“I don't think you can…”“What? You don't think I can handle that? Don't you want to find out?” I asked slowly, coming to straddle him.Luca's eyes darkened, and he let out a low growl.He stood up and walked towards the bed with my small frame still wrapped around his body. His hand was on my ass to help hold me in place. My skin burned from his touch. I couldn't wait for him to touch me, to do with me as he pleased. He sat by the edge on the bed in such a way that I was still sitting on him. I could feel the curve of his dick pressing into my thighs. “Strip. Now!” He said in a deep voice. I swallowed, untangling myself from him so I was standing. I hadn't started showing yet, so there was no way Luca could have guessed I was pregnant. I pulled the sweatshirt over my head in one swift motion, throwing it to the side. My shorts went off next, landing in the small heap with the sweatshirt.The cool air came in contact with my skin, and my nipples tightened even more until they wer
Luca got me a new phone the morning after we had make-up sex. Or rather, I saw the phone on the bed with a note that said “had to run to work. Talk when I'm back.” The phone had already been set up. Probably even had a tracking device in it.I was really not looking forward to that “talk” but I knew there was no way it could be avoided. There were too many things I needed to know and too many things we needed to clear up. One of the first things I did was to call Enzo. I hadn't spoken to him for over a week before I ran off, which meant we hadn't spoken for almost three weeks. He sounded extremely worried and relieved to hear my voice. “Hey Zo!” I greeted once the call connected. “Nazi? Oh, thank goodness you're fine. I was so worried about you, I thought they–” he suddenly went mute. My nose scrunched up in confusion. “You thought who did what?” I asked. “I thought they had overwhelmed you with work back at your office. You always talk about how they have you swamped with work
I was typing a hurried response when another text came in from her. “There's no way anybody stays without their phones for so long, so you must have been kidnapped. Lol.”A breath I didn't know I was holding escaped my lips, and I wanted to laugh at myself.Why did I even think she would know what is going on in my life? She's like on a whole other part of the earth and doesn't even know my real name.I willed away my anxiety and suspicion that had quickly replaced my pornographic thoughts.“Unless you got bored of me though, there's that,” she texted again with a sad emoji.I let out a chuckle under my breath as I took the first bite out of the food. If only she knew how correct she was. “Actually, my phone crashed, and I just got a new one. Had to create a new profile here, too.”She told me about how bored she had been and how she found a new boyfriend but she wasn't as into him as he was with her and it made her feel bad. I had a small smile on my face as I read her messages. It
“You remember my brother, right? Enzo?” I asked Luca one evening at dinner. He raised a brow at me. “Do I remember your brother?” He asked me back. “Right. How could I forget you have threatened to kill him more times than I can count and even caused him to have an injury on his foot. It's a surprise how that didn't affect his career,” I said, narrowing my eyes. “I really am sorry Nazi,” Luca dropped his form, wincing as though he had been stabbed.“Yeah, okay. He's fine now, so that's okay.”“So what about your brother?” He asked, taking a sip of juice. “I want to tell him about us, about you and every other thing,” I said, gearing myself up for his response.Luca almost choked. He fell into a coughing fit for some minutes, drawing Sara and Maria's attention to us. They offered him a glass of water as I tried to pat his back.He waved them away when he managed to gain control of himself. “Are you okay now?” I asked, still standing beside him. He nodded, and I returned to my chair
I was feeling anxious about what Dr. Martin might want to say. What if she went through her report and realized there was actually something wrong with my baby. Tears were threatening to rise to the brim of my eyes but I forced them down. If there was one thing I wouldn't do, it's that.“Ma'am?” Gabriel called out, snapping me back to reality. “We're here,” he said, gesturing out the window.True to his words, we were parked in the lot of the clinic. The warm appearance of the place immediately started its job and made me feel calmer.“Thank you Gabriel,” I said as I unfastened my seatbelt. He hurried out of the car to the other side of the door to open the door for me. I was out of energy to even warn him against it so I just smiled. “I won't be long.”The air felt different today but I was certain it just felt that way because of my nerves. "Mrs. Alessandro?" The receptionist's voice pulled me from my train of thoughts when I walked through the doors. I nodded. "Dr. Martin has be
The rest of that week went by pretty fast. I spent most of my days planning for the party with Elena and Sabrina. When we weren't doing that, I was in the gym or I was sleeping. From what Dr. Martin said, I was about a month pregnant, and physical exercises are much needed at this stage. In fact, at all stages.I was in an entirely different dilemma, though. I had no idea what to get Luca for his birthday. Everything I could think of, he either already has or would get in a heartbeat. And it didn't make me feel any better knowing it was his money I would be using to get him a birthday present since I didn't make any of my own.“Take that frown off your pretty face,” Luca said, walking out of the bathroom to meet me on the bed. He had on a pair of shorts with droplets of water dripping down his bare chest.I breathed out a laugh. “I didn't realize I was frowning,” I said, trying not to drool at his body. Luca had the body of a god. Don't even get me started on his perfect skin.“Ca
