Chapter seven: Andretti's pov

Immediately the call from Lucia ended, he tried calling her back, her phone was switched off, she would not have called him if she wasn't in danger that he knew for sure. He summoned Andreo and 10 of his men they went into the arsenal got whatever weapons they needed and drove to her house.

" I should not have allowed her to leave", he thought aloud.

" You could not have seen this coming boss", Andreo replied.

They drove as fast as the cars could go, he regretted what happened to Jimmy and he wasn't going to let the same thing happen to his daughter.

They got to the house, they need to tread carefully so as not to alert the intruders, Andretti gave the signal and they went inside, downstairs was empty and they could hear voices coming from up, as they walked up the stairs.

One of the intruder came down the stairs, Andreo stealthily knocked him out, they have to move fast because now they would know something is up, they got to her room upstairs and knocked down the door, their were just two men inside, while his men took care of them he saw Lucia, bound to the chair, blindfolded with blood trickling down her forehead.

"Those bastards", he cursed. He hurriedly went to her untie her and removed the blindfold, immediately she saw him , she held him tightly and kept muttering words he could not hear, she must have been so scared.

His men took care of the intruders but kept one of them alive , they would take that one back to the plaza and interrogate him, he would take care of the interrogation himself. He took Lucia back to the car,

"Which one of them did this to you", He asked.

"I don't know, I was blindfolded through out", she answered.

"Only our team knew you were in the house, how could they have possibly found out?", he asked.

"I think someone informed them".

"I shouldn't have left you alone".

"It's not your fault ", she said.

"I'm taking you back to my house, Dr Roberto is on his way already, here let me see", he turned her face towards his to see the injury, it was a small cut just about her eyebrows, as he touched it she winced, " sorry, I'm sorry this happened to you, i promised to protect you and i failed".

"It's really not your fault, I insisted on leaving".

They drove back to his house, Dr Roberto was waiting for them at the entrance, the urgency in which Andretti had called him made him rush over.

"Oh amore, what did those bastards do to you?", Dr Roberto said, touching her cheeks. He held her hands and took her inside, Andretti following closely behind them.

"I am okay, Dr Roberto", Lucia said, she obviously didn't want the doctor to worry, but Andretti could see that she was really shaken up.

" You are going to stay here with me, you are not leaving my sight ever", Andretti proclaimed.

" Calm down Andretti ", she chuckled, " we have only known each other for a few days are you already obsessed with me?", she joked.

"What?!, no I'm not ", Andretti shouted in defense, he didn't want to seem vulnerable.

"Relax, I'm just joking, you are really tense Andretti you should take things too seriously", she said. They had gotten to Andretti's room, two of the house staff were already waiting by the bedside for them, to attend to her every need.

Dr Roberto cleaned and dressed the wound with Andretti looking keenly, luckily she didn't need stitches.

"You should rest now", Dr Roberto said as he packed up his medical kit.

"Okay I will, I'm feeling really stinky I would like to take a shower but I don't have any of my things here with me", she complained.

"I will leave that to you Andretti", Dr Roberto said as he left the room.

"I will be back", Andretti said and left.

An hour later Andretti came back with two staffs carrying loads of shopping bags

"What's all these?", she said.

"Well you need to shower, so I went out to get whatever you could need", he said as the staff dropped the bags on the floor and left.

She got out of bed to check the bags and it was filled with all the shower necessities any girl would ever need, some things he got were even unnecessary, it was obvious he had out done himself.

"How did you know what girl's need to shower", she asked grinning.

" I had help", he confessed.

She looked really impressed that he had gone that far to make sure she was comfortable, she was surprised that someone she just met would be so concerned about her well-being, she felt touched. Andretti may look like a bad guy but he is not so bad after all, she thought.

"I will give you your space to do your thing, the bathroom is right there", he pointed to the adjoining door in the room, " if you need anything my staff is her to help you, this is Marlina", he pointed to the older looking lady among the two standing in the room.

"Hi, Marlina", she greeted the lady who answered with a smile.

"I think I can take a shower by myself though, I don't need Marlina's help", she continued.

" I strongly object, I wouldn't want you to faint in the bath or something ", he objected.

She moved closer to him, very close, she touched his arm and said ," I am really thankful that you care about me this much but trust me, I would really like to take a shower by myself, I just need a little space, I will be good i promise ", there was just something about the way she looked at him, he knew he could not refuse her.

Those eyes, she had the eyes of a calm blue sea, "fine", he agreed.

She moved away from him grabbed some of the bags and walked into the bathroom, he signalled Marlina and the other staff Gia to leave. He walked out after them, those eyes would put me in trouble one day he thought to himself.