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.

only here for

did you do it? Did

both looked at each other, somehow wishing we could've given a different answer. It

things with Mikhail and resumed our lives but everything was

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things out.

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of the country for the weekend. Alena's mom helped her sneak out.

another fight with Mikhail or Alexei,

my hand before slowly rubbing

react. I never blamed her for what happened because it wasn't her fault to begin with, everything just happened the way it did. We had the biggest heartbreak when we lost Marco

a problem with

just had each other, we were

word in awhile."

you like

always known to be sarcastic whenever he could. He never liked it when things were serious-he was the jokester sometimes. Yet, he was a killing machine, he had no mercy for

laughed, "You're a dick, you

smirk dropped from his face before

out yet? Between you and

we can only cherish the time we have." I replied, rubbing Alena's

going to pick her up and she was going to return back to Mikhail's mansion.

for awhile, not knowing when we could see each other-there were different possibilities of how

and I was considering a few options, still opting out

is not

we're talking about Alena's

And a shittier brother,"

up. She loved her family with all of heart and she never wanted any harm to come to them but she 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 then, it's what you should do." He

nodded, "You'll

"Always. We'll settle this."

"Thanks, man."

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good sleep. The past few nights were tiring but I couldn't sleep even if wanted to-I couldn't function properly during the day because was exhausted. However, the thoughts came rushing

had Alena with me last night, it brought peace

beer from the fridge. I couldn't keep my eyes away from my wife even if she was doing nothing because I was scared if I could lose her any

us and we needed to be together, spending most

going to miss her. Mikhail had things planned out