Chapter 7:

Dante wasn't sure that he heard Sonny right, Sonny just admitted that Lulu was his daughter. "Lulu is your daughter?" he repeated.

Sonny handed Dante the photograph he was looking at. It was taken some time ago because Sonny looked much younger. Seated in his lap was a young blond hair girl. The girl must have been Lulu. Sonny was reading a story to her.

"She was six when she came to live here," Sonny began. "A few months after her parents died."

"Where did she stay before she came to live with you?"

"Her brother Lucky was eighteen when Luke and Laura died. He took her in. Lucky didn't take losing his parents well. He developed a heavy drinking problem. He got into an accident one morning while he was taking Lulu to school. One of my men saw what happened; they cleaned up the accident, took Lulu to school and called me. Got Lucky some medical attention for the cut on his head. Even offered to pay for his stint in rehab, he refused. He said that he didn't have a problem. He had since cleaned up his act and became a cop.

"I should have taken her in that day but her older brother Nikolas took her in. He was a few years older than Lucky. Nikolas is an international businessman. He left his sister's raising to a team of nannies because he was never home. One day, Lulu was out riding her horse, something must have spooked the horse, she was thrown from it. She severely broke her arm.

"Neither of her brothers could be reached for days. I was contacted because I was listed as an emergency contact. I was at GH within five minutes from being notified. The doctors had to perform surgery on her. I was there for her by her side when she woke up; Nikolas was on the other side of the world. Lucky was passed out drunk at some bar when their little sister was on the operating table." Sonny bit back some emotion. "Since her brothers couldn't be found the hospital had no choice but call in social services.

"Luke, Lulu's father gave me something about a few months before he died. It was a copy of his and his wife's will. In it he left me guardianship of Lulu if her brothers could not care for her. Child Services made a note of it and Lulu came to live with me and here she stayed."

"Wow. No wonder that Max and Milo are protective of her," Dante noted.

"Yeah," Sonny agreed. "They know if anything happens to my little girl I would… beat their heads in."

Dante cleared his throat. "Wow. Lulu is your daughter."

"Yeah she is. You said that she ran into her brothers last night? Were they alone?"

Dante shook his head. "No they were with their kids. Lulu said something about making a new family and not caring about the one they already had…wait she was talking about herself wasn't she?" He finally got what Lulu was saying last night.

"I was afraid of that," Sonny sighed. "Her brothers did not put up a fight for her. She… waited for them to return…"

"But they never did," Dante finished. "Not even holidays? Lulu mentioned that she went skiing with you and the boys during Christmas break."

"They kind of faded away. They came by on holidays and her birthday but that was it. Then they just sent her gifts. By the time they realized what they have done. It was too late. I convinced Lulu to give them another chance after years of trying; it was Spring break a few years back they all were going to do something."

"I don't like the way this is going," Dante muttered.

"I don't know all the details. Lulu refuses to talk about it. But whatever they had planned fell through. Lulu was hurt by her family again. She permanently cut her brothers from her life. She kept in touch with only her nephews."

"Wow," Dante muttered.

"Sine she is back. I would like you to keep an eye out on her. She knows how to work both Max and Milo even though they would never admit it."

"What about the guard that you have on her when she's in school?" Dante asked.

"He needs a vacation, too," Sonny laughed. "She's a handful. You'll get to know that in due time. I suspect that you already know that considering that she dumped a full beer over her head."

"She is… unpredictable," Dante said, remembering Lulu climbing to the front seat of the car as he drove to the casino.

"I know what you will be dealing with for the next few months. I will double your pay. I mean you haven't been back to your own place since she got here."

"I don't think that would be necessary, boss," Dante protested.

"I think it would be. Take the money, Dante. It's the least I can do."


Dante went to the kitchen after the meeting with Sonny. He grabbed a bottle of water from the fridge. Michael and Morgan were there eating sandwiches. Max and Milo were in a playful arm wrestling match. "How did your meeting with, the Boss go?" Milo asked, as he beat his brother.

"I found out a few things. I found out the reason why Lulu came to live here," Dante said.

"You didn't know? Thought that you did," Morgan said. "Haven't you seen the photos in Dad's office of all of us? I mean I know we are cousins and all but she is more like a sister to us."

Dante had been in Sonny's office many times since he came to work with him. He had never noticed the photographs on Sonny's desk before. If he did it might have made all the difference.

"I guess I must have missed them."

Michael laughed. "Let me guess Dad wants you to keep an eye out on Lulu."

"He did, why is that so funny?"

