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00:00i'm elbow deep in corn husks when i hear it the sound cuts through the late morning heat like a blade low mechanical wrong i straighten up shading my eyes against the kansas sun and squint at the sky
00:14there's a helicopter circling my uncle's farm not the crop duster kind the kind that costs more than this entire county what the hell it hovers just hovers
00:26like whoever's up there has nothing better to do than watch me wrestle with 30 acres of stubborn corn that should have been harvested two weeks ago
00:33i wipe sweat off my forehead with the back of my hand and flip the bird at the sky because honestly i've had a week
00:41my uncle's in the hospital with a stroke the bank's threatening foreclosure and now some rich asshole is hovering over my property like i'm a contestant on the bachelor agricultural edition
00:51the helicopter doesn't leave oh you think this is funny i yell at it knowing full well they can't hear me
00:59come down here and shuck some corn then it descends i freeze wait no that's not it's landing in the middle
01:07of my field corn stalks whip sideways in the rotor wash and i'm about to have a full-blown aneurysm
01:13because that's my harvest you airborne jackass the blades slow the door opens and out steps a man
01:21in a suit not just any suit the kind of suit that costs more than my truck my tractor and probably
01:28my soul combined charcoal gray tailored to within an inch of its life and completely inappropriate for
01:34a cornfield in rural kansas at 11 a.m on a thursday he's tall dark hair sharp jawline sunglasses that
01:42probably cost what i make in six months he looks like he walked off the set of a cologne commercial
01:47and got lost on the way to his yacht i stare he walks toward me like he owns the place you've got
01:55to be kidding me i mutter gripping my harvesting knife a little tighter not that i'm going to stab him
02:01probably but a girl's gotta have options he stops about 10 feet away tilts his head and takes off the
02:08sunglasses oh oh his eyes are the color of expensive whiskey the kind you don't drink you just stare
02:17at and wonder how your life got so off track that you're 28 and broke instead of sipping that in a
02:22penthouse somewhere sienna holt his voice is smooth deep the kind of voice that makes you forget your own
02:31name for a second i blink who's asking dante vitale i wait for more he doesn't give it okay dante i say
02:42crossing my arms you got a permit to land that thing here because i'm pretty sure the faa doesn't
02:47love random helicopters crushing people's livelihoods his mouth twitches almost a smile i own the airspace
02:55you what i had it shut down temporarily i laugh it's not a nice laugh it's the laugh of someone
03:03who's been awake since 4 a.m has dirt under her nails and just watched a stranger land a helicopter
03:08on her corn you shut down the airspace i repeat slowly so you could what drop in and say hi so i
03:18could make sure you were alone the laugh dies in my throat he steps closer not threatening exactly
03:24but deliberate like he's used to people moving out of his way and is mildly surprised i haven't yet
03:31i'm here about your uncle he says my stomach drops what about him he owes someone money yeah the bank
03:41i'm aware not the bank dante says quietly me the world tilts a little i take a breath my uncle doesn't
03:52know people like you your uncle dante says made a very poor investment six months ago he borrowed
04:00three hundred thousand dollars to expand this operation the loan came through a private lender
04:04in chicago that lender works for me i feel like i've been punched that's not uncle ray wouldn't he did
04:13dante's gaze doesn't waver and now the debt is overdue with interest it's four hundred and twenty
04:19thousand i actually laugh this time it sounds a little unhinged i don't have four hundred and
04:26twenty thousand dollars i don't have four hundred and twenty cents so unless you're here to repo the corn
04:31i'm here to repo you silence a crow caused somewhere in the distance the wind rustles through the stocks
04:39i'm pretty sure my brain just short-circuited excuse me dante slides his hands into his pockets
04:46and somehow the gesture makes him look even more dangerous your uncle can't pay the farm's worth maybe
04:52half what he owes and that's generous but you his eyes sweep over me clinical and assessing
05:00you're more valuable than corn i'm i sputter what are you a human trafficker is that what this is
05:08i'm a businessman yeah well i'm not for sale businessman i'm not buying you he says it like
05:15i'm being ridiculous i'm offering you a deal a deal you work for me six months i'll
05:22forgive the debt and your uncle keeps the farm i stare at him work for you doing what exactly
05:29because i've seen taken and i'm not ending up in a basement somewhere now he definitely smiles it's
05:35small but it's there i need someone i can trust someone outside my world you'd live in my house
05:43attend events with me and act as my companion companion i repeat flatly you mean escort
05:52i mean exactly what i said so let me get this straight i step closer and i see something flicker
05:59in his eyes surprise maybe that i'm not backing down you want me to play arm candy for six months
06:05smile pretty at your mob parties and in exchange you won't burn down my family's farm
