Luca woke up the next morning, he honestly wanted to spend the whole day in bed after the rough week he had. Last week had been one of the hardest weeks of his life, he had to plan and conduct four different funerals, of course, he would have just delegated the duties to his men but he had a rule that no matter how small the person that passes is among his people, he made sure to take care of everything related to the funeral, it was his way of paying respect to the dead and also sending off a loyal teammate, his men were his team and he made sure to come out for them; if he could, he would have made sure none of them dies but that was beyond him, especially with the kind of life they chose. He didn’t hate his ways, he just hated that his people gets taken away. The men who were killed were loyal to him and had been working religiously with him for more than seven years; it broke him to bury them and still have no info about who targeted them. He couldn’t rub off the thought that the
“She loves me, plus I am a generous boss, the more she works, the more money she gets to live as she wants,”“She obviously loves you and is blinded by that love because why does she think you are a good person when you obviously are not?”The bad mouth was back again. “Let’s get you out of bed and into the restroom, you can wash up on your own right? Or do I have to do it for you?”He changed the topic. She glared at him as he tried to help her out of her dress. “I already took my bath, I knew you would be in for that, you really think I would wait for a man to help me take a bath?”He should have expected that. “That’s good to know, even though I would like to know how you were able to do it on your own,”He asked. “It’s been over a week, Luca, and throughout when you were away, I managed to learn how to at least bath myself,”She let out as if she was talking to a toddler. “I get it now, so do you want breakfast here or should I help you to the dining room?”“There is a dining
“You are a lot of work, Cara, how can one small woman be so hard to handle?”Luca couldn’t believe one tiny woman could be so much work, she was making everything hard for the both of them; technically for him. He kind of wished he had told Maria to stay back and go for that vacation after Nora leaves, but he didn’t want to disappoint the older woman, she earned her vacation, it was the only time she gets to hang out with her friends and he couldn’t take that away from her, even if she could have postponed, he was sure she already made plans with her friends and they might not want to reschedule so whether he likes it or not, he was stuck with a nagging Nora Morningstar and she didn’t look like she was going to be any easy to handle. “You can save us both the stress by just letting me go home, don’t act like you don’t have that choice, just book a damn plane and send me to the airport and I will be on my way and you would never hear from me again,”She let out. he would have done as
“Okay, why did he leave like that,”Nora wondered out loud when Luca left the room; one moment, they were both sitting in silence with him pressing his phone, and the next, he was up and out of the room. Nora was tempted to call him back just to be petty but she saw the mood he left him, he must have remembered something that wasn’t nice and needed time to think and resolve it, so she decided to give him some time. She needed some time to clear her thoughts because the way her heart leaped when he had decided to just stay in the room with her instead of having to come back every moment didn’t sit well with her, In fact, the way she suddenly saw him in different light completely threw her off balance and she was becoming even more vulnerable in his presence, her eyes followed his every movement; when he turns his attention completely to her, it was hard for her to deny the butterflies-in-stomach feelings she gets, it gets worse when he is closer to her. She couldn’t deny that she was s
Luca walked over to the liquor cabinet and poured himself another drink before walking back and sinking into the leather chair in which he had been seated for over an hour. He sat there silently for a second, appreciating the burn as the brandy coursed down his throat, he wasn’t trying to get drunk, he just needed alcohol in his system to help alleviate the tightening in his heart that was caused by the thought of what happened that changed his life forever, his phone buzzed signaling an incoming message, it rang earlier but he had been too troubled to pick up. Luca checked his phone, he had a missed call and a text from Nicho and Ted, they wanted him to come to the casino and it sounded urgent, he was about to call them when his phone rang, it was Nora, she had his contact, which he had given her two days when she kept pressing the damn button but this was the first time that she was calling instead of just pressing the button, or maybe she did and he couldn’t hear her because he ha
“IF I told you I won’t leave, I mean it, do you really not mind if I stay in the room with you? Would you be okay if I slept on the bed with you?”He asked. “Not on the bed, you can sleep over there,”She pointed at the armchair in the room. “You are out of your mind if you think I would lay on that chair, do you see my size and the size of that damn chair? I know you want me to suffer but don’t you think it is a little too cruel?” “I am not trying to be cruel, Luca, I don’t want you to leave me alone in the damn house, you shouldn’t have told me it was just the two of us here if you knew you would leave, what if someone comes in when you leave? How am I supposed to defend myself?”She let out. yeah, he should have kept that detail to himself. “I am not going to leave, okay? I promise, but why were you not scared when I said it was just the two of us? Plus, there are men everywhere in the mansion, just not in the main house so technically, we are not alone,”“More reason you shoul
“You know I can’t leave the house right now; she is on her own here, my housekeeper already left, remember? you can verify whatever it is and send me details tomorrow,”He told him. “Boss, you have to come and see for yourself, we tried importing the file but it didn’t work.”He explained. “File? Which file?”Luca questioned. “I would be there in a few minutes,”He told him and hung up, Nora would have to bear staying on her own for a while. “Or, I could take her with me, not like I am going to spend a long time there, it is just a drive-in, hopefully,”he told himself as he changed into a different cloth and rushed out of his room to hers. “Nora, we are going somewhere,”He announced when he walked into her room, she opened her eyes, staring at him in confusion. “Where are we going? It is late,”She pointed to the wall clock, not like he didn’t know what time it was. “I know, I promised you that I won’t leave but I have to go confirm something and I have to go tonight so since I
“Boss, Nicho wants you in the parking lot,”One of his men said in a rather tense voice, Luca got up thinking something bad must have happened and then he remembered he had sent Nicho to the car and Nora was inside the car. “Fucking hell,”He let out as he made his way out of there in a flash and ran down the stairs towards the private parking lot, he held Nora’s cries before he was even close to where his car was and some of his men had gathered. He ran the remaining distance and pushed the idiots out of his way. He saw Nicho standing there with his hands up as if in surrender while a very crying Nora hid away in the car. “What the fuck happened, Nicho?”Luca pushed him aside too and got into the car where a wailing Nora was and gathered her in his arms. “Everybody give us some space right now, I don’t want anyone close,”Luca let out without looking up, he should have known better than to send Nicho or anyone else when he knew what she experienced with them, he forgot for a momen