A week. A whole week after she got discharged. And till now, she still had no idea where Luciano could be. it was as if he didn’t want her to know where he was. The only thing that stopped her from being scared that something bad might have happened to him was because he called Lydia once in a while and Lydia made sure to tell her. Dani hated the looks Lydia gave her each time she related the call to her. Luciano was crazy. He has to be. Why did he even think running away would solve their issue? They didn’t even have an issue to begin with. She wasn’t mad at him and didn't blame him for what happened. Dani has tried to text him and tell him she doesn’t blame him but he never responded to any of those texts. It was like he wanted to forget she existed and the only reason he even bothers to call Lydia is because of his children. “You are sulking again,”Keira said. Dani let out a sigh. She escaped from the mansion today because the house suddenly didn’t feel good for her to live in
“Hi, I am here to see Luciano Miko,”Dani said to the person she met at the desk. “Oh, please who are you?”“Ms. King?” Dani turned around when someone screamed her name and saw Ella running to her. She smiled. “Ella, how have you been?”She asked. At least Ella was someone she could talk to.“I have been fine. We missed you here. She used to work for the boss.”Ella told the other person who was looking at them in confusion. “Oh,”That was all she said. Dani turned her attention back to Ella. She saw she was looking at her belle but unlike Gloria, she didn’t ask any questions. “Ella, where is Luciano?”Dani asked. “He is not here. He hasn’t been at the office for more than two weeks now. Since he got back from the trip, he hasn’t shown up here.”Ella revealed. Dani let out a sigh. Now she was even more worried. For Luciano to not show up at the company just shows it was more than she thought. He wasn’t hiding away from her. He was hiding away from the world.“Did you have somet
“I don’t think this is a good idea anymore,”Dani told Keira who rolled her eyes. They were at the location that Amy had given and Amy just texted that she was already inside waiting for Dani. Now she was having second thoughts about meeting her. “Girl, we already know what that woman would say. That's not what we are going for. We are trying to find your man. Anything offensive that she says should be ignored. You are going. I can still come with you if that will put your mind at peace.”Keira suggested but Dani shook her head. She didn’t want Keira there as an audience. She had no idea what it was that Amy was going to reveal to her and would rather hear it first. “I will go alone. I promise I will give you the full details of our conversation but I have to meet her alone. I don’t want her to have any thoughts that we might be onto something,”Keira nodded in understanding. “Alright, darling, I will be here and in case you need me to come whomp her arse, don’t forget to call me,”
Dani stared at her in confusion. What did she expect her to do? Be scared? Yes, she was scared; not of Luciano but for him. for the things that he might be thinking right now and for how he might hide himself away from fear of losing another person he cared about. Thinking about it now, it all finally made sense to her. why he suddenly ran off. He blamed himself for what happened. Not just to her but to every person he cared about. She wanted to find him, hug him close, and tell him none of what happened was his fault. “Hey!”Amy yelled to get her attention. “What? Is that the big news and why do you think I should leave Luciano? why would the tragic incidents that happened to him be a reason for me to leave him?”Dani asked her. surely that wasn’t all. “You still don’t get it? if you don’t leave him then you might die too. you or the baby you carry in your womb or maybe the both of you,”Dani couldn’t believe what she was saying to her face right now. The woman was sick and there
“Amy, I feel bad for you but let me tell you this freely. I am never going to leave Luciano. I will stay with him. I will love him and he will love me and the kids we are going to have. I am not going to blame him for things that weren’t his fault,”She told her.“You fool! Do you think he loves you? He doesn’t do love,”Dani laughed at her stupid lies. “Amy, you said it with your mouth. I mean, according to you, the only reason I might end up dying is because Luciano loves me. I don’t need you to confirm whether he loves me or not because I know he does.”Dani said. Amy was flaming up at this point. Her whole face was red and she looked like she wanted to lash out at Dani. Dani knew it was time for her to leave. She already got what she wanted. All she needed to do now was go there. The orphanage. It was the same orphanage she had been in before she was adopted at six years old. She already left before Luciano was sent to the orphanage, if not, she would have met him when they were
“You can take it from here, right? I don’t want to show up there too,”Keira said when they arrived at the entrance of the orphanage. “Yes, I can. Thank you for driving me here and I will call you to let you know how it went down,”Dani told her and hugged her. She let out a sigh. She didn’t know how things would turn out and if she would be able to convince Luciano that he had nothing to do with what happened to her or the other people he cared about. She hoped she could but if he doesn’t listen. She wasn’t going to just leave. She would stay with him at the orphanage. They both had history here so they can always share the place if he decides that it would be their new home. “Hey, look at me. you got this,”Keira assured her. Dani let out another sigh before she nodded. “I will call you,”She told Keira before she got out of the car and waited for Keira to drive off before she walked into the orphanage. She didn’t really have many memories of when she lived in the orphanage befor
Luciano wanted to run to her and hug her. He missed her so much and seeing her here right now made him want to pull her into a tight hug and tell her just how much he loved her and how much he wanted her to stay with him but he knew that wasn’t going to happen. He knew that once she found out about him. the real him. she would run away. The past two weeks have been hell for him. He spent most of the time in the fields and also with the kids when they weren’t in school. The rest of the time, he was alone and thinking about her. what she could be doing and how she was feeling. He read the text messages she sent him more times than he could count. Stared at the pictures of her that he had on his phone. He tried to get as much information from Lydia as he possibly could and none of that was enough for him. He missed her so much. Missed her touch, her laughter. Her soft snores when she sleeps. The way she wakes him up in the middle of the night to make love to her. the way she throws her
“I am not going to let you push me away, Luciano. I am not going to leave you,”She said, Those weren’t what he was expecting her to say. He didn’t expect her to back-hug him after what he just told her. He expected her to run away from him. Yet, here she was, hugging and telling him that she wasn’t going to leave him. He wanted to be hopeful. He wanted to turn around and pull her into a tight hug but he reminded himself that just because she accepted him now doesn’t mean she would not turn away from him later and even if she didn’t turn away from him, her acceptance of him doesn’t mean the bad luck of loving him would be gone. Even though it killed him to do it, he removed her hands from around him and turned to her. He dropped her hands and put a distance between them. “I can’t do this, Danielle. I can’t be with you. I want you to be safe. I want our kids to be safe. That’s not going to happen if I let you love me. if I let myself love you any more than I already do. You experien