A Lifetime With You by Athrhteera

Chapter 70 Alena

The week went on like a blur and I had somehow lost track of time.

Every

morning Mama would come in with breakfast and stayed over until lunch. We would spend time together in my room for a few hours because honestly, I couldn't stand the loneliness.

I couldn't stand being alone for even a day. It was suffocating me and Mama knew it. She knew it was best to keep me company in order to keep me sane, too. This whole situation was making me lose my mind and all I wanted was something good for once. The days weren't as hard as the nights. My days were spent mostly with Mama, she had slowly brought my spark back by making me laugh-it wasn't easy but I wanted to make her feel better as well. However, I spent my nights alone in bed, drowning in my thoughts. One good thing out of this was being with Mama. I could spend my days with her and she wouldn't be as lonely as she was before but deep down, I wanted to be back home with Matteo. Being with him was where I truly belonged. I couldn't spend another day being away from him.

I missed him. I missed him too much.

There hadn't been a day went by without me thinking about him. I always wondered what he was doing or how he was doing, probably barely alive like me. I had hoped for him to be alright, at least living his daily life as usual. Matteo didn't deserve the heartbreak nor the suffering. He deserved to be happy and I had taken that away from him.

I was laying on Mama's lap as she played with my hair, tying into a french braid.

"How

many days have it been since I came here, Mama?" I asked, looking out the window. days. Why do you ask, Alena?"

I replied.

Just lost track of braid my hair as she spoke, "You miss him, don't you?"

Mama sighed, continuing to

I sat up straight, holding her hands before nodding. "I do. A lot,"

Ever since I was taken to come here, Papa had assigned his own personal doctor to take care of me. The medicines he prescribed were mostly painkillers, incase I needed them. He also prescribed me with sleeping pills to help my insomnia. The doctor

told me that I was healing just fine but I needed to get enough rest and not stress myself out which was almost impossible because of my current situation. Papa heard everything and he assured him all was well. Little did the doctor knew. Papa and I haven't spoken since what happened that night. I preferred it to be that way.

It was better not to say anything with him because I knew, the words coming out of his mouth were just painful to hear. Unless he told me I could go back to Matteo, everything else was useless to be heard.

The only thing that kept me going was Matteo.

"Well...I actually have a plan, Alena." Mama said, leaning closer

"What is it, Mama?"

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"We can try to sneak out tonight when nobody's around. I already asked for Igor's help," "Igor? I

but he's a very close friend of the family. He used to accompany you during medical

can trust him not

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+5.

seeing you like this.

but it dropped immediately when I realised the risks,

full responsibility but I'm sure we

curved up into a grin as I felt

risking everything to sneak out and meet Matteo, even for a short few hours. I wanted to be with him and we could discuss to figure something out. Besides, he deserved to know about Papa's plan. Matteo was a powerful man as well. He could overcome Papa if he wanted to, if he pushed away his respect towards his father-in-law. For once in my life, I felt as if he didn't need to consider Papa as his father-in-law anyway, he could just use his power. knew Matteo had been holding himself

sneak out tonight," Mama

went by slowly as I waited for the time. I couldn't stop glancing wanted time to move by faster-Mama noticed it and she was also excited

the clock on the wall because I

the time came and the house went quiet, we

down the stairs and towards the because all of the staff went home; it was one of the rules Mama had wanted Papa's men to oblige because Mama still wanted to have her own privacy. I remembered when I was little, I used to sneak into the kitchen with Alexei for dessert. We would eat cakes and candies in the fridge even though it was past our bedtime. The funny

funny

my time here when I was younger. I never regretted any of that-in a way, I understood where Papa was coming from, on how

born and he was the only son. Apparently, other mafia families kind of

become the leader willingly or because he had

that talk between us when we grew up. I had started to rebel and went to medical school, maybe I had left my brother all alone to figure out his future. Maybe, he never really wanted to become the Bratva leader but

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Mama as we went through the back, until we

"Igor."

it had been so long since I

na."

long.

How are you holding

fractured arm and broken rib.

I away

face as I showed them but

space and only followed me close if he thought danger was near. Overall, I had experienced the whole university life without interruptions- sometimes, he barely even reported back to Papa. He skipped the details when he felt like it. "We better

been

morning." Mama

the car immediately without wasting any time and Igor drove off. I didn't bother to spare a second glance behind at the house because I was looking forward to meeting Matteo, that was all that mattered. was beginning

Matteo

ourselves. We could simply

began to beat faster with every step I took towards the elevator-I was excited to see him. I knew he was waiting for me. Mama held my hand