A Lifetime With You by Athrhteera

Chapter 75

Matteo

had overslept this morning and when I woke up, I couldn't find Alena beside

1. me.

Panic rushed in and I immediately went ahead to check the bathroom until I heard laughters and chatters coming from downstairs. I went down the stairs until I reached the kitchen, seeing Alena and Luca were having a conversation-my wife was sitting on the stool while my friend stood near the kitchen counter.

As soon as they saw me, they turned to look.

""You're awake," Alena said, smiling.

I made my way towards her before leaning in to give her a kiss, like I always did. My hand rested down her back as I stood beside her, "I'm sorry, I overslept. Why didn't you wake me up?"

"You were tired. I just wanted you to get some more sleep," she replied.

I kissed the top of her head, nodding. "Thank you."

Luca took a sip of his water as he watched us. It was a normal occurrence for him to stop by whenever he wanted to but for the past few days, he didn't have the chance-I was always at the office. He enjoyed eating the snacks I had and the food in the fridge, even though he could buy them on his own.

When Alena was around, she somehow got used to it. Actually, it never seemed to bother her whenever Luca stopped by because he would always bring food and today was not an exception either, there was a paper bag on the counter.

"Good morning. I bought us breakfast," Luca said.

"How did

you know Alena would be here?"

"I didn't. I only bought two,"

"You can have mine," Alena interrupted.

I shook my head, "No, baby. You and Luca should eat, I'll order something else."

Alena continued to look at me as a way to ask if it was really okay for her to eat my food. I knew she was starving because we didn't eat anything last night and I should've woken up earlier this morning to cook for her, I just didn't expect to oversleep. "Are you sure?" She raised an eyebrow, waiting for my answer.

"Yes, you can eat mine."

The sides of her lips curved up into a smile as she nodded.

Luca brought out the food before giving one to my wife. It was a six-inch sandwich, something he had always enjoyed eating in the morning.

"You didn't tell me Alena was back," he said.

here for the

Did you finally

both looked at each other, somehow wishing we could've given

wanted to settle things with Mikhail and resumed our lives

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things out.

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for the weekend. Alena's

or Alexei, it was

my hand before slowly rubbing the back of

with, everything just happened the way it

were facing a problem with

when we just had each other, we

in

out. Are you like

things were serious-he was the jokester sometimes. Yet, he was a killing machine, he

"You're a

dropped from his face before he turned to look at me

you figured things out yet? Between you and

the time we have." I replied, rubbing

tonight, Igor was going to pick her up and she was going to return

knowing when we could see each other-there were different possibilities of how

considering a few options, still opting

is not allowed?"

we're talking about

father. And a shittier brother," he replied to Alena who

had grown frustrated in trying to follow their ways, she deserved freedom to live and choose. "Well, you can't just back off. If diplomacy is needed

"You'll be

"Always. We'll settle this."

"Thanks, man."

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but I couldn't sleep even if wanted to-I couldn't function properly during the day because was

Alena with me last night, it brought peace to me and

beer from the fridge. I couldn't keep my eyes away from my wife

be together, spending most of

other. Everything else could wait for the next few hours while Alena was with me because I knew, I was going to miss her. Mikhail had things planned out for his daughter, he was determined to marry her to Viktor. However, it wouldn't be as easy as he thought. I wasn't going to sign any divorce papers and his plan was going to fail. If he thought he could control me, he