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Ress AmahI know this chapter is extremely short and unlike our previous chapters, I apologize. this would hopefully not happen again.
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When they touched down in France, Iris was surprised to see some men in tailored suits waiting for them and they were even older than Luca but addressed him with so much respect that one would think he was older.As their car took them to the hotel where they would be staying, Iris couldn’t help but ask “Luca?”“Hmm, what is it?” He asked, tearing his eyes from his phone for the first time since they entered the car.“Those men who were waiting for us earlier, who are they?”“Oh, they are just some people whose company I invested in. I told them they didn’t need to welcome me personally but they did. Don’t bother yourself with them”“Okay” She said but she was filled with awe. She knew Luca was very accomplished, something she had experienced as his wife but it still got to her when she saw how much influence he had on the capitalist society. It didn’t matter where they were, Luca was always recognized as a force to be reckoned with.They arrived at their hotel, one of Rutherford's Ho
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Iris grabbed her phone immediately she woke up to check the time. Luca wasn’t back at the penthouse by the time she went to sleep. He had been in and out of the place so much the previous day that she was finding it hard to believe that he was really there.Since she was easily bored, it didn’t take her minutes to feel like ripping her hair from her skull. She had tried everything to keep herself company from calling Alanna and Hailey. The two girls met through voice call since Iris decided to do a group call so the two people who meant a lot to her could be friends.It had been pure chaos. Hailey and Alanna clicked immediately and took over the call, almost leaving her out of the conversations at times, forgetting that the only reason they met was because of her but she didn’t mind. She was just glad that the two friends she had could become friends as well.After the call ended, she had tried to watch a movie but none caught her attention for long so she spent the rest of the day an
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Flashing lights and a whole lot of yelling welcomed Luca and Iris as soon as they stepped out of the car. Iris took in her surroundings, startled at the chaos of the reporters who were eager, no, desperate to get pictures of her and Luca as they strolled down the red carpet.This was her first outing with Luca and the reporters knew it. They couldn’t stop taking pictures and while the lights from their camera didn’t do anything to her, the activeness of the reporters was a bit too much.She glanced up at Luca and he wasn’t bothered by the reporters. Instead, he ignored them, leading her with his hands around her waist to the entrance. Iris couldn’t help but let the pout form as she realised that he hadn’t told her there would be reporters and judging from his behaviour, he knew.As they neared the entrance, she spotted couples posing for pictures which the reporters took advantage of, yelling questions at them which they just smiled and ignored.“Are we going to take pictures over the
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They got back to the hotel pretty late and Iris was dead tired yet the only thing she could think about was how Luca kept acting the entire night. After the episode with his partner he had not left her side but that wasn’t what lingered in her mind as she stood in the room, trying to undress.It was the little touches, the whispers and the caresses from Luca that made her unstable. She couldn’t get the gentle way he held her around her waist even though they were sitting close to each other out of her head.“Are you having difficulties with that?” Luca’s voice came from the door and she turned around, startled to see Luca leaning against her door, watching her with hooded eyes that made her shiver involuntarily.She had been lost in thoughts about the night that she didn’t hear when her door opened and since her hand was laying idle on her small button on her neck to take off her clothes, he must have assumed it was because she was having difficulties.“No. It’s just a button…” She st
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Iris looked at the girl confused. She didn't want to believe what she just heard but the terrified expression on her face told Iris she heard well but she still asked. “What did you just say?” Iris said, approaching the frantic girl and letting the dress she had picked earlier fall to the ground.“Your husband, Mr Luca. He is beating up a male staff. He is going to kill him if you don’t help us stop him. Please, Mrs Rutherford, you have to come with me. No one can stop him but you.” The lady cried out.“What? Luca?” Iris couldn’t process the girl’s words properly. She had seen Luca angry. Hell, she had been on the receiving end of his anger. It was a familiar place she knew like the back of her hand but never had she seen him put his hands on someone no matter the extent of his anger.“Are you sure it’s my husband? You haven't mistaken him for someone else?” She asked again to be sure even though she knew there was no way Luca would be mistaken for someone else. She was still in shoc
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Luca immediately let go of his wife as they entered the penthouse and headed straight to his room, but she stopped him by holding onto the helm of his shirt. The incident that happened still pissed him and he needed to wash off the blood on his fist and maybe try to cool off in the shower before he ended up venting out on someone else.He got angry a lot, but he could count the number of times he was angry enough to result in physical violence. He wanted to say that he didn’t know what had come over him, but he did.It was the woman who was holding on to his shirt and looking at him with those vulnerable eyes. He had lost it when she cried in his arms, sounding so miserable that he could not stand another second to see her cry. He didn’t know when he had become fiercely protective of her. She had wormed her way into his heart and created a space for herself while he stayed unknowing. His fists clenched, and the anger roared to life once again as he remembered how lost and broken she
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Iris knew it was Luca without having to turn. Her body hummed with excitement and it was enough sign that her husband was the one in the room and no one else but he made her worried when he remained quiet.“Luca?” She asked again and made to turn but he pulled her to him and prevented her from turning to face him by using his hands to hold her shoulders in place.Her breath hitched when his hands slowly caressed her naked back before he zipped the dress. He did it so slowly, with his hands brushing over her skin as they moved. Her skin tingled under his touch.“Done” Luca whispered a second later and she turned to face him with a red face. “I like the dress on you” Luca said with a smirk. He leaned down to place a kiss on her cheeks and left the dressing room before she could say anything.Iris tried a couple more clothes before deciding on three more dresses she would like to buy. When she took them out, Luca told the attendant to wrap them up and place them in his car and they were
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Iris reached her room, her heart racing and her whole body shivering. She could still feel Luca’s touch all over her body like his hands were on her. The way he looked at her while they danced had set her on fire and she needed a shower to quench the fire in between her legs.She wasn’t supposed to feel this way after a dance but Luca had become more dangerous for her body and mind. All she could think about was him and he wasn’t helping with the way he constantly touched her and now he added kisses to the equation.She knew she should turn him down or turn her head to the side whenever he leaned down for a kiss but her traitorous body yearned for every touch it could get from the man.She rushed to the shower and lowered herself to the bath tub, pulling her legs to her chest so she was hugging her knees. She was drained and could not stop thinking about him. She wanted him to keep those eyes on her all night. Eyes that made her feel like she was the most special woman in that room a
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