Filed to story: Bring It On My Mafia Life Novel (Rhea & Lukas)
“I’ll see Rhea then.”
Lukas moved as swiftly as the wind when he grabbed Winter’s arm and stopped her from touching the doorknob. Winters gasped with a startle, looking at Lukas with a bit of shock. What was wrong with him?
“What?” She breathed, confused.
“Don’t bother her,” The hardened look in his eyes told Winters that he wasn’t joking.
“O-okay?” Winters lifted her free hand in surrender, “You can let go of my hand now,” She reminded him that he was gripping her arm quite tightly if she might add.
Lukas let go of her arm with a jerk as if he too was shocked at his action. The moment Winters reached for that knob, his heart almost jumped out of his chest and the one thought that came to his head was that she was about to wake Rhea and he just reacted.
He had stressed Rhea last night and she needed all the rest that she could get nor was he ready to face her. He was rescuing his sister today and he needed his head in the game. So there was no way he was about to open up to Rhea and tell her that her mother was the reason his mother got maltreated during her marriage to his father.
Lukas was not sure Rhea was ready to handle the news either and that emotional turmoil was not what he needed right now. Perhaps, he would tell her the whole truth another day, not today. He would figure out how to go about everything then.
Winters shook her head, staring at Lukas pitifully, “You are a real piece of work and you’re lucky to have someone like Rhea to deal with it.” She tsked and left him.
Lukas stood at the spot, conflicted. He sighed, running his hand through his hair. He turned to stare at the door and at war with himself – he needed her and at the same, wanted to be away from her. With a frustrated growl, he left for his room where he washed up and prepared for the important day.
He returned to the meeting room where his cousin Victor was already waiting for him with a cup of steaming coffee and Lukas’s face fell.
“You don’t seem that excited to see me, cousin?” Victor greeted him with that usual smile that told Lukas if his cousin ever switched to the dark side and became his enemy, then he was truly fucked.
“Not now, Victor,” Lukas told him, going inside.
“You don’t even want your coffee, darkly roasted as you always wanted it,” Victor tempted him.
And Lukas halted in his step, baited already. He turned around and took the coffee from Victor and stopped.
“How do I know that you didn’t add something to this coffee?” He gave his cousin a suspicious look, there was just something off about him today.
“That’s it,” Victor gave him a charming smile, “You don’t know, you just take it and wait for the moment you die,”
“Haha, funny,” Lukas laughed sarcastically before swallowing down the whole content of his coffee and waited for a few minutes. Nothing happened.
“That was not funny,” He said to Victor.
“Neither was your drama yesterday, funny. So come on, open up, bro, or I might end up visiting your beloved father and finding out the truth myself. And you of all people know that it’s only going to end up, ugly. ” Victor was deadly serious.
I will Be Back
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She was alone, that was the first thought that came to Rhea’s mind the instant she woke up. It was not a dream, Rhea was sure that she had been with Lukas last night else the soreness in between her legs would not be there.
Hence, the instant she saw the empty bed, her heart missed a beat because she knew instinctively that Lukas left again. Rhea at once jumped off the bed and almost ran out of the room until she remembered at the last minute that she was naked.
There was no time to waste, so without thinking much, Rhea pulled the sheet from the bed and wrapped it around her body as she went in search of Lukas
“Lukas?! Lukas?! Where are you?! Lukas?!” Rhea shouted like a mad woman as she searched around for him. She drew quite an attention because the guards wondered what was going on.
This was the first time they were seeing such a scene play out. Why was the boss lady suddenly searching for the boss? The smart ones already had a feeling there was trouble in paradise. They must have fought or something.
When Rhea didn’t find Lukas in his room and at his usual hangouts, tears began to run down her face. She couldn’t understand. Why was Lukas doing this to her? Why was he treating her this way? Doesn’t he love her anymore?
Rhea couldn’t take it anymore and just sat down on the bare ground, outside. The last place she had visited was Samson’s den, and yet there was no sign of him. Through all of this, Rhea was barefooted because she never thought that she would reach the outside in her search for Lukas.
…..
Pushing her knees up to her chest, Rhea wrapped her arms around herself and began to cry. What was she going to do now? What if this was truly over? She thought Lukas’s feelings for her were real, what if it had been a hoax all this while? How was she going to pick up the pieces of her life now?
She had been so enamored with Lukas that she practically depended on him for everything. The critical question was, would Lukas even let her go? Seeing that he hasn’t captured Elijah yet, would he show her his true color now that his games were over and he had his fun? Elijah was right, she was nothing but a prison here.
But then he had been hurting last night, Rhea had seen it in his eyes. What if something was making him turn out this way? Rhea refused to believe that someone would just change overnight. Her heart refused to give up on Lukas like that. Or maybe she was just being stupid, she cried harder.
“Rhea?!”
“Rhea?!”
At first, it had sounded distant and in her imagination, but when she heard her name again, Rhea lifted her head buried on her knees where she was bawling her eyes out and saw him.
“M-Lukas?” She choked. “Lukas?!” Her voice became firmer and she pushed up to her feet, already sighted him, and ran in his direction.
Lukas was running too, hence the both of them met halfway and Rhea threw herself into his arms and hugged him tight, unwilling to let him go. If Rhea had been crying before, then it would be called an outburst this time as she let out all of her emotions.
“Why are you doing this to me?!” She wailed loudly, “I thought that you left me!”
“I’m so sorry, I was a fool, ” Lukas apologized profusely. The guilt was gnawing at him, he never meant to hurt her like this. As much as Lukas was going through a deep emotional ordeal, he couldn’t erase his feelings for her. No matter how much he felt she deserved to suffer a little, to feel a bit of what his mother had gone through, he still couldn’t afford to see Rhea get hurt. Yeah, she was his weakness and fate was really cruel.
Thanks to the fact Rhea was almost traumatized by Lukas’s behavior, even after Lukas managed to calm her down, she wouldn’t let go of him and held on tightly. There was still that fear deep down that if she let go, Lukas was going to go back to that cold, apathetic bastard she met last night. So she held onto him.
Thanks to him being captive, Lukas had no other choice but to carry her back to her room. She needed to brush and take her bath yet Rhea made no move of letting him go. Hence, Lukas had no choice but to trail after her like a royal puppy and watched as she brushed, their hands tightly intertwined.
“You know I’m not going anyway,” Lukas commented when Rhea was ready to have her bathe. She needed to do this alone because Lukas couldn’t trust himself around her, especially not when she was naked right in front of him.
She was serving herself to him like a fucking present and it wasn’t even his birthday. Yet Rhea wouldn’t listen and he ended up helping to bathe her – and of course with a little bit of lovemaking here and there.
In the end, Lukas and Rhea lay down on the bed quietly, wrapped around each other intimately. None of them said a word to each other for nearly an hour, just enjoying the peaceful intimacy that both of them knew wasn’t going to last.
Lukas raised himself on his elbow and leaned over her. He was the first to say, “I need to go, Rhea,”
Rhea sprang up at once, disappointment in her eyes, “You’re leaving me again?”
“No, I need to prepare, it’s almost midday and there are a lot of things to take care of before sundown.” He explained to her.
“No, take me with you.” Rhea was ready to go with him
“I can’t, you’re much safer here, Rhea and Luca is here to look after you.”