"Dad is just over-protective of his girl," Morgan chimed in. "Hey guys we should tell Dante about the one and only time Lulu brought a guy home to meet us. That was some funny shit. You tell it Michael, you tell it best."

"Tell me what happened. This should be an interesting story," Dante said.

"Well let's put it this way, Lulu has four brothers. Plus two burly bodyguards looking out for her," Michael began. "Anyway she was what a freshman in high school. She got a date for homecoming. He came to pick her up here, let's just say Morgan, Max, Milo and I put him through the wringer even before he got to meet Dad. We ask him so many questions. What his intentions were… yada yada yada.

"When he saw Dad in his office, he was cleaning his shotgun and implied that if he hurt Lulu in anyway, they would never find his body. You can say that was the one and only time Lulu brought a guy home," Michael said. "Poor thing she couldn't get a date after that. Milo had to take her to prom. It wouldn't surprise me if she were still a virgin."

Dante choked on the water he was drinking. If Lulu was a virgin when he met her, she was certainly not anymore since many times last night and a few more times this morning they had done the deed.

"I am uncomfortable talking about your sister's sex life or lack there of with her brothers," Dante said.

Morgan laughed. "Just a few words of warning, Dante, look but don't touch. I know you two are sharing a bathroom. I would knock every time you go inside there. You don't want Dad to find out you walking in on her stepping out of the shower or something. It won't be pretty."

Michael jumped up. "Let's go into town, I need to get a few things. Dad can come with us."


Dante trudged back upstairs. He went into the bathroom without bothering to lock the door. He did his business and washed his hands. He then when into Lulu's bedroom, she was seated at her vanity brushing her hair. She was still wearing the clothes he picked out for her to wear.

"You are in so much trouble," he said softly, crossing the room in several strides. He took the brush from her hands and pulled her into his arms.

"How so?" Lulu returned.

"You're a piece of work playing with me for days literally and figuratively. If I knew that you were the boss's daughter, I would have never slept with you. Rule number one is that the Boss's daughter is off limits."

Lulu slapped him across the face. "What is the difference if I am his daughter and not his mistress that I assume you thought I was?"

"The difference is that if I knew that you were his daughter I would have never would have slept with you. I wouldn't have touched you with a ten foot pole. Hell I would be afraid to help you put on our coat because Sonny might get the wrong idea. If you were his mistress you would have been fair game. Does Sonny know what a tease his little girl turned out to be?"

Lulu slapped him again. "So you are calling me a whore?"

Dante caught her wrist as she pulled back. "You are a spoiled brat. Do that again and I am going to take you over my knee."

Lulu tried to slap him again. He caught her hand, and then threw her over his shoulder. "What are you doing? Put me down!" Lulu ordered.

"I'm a man of my word. I am taking you over my knee."

He walked over to her bed, sat down. He brought her down to his lap; he turned her over so she was lying on his lap with her ass up. He played with the hem of her skirt, and then he pulled the skirt to her waist. He looked at her ass. There was a tiny piece of fabric between her milky white cheeks. He toyed with it.

"Have you lost your mind?" Lulu said. "I mean everyone is downstairs! All I have to do is scream and they will be come running."

"They all went into town. It's just you and me, babe," Dante said as he kneaded her ass cheeks. "Just that you are still wearing this… makes me hard since I helped you put it on."

Lulu slapped his leg. "Let me go, you pig."

Dante ran his hand over her cheeks. "Not a chance in hell." He swiped her cheek gently. He lowered his head to kiss the reddening area.

"Let me go," Lulu growled.

"Not a chance in hell, babe. It's just you and me until they get back."

"Go away and take a cold shower. I can feel Thor getting excited and you are not getting it anymore from me."

"Michael and Morgan told me a funny story about a guy coming to pick you up to go to a high school dance." He continued to rub her ass. "Something about them playing twenty questions with him. Then Sonny was cleaning his shotgun… it was pretty hilarious. Then Morgan said that you haven't brought a guy home since. Then he said a surprising thing."

"What did Morgan say?" Lulu asked.

"He said that that he wouldn't be surprised that you were still a virgin. I was intrigued because we went through the entire Kama Sutra last night and this morning. Was I your first? If I were damn baby I would have made it a little more special."

"Hate to break it to you but you were not my first," Lulu said through clinched teeth.

"But I was the best you ever had, wasn't I?" Dante asked as he continued to swat Lulu bare butt. After each swipe he kissed the reddening area.

"Seriously let me up. I am not having this conversation with you!" Lulu struggled to get up by Dante kept her on his lap.

"Why not? It's the perfect time to have this conversation; it's not like you are going anywhere. It was not like we were very careful. I don't think I even used one condom the multiple of times we had sex last night and this morning."

