The CEO's Disgraced Husband Is the Sea God's Commander

5

Ginevra finally pressed the call button, putting her expensive phone to her ear. The loud, gruff voice of the maritime rescue captain boomed through the receiver immediately.

"Are you completely out of your mind?" The rescue captain roared, his heavy voice thick with intense, raw frustration. "You are calling us now? Three full hours after your luxury yacht encountered the rogue wave? Do you have any idea how extremely dangerous the sea conditions are tonight? The freezing water temperature alone is enough to kill a grown man in mere minutes! Why on earth did you wait this ridiculously long to report a missing person? Do you actually want your own husband to die out there?"

Ginevra gripped her phone tightly, her knuckles turning entirely white. She was completely unable to offer a real, logical explanation. She glanced guiltily at luca lying perfectly fine on the white hospital bed.

"I had an urgent medical emergency to deal with first!" Ginevra swallowed hard, forcing her tone to sound commanding. "Please, just do your absolute best to find him! I will pay whatever astronomical f*e you require. I have endless resources. Just deploy your best search boats immediately and stop lecturing me on standard emergency protocol!"

The rescue captain hung up abruptly, slamming the receiver down on his end. Ginevra grabbed her designer purse from the plastic chair. She made a quick, determined move to head toward the hospital door, intending to drive straight to the stormy shore to personally check on the active search.

luca noticed her sudden movement instantly. His pale face grew even whiter. He curled into a tight, pathetic ball on the mattress, whimpering loudly as he clutched his stomach.

"President Ginevra, where are you going?" luca squeezed fake, pitiful tears from his eyes, gasping desperately for air. "I feel horribly unwell again. The entire room is spinning wildly. My fragile heart is beating so incredibly fast I can barely breathe. Are you really going to leave me all alone in this terrifying, cold hospital just for him? You know he probably planned this dramatic stunt on purpose just to ruin our weekend. He is probably laughing at us right now!"

Ginevra paused dead in her tracks at the doorway. She looked at his pale, trembling frame. The terrifying image of Dante bleeding and fighting the steering wheel flashed in her mind, but she quickly pushed it away in annoyance.

"I am taking you home right now." Ginevra walked back to his bedside, her voice completely cold and indifferent regarding the fate of Dante. "You need a comfortable, warm environment to recover properly. The stormy shore is far too windy and cold for your fragile condition. I am not letting you suffer in this awful place just because Dante is acting like a childish, jealous fool."

She quickly signed the hospital discharge papers, ignoring the confused looks of the medical staff. She drove luca directly back to her massive, luxurious private villa in the wealthy district.

Once they were safely inside the grand master bedroom, Ginevra placed her car keys on the smooth nightstand. She turned toward the heavy mahogany door once again.

"I need to go to the shore now." Ginevra grabbed her heavy winter coat. "I have to see if the maritime rescue team found anything in the water."

luca grabbed her delicate wrist tightly, his long fingers trembling with fake, exaggerated terror.

"Please wait until I fall asleep!" luca begged pitifully, burying his wet, tear stained face into her palm. "I am too utterly terrified to stay alone in this giant, empty house. Every single time I close my eyes, I see those monstrous dark waves trying to swallow me alive. Please do not leave me entirely alone in the dark, Ginevra. Dante is a strong military man, he does not need you the way I absolutely need you right now! He always treats you terribly anyway!"

Ginevra looked down at his pathetic, clinging posture. She let out a long, heavy sigh of resignation, sitting on the very edge of the king sized mattress.

"Fine." Ginevra stroked his hair gently, her blind protective instincts entirely overriding her marital duty. "I will sit right here until you are fully and deeply asleep. But then I have to leave to check the docks."

luca closed his eyes, smiling wickedly against the soft mattress. Ginevra leaned her heavy head against the tall wooden headboard. Overwhelmed by sheer mental and physical exhaustion from the horrific boat trip, her eyelids grew incredibly heavy. Without even realizing it, she accidentally fell fast asleep right beside his bed.

Hours passed in complete silence. The storm outside continued to rage violently against the large glass windows.

Ginevra was violently jolted awake by her mobile phone ringing deafeningly loud. She blinked her eyes open in shock, feeling completely disoriented in the dim lighting.

luca groaned irritably from the fluffy pillows. He rubbed his eyes, throwing a severe, hateful glare at the ringing device on the table.

"Turn that obnoxious thing off!" luca complained in a loud, whiny, annoyed tone. "That horrible ringing noise completely ruined my peaceful rest! You know I need complete silence to recover from my severe trauma! How can you be so incredibly inconsiderate of my medical needs?"