06:11i don't burn farms dante says i'm not a cartoon villain could have fooled me with the helicopter
06:17entrance his jaw tightens but i swear there's amusement buried under it do we have a deal or
06:24not and if i say no then i take the farm your uncle loses everything and you go back to harvesting
06:31corn until the bank takes that too i want to tell him to go to hell i want to shove him back into his
06:37stupid helicopter and watch him fly away but the truth is he's right we're drowning uncle ray's in
06:45a hospital bed and i've been holding this place together with duct tape and prayer six months i say
06:52slowly and the debt's gone completely and i'm not this isn't some pretty woman situation where you expect
07:01i expect you to show up when i need you and not ask questions about my business
07:05dante interrupts what happens beyond that is entirely up to you i search his face for a lie
07:13i don't find one just that steady unnerving calm fine i hear myself say six months but i'm keeping my
07:21knife dante glances at the harvesting blade still in my hand i wouldn't expect anything less
07:28he turns and walks back toward the helicopter wait i call after him when do i start he looks back over
07:37his shoulder sunglasses back on and somehow i know my life just got a whole lot more complicated now
07:47dante's house is not a house it's a compound outside chicago that looks like it ate a french
07:52chateau and a modern art museum and somehow made both work i'm standing in a bedroom the size of my
07:58entire farmhouse staring at a closet full of clothes that weren't there an hour ago how did you i turn
08:06to find him leaning against the doorframe watching me with that unsettling stillness he seems to carry
08:11everywhere i had your measurements from the security footage at the farm that's deeply creepy
08:19that's thorough he straightens get dressed we have dinner in two hours with who people you'll smile
08:27at and say nothing to i grab a dress at random black simple probably costs more than my truck
08:34and hold it up you know most people lead with please and thank you i'm not most people no kidding
08:42i toss the dress on the bed quick question do your dinner guests know you're basically a kidnapper
08:48or is that more of a second date reveal his expression doesn't change but something dark flickers behind
08:54his eyes you agreed to come under duress under negotiation he corrects there's a difference
09:03yeah the difference is you had a helicopter and i had 30 acres of dying corn
09:07he's quiet for a moment studying me like i'm a puzzle he can't quite solve then you could have
09:15said no and let my uncle lose everything real choice there dante most people would have run or cried or
09:25both he tilts his head you flipped off my helicopter i'm midwestern we're polite to people's faces and
09:33feral to aircraft that almost smile again god it's infuriating how good looking he is when he's not
09:39being a complete dictator dinner's at seven don't be late he leaves and i resist the urge to throw
09:46something at the door the dinner is exactly as terrible as i imagined 12 people sit around a table
09:52that could host a small country's peace talks all of them dress like they're attending the oscars
09:57i'm wedged between dante and a woman named gabriella who keeps shooting me looks that could curdle milk
10:04so says the man across from me silver-haired expensive watch smile like a corporate shark
10:10how did you and dante meet i feel dante's hand settle on my lower back possessive a warning and
10:18a reassurance all at once she was harvesting corn dante says smoothly i was flying over it was poetic
10:28gabriella makes a sound that might be a laugh or might be her choking on contempt
10:33how rustic i smile at her it's my bless your heart smile the one that looks sweet but means i could bury
10:42you in my cornfield and no one would ever know it really was nothing says romance like agricultural
10:49labor and trespassing aircraft someone laughs actually laughs it's the man at the head of the
10:57table older gray beard eyes sharp as broken glass he looks at me with something like interest
11:03i like her he announces she's got spine too much spine gabriella mutters into her wine careful gabby
11:13the man says lightly dante doesn't like it when people disrespect what's his
11:19the temperature in the room drops about 20 degrees i glance at dante his expression hasn't changed but
11:25his hand has pressed slightly firmer against my back claiming sienna isn't property marco
11:32dante says quietly but she is under my protection i'd remember that marco raises his glass of course
11:42my apologies piccola the rest of dinner passes in a blur of courses i can't pronounce and conversations
11:49i'm clearly not supposed to understand dante barely eats he watches the room like a predator tracking
11:56movement in tall grass when we finally leave i practically run to the car that was a nightmare
12:03i say as soon as we're in the back of his town car because of course he has a town car with a driver
12:08who looks like he moonlights as a bodyguard you did well i didn't do anything i just sat there feeling
12:15like everyone wanted to dissect me they did dante says you're a variable they don't understand that
12:22that makes you dangerous i'm a corn farmer from kansas i'm the least dangerous person in that room
