"I knew you would see my note. You were always too curious for your own good." Dominic said making me put on a fake unbothered demeanor. But I knew he knew me well enough to see through it.

"How did you-" "How did I find you?" Dominic interrupted me as he continued stalking slowly towards me as I stumbled backwards. He smiled menacingly with a chill running down my spine. Quickly pulling out my gun making him take one large stride towards me before knocking it out of my hands and punching me across the face.

He gripped my chin forcing me to look up at him as my eyes looked down at my gun on the ground. "God, how I've missed you, Genna." Dominic breathed our faces inches apart making me fill with rage and disgust. His grip on my chin tightened as I felt his warm breath on my face.

"How's our Rose?" He asked amused making me roughly pull away from his hold and shove his chest. Dominic moved without a budge. "Screw you." I spit. "What are you really doing here? You made it perfectly clear you want nothing do to with her. Or me." I said making him shove his hands in his pockets moving slowly around me as I stayed in a complete state of horror. Like a wolf circling his prey.

"No, but I heard through the grapevine that someone else has grown an interest to you and our daughter." Dominic said. A feeling of dread crept up from the pit of my stomach. I could no longer control my hands; they were shaking in an odd trembling rhythm. "Your target? Really?" He scoffed amused as he circled me.

"And a lawyer of all people?" Dominic continued as I felt him stand behind me. My heart was throbbing in my ears, loud and irregular, but I barely heard it, for my mind was clouded with fear. I felt him right behind me as I filled with nerves for what he would do.

"You didn't really think I wouldn't find out, did you?" Dominic growled breathing against my ear. His voice was deep and husky, it had low tones that scraped like nails on a blackboard. I could feel the flight responses kick in, increasing my heart rate, flooding me with added adrenaline.

"No. I didn't think you'd care. You have no right to." I answered weakly making me silently scold myself for being unable to defend myself. "I didn't. Until I learned that you disobeyed your boss and became a threat to our organization. Did you think I would let you continue to make a mockery of me?!" Dominic beamed making me close my eyes and flinch.

"Did you really think you could take down this entire organization by building a case with a lawyer? I thought you were smarter than that, Genevieve." Dominic scoffed moving in front of me again. "Leave him out of this." I threatened looking up at him.

"Nathan is why I am here." Dominic replied amused. He grinned seeing the shock on my face at the fact he knew his name. "You have no right to control me anymore. The day you left us was the day you lost the right to care about who I take an interest in." I stated trying to seem stern. He laughed never tearing his eyes away from me as my eyebrows tensed in confusion.

"Of course, I don't care." Dominic laughed making me frown as his humor quickly wiped away as he stared at me full of hatred. "But when I hear that the bitch, I knocked up didn't kill her target, is threatening her contract and killed her boss. Then I start to care." He said towering over me.

"What do you want?" I asked looking up at him with newfound confidence as our noses almost touched. "It's not only about what I want." Dominic replied before stepping away from me making me silently grateful until I filled with realization.

"Whose blood is this?" I breathed, feeling too emotional to be able to keep a tough demeanor in front of him.

Dominic tossed me a phone making me quickly catch it. I opened it to see a video of Nathan with cuts and bruises tied to a chair in a poorly lit room making my lips part as my heart instantly sank. Tears collected in my eyes as I watched someone punch him in the stomach making Nathan struggle to seem unaffected.

"There's a way for you to save him. You have a contract, Gen-" He began. "You can shove that contract up your ass! I only have three more years left. Just let me leave!" I begged ignoring my pleading voice knowing he thrived off my pain.

"You will never have a relationship with anyone. You know the power I hold now. You will never be able to hide from me. You will always be looking over your shoulder." Dominic threatened as he took the phone from me. "You will never leave. And you and your Nathan will die trying."

"Where is he?!" I beamed ignoring his threats stepping towards him as I began to shake with fury. "You're a smart woman, I'm sure you can figure it out." Dominic replied struggling to suppress my tears. "Why have you done this?" I asked as my voice shook and a tear escaped my eye. I hated the way he made me feel small and weak. He was the only one who has ever made me feel this way.

I've always been able to defend myself against anyone and any man I've come across. Even my own boss who could have also easily taken my life instead. Dominic was the first man I had ever loved and trusted. Or so I thought. When I met Nathan was when I found out about how real love and respect and trust is supposed to be in a relationship.

I sought comfort in Dominic with this scary and confusing organization that I had gotten myself into. He taught me the basics before turning me into the powerful weapon that I am today. He introduced me to the best trainers and masters of martial arts and boxing. Ranging from Karate, Jiu-Jitsu and Krav Maga. He wanted the best for me. Until I upset all of his plans. I quickly became just as strong and smart as him if not more.

