a long time, which pisses me off.

Although Anna’s team had been assigned long before I gained custody of her, they were unaware of how I operate. My rule is golden, and everything must go through me, and that’s everything, including who gets close to Anna.

She’s my responsibility and my only living relative now. Fuck, that hits harder than I ever expected. My brother and I weren’t close because we were both assholes, and his wife was a cunt, but I thought his little girl was a sweetheart. I should have been a better godfather and now a father to the little angel.

“I’m aware of who she is.” I haven’t gotten the little fucking she-devil out of my mind from the second her image landed on my phone. Sexy in every conceivable way, innocent eyes, pouty lips, hips that beg for fingerprints on them as she’s drilled from behind. Not to mention tits that will need a large hand to grip them. She’s the most attractive woman I’ve ever seen, and it’s all subtle. The tutor isn’t dressed in a skimpy bikini, rubbing her ass in my face, yet my cock hasn’t been soft all damn morning.

The more I think about fucking her, the angrier I get. I look around my office and all the expensive furnishings, with everything laid out with precision and purpose. I didn’t end up this successful because I was a fool to be easily taken by anyone. No, I became this way because I was ruthless, wise, and determined, and no little piece of pussy will break me.

If her shady father thought he could use his daughter against me, he was wrong. I’ll fucking break her, ruin the little thing before I kill him, and have her watch me do it. I smile, knowing it will scar her, and her tears will only drive my violence.

“Will you pick her up from the airport or wait for her?” I think about his question for a minute, but no, I want her on edge before we meet, nervous, anxious.

“I’ll wait for her to arrive. I want Anna to come hours before Ms. Masters. I don’t want her alone with my niece, and I want her to feel completely isolated.”

“Yes, Boss.”

“Oh, and Vittorio, no one touches her. No one.”

“Of course. What about the chief? He’s going to know she didn’t come home from school as planned.”

“I’ll deal with that.” I tilt my head to the door, telling him he’s dismissed because I need time to handle the matter. The second he closes my office door, I book the travel arrangements and then I’m on the phone with the school.

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