Okay, I didn't plan to update this so quick but I've been threatened! Lol! Thanks again for all the reviews and comments, you guys are amazing and make it fun to write! This chapter is kind of dark and has mature themes and concepts so be prepared. Thank you all!
Ch. 10
Dante's POV
This morning had started off pretty well with Lulu attacking me in our bed and I'd be lying if I said that didn't totally rock. I just wish I was ready to go beyond that, to claim her body as mine once again. Every time I get close to thinking that I'm over everything that happened and just accept that John Zacchara will be a part of our lives forever because of the baby, I get a feeling that he's hiding something.
While Lulu was in the shower I got a call from Mac saying that the private investigator I hired was at the station waiting for me. I guess he's not too private if he's showing up in public, so we needed to have a word about that. I ran downstairs to the flower vendor on the sidewalk, grabbed a rose and came back upstairs to leave it for Lulu along with a note saying I'd meet her at the hospital. I know this baby isn't mine and I'm getting better about accepting that and part of that means being there for Lulu, every step of the way. Every doctor's appointment, every craving and certainly every time she feels the baby move I want to be there.
When I got the station I led the investigator into one of the interrogation rooms and the first thing he did was smile and fling a manila folder on the table.
"I believe this is what you've been looking for Detective." He said with such arrogance that I wanted to punch him, but decided to save my punches for the one that really deserved it.
I opened the folder and the first thing I see was his name. Are you kidding me? What nice work this guy has done, I'm the one that told him to look into John Zacchara and see if anything adds up with him being near the hospital when the DNA tests were done, what he was doing the night of the affair before he saw Lulu, and anything odd between those two dates and this is what he gives me?
"Um, sir...This doesn't make any sense. I told you to look up a bunch of things and what you bring to me is a purchase a drug store for antibiotics, a bar receipt for Jake's and a black and white grainy picture of John and my mom from last week. This stuff isn't private investigator worthy." I say to him like he's a three year old. Although what he says next has me floored.
"Look closer Detective Falconeri, the prescription is supposed to be for antibiotics but if you look at this picture that I had blown up and read the words on the bottle it's for Rohypnol." I can't believe what he's telling me, Johnny got a prescription for the date rape drug. How the hell does someone do that?
That's all I can handle hearing before I threw the folder down and slammed the door behind me as I rushed out of the PCPD and on my way to that fucker's house. He's gotten away with too much and he will NOT touch Lulu or my mother ever again.
When I get to Johnny's apartment and start to walk up the door I hear three voices, his of course and then not only my mother's but Lulu's too.
"Oh Johnny what are we going to do about this? You're right I can't tell Dante any of this because I know he'll try to play hero and end up in trouble or even worse. What the hell do I tell him when he asks what's got me so upset? He knows me so well, he'll be able to tell something's off." Lulu is almost in tears when asking him this.
"Come here Lu, it's gonna be okay." I'm thinking at this point John might be hugging her because the sounds of her breathing got muffled and oh my god how I just want to run in there and kill him.
"So Lulu," I hear my Ma's voice say. "Are we on the same page here when we say Dante can't know why you got pregnant?" I can't fucking believe my mom is in on this.
I couldn't handle it any longer; I opened the door and started screaming.
"You know what? Fuck you all! I CANNOT believe you are all here plotting a way to keep me in the dark about something that sounds super important! And YOU Lulu, what the hell are you doing here and WHY are you in the arms of a man that you swore to me that you are just friends with?" I went to Lulu and looked her straight in the eyes. "What happened to never telling me a lie again, huh? You can all go to hell and do me a favor Lulu, DON'T come home!" I really didn't want to blow up at her because right now I'm so pissed off at John that I can hardly breathe.
"Oh yeah, I almost left without doing what I came here for," I say as I walk up to John and slugged him right in the eye putting all my weight behind it. "That's for using the date rape drug on my fiancé you son of a bitch!" I spat at him while walking out the door.
"DANTE! WAIT!" I hear Lulu screaming. I could feel her running to catch up with me and I knew there were stairs coming and as pissed off as I am right now, I couldn't risk her falling down them.
