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LucaLila was the most stubborn woman I had ever met in my life and every moment I thought I had her figured out, she would surprise me. It was one of the reasons I was so attracted and intrigued by her. She was not easy to read, she was a mystery. I watched her stalk across the room and cursed under my breath. Hell, I had done it again. I should have complimented her on the damn dress. She looked so good, the dress clinging to her every curve. She had her hair held up into a pony tail with curves which highlighted her long sexy neck. But nothing had prepared me for her entrance as she walked down the stairs, ready for the party.The electric blue dress dipped low in the front, clung to the edge of her shoulders, and fell down to the floor in magnificent, flowing folds of shimmering material shot with silver thread. Strappy silver sandals encased her feet, her hot pink toenails peeking out and playing hide and seek as she walked. Her hair was pinned high on her head, with corkscr
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Lila. I decided it was time to find mu husband.Besides the brief time seated beside him at dinner, we had been out of each other’s company the whole night. Humming under my breath to the strains of “I Get a Kick out of You”, I checked the room but couldn’t pick him out of the crowd. I decided to make my way down the elaborate hallway. Maybe he had gone to the bathroom.My heels clicked against polished marble. The sounds of the music faded, and i studied the paintings on the wall with pleasure, murmuring to myself when i found one I recognized. My steps carried me around the next corner into a room that looked more like a gallery, filled with shelves of old, bound books carefully displayed. I held my breath as my fingers itched to caress the binding of old leather and relish the sound of crackling as I turned the pages steeped in history.“Ah, so to get you to notice me tonight, I should turn into a book, no?”I spun around. A man stood in the doorway, his eyes filled with a mischie
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Lila. “Congratulations, Luca . Lila tells me you are newlyweds. How difficult it must be to drag yourself to a business function, no?”“Absolutely.” His head lowered. My breath hitched as his lips grazed my lobe, and his nose nuzzled my ear. My nipples grew hard and tingly. I prayed my padded bra hid the evidence of my body’s betrayal.Michael watched the gesture with barely hidden amusement. “It seems Richard thinks you are the perfect man for the job. Perhaps we can set up a meeting to go over your ideas.”“Thank you. I’ll call your secretary and arrange an appointment.” I caught the clear cut simplicity in his tone, and knew Michael noticed. Luca didn’t play certain business games, namely being too arrogant to pick up the phone himself to call for an appointment.“Very good.” Michael took my hand and placed a kiss on my palm. “It was lovely to meet you, Lila .” His Italian accent caressed my name.“I’m having a dinner party for a few close friends two weeks from tonight. Would you
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Luca. My hands hung at my sides, empty. For one moment, I had been filled with her: her curves, her scent, her heat. Now I stood in the middle of the room, alone, just like I had on our wedding night.A married man with a hard on and no relief in sight. Amazed at my ridiculous predicament, I tried to go over the events of the evening and see where I had gone wrong.The moment I caught her with Lewis, a slow, steaming anger had risen up within me. The heat started at my feet, traveled to my stomach, my chest, and finally settled like a hot band around my head. If I was a horse, I would have snorted out smoke and stamped my hooves. If I was a wolf, I would have howled at the moon.Her hand had rested on the his arm. He must’ve been quite amusing, because she threw her head back and laughed, her cheeks flushed and rosy.Her full lips had gleamed under the chandelier light. They had acted like they were long time friends instead of people who had just met.But the worst was when she smil
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Lila.Sleep? Impossible.I had been tossing and turning for the past one hour hoping to eventually fall asleep with no luck. He was all I could think about, and how furious he looked. I have never seen that side of him before and I enjoyed it. Him being jealous over me. The more I try to quiet my mind, the louder it gets. I keep turning over what happened, how the night ended. Lewis eventually wandered off to find someone else to charm not that I minded. He was sweet, sure. Attractive, even. But I didn’t sit close to him because I wanted him.I didn't entertain him because I was attracted to him, Luca put me up to it and when I realized how much he was not okay with it, it got more interesting for me. Sure Lewis was handsome and he had that natural Italian charm, if I wasn't already in too deep with Luca, Lewis would have been very much my type. So when he showed interest in me, it was easy to flirt with him because I actually liked him, but I also did it because I knew Luca wo
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Lila..I had expected things to be weird and arkward between us when I woke up, but it was like I had dreamed it all and Luca seemed to be back to his normal self. He has not mentioned what happened between us that night even once. He seemed to have moved on like nothing happened at all which was eating me up. It did not help that he was taking random trips from the house that lasted hours, I was sure he was meeting up with one of his many women or Vanessa since that woman seemed to be everywhere. He had also decided he wanted to partner in a new up coming swim line with Gucci, and I honestly believed he was using it as an excuse to pick up models. He also insisted I be present on all the meetings and presentations which was weird because I knew nothing about fashion or swimwear. I stared at Lucas who was transfixed by the tanned and gorgeous Brazilian model who had already taken three runway passes in front of him wearing nothing but a skimpy black bikini. “Evita, we are done wi
