PIETRO GIACOMETTI
I couldn’t take it anymore. My gaze was on my wristwatch while my foot tapped the floor impatiently. I badly wanted to see Caily already, wanted to feel her skin, breathe in the same air as her and see how she was faring too. She hadn’t slept much throughout the night and I knew that because I had spent the rest of my night watching her through the cameras in my room.
Seeing her through the cameras weren’t enough, I wanted to see her, touch her skin and breathe her in. Wanted to hear her voice as she tried to strike a conversation.
“Why the fuck did I not go see her this morning anyway?” I groaned and ran a hand through my hair.
“Turn the car around.” I let out breathily. I had to see her.
“New destination?”
“Preston Tradings.”
“Yes boss.”
*
I remained in the car, contemplating if I should go in or just wait outside here for a few minutes and leave or wait till the end of the day and pick her up from work. My most preferred option was of course to walk in there and get a glimpse of her once again.
A minute or two must have passed before I noticed Caily running out of the building in a pretty unstable manner and she was… crying?
My brows arched and my chest immediately tightened, my eyes dilating.
Who hurt her? Who had dared to hurt my woman?
I pulled the safe open and pulled out a gun before stepping out of the car. Whatever bastard made my Peaches cry was definitely not going to see the next moonlight.
Caily was standing a few feet away from me and immediately her eyes found mine, she broke into fresh tears and sobbed out my name.
“Pietro” She sounded so broken as she ran into my arms.
I immediately wrapped my arms around her, feeling my body shiver and tremble from the pure rage that passed through my veins.
“it’s… It’s okay.” I whispered to her but it was far from being okay. Very far from it.
“Peaches, who… what happened to you?” I asked as she wet my shirt with her tears.
“i… I am tired, Pietro.” She cried, her arms wrapping around me even tighter.
“Peaches, look at me…”
I gently pulled her back to look at her face and the sight I saw made my blood boil.
“Who did this to you?” I bellowed.
There, on her face was evidence that some bastard had hit her across the face.
“I…” Peaches rubbed her cheek and tried brushing her tears away.
“It’s… it’s nothing.” She forced out a smile and I gritted my teeth.
“Don’t make me ask again, Peaches. Who hurt you? Who hit you across the fucking face? Who is the fucking bastard who did this to you?” I growled, barely able to keep my anger in check.
“It… it was a mistake. A mistake. It was just…”
“Give me a fucking name or I am going to go in there…” I let go of her and pulled out my tucked gun.
“And I am going to shoot very randomly and kill every single thing that breathes in that fucken office of yours! And you know I am not making an empty threat.” I cocked the gun to the effect of my words and Peaches grabbed my arm desperately.
“No, No, NO.” She shook her head, eyes begging me not to take the action but I was far gone, far blinded by the rage and I knew I would not be calmed until I see the blood of the bastard who hit her, the bastard, the bastard who had dared to hurt a woman I was scared to hold too tightly for fear of hurting her.
“Are you giving me a name or am I having a new lawsuit?” I questioned and she just trembled.
“Finn!” I groaned when she still would not give me a name.
Finn alighted from the car immediately and did a small run over to us.
“Take Caily home and call for the cleaning up services.” I ordered and Caily screamed, her hand grabbing mine even more tightly.
“Don’t do it, please. It was really just a mistake.”
“A mistake?” I took a step closer to her and she looked in my eyes, teary eyes begging mine as she slightly shook her head.
“Let me correct that mistake with my own mistake, then. I am asking for the last time, Love.” I put a hand to her face and brushed her tears away, every drop of it feeling like a thousand arrows fired directly at my heart.
“Who is the bastard?”
Her lips trembled and she whispered one more ‘please’. I let my hand slowly slide down her face, taking a step away from her.
“Mr. Trien!” She shut her eyes as she yelled out the name.
“Good. You did well.” I grabbed her face and kissed her lips, licking off the taste of her tears. I was about to pull away from the kiss when Peaches deepened the kiss, kissing me back very suddenly.
I was surprised by the action but it took me only a second to realize that this was her way of getting me to stay back, to get me not to kill that bastard right now. Yet, her kiss was something I could not break.
Her arms wrapped around me as her tongue entwined with mine, her lips slightly quivering against mine. I could taste her tears and I could almost taste her pain and fears.
She broke the kiss, her breath shaky, our lips wet and her eyes still pleading. She reached a hand to my left hand which held the gun and she ran her fingers gently over my hand.
“Just take me home, Pietro.” She begged again.
“Didn’t you say you would do anything for me? Is this too much to ask for? To go home right this moment?” She blackmailed me and I hardened my gaze for a second, clenching my fists around the gun.
“You want to go home?” I asked and she nodded repeatedly.
I gulped down hard.
“Fine. Let’s do just that. Let’s go home right away.” I picked her up from the floor, scooping her into my arms.
I walked back to the car and Finn pulled the door open. I gently lifted her into the backseat of the car and walked over to the other side of the car and got in too.
Peaches had a little peace on her face when I got into the car. She was probably of the opinion that she had just saved the motherfucker but she had totally done the opposite. If anything, she had made things worse for the fucker.
If she had allowed me to walk in there, I would have just hit the bastard a few times and then shoot him to death, bringing things to a quick end but now, I was going to pick the shitty bastard and deal with him in the worst ways and the office workers who watched him hit my woman? They were going to be there to watch every step of the horror I was going to unleash!