"I am on the Pill," Lulu stated. "Is that what you want to hear? Let me up."

"Not so fast, baby," Dante said, "Just say it; I was the best sex you ever had."

"You have such a huge ego! How do you get through a doorway?" Lulu exclaimed. "I am not going to respond to that statement."

"You are in denial."

"You are not going to let me go unless I say that, aren't you?"

"I have to admit I love the view. Your ass is great. And yes, you aren't going anywhere until you admit the truth. That I was the best sex you ever had."

Lulu sighed. "Fine, fine, you win. You, Dante Perelli was the best sex I even had. There I said it, are you happy now?"

Dante gave her butt another swipe, kissed it; he replaced her skirt, and let her go. "See that wasn't so hard was it?"

Lulu let out a sound of exasperation as she rose to her feet, standing in front of him. "My God! You are-"

"I remembering you saying that last night many, many times," Dante said, as he rose to his feet. "And a few more times this morning."

"You are driving me insane!" She pointed to the door. "Get out! I don't want to see you again!"

Dante started to the door the separated their bedrooms. "That is going to be hard considering that Sonny asked me personally to be your guard while you are in town. We are going to see a lot of each other, like it or not."


Lulu walked out to her car that Sonny was letting her use for the summer, a black BMW convertible. She glanced over her shoulder. Dante was nowhere in sight. "Good," she muttered under her breath, she managed to get out of the house without him noticing.

Or so she thought. He was leaning against the passenger side door studying his fingernails. "So where are we going?"

"What are you doing here?" she demanded.

Dante opened the front passenger side door for her. "I am your body guard for the summer. I am not to leave your side for a second unless you want your Dad to kill me."

"That sounds temping," Lulu muttered.

"But you are going to miss me and all the fun we had."

Lulu crossed her arms over her chest. "I am not going anywhere with you."

"Yes you are." He held the door open wider. "Get in the car."

"I am not going to tell you where we are going," Lulu said.

"Fine. We'll just drive. Can you handle that? I mean being in the same car as me?"

Lulu got in the car, buckled herself in. "I can, I think the question is, can you?"

Dante went around the car to get to the driver's side. "I am going to take the scenic route. You don't mind do, you?"

"Fine. Just drive will you?" She reached into her purse, pulling out her cell phone. "Just because we are in the same car, doesn't mean I have to talk to you."

Dante glanced over as he started the engine. Lulu was texting someone. He wondered who she was talking to. "This is going to be a fun day."

Lulu did not look up from her phone while Dante was driving. He was driving not on the main roads but on the secondary unpaved roads. "What the hell?" Lulu demanded as the car hit a bumpy patch. She looked around. "Where the hell did you take me?"

Dante shrugged. "I don't know. You told me to drive so I drove. You should have paid some attention rather than texting whoever was on the other end."

"So you are blaming me that we are lost?" Lulu looked out of the window. There was nothing but trees.

They were in the woods.

"No we are not lost," Dante said defensively.

"When where the hell are we, Dante?" Lulu demanded.

Dante turned on the GPS system that was on the dashboard. "We are right there!" he pointed to the blinking red dot on the screen. "We are not lost."

"Then where are we?" Lulu repeated.

Dante stopped the car. "Do you want to drive Ms. Know-it-All?"

"If I were driving, we wouldn't be lost," Lulu muttered. "Turn the car around and go back the way you came, unless you don't remember."

"The road is too narrow for me to turn around. I have to find some place that is large enough for me to turn around." Dante continued on.

Lulu glanced at her phone. It had no service. "My phone is out of range. I am going to ask again, where the hell are we?" She set the phone next to her.

Dante snatched it up. He wanted to see who she was texting for the past forty minutes.

"Hey!" Lulu complained.

"I want to see who had your attention for the duration of the car ride." He scrolled through her texts. "Hmm, no name but some interesting texts going on. I like this one…"

Lulu took her phone back from him, "I didn't go through your phone. So don't go through mine."

"I'm getting paid to look after you. I need to know things."

"It was Cam," Lulu crossed her arms over her chest. "Happy now, Dante? I was talking to my nephew is that a crime?"

"No. I… never mind,"

"Just get me out of here. I half-expected a hockey mask wearing, ax wielding madman to jump out between the trees."

"I have a gun. I will shoot him before he can place a grubby finger on you," Dante reminded her.

"Good to know that my bodyguard is packing heat. Are you a good shot?"

"The best, I bet that makes you feel a little safer, huh babe?" Dante asked.

"I will feel safer once we get out of the woods." She turned to him. "You seriously thought I was Sonny's lover? What gave you that idea?"

