She pushed him off of her and got up from the bed, straightening her large shirt."..but first you have to get your wounds treated.I can't stand the sight of blood." He continued staring at her,still in awe over what he heard but she didn't wait for him to think of a response.She went into the bathroom and fetched the first aid box.She came and lowered herself beside him,opening the box and taking a piece of cotton wool which she diluted with a methylated agent and began to clean his wounds.Even though she placed all her focus on what she was doing,she could feel his gaze over her and she was trying to think of a way to leave after cleaning up his wounds.She'd only said that to make him comply and he did but at the end of it,she didn't know what would happen.She took another thick piece of cotton wool and was about to repeat the process when,"Did you really mean what you said?" his deep voice cajoled her senses.It was obvious he really believed her and couldn't stop thinking abo
Andrea knocked for the third time but no response came."Aurora," she whispered "I know you can hear me" Andrea knew she was behind the door because of her sobs which she was trying hard to suppress."Let me help you.I am sure we can figure this out," she explained "I know all you want is to leave this marriage."Andrea sighed "What if I told you there is a way?"Silence followed afterwards.After a few seconds,the door was opened and Andrea walked in stealthily closing the door behind her.She sat carefully on the ground at the foot of the bed where Aurora looked on forlornly."I don't know how you feel and I don't know if this would help but I'm gonna have to say it,Aurora" Andrea began "Everyone thinks Luca hates you but in my opinion,he doesn't"Aurora gave no reaction however,Andrea kept talking."Circumstances brought you both together but that doesn't mean nothing can work well between you two." she sighed "It's not difficult,well it might be at first but it's worth it""Luca is
Aurora awoke the instant her alarm rang. She switched it off and hurriedly had a bath then she pulled on a jean and a black hoody to hide her little bump.She quietly left the house believing that everyone was still asleep however Luca watched her slender figure stride out of the mansion. Quietly smoking his cigarette, he did not react and just watched her till she was out of site.Aurora Genovese was bent on filing for the divorce. She stuck her nose in the air as she continued to walk on the lonely street with two or three cars whipping by.She pulled her phone from her pocket and swiped the answer button."Well? Where are you?" she asked Amber."Hold, I will show up very soon!" Amber declared and soon a black sedan pulled up by the side of the road and Aurora jumped in, breathing a sigh of relief.Truth is, she wasn't really sure about filing for the divorce and at the same time she wanted so badly to do it though she was worried about the repercussions."Aurora is it so difficult t
Aurora turned back and had her head smashed by the butt of the gun.She didn't lose consciousness because Mrs Russell wasn't hard with the gun,her hand trembled with the impact and a small trail of blood seeped down from Aurora's hair."Shit!" screamed Amber "You nasty old woman! What's your problem?!" she stepped in front of Aurora while screaming at the top of her voice "You know that your son deserved whatever he got from Don Genovese! He knows she's married yet he keeps bugging her. Aurora has never forced herself to be with him! You failed to caution your sick son!""How dare you! Who the hell do you think you are?!" Mrs Russell got furious and slapped Amber across the face.Amber grabbed the lady's hair threatening to pull her down."Amber let her go!" begged Aurora.The guards came over forcing Amber to free their boss but Amber was beyond listening.Aurora held Mrs Russell's arm and the latter furiously pushed her away."Ah.." the fighting stopped and everyone's gaze turned to the
Aurora jerked awake in the middle of the night. Her stomach squeezed in tightly that she could hardly breathe.She began to pant but quickly covered her mouth the moment she realized Luca was sleeping beside her.His hand was around her waist, and his face looked so peaceful which was a stark contrast to his demeaning and dangerous aura when he is awake. Aurora couldn't help but stare at him quietly and her own pain seemed to disappear like thin air. She laid back down on the bed and propped herself up with her elbow. She continued to stare at him finding it so peaceful and funny too.So he looked this way when he slept? She thought in her mind and a small smile climbed up her lips.At the same time, an idea occured to her.She picked up her phone lying on the drawer beside the bed. Because of how big the King-sized bed was she had to stretch to take it and her slight movement caused him to stir.He didn't wake up but his hand around her waist tightened as if to ensure she was beside him
Luca Genovese rushed in like a mad dog, his bodyguards following from behind."Contact Doctor Smith. Tell him to get his ass down here immediately!" he shouted to one of the guards who sprang into action.Luca bursted through the doors of Mr Tate's ward. The man was struggling to breath while the nurses and doctors scurried about, following instructions and doing their best to revive the man. Eventually, he was calm but became hysterical again when he set eyes on Luca. He immediately called out to him and Luca walked to his side."Aurora." Mr Tate called with tears slipping down his cheeks "Aurora please.""Mr Tate, you need to be strong. She is counting on you." Luca tried to encourage the man but he shook his head."I..I have nothing more to live for.""You do." Luca replied "I've sent for the best doctor, please hang on" Luca turned to leave but Mr Tate grabbed his hand, stopping him from leaving."You..you have tried for me, Don." his eyes shimmered with tears "I know how much yo