Dominic was so funny and sweet in our relationship and could easily charm the pants off of any woman. And the fact he was incredibly dangerous only excited me even more at the time. Until we found out I was pregnant with Rose.

"What happened to you?" I scoffed full of heartache and disbelief. I couldn't believe that I was so stupid and blind to have loved someone like him for all those years. Which was why I was reluctant to trust anyone else after him. Especially another man.

"You should know he did put of quite a big fight. Poor thing was looking so badly for you. More effort than I ever made when you left me." Dominic smiled amused trying to get a rise out of me. "But he has to die. Your boss was right to assign him to you." He continued making me snap my head up to him again.

My lips parted as I shook my head about to plead to not take his life when he interrupted me. "Or..." He dragged out seeing I was about to reply making me impatiently wait for him to continue.

"You can come back until your contract is over. And no one will come after you ever again." Dominic finally finished. "And I promise we will let him go." Dominic negotiated full of seriousness never tearing his piercing dark brown eyes away from mine. "You know I'm a man of my word."

I was about to reply when I noticed the run-down house behind him again. Dominic gasped softly in fake shock. "Did she finally figure it out?" He asked amused.

Rushing past him running as fast as I could through the grass towards the house. Pushing open the rickety door to see an empty house. I continued inside looking into all the rooms before I opened to see the man continuing to beat Nathan tied to a chair. The man heard me behind him making him quickly run up to me.

He continued trying to fight back making me kick in his knee in and effortlessly fought off his blows. The unfamiliar man groaned in pain as he stumbled away and fell to the ground.

"Nathan." I cried. "Oh, my god." I breathed heartbroken as tears collected in my eyes seeing him like this. He was half unconscious hunched over in the chair with bloody face and shirt. I lifted his head squatting to his height to see his eyes were barely open as I untied his wrists.

His mouth and nose were dripping blood as he continued to sit unable to hold himself up. "I'm so sorry." I sobbed softly before struggling to put my arms around his waist to try picking him up. "Need some help?" Dominic asked behind me making me stop and turn my head to face him still squat in front of Nathan.

"Why do you want me so badly to stay? If you truly didn't care about me at all then you wouldn't care if I stayed or not. It seems like it would just be easier for you to just let me go. I can finally stop embarrassing you like how you've said. I will be gone, and you will finally be able to continue forgetting about us. I don't want any trouble, Dominic. I was willing to leave quietly and restart my life." I tried negotiating as I stood up to walk towards him.

"Just let us go." I pleaded making him lean off of the doorway to walk slowly towards us. "You should've thought about that before you signed the contract." Dominic stated as my heart ached with betrayal.

I told him when we were dating how much I regretted signing ten years of my life away to something I didn't understand. He knew I didn't know what I was getting myself into at the time. It hurt me to know the man I had loved more than anyone would end up turning his back on me and use everything I had ever shared with him against me.

Dominic was one of the only people I was actually afraid of, and I hated how defenseless he made me feel in this moment. I confided everything to him thinking he would understand. I was naive to think a man like him could care or love someone else besides himself and his position of power.

"I can't believe you're risking your life for him." Dominic said walking up to me making me step back. "I remember when we killed men like him together." He continued through a seductive tone making me fill with disgust remembering how he got off on killing people together. "I was a different person then." I replied without emotion making him hum.

"Until you met him." Dominic said suddenly pointing a gun at Nathan still slumped over in the chair. "Gen." Nathan groaned struggling to stay awake making me quickly stand between them. "You can't do this, Dominic-" I began calmly until he interrupted full of anger and power making me jump. "You shouldn't be telling me what I can and cannot do! He's a threat, Gen!" He roared making me step back closer to Nathan.

"Make up your mind! It's either him," Dominic said pointing behind me with his gun. "or you." He pointing the gun back onto me. I felt slightly better with the idea of his gun and attention on me instead of Nathan. I couldn't have anything else happening to him.

"Or I could just kill the both of you. It would tie up all of my loose ends and save a lot of trouble for me. Although I wonder how our daughter would feel finding out her mother is dead. I would just hate for her to take your place when she turns eighteen." Dominic grinned.

Instantly filling with rage and newfound confidence having to think about Rose growing up like I did and going through life the same way. I couldn't let it happen. I wouldn't. I would never let her live this life I've led.

I suddenly kicked the gun out of his hands and continued kicking his chest as hard as I could and punching him across the face. I tried punching him across the face again when he quickly caught my wrist. I struggled to pull away as Dominic smiled with blood in his teeth letting go of me punching me twice. Stumbling backwards making him grab a fist full of my hair keeping me in place forcing me to look up at him. I struggled to pull away and stay still as I felt blood drip from my nose as he hovered over me.