"Well you have to admit it; you came into town on the cover of night."

"I just finished moving into my new apartment for the fall semester. There were a lot of things to unpack. My flight time should not determine what my relationship was to Sonny."

Dante held his hands. "Okay I was wrong, okay? Is that what you want to hear? I am sorry that I thought that you were Sonny's lover. But you never corrected me."

"You never asked what the relationship was," Lulu retorted.

"And if I had, would you have told me the truth?" Dante asked as they continued down the road, looking for a place to turn around.

"Would have you slept with me if you have known the truth?" Lulu asked.

"I already told you no. Messing around with the Boss's daughter is frowned upon greatly as much as I want to forget it happened, I can't."

"What is that supposed to mean? You regret sleeping with me?" Lulu asked. "Nice to know,"

"Lulu that is not what I said. I can't forget what happened. Seriously what is Sonny going to do when he finds out I boned his one and only daughter? I am going to be killed."

"No you are not, so you don't have to worry," Lulu said.

"Easy for you to say," Dante said. "You don't have to worry about having your family jewels chopped off by giving someone a second glance."

"Let me ask you something, Dante. Did Sonny suspect anything? I mean you were in his office for awhile."

"No. He was too busy telling me the reason why you came to live with him. That explained the scene at the Kissing Booth with your brothers."

Lulu shifted uncomfortably in her seat. "I don't want to talk about it."

Dante whistled. "I hit a nerve, didn't I?"

"Next subject please. You know enough. Let's talk about something else. Like you are getting us more lost every minute."

"For the last time, we are not lost!" Dante declared.

Lulu sighed. She opened the glove compartment, pulling out a map. "If we aren't lost would you mind if I look at the map?"

"By all means if it's going to make you stop complaining,"

Lulu opened the map. She found Sonny's street on it. She followed the street with her finger. "Okay you must have taken this road; it's not too far from the main road. You have been driving on it." She glanced at the clock on the dashboard. "About for thirty minutes, that means we must be here."

She placed her fingertip on the map. "Hmm, looks like there is going to be a fork in the road in about ten miles."

"See there was no need for that map. We would have found it,"

"Sure." Lulu refolded the map, placing it inside the glove compartment.

"Okay I have to admit, I purposely got us lost," Dante admitted. "You made it easier by texting Cam and not paying attention."

"Why the hell would you do that?" Lulu asked, curiously.

Dante stopped the car, put it in park, and he unbuckled her seatbelt. "So I can be alone with you away from everyone else."

"A few minutes ago you were afraid that Sonny was going to use you for target practice why such the change of heart?" Lulu asked.

Dante pulled her towards him. "Come on,"

"You spanked me a few hours ago, now you are getting all frisky again?" Lulu chided, holding on to the door handle to keep her from going into his arms.

"You said some interesting things while you were being spanked," Dante said softly.

"You made me tell you those things!" Lulu protested. "God! You are so… let's just get out of here."

"Fine," Dante grumbled.

Just as the map said, there was a fork in the road that was big enough for them to turn around. They headed back the way they came.

"Are you going to talk to me, ever again?" Dante muttered, cutting the silence after about twenty minutes.

"You are my guard. I don't have to speak to you unless that I want to," Lulu retorted as she buckled her seatbelt.

So that is how they are going to play it.

"Okay, Ms. Spencer, where can I take you once wet get back to town?" Dante asked in a professional tone.

"Take me to Jake's. I am in the mood to play pool and have a beer."

Dante smiled, thinking back to when they played pool when she first arrived in town. She had to live up to the bet they made that night.

"Okay, miss. I can handle that. We will arrive at Jake's shortly."


Lulu must have dozed off. She felt Dante's hand on her leg, a little higher than it should be it was on her upper thigh, with his fingers grazing her inner thigh. "We are here, Miss Lulu." He got out of the car and went around it to open her door.

Lulu got her phone, she checked if she had any messages or voice mails. She got out of the car. She muttered her thanks as she got out.

Dante watched her walk away, her hips swaying. He remember what she had underneath the clothes she had on, Thor grew hard.

Lulu was already racking up the balls when he entered the bar. Like last time, all of the men in the bar attention was on her. Dante felt a stab of jealousy.

"Woah man, your eyes are bugging out," Coleman noted as he handed him a bottle of beer. "Miss Lesley Lu has that effect on guys. A word to the wise, stay far, far away from her, you don't want to tangle with the mobster's Princess. She's going to go back to school in the fall. She is going to be a lawyer… a prosecuting attorney. She is as smart as they come. You need to think with your head with her. The one above your waist," he added with a chuckle.

