LUCREZIA
I bit my lip and hug my knees, my back resting on the headrest as worry consumed over me.
Pietro doesn’t want me to get pregnant. He doesn’t want to have a baby with me.How am I supposed to tell him that I want to have children of my own? How am I supposed to convince him that having children is a blessing to a family?As a woman who always wanted to take the married path, I always dreamed of having children of my own, to take care of little babies who looked like me or who looked like my husband.I always fancied raising kids of my own and having a huge family of my own. I haven’t realized that Pietro doesn’t want the same thing as me.I placed my chin on top of my knee as I thought of what I should do. After all, Pietro and I haven’t even talked to each other about our opinions and plans on having children.I just had to hear his side and let him know that I want children. Maybe once he finds oPERICLESI woke up at the strong smell of food and because of the sound coming from the kitchen. My apartment is small, so my kitchen and living room are located just outside my bedroom.I don’t live alone inside a mansion just like Pietro. Even if I could afford a mansion, I don’t want to live in a huge place with so many rooms and spaces that I wouldn’t even use.Living in a small place where you only have to take a few steps to reach the bedroom and then the kitchen and the bathroom is way better than to live in a huge space where you will utterly feel all alone.I stood up, my eyes squinting from sleep. I did not even care if my hair looked like a bird’s nest. I immediately peeked my head outside the door to see what’s happening outside.“Sorry, did I wake you up?” Bianca asks me with an apologetic smile on her face. It’s so early in the morning and she’s already rummaging through
PIETRO“Why are you late today?” I ask as soon as I saw Pericles enter the office.For the first time, I arrived at the office earlier than he did, not only that he also arrived with a deep frown on his face which is very unlike him.Before, I used to come to office wearing his frown. He always came to work with smile on his face despite the workload that he has to deal with.Today, it looks like the world has turned upside down for we had exchanged expression. What a strange day it is for us. Pericles looks at his wrist watch knowing too well that I wasn’t referring to his time of arrival, but the fact that I arrived at the office first before he did.“What do you mean late? I just came right on time,” Pericles answers me still with the frown on his face.I stared at him for a minute wondering if I should ask why he is upset. I know if I asked him that he would thrown back
PIETROTo be honest, Pietro has the same doubts as Pericles also. He is also not sure whether he did the right thing of telling him his true secret or if he should have just chosen to lie to her again instead.Pietro trusts Lucrezia, but there re a lot of things that Pietro had to consider aside from the trust that he had given her. Of course, he also had to to take her background into consideration and the fact that she is born from the Rocchi family.Pietro grew up thinking that there is nothing good that should be expected from the mafias. Mafias are all powered by their money and greed. They wouldn’t hesitate to kill or to betray when it comes in exchange of money or power.Pietro’s secret holds a lot of power above his head. This means that if Lucrezia is like the others who is motivated by their greed for money and power, she would just have to share this secret he told him to someone and she would have the other things
LUCREZIAI couldn’t hide the smile on my face as I sit at the passenger seat beside Pietro. Pietro looked so serious, his eyes were trained on the road and both of his hands were clasped around the steering wheel.He is just driving a car, but he looks like he was driving a plane for the first time as if he was afraid that he would get us into accident and put my life in danger.I dug my hand in his hair, slightly pulling it to massage his head. I don’t know what got into me to suddenly do something like that.He just look so serious and I wanted him to relax.“Hmmm,” Pietro let out a soft sound, liking what I was doing.His face finally relaxes as he lets me massage his dead. My lips curled up seeing how he liked what I was doing.“You look so serious. Were you thinking of something?” I asked him, since he has been quiet during the whole ride.Pietro had promised me that he w
LUCREZIAPietro and I had finally arrived at our destination, but I still hadn’t forgiven him for the tricks he pulled against me.The whole ride was eerily quiet as I ignored him. Everytime Pietro would take his chance to defend himself, I would interject and make him fall silent with my sarcastic answers.Since he was driving, he couldn’t also fully place his attention to me. He is torn between focusing on me or focusing while he was driving, but in the end, he chose not to say anything anymore since I always flipped him off with my sarcastic words.My ears are not yet ready to listen to what he is going to say, and he knows that. He chose not to waste his efforts on me knowing that his words will only fall to deaf ears.I find it hard to easily forgive him in my heart. I couldn’t accept that he just told me he is going to replace me if I died first before him.Even though I know that he didn’t m
PIETROA soft smile appeared on my face as I entered Lucrezia’s bedroom. I watched how she fixed her bed which she had left into a pile of mess before she left.She’s one of those people who doesn’t organize their bed after using it.Lucrezia had no idea that I had already entered her room. She couldn’t see me with her back turned on me. I took it as my chance to sneak my arms around her waist and place my chin on top of her shoulder.I hugged her tightly, inhaling her closely, but a minute hasn’t even passed and she already unwrapped my arms around her.I frowned when Lucrezia refused to be hug. She always liked it when I surprised her with back hugs, but this time she seemed annoyed with what I did.“Have you still not forgiven me yet?” I asked her like a small toddler as I stared right into her sharp eyes.I thought she had already forgotten the fight between us afte
PIETROSeeing how Lucrezia feels so relaxed under my touch, I knew she had already forgiven me. Her eyes no longer held anger in them, and she doesn’t have to tell me that she had forgiven me to understand that she already did.“Why are we even arguing about who is going to die first and the things we are going to do in those situation? Haven’t we agreed that we are going to grow old and die together?” I asked aloud to bring both Lucrezia and I out of our upsetting thoughts.Lucrezia finally blinks upon hearing my question and fixed herself when she realized that she had been gawking at me. Not that I mind, I could admire her beauty all day long at that close distance between our faces.Lucrezia cracks out a smile when my question had registered in her head.“We shouldn’t be arguing about these things, it won’t happen anyway,” I added even though I know that someday I’m going to leav
PIETROA comforted smile appeared on my lips because of Lucrezia’s words. Although her words wouldn’t be able to make any difference, hearing her assurances were enough to warm my heart.Hearing how sincere she was and how she is saying all these words because of how she is worried of me just to comfort me, really melted my heart.I placed a kiss on top of Lucrezia’s head and hugged her tight. Right now there’s just me and her in my arms and it is enough for me not to be worried about anything else anymore.I closed my eyes I cherished this moment with her. I wish time would stop and we could just be like this forever.Lucrezia hugged me back with equal tightness, she didn’t move in my arms, letting me savor this moment as long as I wanted.I felt her slowly pat my back like she was consoling me from tears. I appreciate Lucrezia’s genuineness and all her words of comfort even though I know she thou