“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
“Nora, you can’t do that, you can’t keep thinking about him, for fuck, sake,”Nora scolded herself for the tenth time that morning, it was getting out of hand, just one week in Luca’s presence and now, he was all she could think about, and not in an innocent way or even in the way that she ought to. He should be a villain in her head not a fucking knight that she wants to fuck; last night while he laid next to her, it had taken everything in her not to throw herself at him, she still couldn’t figure out why she had thought it was a good idea to ask him to sleep next to her. She couldn’t blame the fear that had entered her at the sight of that big man who had been the one to pick her up at the airport. That fear didn’t last, Luca made him apologize for what he did and the man seemed remorseful. She could admit that she had been so scared especially when she saw the gun, but then he started apologizing after he realized who she was but it was too late then because she already started cr
By the time they got back to the mansion, she was so tired that all she did was eat, take her medications, and turn in for the night. Her phone ringing woke her up the next morning, she knew it would be Rose on the other end of the phone, and answered without checking. She hasn’t spoken to Rose for three whole days now because she was trying to limit calling her so that she would not be suspicious of her constant calls which was unlike her. “Baby, what are your plans for Christmas? Don’t tell me you are going to stay locked up all day in the laboratory, you better have plans to go out and have some fun and maybe get laid.”Rose's voice echoed over the phone and Nora rolled her eyes, another reason she limited calling Rose was the crazy woman who wanted her to fuck any dude just to feel the touch of a man, too bad the only man she wanted to fuck right now was off-limit. “Rose, I am not so desperate for a man’s touch, why would I spend my Christmas looking for a dick?”Nora questioned
“How do you conclude he is a hottie when you haven’t even seen him?”“I don’t need to see a hot man before I know a hot man, I can smell them from a distance plus, you have great taste in men, even though you always fumble the bag, I still remember how you and Bobby would have been a perfect match and how much you liked him but you let him go,”Rose reminded her of the hot senior she had met in the first year of uni, they had been friends and hung out together until he graduated a year later, Nora had liked him but she never had the courage to tell him, once he graduated, he moved to Germany and the last she heard from him, he got married. “Don’t bring Bobby up,”Nora warned. “I won’t but don’t fumble Luca the way you did with Bob, get what you can get and come back home to tell me the details, what can it hurt when in a couple of weeks, you will never see each other again, it is better to have a taste and regret than not doing anything and also regretting it, bye, I have a client,”