"A prosecuting attorney? I thought for sure she was going to be a defense attorney considering what Sonny does for a living."

"You mean being a coffee importer?" Coleman asked. "Why would a coffee importer need a defense attorney?"

There was a tough looking biker guy that approached Lulu to play a game of pool. Dante tried to go over there only to have Coleman place a hand on his shoulder. "Trust me, Miss Lulu can handle herself. She has been hustling pool here since she was a teen, as long as she didn't have anything alcoholic I was cool with it just if she gave me my cut."

"So when I beat her the other day…."

"She let you win. Trust me Dante, Lulu never loses at pool."

"She does, doesn't she? This could be interesting."

Dante watched as Lulu easily beat the biker. He threw his cue against the wall in disgust. He threw some money down on the table and stalked away.

Coleman handed Dante two beers. "Looks like she needs someone to play with… um that didn't come out the way I intended. Don't tell your boss."

"Your secret is safe with me."

Lulu was counting the money and slipped the bills inside of her bra when he came up to the pool table. "Ready to lose, Lulu?"

Lulu began to collect the balls to rack them up. "Hardly."

He handed her the beer. "I bet you last time."

"You got lucky."

"I almost did. I saw you naked and all wet later that night. So tell me, Lulu how did you know what I was saying when I spoke Italian?"

"I had a semester in Italy during undergrad."

"Sonny let you go to Europe? I am shocked."

"I had quite a few guards on me." She handed him a cue. "You break."

"What are going to be the stakes this time?" Dante asked. "I will take you and me having sex many times credit for you being my sex slave. Oh and we already seen each others' underwear. So what are the stakes this time?"

"I thought that you were afraid of what Sonny was going to do to you," Lulu noted.

"I still am. But I will die with a smile on my face. So what are the stakes?" he repeated. "Because I can come up with a few of my own, how about I dress you every day for a week? Just like I did today, I get to put on every single item of clothing on and take every single item of clothing off of you at the end of the day."

"Someone is cocky," Lulu noted. "What do I get when I win?"

"Uh, I haven't thought of that one," Dante said as he broke the balls. "I got solids."

He lined up his next shot. "So Coleman told me something interesting, he told me that you hustled pool here since you were a teen, wasn't that a little dangerous?"

"Not if I always won," Lulu said.

"Now who's cocky?" Dante said.

"So if I win…"

"You can dress me. You can even bathe me, too," Dante missed his next shot.

"Sounds like you win either way." Lulu lined up her next shot.

"Hmm, so what do you get?"

"I got it. If I win, I get to touch you but you can't touch me back."

"I've got handcuffs," Dante said truthfully. "You can handcuff me to your headboard and have your way with me."

Lulu chuckled. "Okay it looks like we have a bet. Shall we shake on it?"

"Babe when I touch you I don't want to let you go. I don't think Coleman will appreciate us having sex on the pool table."

"Now who's full of themselves?" Lulu lined up her next shot.

"If we play our cards right, you'll be full of me by the night is over," Dante whispered, causing Lulu to miss her next shot.

"That's not fair!" Lulu pouted.

"Stop looking at me like that or…"

"Or what?" Lulu challenged.

"Or I will have to take you upstairs to one of those rooms."

Lulu looked down at the table. She set her cue on it. "Let's go because if we are going to continue playing this game we are going to end up in one of those rooms."

Once they got into the car, they could barely keep their hands off each other. Dante's hands slipped beneath her blouse. He teased her nipples through her lacy bra. Her fingers brushed the tent that was beginning to form. Dante didn't know how he made it back to Sonny's without getting to an accident or getting pulled over by the police.

They entered the kitchen of the house. Lulu stopped suddenly when she saw Sonny standing in the kitchen with a bowl of ice cream. Dante ran into her. "Sonny!" she said. "I thought that you'd be asleep by now."

"I couldn't sleep," Sonny answered. "Good thing you are here. I have something to say."

"Can't it wait until morning?" Lulu asked, looking at Dante. He had a pained look on his face.

"No. You got a pretty dress the other day when you went shopping, right?"

Lulu nodded. "Yeah, it's pretty fancy. Why?"

"I have plans later in the week. You need to come. You need a date."

Dante coughed and raised his hand. "I would gladly offer my assistance on that."

Sonny shook his head. "You are Lulu's bodyguard. I need you to fulfill that duty that night."

"I don't need a chaperone!" Lulu whined. "Who am I going to get to go with me on such short notice? You scared away the majority of the male population my age away in Port Charles."

"You leave that to me," Sonny said. "It's on Wednesday. You both need to be ready to go by six thirty."