12:28he turns to look at me and there's something almost soft in his expression
12:32you told gabriella rossi wife of the third most powerful man in chicago that you could bury her in a
12:37cornfield with a smile i didn't say that out loud you didn't have to he's closer now and i can smell his
12:47cologne cedar and something darker more complex she saw it in your eyes so did i my heart's doing
12:56something stupid in my chest so what you're proud of me for threatening a mob wife i'm intrigued by you
13:03his voice drops lower you don't bend everyone bends sienna everyone except you maybe i'm just too
13:11stubborn to know better maybe his gaze drops to my mouth for half a second just long enough for me to
13:18notice or maybe you're exactly what i need the car stops we're back at the compound i practically throw
13:25myself out of the vehicle before i do something stupid like close the distance between us three
13:31weeks pass in a blur i attend dinners charity galas a polo match where i'm pretty sure someone got shot
13:37in the parking lot but dante steered me away before i could confirm he's always there silent
13:43watchful terrifyingly competent and every day i learn a little more like how he takes his coffee
13:50black and drinks it staring out windows like he's looking for threats how he never raises his voice
13:55even when he's furious which somehow makes him scarier how he has nightmares i heard him once
14:01three a.m his voice ragged through the walls of this massive house i didn't go to him but i wanted
14:07to you're staring dante says we're in his study him behind a desk that probably cost more than my
14:15education me curled in an armchair pretending to read sunlight streams through floor-to-ceiling windows
14:21turning everything gold i'm bored i counter there's a difference you could go into the city shop spa
14:30whatever it is women do women i repeat slowly also read run companies and overthrow governments but
14:37sure let's go with shopping he leans back in his chair and i catch the edge of a real smile
14:44what do you want sienna to know why why what why me i close the book you could have hired a model an
14:55actress someone who actually knows how to navigate your world why drag a broke farm girl into this
15:02dante's quiet for a long moment then he stands walks to the window hands in his pockets the light
15:09catches his profile sharp classical beautiful in a way that makes my chest ache because everyone else
15:16would lie to me he says finally everyone else wants something power money access but you he turns and his
15:26eyes find mine you looked at me like i was an inconvenience not a king not a monster just an
15:34asshole with a helicopter i laugh before i can stop myself you are an asshole with a helicopter
15:43i know he crosses to me and suddenly he's right there close enough that i have to tilt my head back to
15:50hold his gaze but you're still here i'm here because you're blackmailing me you're here he says softly
15:58because some part of you wants to be my breath catches his phone rings the spell breaks he answers
16:06it and i watch his entire body go rigid when a pause i'm on my way he hangs up and when he looks at me
16:17there's something new in his expression fear what happened marco's dead dante says and someone just
16:26burned down your uncle's farm i'm in the helicopter before dante can tell me not to come sienna don't
16:34my voice cracks don't you dare tell me to stay behind that's my home he stares at me for three
16:41seconds calculating measuring then nods to the pilot take us to kansas the flight is 90 minutes of silence
16:51and dread i watch the landscape blur beneath us my hands twisted so tight in my lap that my knuckles
16:57are white dante sits across from me phone pressed to his ear speaking rapid italian to someone who's
17:04clearly terrified of him when he hangs up i force myself to ask is uncle ray he's alive he wasn't at the
17:12farm the relief nearly breaks me who did this marco's son dante's jaw is carved from stone antonio he's
17:22making a play for territory and he's using you to get to me using me i'm nobody you're mine he says
17:31it like it's fact like it's been fact since the moment he landed in that cornfield that makes you
17:36leverage the possessiveness in his voice should annoy me instead it sets something warm and dangerous
17:44loose in my chest so what do we do we don't do anything i'm taking you somewhere safe and then
17:51i'm ending this ending it how his silence is answer enough dante this is my world sienna you don't belong
18:00in it you never did his voice is rough and for the first time since i met him he sounds tired
18:08i should have left you in that cornfield but you didn't no he looks at me and there's something
18:15raw in his expression something that looks like regret and longing tangled together i didn't the farm
18:23is a blackened scar against the golden kansas plains the house where i grew up where my mom taught me to
18:29bake where uncle ray told terrible jokes at sunday dinners is gone just ash and memory and the acrid
18:36smell of destruction i stand at the edge of what used to be the porch and i can't breathe dante's
18:43hand finds the small of my back not possessive this time just there steady i'm sorry he says quietly
18:51don't i swipe at my eyes angry at the tears angry at everything don't apologize like you're not about