"I taught you everything you know. I know every step you'll take. You will never beat me." Dominic stated menacingly making me tense my jaw before he kissed me forcefully as my eyebrows furrowed in disgust.

I gagged struggling to pull away from his hold on me as I felt our blood around our mouth smearing against each other. Biting his lip as hard as I could making him finally let go of my hair. Dominic groaned in pain seeing I made his lip bleed as he pulled away. He looked at me full of annoyance making me step away fill with worry.

I knew the last thing I wanted to do was get into a fight with him. And I hated to admit it, but he was right. Dominic knew me well enough to know every step I would take to fight him back. I knew he has had a lot more training than I've ever had which scared me even more. You don't become as powerful as him in this organization without killing a few powerful people to take their place. Dominic was known to be ruthless, and I could only imagine it has only gotten worse over the years.

"I've always been able to see right through you. No one knows you the way I do. Everyone sees you as this fearful, impressive woman who was always able to complete missions quicker than anyone else with extreme precision. Creating clean kills with no evidence towards us always leaving the police completely baffled. Letting them believe what you wanted them to believe. You were amazing. Even your own boss's favorite." Dominic scoffed full of hatred and amusement making me frown. "Before you killed him." He chuckled.

"But I know the person you really are and the person you will always be. Just a scared, broken little girl with no one to care for her. No one who loves her." He taunted stepping closer to me making me feel powerless against him.

"I mean look at you. Defending this rich entitled prick who is probably only using you to stay alive." Dominic continued filling me with annoyance. "The only entitled prick here is you. And you're wrong. You can't taunt and bully me into giving up and feeling helpless anymore. I'm not the other men who work for you. And you're wrong about him. He is nothing like the men I've killed." I finally defended making him smirk amused at me talking back.

"You don't know me anymore, Dominic. I've changed in every possible way. You should be afraid." I finished making him scoff. "Of you?" He laughed amused. "If you really believe you know everything about me and my every instinct then what makes you think I don't know yours just as well?" I smiled with newfound strength.

"And in turn you taught me all of your weaknesses, your faults." I stated stepping closer, so our faces were almost touching. "Everything you do wrong and everything I could do better." I said finally starting to gain my strength back shoving my nerves away. I looked up at him as he towered over me with a furious, aggravated expression. "I know you like the back of my hand, Dominic." I said trying to fight through my fear of getting into a fight with him.

"I know you've loved me at some point. Please. Tell everyone you killed me brutally and mercilessly. No one will ever know." I continued as he tried hiding any emotion from his face as he thought to himself. He never looked away from me trying to find any tell that I was lying. "You've never backed down from a fight, Genevieve." He stated amused more than asked making me frown.

"You've gotten weak." Dominic stated running his finger softly across my cheek making me flinch. I punched him across the mouth, nose and up his jaw making him look up at the ceiling struggling to catch up with me. He punched my jaw and tried again making me dodge it and grabbed his arm and flipped him over me onto his back. He quickly kicked up onto his feet grinning as he stood tall. I did a roundhouse kick into his stomach making him fly through the old, crumbling wall behind him.

Dominic struggled to stand up quickly making me rush over to Nathan. "Are you awake?" I whispered lifting his head up delicately making him groan. "You would always prove you were right and prove that you are stronger than me. But instead, you're begging for me to let you go?" Dominic grunted. I frowned watching him get up filling with fear and worry making me hurry.

Putting Nathan's arm around my neck as I wrapped my arm around his waist struggling to keep him upright. Nathan groaned in my ear half unconscious as I turned back around to face Dominic.

I continued to hold Nathan effortlessly as he stood slumped over me. "Don't worry. I'm sure you'll give me another opportunity to prove it to you." I retorted walking away trying not to make it obvious how hard it was to keep Nathan upright pressed against me. I was utterly grateful Dominic didn't continue to come after me as Nathan and I finally stumbled down the front steps of the abandoned home.

I looked up to see my car in the distance making me groan and huff in exhaustion keeping his toned, heavy frame from falling to the ground. Knowing how difficult it would get him up back into his feet. "I'm so sorry, Nathan. You didn't deserve any of this." I breathed finally on the dirt road inching closer to my car.

"Oh, god." I breathed finally making it to my car making him lean onto the side off the door beside me as I unlocked it. I helped him inside the passenger side trying to hurry and keep from pressing hard on any of his wounds. I ran around to the other side of the car as I saw Dominic walk calmly out of the house. He watched as I peeled away picking up dust behind me. We were now speeding down the street back towards town.

I looked over at him hesitantly as I drove not knowing how to act or what to say. He leaned against the window stiff in pain holding his side slightly. "Who was that?"