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

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Realizing she had accidentally slept through the entire night, Ginevra hushed him quickly with a gentle, apologetic pat on his shoulder.

 She scrambled quickly off the bed, hurried entirely out of the bedroom, and rushed into the wide hallway before finally answering the incoming call.

"Hello?" Ginevra rubbed her forehead, her voice thick with exhaustion.

"Is this the actual wife of the victim?" The rescue captain shouted furiously over the crackling receiver. "Why have you still not shown up at the docks? Are you really his legal wife or just some heartless, random stranger? I have called this number over a dozen times tonight!"

Ginevra stopped walking immediately. Her fingers gripped the heavy wooden railing of the grand staircase.

"What victim are you talking about?" Ginevra asked, her voice trembling uncontrollably. "Explain yourself right now!"

"We recovered a male corpse from the freezing sea exactly one hour ago." The captain barked coldly, showing absolutely zero sympathy for her obvious shock. "The dead body matches the rough physical description you provided last night. We need you to come down to the medical examiner tent immediately to visually identify whether this bloated, lifeless man is your husband! What kind of wife sleeps through something like this?"

The phone slipped slightly from her sweaty hand. The gorgeous face of Ginevra turned deathly pale. The warm blood completely drained from her beautiful features in an instant.

luca walked casually out of the bedroom just in time. He leaned against the doorframe with intense, feigned concern painted perfectly across his face.

"What happened, Ginevra?" luca asked softly, tilting his head like an innocent, confused puppy. "Why do you look so terrified all of a sudden? Who was yelling on the phone? Did Dante do something stupid again to upset you?"

Ginevra gasped loudly, her entire body shaking violently against the staircase railing.

"The rescue team just called me." Ginevra placed a trembling hand over her mouth, her voice cracking into a bare, hollow whisper. "They found a dead body in the water. Something terrible has happened to Dante."

luca erupted with ecstatic, overwhelming joy on the inside. He desperately wanted to dance and celebrate right there in the hallway. Dante was finally dead. The pathetic, annoying husband was entirely out of the picture forever. luca quickly adopted a heavily grief stricken, deeply devastated expression for his boss.

"Oh my god!" luca covered his mouth, forcing a loud, fake sob from his throat. "How could this possibly happen? He was so physically strong and capable! Let us go downstairs right now and grab the car keys. We must go to the shore immediately to check on him!"

luca stepped confidently toward the top of the grand staircase, ready to walk down toward the front entrance of the luxury home.

Suddenly, the heavy double doors of the villa below swung violently open with a deafening crash.

The loud, explosive noise echoed through the massive foyer. Ginevra and luca snapped their heads toward the grand entrance.

Dante stood perfectly still at the doorway.

His dark clothes were completely dry. His broad posture was imposing, radiating an overwhelming, terrifying aura of absolute, unmatched power. He stared directly up at the second floor hallway with a deadpan, chilling, icy expression. His cold, merciless eyes locked directly onto luca.

A massive, jagged bolt of blinding white lightning ripped across the dark, stormy night sky right behind him. The booming thunder shook the entire concrete foundation of the villa.

luca let out a high pitched, pathetic shriek of absolute, unfiltered terror. His weak legs gave out completely beneath him. He collapsed heavily onto the polished marble floor. 

A warm, dark puddle quickly spread across his expensive trousers as he wet his pants in absolute, petrifying fear.