18:59to go commit murder over this would you prefer i didn't i turned to look at him this beautiful
19:06deadly man who shut down airspace just to make sure i was alone who's been watching me like i matter for
19:12three weeks straight i prefer you don't get yourself killed i won't you don't know that sienna
19:22he turns me to face him fully hands on my shoulders and the midday sun turns his eyes amber
19:29i've been doing this since i was 16. antonio is angry and reckless he'll make mistakes i won't he burned
19:36down my home i know i want to be there when you end him dante's expression shifts surprise then
19:45something almost like pride no that wasn't a request you think i'm letting you anywhere near
19:53you don't let me do anything i snap i'm not your property remember you said so yourself at that dinner
20:00so either i come with you or i steal your helicopter and handle this myself you can't
20:05fly a helicopter then i guess you'd better take me along before i crash it trying we stare at each
20:11other the wind rattles through burned timbers somewhere a meadowlark sings oblivious to the
20:17violence simmering between us you're impossible dante says finally you're controlling i'm trying to
20:25keep you alive why i step closer close enough to feel the heat of him why do you care so much if i
20:33live or die the debts almost paid another three months and i'm gone anyway so why does it matter
20:39his hands tighten on my shoulders because somewhere between that cornfield and now you stopped being a
20:45transaction my heart stops you stopped being something i needed he continues voice low and fierce and
20:53became something i wanted and i don't want things sienna wanting things makes you weak wanting things
20:59gets you killed but i wake up looking for you i go through my day counting hours until i can see you
21:05tear apart my logic with your midwestern common sense you make me laugh you make me feel and that
21:11terrifies me more than antonio or any gun ever could i can't breathe can't think can't do anything but
21:19stare at this man who's just cracked himself open in the ruins of my childhood home dante so no he says
21:27you're not coming because if something happened to you there wouldn't be enough of me left to run an
21:32empire there'd just be nothing i kiss him i i don't think about it don't plan it i just grab his stupidly
21:40expensive suit jacket and pull him down and kiss him like i'm claiming something i didn't know i wanted
21:45until this exact moment he freezes for half a second then his hands are in my hair and he's
21:51kissing me back like i'm oxygen and he's been drowning and the whole world narrows to this ash
21:56and sunlight and the taste of him cedar and desperation and something that feels dangerously like hope
22:02when we break apart we're both breathing hard i'm still coming i say against his mouth he laughs
22:09actually laughs and it transforms his whole face you're going to get me killed no i'm going to keep
22:17you alive i pull back just enough to meet his eyes that's what people who care about each other do
22:24right they keep each other alive antonio makes his move at a warehouse on the outskirts of chicago at two
22:31in the afternoon broad daylight bold and stupid just like dante predicted i watch from the car
22:38dante's one concession to keeping me safe as he walks into that warehouse flanked by six men who
22:44move like violence is their first language the driver beside me has instructions to leave if shooting
22:49starts i have instructions to ignore those instructions fifteen minutes pass twenty then dante
22:57walks back out alone unhurried he's sliding his phone into his pocket and there's blood on his cuff
23:04but he's fine and the relief that crashes through me is staggering he opens the car door slides in
23:11beside me looks at me like he's making sure i'm real it's done he says you're bleeding it's not mine
23:21dante he kisses me cuts off whatever i was going to say with lips and heat and the kind of desperation
23:28that speaks of fear finally releasing its grip stay he says when he pulls back not because of debt or deals
23:36or protection just stay in chicago with me his thumb brushes my cheek i'll rebuild your farm better than
23:47before uncle ray can hire whoever he wants to run it but you i need you not as a companion not as a
23:55transaction as mine if you'll have me i look at this man this terrifying complicated surprisingly
24:03tender man who shut down airspace just to watch me work who learned my measurements from security
24:08footage and filled a closet with clothes who speaks three languages but never learned how to ask for what
24:13he wants until now i have conditions i say name them no more helicopters without warning you teach me
24:22italian and once a month we go back to kansas and you help me harvest whatever's growing
24:27his smile is sunrise deal then yeah i say grinning despite everything the ash the fear the absolute
24:37insanity of falling for a mob boss in a cornfield i'll stay he kisses me again there in the back of a
24:44town car in a warehouse district with the chicago sun streaming through the windows and turning everything
24:49gold and for the first time in three weeks maybe for the first time in years i feel like i'm exactly
24:56where i'm supposed to be thanks for reading if you enjoyed sienna and dante's story i'd love to hear
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