"What do you want Lu? I am so pissed off at you right now I have no idea what will come flying out of my mouth, so please let me leave you without saying something I could regret!" I say to a distraught Lulu.
"I understand you are angry right now but you need to know that I wasn't going to lie to you. Your mom and Johnny said there was something important going on and they wouldn't tell me what it was until I promised to not tell you, so I told them I wouldn't. I wasn't going to keep this from you. It has to do with your safety too, just hear me out and then if you want to kick me out of our home then I'll let you." She said as tears were streaming down her face.
"Lulu, does the fact that I just revealed that Johnny raped you have any effect on you at all, or are you just blinded my both of them trying to 'help' us that you don't care. He RAPED you Lulu. The mother fucker saw you getting drunk and starting on the path of self-destruction that night and put a roofie in your drink. He had sex with you while you weren't awake and now you're pregnant with his child and you are just excited that he says he's going to protect us. Well I'm sorry, that's fucked up and I'm not going to sit here and listen." I say as a tear escaped my eye and rolled down my cheek.
"Well I thought your punch was a good start for getting him back for that part. Look, Johnny explained that his father Anthony has been threatening your mother's life for a while now and they said the only way she would be left alone was if Johnny gave him an heir for the organization. Of course Johnny didn't want to do that and had been fighting his dad off of Olivia for a while until he was given a deadline." Lulu was trying to catch her breath but I could tell that she was trying to get this out as fast as she could. "Before you came storming into the room Johnny had just told me Anthony said that I was the one he wanted to have his son's child because it was his way of getting back at both my father and Sonny. He knows that I'm in love with you, and you being Sonny's son make it perfect revenge that he gets his heir and breaks your heart at the same time." She wasn't getting it though.
"Lulu! Open your damn eyes; this little sob story about how John only did what he had to do is bullshit! Do you not CARE that he had sex with you when you didn't consent to it?" I can't believe I am about to say this but, "Are you glad that Johnny did this and that he's the father? Cuz you're acting like he can do no wrong right now and you have NO IDEA how much that is killing me!"
"Dante! Don't you even say that okay? You KNOW that I wanted you to be the father and yes this is tearing me apart to know that if I had just been a normal person and yelled at you when I was mad that night then maybe all of this could've been avoided. But that isn't what happened. Am I pissed at Johnny? Yes! Will I ever trust him again? No, but right now I think we all need to talk about this and figure out a way to keep Anthony away from us. Please Dante, let's do this together and beat this bastard at his own game." She asked with so much certainty that I actually start to believe that it was possible.
"Lu, I believe that you weren't going to lie to me and I apologize for getting so angry but I don't buy John's story about Anthony too much right now and I can't even stand to look at my mother so I'm leaving. If you want to talk about all of this then we can do it after the doctor's appointment but I swear to god I don't care that Johnny is the father, if he shows up at the hospital for your appointment I will kill him! He took advantage of you and he's fucking lucky that I don't call the station and report him right now so he just gave up the right to be an active part of this pregnancy! Do you understand?" I yell loud enough for John and my Ma to hear from behind the shut door.
"I understand Dante and to tell you the truth, I completely agree. Johnny will come nowhere near me for right now and we'll figure everything out later." She says as she wraps her arms around me and embraces me in a sweet hug.
As I'm hugging her it hits me, we can do this. Lulu and I can solve this whole situation our own way and we don't need John Zacchara and his obedient Olivia Falconeri to do it. The first part of my plan has to be done tonight and I'm thinking this might surprise Lulu a bit, but has to be done.
"Let's go baby, we have a date with our son and after we're done there we have a plane to catch. It's time we made our love official, Will you marry me tonight Lesley Lu Spencer?" I ask as I get down on one knee.
She starts crying once again but this time it's of happiness, maybe we're crazy to do this right now but I can't stand that punk having any hold over her and if she's my wife that's one less thing she has to worry about.
She yanks me up and kisses me with so much love that I feel it in my bones, and standing there in John's apartment hallway I become the happiest I've been in months. We're getting married tonight and nobody will stop us.
I love this woman more than life itself and I'll do anything to protect her. I don't care what my mother and John say, if Anthony Zacchara has a problem with Lulu or the baby that she's carrying then he can take it up with me.