I hurried away to find Luca without waiting for her response. Why would she go against my words and tell him? He must be angry. I didn't know what to make of that, but I needed to find him, and I needed to fix it. Luca was always with one person or the other anytime I saw him. It was like everybody wanted to get a taste of the celebrant. I decided not to wait until he was free anymore, so when I found Luca with two other people, I approached them swiftly. “Luca?” I called out shakily.He turned around with a warm smile. “Nazlynn, come here. I was just talking about you,” he said, stretching a hand towards me.I took it tentatively. He was in a completely different mood from what I had expected to meet him in.“This is my good friend, Chappo, we go way back. Chappo, this is my lovely wife that I've been telling you about,” Luca introduced.The man beside Luca greeted me with a warm smile, holding a hand out. I stretched mine out to meet his, expecting a handshake, but instead, he br
I stood, frozen in place. It was like my feet had forgotten how to move. “Luca,” I called out shakily without turning to face him. I didn't even know what to say, talk more of how to say it. “Look at me,” he said. I hated that I couldn't decipher any emotions from the tone of his voice.I shook my head in disagreement.“Look at me, Nazlynn.”I steeled myself, turning around slowly to face him. He wasn't looking in my direction when I turned, and that got me even more worried.I closed the distance between us with two short strides. “I'm really sorry, Luca. I found out shortly before I ran off. I was still locked in the room, and I was all alone. It was a few days before you hurt Enzo.""I was so overwhelmed and scared that I made the decision I made to run. It was selfish of me because I put my child in harm's way, I shouldn't have done that,” I said with trembling lips. I hung my head low in fear. Not because I was scared of what he would do to me but because I was scared of what
I looked from the man to Alice and back to the man. My face was still stinging from the impact of his hard palm on my cheek when I opened my mouth to speak. “What do you mean she's my sister? I'm pretty sure I would know if I had any other siblings for over twenty years that I have been alive,” my voice trailed off towards the end as it clicked in my head.Until a few weeks ago, I didn't know that the man I thought was my father was not. That meant I could have a whole line of siblings that I was unaware of.The thought that they would all be crazy like Alice crossed my mind, and I shivered. I couldn't believe that I had a sister or that she was the crazy lady with me all this while.“Do you know what started the feud between my clan and Luca's?” Santos asked, ignoring my question as he walked away from the pole and to a chair I had not noticed in all that time. My eyes followed his every movement until he sat on it and returned his gaze to my direction. I shook my head in response
“Don Luca, we have a big problem,” Marco said as he walked up to me. “I can see that, what's happening?” I asked, looking around me.My men were scampering from one place to the other in the compound, so much that my presence went unnoticed. “There's a strange gas that was released in the house, it made a few people drop like flies. I'm not sure if they are just unconscious or it's something worse. We're having everyone evacuated before anything worse happens.”An alarm bell went off inside of my head. “Where are my wife and daughter?” I asked, making an attempt to go into the mansion.Marco sidestepped me. “Your wife wasn't in the house sir.”“And Hailey? Where is Hailey?” I demanded.“Mathias has her, Maria and Tracy stay at one of the safe houses alongside your sisters but I don't know which,” he responded.“Find out this instance and let me know.”“Sir, the less we know about their current location, the safer they are,” he argued. I took two angry steps closer to him, sizing hi
“How is this….how are you…I don't understand,” I spluttered. It was either my brain had gone radio silent, or I was just slow like Alice had said because I could not make sense of the situation.She gave me a few seconds to try to process things, and when she saw that I wasn't able to, she spoke up. “Let me make it easier for you, I kidnapped you,” she said with a sinister smile that made me want to puke.“So you see,” she started, dropping the pair of glasses on the table and picking up the blade that was used to free her. “My mafia needed inside information on Luca's mafia, so I decided to go through you. It took days of my tech guy doing his tech thing for us to finally find a social media presence for you. Although it turned out you had just opened the account that day. You live a very sad life, if I may say,” she tutted.“Anyway. You weren't giving me the information I wanted, so I suggested the therapist thing. It wasn't at all difficult to rent a space, place a few members of