Leo dashed out of the ICU almost bumping into Luca."Luca," he shook his head, a hint of worry in his tone "The doctors say he's far too gone."Just as Luca was about to reply, the ICU doors pushed open and a team of doctors arrived. Luca and Leo hurried towards them."Mr Genovese," one of them spoke, a forlorn look on his face "I'm sorry.""What the hell do you mean by that!" Luca shouted"We have done all we could, but he's not coming through." the doctor turned down his gaze "He has only few minutes to live, Mr Genovese. I'm sorry."Luca watched in silence as they turned and walked away. He shut his eyes as the pain coursed through him. Yes, he'd done bad things and maybe he is part of the reasons Mr Tate would lose his life today. Luca never envisioned this. He'd spent millions of dollars, gone as far as bringing the best doctors from overseas however the man's health was not getting any better. He felt guilty."Have the driver get Aurora down here," he said to Leo "Immediately an
It was night when Aurora awoke. Andrea who was resting by the side of the bed was elated to see her awake. She thought carefully before opening her mouth to speak."Aurora," she whispered as she stared down at her "Are you okay?" she asked however Aurora said nothing. She continued to stare at the ceilings while bold tears fell from the corner of her eyes.Andrea felt heartbroken to see Aurora in such state and sadly when both her and Luca were already trying to work things out."Aurora, I'm sorry for..for your loss." Andrea wiped the tears on her face "And I want you to know t-that it's not Luca's fault. Luca really did everything humanly possible to help him."Andrea waited for her response but saw that she wasn't going to speak. Her gaze was still fixed on the ceilings while tears continued to pour from her eyes."Please stop crying, for the sake of your kids." Andrea said but that didn't change a thing. She got up and was about to leave when she saw Leo standing by the door.She w
At the opening of the door, Aurora's eyes followed suit. Luca stepped into the room unsure of what to do. He had no idea if Aurora was mad at him thinking that he'd left her all alone to suffer.However it was the complete opposite.With mouth and eyes wide open, Aurora climbed out of the bed and stopped when her feet touched the ground. She stared at the man in front of her."Luca," she whispered as if she was in a dream and it was too good to be true. She was proved wrong when Luca covered the distance between them in quick long strides, took her chin between his fingers and kissed her. Amber immediately scrambled for her phone in between giggles and took several shot.Seeing that she was still in doubt, Luca placed his hand on her waist and pressed her body to him as if to say, it's truly me, Aurora.Her hand went to his hair- her favorite spot as their kissing intensified. If Andrea did not take the initiative to leave the couple, Amber would have never stopped taking pictures.Eve
When the nurse Dr. Bryan sent out of the theatre room pulled the doors open, Luca took the opportunity and dragged the poor lady outside."Where's my wife?""She's.. she's inside.."Luca wasted no time and walked into the room. His eyes immediately fell upon Aurora. He cringed at the sight of her. Her skin was bruised and battered on every side.He marched towards the doctor and punched him through the face. He jerked him up."What do you think you're doing?""S-sir...please.. don't, don't kill me. I..I promise I haven't done anything to her. The other guy forced me to do this...I..I never wanted to but I had no choice. He would kill me if I didn't."The machine went off, making a noisy sound. They're gaze fell on it and then back to Aurora."What's happening to her?" Luca let go the doctor's collar and hurried towards Aurora's bed while the Doctor and the nurses went into figuring out what the problem was."Aurora.." Luca whispered, almost stopping himself from screaming. This was the
Luca found the door to the small house ajar but not first noticing the drops of blood on the floor. He clenched his jaw and followed the directives of the gps tracker.It led him to the back of the house where the diamond ring glowed softly, alone in the dirt. He picked it up and dusted it, then turned around and walked into the house.He headed up the stairs first and into the room Aurora had stayed in. Something drew him into the bathroom and blood-stained tissues lay in numbers inside the bath. He walked out of there immediately and stopped by Alex's room. There was nothing to see except his mother's portrait hanging on the wall.Luca was about to leave when he caught sight of a paper lieing on the drawer close to the bed. At this point, everything mattered. So he walked over to it and picked it up. He was shocked to find Aurora's pregnancy report. He stopped reading when he found the section secluded 'a new foetus ' which was marked blue and the previous foetus marked red which me
