Legally Bound To The Mafia Boss

“Why didn’t you tell me that she was threatening you?”

Luciano let out, Arielle just stood there looking at him. he should have known Lily would already be threatening Arielle, she had not bothered to tell him, she really didn’t give a fuck about him, and she didn’t want him helping her either because why else would she keep the fact that Lily was threatening to harm both her and her parents from him. Over the last couple of days, he got used to her ignoring him and not wanting to be in his presence, it was hurtful each time she turned away from him or told him to mind his business but he kept reminding himself that he deserved it and that he treated her worse, the truth was that didn’t make it any less hurtful, he was only human and he is not as strong as he thought when it comes to his emotions.

He had come in early from work today because he preferred to be close to her, even though she barely says anything to him, he saw her phone when he walked in and ignored it at first but the phone kept beeping and he had checked only to find a message from Lily, of course, he had clicked immediately when he saw who the texts were from, when he saw the content of the text, he couldn’t believe she had been keeping it from him.

“How long has she been sending threats to you and why didn’t you tell me, Arielle?”

He asked. Trying to calm himself down, he didn’t want to make her angry, she was barely talking to him as it stands and he didn’t want to make it worse.

“I didn’t tell you because it is none of your business, you had no business touching my phone,”

She yelled at him, collecting the phone from his hands.

“Arielle we can’t keep doing this, I know you hate me, I know I deserve all the hate too, but this is your safety we are talking about here, you can’t keep things like this from me, you know I am trying to get these people off the streets, you should be helping me not keeping vital things like this from me, you should be on my team Arielle,”

He yelled in frustration, he was so tired of everything, he just wanted everything to be over, he wanted his sweet, kind wife back, wanted Dimitris and his parents out of the picture but everything seemed not to be going right for him, nothing. It was as if the universe was in on what Lily and her people were doing to him, he was so close to losing it and picking up his damn gun and doing it the way he knew best, the only thing stopping him was this woman and she was not even trying to help.

The only thing he has been able to do so far was file a case of illegal acquisition against Perez but that was not enough.

“Answer me Arielle! Do you really hate me so much that even your safety doesn’t matter to you?”

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“I don’t hate you, I love you, and she knows, she is using it against me, you should not have come for me, then it would have been more believable that I don’t care about you anymore but you just had to come find me and being the fool I was, I followed you,”

She let out. His heart skipped a beat at her words, she didn’t hate him, she still loves him, that’s all he heard and right now that’s all that mattered.

“You mean what you said right?”

He asked. He wanted to be sure he had not misheard what she had said.

“What? You think I am lying about her using me against you?”

She asked glaring at him.

“No, not that, you said you love me,”

“Of course, I do love you, idiot, do you think it is easy to unlove someone? That’s not the most important part of what I said,”

She responded. If only she knew just how happy those words made him.

“That’s what is most important Arielle, I thought you didn’t love me anymore, I was willing to live like this just loving you and hoping that you will love me again someday, why did you make it seem like you stop loving me?”

He asked walking close to her, for the first time since she got back to him, she didn’t move away from him and when he reached for her hand, she let him hold her, the feeling that gathered in his chest when she didn’t flinch or move away cannot be explained with words, he suddenly felt above and felt like he could do anything and the way she was looking at him, not breaking eye contact, heck he wasn’t the type to cry easily but right now, tears welled up in his eyes, knowing that she still loves him despite everything.

“You hurt me, Luciano, I wanted you to feel the pain I felt when you rejected me not once but twice, do you know how painful it is to watch the person you love make fun of your feelings for them?”

She asked. She was tearing up too and it made his heart hurt.

“I am sorry baby, I am sorry for how I treated you, I messed up and do not deserve you,”

He responded covering his face with his free hand, she moved closer to him and touched his hand over his face, his heart warmed up at her touch and he opened his eyes to stare at her beautiful face, she didn’t take her eyes away from him, he pulled her into his arm and let out a sigh of relief when she didn’t pull away.

“I wanted to make you suffer like you did to me,”

she cried.

“I know, I am sorry baby,”

“Sorry doesn’t fix anything, crazy man,”

she let out slapping his back.