Luca's POV“We've been driving for quite some time. I think we would have found her SUV if it were here to see.” Gabriel said, taking the words right out of my intrusive thoughts. I've been forcing myself to ignore the fact that my wife's car was clearly not in sight. “I'll just drive around this street one more time then,” I said, stepping on the gas to increase my speed. “She's not here, boss,” Gabriel said, and I only hummed in response but showed no sign that I had heard him.“She's not here!” He said, louder this time, causing me to step on the brake so hard that our bodies lurched forward in the car. I glared at him so hard until he cowered. “I'm sorry, boss. You were driving at a speed that was going to get us pulled over by the police.”Scoffing, I shook my head in disdain. I was irritated with myself, with the fact that I couldn't even protect my own wife. “I can't have a repeat of what happened a year ago, Gabriel. I really cannot,” I said, feeling my tough facade slipp
Alice struggled against her restraints, gnashing her teeth at him. “Who are you, and what do you want with us?”The man's face came into view, and I frowned slightly. It was a boy actually, he didn't look a day over fifteen years old. His voice sounded a lot more mature, I would have guessed he was in his late twenties if I hadn't seen his face. “Please let her go. She has nothing to do with me, and she doesn't know anything,” I pleaded on my friend's behalf. Alice looked scared shitless, like she would piss her pants any time soon.“Way to go, Nazlynn. You meet your friend for the first time ever and get her kidnapped,” I said to myself mentally. I couldn't let them hurt her. Alice could already clearly see that she's missing something about my life.The boy just stood there and stared at me. “Do you know him or something?” Alice whispered to me.I shook my head, “I've never seen him before.”He stared at me for a long time without saying a word. His face was void of any facial exp
She scrunched up her nose, and her eyebrows pulled together in a manner that screamed confusion. “You mentioned it when you told me about your nightmares some time ago,” she said.I nodded. “I think you should do what you think is best for your child. You know it's not just yourself that you have to take care of or look out for,” she said, giving me a look that my mother would give me when she was trying to make me see a point that I am intentionally blind to.We talked some more, and I told her everything about everything, going into more details than I did when I sent that long text message. For some odd reason, I felt really calm around her, like I could tell her anything at all. Which was surprising considering how much I was freaking out when I got here.I had come to meet with her to get some advice on what I should do and how I should do it, but here she was telling me that the decision was all mine to make. Just sitting down and talking to her did help me feel better, thou
I agreed to meet up with Alice two days after she had sent that text. Coincidentally, we were in the same city, so it wouldn't be too much of a hassle. She said it was important we met up, and I was curious as to why.“I already fed her, but in case she gets whiny again, give her water in her bottle,” I said to Tracy, crouching down so I could give Hailey a big kiss.The only thing I hated more than being away from my baby was being away from my baby.“I'm going out,” I said to Luca when I saw him in the hallway. He was speaking to some of the members of our security team. He frowned, giving me a once over. “Where are you off to?” “I'm going to meet with someone,” I responded briefly, checking my reflection in the full-length mirror hanging on the wall. Luca dismissed the small gathering of men before turning his attention to me. “Who? You don't have any friends. You're not exactly the most social person,” Luca pointed out. I froze. He had a point. Considering everything that has
Luca walked towards me in a predatory type of way. “Hi princess,” he greeted Hailey before taking her off of me. I stilled as he passed by me, keeping my eyes on Enzo at the other side of the room, who looked half as uncomfortable as I did. “Judging by the fact we've been married for almost two years, you should know that I know you better than yourself,” I heard Luca say from behind me before hearing the door shut and then the sound of a luck turning.I whipped around and was shocked to see an empty space behind me. “What just happened?” I asked Enzo, who was just staring at me.“Your husband just locked us in,” he stated simply.“Yes, I can see that. But why?” I asked as my panic level started rising. Enzo hopped off the chair he was sitting on and started walking towards me. “I asked him how I could get you to talk to me. He said you have a thing for eavesdropping on his conversations, so we decided to see if it'll work. We left the door open a bit, sprinkled your name into the
You're really not going to talk to me at all?” I heard Enzo ask, making me sigh.I had come down the staircase the next morning only to almost bump into him at the bottom. I increased my pace so I could disappear from him as quickly as possible, but Enzo just wouldn't let me be.“I thought I made that clear enough, but apparently I didn't, seeing how you're currently trying to talk to me,” I replied with a fake smile.“Nazlynn,” he called out softly, taking a step in my direction.My eyes searched his. I could still see fragments of the little boy who had left for Atlanta years back, but I could also see something darker. The kind of darkness that you are bound to be exposed to while working with the mafia.I was one to talk, considering how I'm married to a mafia don who is the rival to my biological father who is also a mafia don.“I'm not ready for the conversation you're trying to have, Enzo. I would like to get through one day without reminding myself of how I failed you as a si