Luciano sat still as he watch Arianna get dressed in a pair of pink yoga pants and a tank top in one of his rooms, the room he had kept her since she came a day before yesterday.
“I can’t believe I did that!” Luciano muttered.
If he could explain how irritated he feels, he would as well hide his face from anyone else. He couldn’t think about the atrocity he had done especially when the person is staring at him as she gets dressed.
After the long kiss yesterday afternoon, Things went out of control and the, worst happened. Lu had sex with his cousin right in his house.
If it was just once or he was drunk, it would have been better, have a pathetic excuse, or can be justified but there was none.
Luciano had sex with Arianna four times! At first when they moved out from just a mere kiss and had just one round of sex until they woke up in the evening, wrapped in each other’s arms.
“Don’t be such a baby, Luciano” Arianna placed her palm on his hair and wiggled it “I am sure you enjoyed it just like I do”
She look more than happy as she combed her hair and parked it in a messy ponytail. She slipped her small foot into the shoe she wore the day was been kidnapped and checked herself in the mirror for the last time.
“It’s time, Dear” she announced as she walked to stand beside the door.
Sluggishly, Lu got up and, quickly put back his clothes as he head to her. Just as if he knew what she was about to do, he held her wrists together as she tried to hold his face.
“What’s wrong?” She whined.
He just ignored her, moved her off the doorway, and pulled the door open. There was anything he could do to call back the hands of time, he would change what happened yesterday. He would freeze out the moment they agreed to kiss.
“A guard will take you to the main entrance” He said gravelly “Wait there for me ” he said in a harsh tone as he walked away, leaving her standing on a spot.
It’s just so funny how he went about sneaking into one of the rooms in his house, the one he had locked Alita after removing her from the cold room. He couldn’t get to be free if anyone sees him, especially Amara.
He freshened up, luckily for him, there were old clothes that could suit him in the closet. It could either be for one is his men that had stayed there or he has no idea where it’s from. Never the less, that’s the only thing he needed at that moment and he have it.
On coming out, he saw Jordan walking around with Amara. Poor girl, he knew she would have been looking around for him she didn’t get to see him for two days now.
He tried to evade them by rushing back into the room but it was too late.
“Daddy!!!!” Amara screamed and rushed to him “Where have you been?” She pouts as she sniffed and pretend to cry.
She hugged his thighs where her hands could reach and press her face in between them. Her grip grew tight as she noticed that he didn’t flinch a muscle, Luciano just stood still with his hands by his side.
“I was worried sick about you” She said “There was no one to tell me scary bed time stories and Gio has refused to take water so far” she explained.
On a different day, it would have worked for Amara but today, her charm failed her. Her father just pat her head before moving her off the road and walked away.
He didn’t get to spare her sad face a second look as he walked towards the main entrance where he had asked Arianna to wait for him.
“Is it because if that lady?” Amara yelled “Well, if it’s because of her tell her that I hate her so much and I can’t have her as my mother” she sniffed.
She startled a bit as Lu turned back to stare at her, his expression were too cold. It doesn’t match what she would see even if he was angry, it looks as if he has nothing but hate in his black heart.
“You heard me” She moved close to him “I saw all of you walk out the car the day you came back and you didn’t care to look for us” On reaching few steps close to him she stopped “Just know that who so ever that would take you away from me is not a good person!” She stomped her left foot.
She was breathing heavy by the time she was done. Her sad and stormy blue eyes glued on Lu’s face who didn’t look like he was touched by her little speech. If not for the fact that it didn’t come to her mind, Amara would have passed out immediately her father just shrugged and walked away from her.
She looked over her shoulder to see Jordan on the spot where she had left him and swallowed. After gazing at her father walk away and Jordan in the same spot, she closed her mouth.
Surprisingly, she had forgotten that her mouth had been open until she needed to lick the tears on her lips. Her small palms slapped over her face as she screamed and ran away.
Amara heard Jordan calling after her but the last thing that she wants is to hear anything form the man that has also contributed in taking Her father away from her recently. She didn’t bother to look over her shoulders as she just ran straight to Gio’s room and began to bang the door.
Since Lu left, Gio had seen nothing good in staying in his room so he sneaked to his room and refused to open the door. No matter who came knocking, or the voice he heard, he just didn’t want to see anyone that would sympathize with him again.
“Go away!” He yelled immediately after he heard the first knock “I said leave me alone, I am not hungry!” He blurted out after the second the second knock.
Amara paused for a while, she stared at the door not knowing what to do or say. No matter how broken hearted she is, she refused to believe that Gio would forsake her too.
Her small fist stopped few inches close to the door as she closed her eyes and took shaky breathes. After contemplating if she should really go away as Gio had said or try again, she knocked at the door once and paused for a few seconds.
“Gio?” She said in a low shaky voice “Can I come in?” Her voice cracked as she tries to talk so she ended up going silent for almost a minute “Please Gio, Just open up and -”
Her statement was cut short as Gio opened the door and pulled her into a tight hug. Her eyes went wide open as if she was having a panic attack before she relaxed and hugged him back.
Her face moved on his chest as Amara wiped her face and tears and catarrh on his cloth. On a different day, they might both see it disgusting but they chose to ignore it.
Her hands wrapped around his body as she shook violently, crying like a girl that just lost her pet or worst, just foster parents. Amara could not get herself to make a proper statement as she cried more and pressed her face more on his chest.
“It’s okay, Amara” Gio kissed her head “Everything will be alright” he said in a low whisper.
Amara moved off his grip to look up at his face. With the look on his face, she was sure that she looks like a baby dragon. Her nose and cheeks were hot and red, her eyes too looks red like a drunk kid.
“You know you are lying” she cleaned her nose with the back of her “You know things are only getting worst” she broke down and began to cry.
For Gio, he felt its best to let her cry as long as she wants since it appears that she is just finding out about the main reason to cry. His face remain mute and emotionless as he gaze at her red face she didn’t bother to cover as she cry.
“Please stop crying, Amara” he muttered “It hurts me to see you in pain” he raised her face up a little bit “You are precious to me and -”
If it wasn’t that he was not sleeping, he would have classified it as a dream but he was not. His entire body went rigid as Amara smashed her lips on his chin and hugged him.
Unlike before when he moved her back because he was scared, things changed. He held her tight and hugged her like she would vanish if he let go.
Gio flinched and moved away from Amara, his gaze kept moving from Amara’s plain face to her father’s clueless face.
“What did I miss?” Lu asked gravely.