LUCREZIA
“H-Huh?” I stammered softly. My mind went blank that I don’t know how to respond.How can my mind still continue working when Pietro is looking at me like that. Pietro looks so worried, and he is worried over me.I pulled my hand away from his grasp afraid that if my heart continues to beat this rapidly, my arms would start to tremble and he will find out the effect that he has on me.I lowered my head to hide my face from his gaze so he wouldn’t see the blush that crept up on my cheeks.“Did something happen while you were outside?” Pietro continues to ask. His worry starts to grow worse because I couldn’t answer him correctly.“No, nothing happened. I’m totally fine,” I gave him a sincere smile that reaches to my ears.You see this guy, he says he doesn’t love me, but he worries so much about me just because he saw me walking with a slight limp him.The only reason why I couldn’t walk straight because I was stupid to wear high heeLUCREZIAPietro walks towards the dining table and I followed behind him as well since both of us haven’t had our dinner yet. It looks like We aren’t just sharing our first kiss tonight. We are also going to share our first meal too.A smile crept up my lips as I followed behind him excitedly. I pursed my lips together when Pietro suddenly turned around to face me. He nearly caught me smiling like an idiot.“Yesterday, I cooked you breakfast and earlier I cooked you your breakfast as well. I hope next time you would be cooking us dinner.” He told me making me smile awkwardly at him.I can’t even fry chicken without burning it. The best food I ever cooked was undercook fried chicken. How am I suppose to cook us delicious dinner?The reason why I even bought food outside today was because I don’t want him to know that I don’t know how to cook. I find it embarrassing since a man like him cooks so well.“Of course I will, but I’m still not sure when I can co
LUCREZIAI look like horror as I tried my best to cook a proper meal for Pietro. As soon as I woke up and ate the breakfast that Pietro cooked for me before he left for work, I immediately made my research on different easy meals that I can cook with no experience. I never thought that cooking would be this hard. I’m just so awful at cooking that I looked like I was concocting poison for an enemy and not cooking dinner for my husband. I exhaled loudly tilting my face up because of tiredness. Seeing all the mess I have made in the kitchen is enough to make me lose hope. If cooking is already hard enough, then how much would cleaning all these mess be? I’ve been in the kitchen for hours and there are mess everywhere. The sink is filled with used kitchen tools, the kitchen counter is filled with all the ingredients I had used. There are mess even on the floor. I have thought of buying food outside and tell Pietro that I cooked it myself. However, not only would I add another lie to Pi
PIETROI continued eating the pizza that Lucrezia handed me, letting it’s starchy taste roll around my mouth as I tried to show her that I like the food that she had prepared for me. To be honest, both the pizza and the salad doesn’t taste good. Her salad dressing tastes weird. If she already failed something as simple as salad and a pizza that has exact step by step process in the internet, I just couldn’t wonder what the steak at the corner of the table would taste like.Lucrezia lied when she said she knows how to cook. She must have felt bad to tell me the truth because i knew how to cook and even cooked for her. She didn’t know that I would find out the truth this sooner.It explains why she was trying to avoid to cook for me. I actually thought that she knew how to cook that is why I was eager to have a taste of her cooking. I shouldn’t have forced her to cook… or maybe she shouldn’t have lied to me about it.I gave Lucrezia a small smile as she tilted her head and stared at
LUCREZIAI couldn’t hide my excitement as I we arrived at the party venue. Camera flashes everywhere as the media tries to take pictures to cover todays events. I stared at the car window like a kid who never seen anything like this. The party is huge like I was invited to a modern Cinderella ball.Everyone was dressed luxuriously, and there were also some famous people that I recognize. I am so excited to meet all of them and hopefully make some friendsThis wasn’t anything like a huge business event, it feels like a party where people came to flaunt their money.Although I have been to many luxurious parties before, those were nothing compared to this. I can’t believe that Pietro has access to such events. Pietro went out of the limousine first, people took picture of him as soon as he came out looking dark handsome on his black outfit. He reaches his hand inside the limousine, to help me come out. With a prim smile on my face, I gracefully accepted his hand, my silver glittery d
LUCREZIAI stared at each of them with a shy smile. All of them have friendly smiles on their faces as they look at me. After Karina had introduced themselves one by one, I suddenly felt like the odd one out. All their fathers are billionaires, they must have came from the old money society. Even just by standing alongside with them is already enough to make you feel different.“It’s so nice to meet you!” Heather smiles excitedly at me as she twirled her hair between her fingers. They are all smiling so widely with watchful eyes as if they were angels thinking whether they should welcome me to the gates of heaven. “What’s your name?” Abigail asks.“I’m Lucrezia,” I answered curtly. They stared at me silently, not expecting me to just stop at that. They must be waiting for me to introduce my family background. “What a unique name!” Lorena spoke up like Regina George. “It’s Italian, actually.”“Oooohhh,” Karina whispered in awe. “Half Italian.”
LUCREZIA“What should I do?” I spoke in a trembling voice, as I tried to keep myself strong. I can’t be weak now that Pietro needs me. His life is in danger and I’m the only one that can save him. “I’m on my way there. I’ve also told some men to come over. You just have to find Pietro for me and make sure that he is safe.”I nodded my head hysterically as if he could see me. “I’ve looked everywhere, but he’s gone. I don’t know where else to look for him,” I whispered anxiously. “There’s no way he would leave that place, and there is no way someone could take him out of there and not get caught. Pietro is still inside that building. you need to check all the places where he could be.”I bit my lip as I paced around the lady’s restroom thinking where I could look for Pietro. I really looked for him everywhere, and with the party normally still going on, it means that he is not here.My eyes widened when I finally thought of a place where he could be
LUCREZIA“We are safe, we are finally safe,” I mumbled repeatedly to Pietro’s ear like I was trying to calm myself, not him. Relief slowly washed over me now that Pericles had arrived to rescue us. However, it is still not yet the time to celebrate with all the attackers still here and we are all still stuck in the rooftop. I pursed my quivering lips, my body still not had recovered from the trauma that they had caused us. My arms tightened around Pietro’s unmoving body protectively when I saw the man who injected poison on Pietro glance at us. ‘You won… only for now.” He seems to be trying to deliver that message through his eyes as he stares directly at me. I returned his look with a fiery gaze. Now that Pericles had already arrived, there is nothing they can’t do to harm us. With Pericles blocking the only exit out of the building, they had no chances of escape. Pericles have guns, they don’t have their own weapons.They are already lost
PERICLESLucrezia did not sleep all night after Pietro was rushed to the hospital. She sat awake beside him, never leaving his side. Lucrezia has been out of herself the whole time that no one could go through her and talk to her. She would just suddenly cry until tears would just stop falling, and then she would cry again. She continued like that, waiting for Pietro to wake up. I sighed as I brought the paper bag close to her face. “You should change,” I muttered softly. She’s still wearing the same dress she wore in the party, so I brought some of her clothes from their home when I went there to take some spare clothes for Pietro. Lucrezia slowly lifted up her head to look at me. My heart tightened when I saw her eyes that were swollen from crying. ‘How could a person love someone as much as that?’ I couldn’t help but wonder seeing how much she had cried for Pietro who is still alive. No wonder why Pietro married her in order to protect