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Luca I had contemplated not going to her, following her, but I had to. I felt like an asshole as i stood on the other side of Lila’s door. I had openly flirted with a few of the models today, hoping it would piss her off. Although, extremely childish, my actions had been harmless, my only goal being to prove to her what we had shared hadn’t been just nothing, and to also get a reaction out of her too. And certainly not something to chalk up to a wild, drunken Vegas night and just forget. But I did not expect it to get this bad, she was pissed no matter how good she was trying to hide it. I had expected to get a rise out of her, maybe incite her temper. What i never expected was to see the wounded look in her eyes before she sprinted out of there as fast as her legs could carry her. I had felt as if a knife was being twisted into my gut. In that moment I had made a final decision about what would happen next between us. Enough of the games. We were too old to be playing them anywa
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Lila. I knew he was going to kiss me, and I had plenty of time to pull away before he did, but I didn’t. Instead, i parted my lips, allowing him access inside my mouth as I hungrily tasted him. This was a mistake, kissing him, being alone with him in my room, but I couldn’t find the will to push him away. His admission had taken me by surprise. I had never expected him to acknowledge his behavior, let alone apologize for it. I had also never expected him to accuse me of being jealous, but there was no point in denying it because we both knew the truth. I had been jealous. And the only reason why I was even jealous was because I did indeed want him. Had for a long time, and apparently i was just too tired to fight it any longer. I had expended so much of my energy pushing him away for so long that it was almost a relief to give in. In the back of my mind, I heard the protest that I didn’t want to be added to this playboy’s list of play things, but I ignored my conscience. This was V
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MARRIED TO THE MAFIA Chapter Sixty six
Richard. I had absolutely no idea what he was talking about, but I could tell he was pissed off. I hadn't seen him that way in a long time. "Please sit down Luca, let's talk about this." i said calmly, nudging Lila to tell him to sit down."What exactly did she tell you son?" I finally asked after a few minutes of silence. We were all seated across from each other, but I appreciated the fact that Lila was present, she could help calm things down between us."She said you are the reason she never came back, you threatened her life and told her if she ever came back you will kill her." he finally said, his eyes cold, that angry vein popping on his forehead."Why would I even do that Luca, just think about it. Her leaving broke me, why would I want her to leave in the first place?""Well for starters you were in love with Lila's mom, maybe you wanted to get rid of my mother so that you two could live happily ever after. She is your biological daughter, I am not" he said angrily, his ey
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Lila"What does he mean by this Jenny? What did you say to him? Where did he go?" My legs nearly give out. I stagger to the couch, the letter fluttering in my trembling hands. The paper is warm from my grip, but his words cut through me like ice.Gone where, Luca? None of this was making an sense, I had only stepped out for a few minutes, waht could she have possibly said to him. I read faster, eyes blurring from more than just the tears building behind them. As if trying to find an hidden message behind the message. But there was no hidden message, it was just as plain as it read. I was about to get up, when I saw another note, a little hidden like he didn't want someone to find it. He had placed it below the fruit bowl, neatly folded. I picked the note, careful not to seem suspicious to Jenny who seemed unfazed by any of this. 'Lila, I couldn’t stay. I know you’ll hate me for this, and I deserve that. But after hearing her, hearing what she said, it wasn’t enough. There is mo
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Lila. We all sit down on the floor, our legs crossed facing each other, the letter in his hand. I nudge him to go ahead and open it. It's now or never. Luca’s fingers tremble as he breaks the seal on the letter. I watch his knuckles, turn white against the yellowed paper, and my heart is a fist punching inside my ribs.He doesn’t say anything. Doesn’t look at me. Just starts reading.I feel useless. Like I’m standing at the edge of a cliff watching someone I love tumble off it in slow motion and there’s nothing I can do to catch him. Nothing I can say to soften the crash.The silence is unbearable. I move closer to him. “Luca?” I say softly, His eyes scan line after line, but it’s like the words are dragging him under. His jaw is clenched so tight I swear I can hear the tension grinding in his teeth. When he finally speaks, it’s a whisper, brittle and sharp like glass underfoot.“She says she left because of him. My dad. She says... she wanted to come back. But he threatened her.”