The door was just few seconds from giving way when Aurora realized that crying wouldn't help. Since she had already figured that no one was coming to save her, she had herself only.She grabbed the kitchen knife and wiped her tears, trying to control the rate of her heart beat with every hit Alex had on the breaking door.Her grip around the knife tightened. Now was not the time to act scared. The lives of her kids were at stake. The door gave way, creating a thud.She stretched out the knife. Alex looked like he would kill her right there. He stepped on the door and into the kitchen, his hair scattered about his forehead with red eyes."Don't make me do this, Aurora. Don't make this hard enough!" "Dare to come near me and I promise I won't hesitate to commit my first murder!" she warned, her hand with the knife trembling."You won't do that," Alex said as a matter-of-fact "Don't underestimate me, Alex." she retorted "I have every reason to kill you! And nothing will stop me, not ev
Leo was seating on the couch inside of Luca's ward, angrily watching the latter munching salad as the laptop rested on his laps.Suddenly, he pushed the plate of salad on the ground as he watched in horror. Leo abruptly got up and continued to stare at Luca. The look on Luca's face is the look Leo has been expecting since Aurora's abduction and things changed. "Get Austin," Luca ordered. However confused, Leo still didn't understand what was going on."Get me Austin, Leo! Immediately!"Leo brought out his phone and called the latter's number. Although he didn't pick up, he was there the next minute."Luca what is going on??" Leo asked, scared at the turn of event. A while ago Luca remained non-chalant and now suddenly he was acting weird. Did the situation of Aurora's abduction just sink into his head?"Leave, Leo." Luca ordered"Luca, what is wrong with you?!""Leo, leave!!" he yelled more loudly this time and Leo turned back and left, muttering curses under his breath.Andrea met L
Leo met Andrea outside the hospital and they both walked towards Luca's ward. Since his recovery, Andrea had not visited him. Her visit had motives which were to ask about his plan on getting Aurora back.Yesterday, Amber had thrown a fit and it wasn't entirely far from the truth. Besides, she had stayed with Alex for a short time and she didn't want to experience such a thing ever again.Leo placed his hand on the knob to open the door, however Austin opened the door from behind and walked out first. Leo and Andrea looked at him and then back at themselves before they walked into the ward.Leo saw that Luca had his clothes changed and a laptop rested on his thighs as he busied himself with God knows what. Recently, Leo was in the dark about Luca's plan. Only Austin knew what was going on and he wouldn't disclose it to Leo.Even when Leo tried to get Luca to speak, he wouldn't say a word either. The laptop seem to hold a secret that none of them could fathom.They stopped by his bed.
Andrea was jerked awake by the continuous ringing of the door bell. With sleepy eyes she climbed out of bed early the next morning and walked down the stairs when she remembered Leo's warnings not to open the door for anyone.Her heart beat accelerated at the continuous ringing of the door bell and she became fully awake."Who could it be?" she wondered and grabbed a kitchen knife before taking the breathing exercise and opening the door at the count of three."Oh my God!! It's just me!" Amber immediately screamed when a knife jabbed out of the entrance.Andrea recognized her, looked left and right before letting her in and shutting the door again, her mind finally at rest."Is..is something wrong ma'am?" an ignorant Amber asked. Last she remembered, Aurora had said that Andrea Genovese had moved out of the house after serving Leo a divorce. Amber's fears were confirmed. Something was indeed wrong. Aurora's phone hasn't connected for almost a month. She summoned enough courage and wal
Luca gained consciousness two weeks later to the happiness of Leo. After having been unconscious all that time, Leo became scared and had been on the doctor's neck."The injuries were great, Mr Genovese" the doctor had explained a week ago "Although he survived, the toxin is playing it's part and changes inexplicably. A team of lab doctors are studying the different mutations and just maybe..maybe there might be a way to reverse the paralyzing effect."Leo was ecstatic. There was hope, however when Luca didn't gain consciousness three days after the Doctor's explanation he became worried and the Doctor himself didn't have a viable explanation this time around."Mr Genovese, I need you to understand that your brother is fine. Infact, his immune system is one of the strongest I've ever seen. The toxin seems to have been mixed with Feroglobin which is slowly dissolving the effect of the toxin. He's under closer watch because we've never seen anything like it"Four days later, Luca opened
The doctor approached Andrea and Leo who was resting on her shoulder the next morning."Leo," she called and he looked up to find the doctor. He was up on his feet immediately and Andrea followed suit."Good morning, Mr and Mrs Genovese" the doctor greeted "I'm sorry that I'm only here a day after the accident. It's just that the real problem took a while to figure out.""Doctor, what are you talking about? How's my brother?? Is he alright?""Mr Genovese," the doctor placed a hand on his shoulder "I'm afraid your brother will be paralyzed for the rest of his life.""What?" Leo chuckled while Andrea gasped. "Doc, that..that can't be true. Perhaps there was some form of misconduct.""Mr Genovese, although your brother had major injuries from the accident it is not the cause of his paralysis. That is why I took as much time as I could and eventually arrived at it. Luca was injected with a very dangerous substance, currently the most sought after toxin right now in the country and only fe