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Luca.I wasn’t even sure how I got home. The sidewalk bent and curved like a snake, and the streetlights flared and flickered like firecrackers, and I was just stumbling through it all like I didn’t belong in the world anymore. My keys missed the lock three times before the door gave way under my weight. The house was too quiet. Like it knew something I didn’t.My head buzzed like a goddamn beehive. My stomach was a pit. Everything in me was too full, too much whiskey, too many thoughts, too many years of things I never said out loud.I didn’t mean to go to her room.I didn’t even think. My feet just carried me there. Like they remembered something I had forgotten.Lila’s door was open. That soft glow of her bedside lamp leaked into the hallway, golden and warm. She was curled up on her bed, legs folded, book in hand, glasses perched low on her nose like they always were when she got serious about something. Her eyes flicked up when I leaned against the doorframe like I was trying to
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Richard. The air suddenly becomes cold and I can tell something is definitely wrong by how Jenny is acting and so quiet. I shut the door behind the detectives and follow them into the living room like I’m in a dream. Jenny’s already sitting on the edge of the couch, hands in her lap, eyes locked on the floor like a kid caught shoplifting.“What’s going on?” I ask as I sit across from Jenny and the two detectives. The taller one, introduces himself as, Detective Harlan before he glances at his partner, then back at me.“We are looking into a cold case,” he says. “A missing person from 1999. You knew a man named Marcus Wynn?”The name hits like a slap. He was the reason me and Jenny fought so much in our marriage. "Yeah. I knew Marcus." He was Jenny’s friend. Or so she said. A musician. Used to crash on our couch sometimes in the months before she left. The kind of guy who always had a half smile and a cigarette behind his ear. After she disappeared, so did he.“Why are you asking
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Richard. I shut the door behind the detectives and follow them into the living room like I’m in a dream. Jenny’s already sitting on the edge of the couch, hands in her lap, eyes locked on the floor like a kid caught shoplifting.“What’s going on?” I ask.The taller one, Detective Harlan glances at his partner, then back at me.“We’re looking into a cold case,” he says. “A missing person from 1999. You knew a man named Marcus Wynn?”The name hits like a slap.Yeah. I knew Marcus.He was Jenny’s friend. Or so she said. A musician. Used to crash on our couch sometimes in the months before she left. The kind of guy who always had a half smile and a cigarette behind his ear. After she disappeared, so did he.“Why are you asking about him now?” I say carefully.“He never resurfaced,” Harlan says. “No employment, no ID activity, nothing. It’s like he vanished off the face of the earth.”“And what does that have to do with Jenny?” My voice is sharp now. Protective. Angry even Harlan looks
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Richard. Every scenario that I come up with leads me to just doing the right thing no matter how bad I didn't want to. I know if I don't Luca about his mother and she dies without making things right with him, he will never forgive me if he found out she tried to reach out and I didn't tell him. It’s Sunday afternoon when I finally decide to do it. Two days since Jenny left again. Two days staring at the folded letter like it’s a bomb waiting to go off. Because it is. Luca texts me that he’s stopping by to help with the gutters, like I’m too old to hold a damn ladder. I tell him sure, come by. Bring that wrench you stole from my garage five years ago. He laughs in a text. Says he might.I make coffee. Black. Strong. The kind that punches you awake. I sit at the kitchen table and place the letter dead center between us.It’s cloudy outside. A fitting day for the news I was about to drop in his laps. I appreciated the fact that his wife Lila had not mentioned anything to him yet, h
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Richard. It’s been four days.Four long, dragging, claustrophobic days since Jenny stood in my living room and detonated twenty five years of silence with three words: I have cancer and I am dying. And now every time I pass the mirror in the hallway, I catch my own reflection and flinch, because I don’t recognize the man looking back. He’s waiting. Holding his breath. Listening for a knock that may never come.I wanted to tell Luca about his mother, that she was back and she was dying. Anothet part of me hates her and Saw this is her karma, she did not deserve to see the amazing man Luca had turned out to become. She didn't deserve to say goodbye to him. But why was I feeling so much guilt over it. Luca came by last night, as he does every Thursday. Same routine. He brings dinner some overpriced vegan thing Lila cooks and we sit in awkward silence, pretending we’re just two men, not a father and son still sutured together by old wounds.He doesn’t know she was here.I don’t tell h
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Richard. I still remember the last time I saw her, I replayed it so many times in my head that at some point it just stuck. I used to make up scenarios in my head about what would happen if I ever saw her again, but over the years I gave up.I didn't think she would ever come back, I did not even know if she was still alive. I had hired some of the best private investigators, but none was ever successful in finding her. As soon as she left, her trail went cold. It was like looking for a ghost, it was like she never existed at all. So I let it go and over the years accepted that I might never see her again or find out what happened to her. Clearly I was wrong, because she was back in the flesh and she still looked the same, but age had catched up. "Richard." she said, My name. That voice. I hadn’t heard it in twenty five years, and still, it hit like a freight train. I didn’t move right away. Thought maybe it was a ghost, a trick of the old walls. "Jenny." I managed to say, T
