A Lifetime With You by Athrhteera

Chapter 90

Matteo

My beautiful wife was soundly asleep as she snuggled close to my hand, finding it comfortable. I loved it whenever I watched her sleep, I could admire how peaceful she looked; one of the reasons why I always slept after her and not before.

After our love-making session earlier, we had changed into a more comfortable clothing after we had cleaned ourselves up. Then, the moment she laid on the bed, she was already asleep and I didn't have the heart to wake her up. Besides, she deserved to rest after what happened today.

Once I was sure she wasn't going to wake up, I slowly tucked her in.

Luckily enough, she didn't move a bit and I was able to leave the bed.

I glanced at her one last time before I closed the door behind me and I walked down the stairs. Apparently, Igor and my mother-in-law had left earlier, leaving only the rest of them to wait for us. Luca was enjoying his favourite pie while Angelo watched him ate. As for Mikhail and Alexei, they were standing near the window as they had a conversation in Russian.

I could understand them. I just never wanted to converse in their language.

"Everything okay?" Luca asked, raising an eyebrow.

None of them heard about what happened upstairs. Alena could be a bit loud sometimes whenever we had sex but our bedroom was mostly soundproof. Nobody could hear the sounds we made unless they were in the same room which was a refief-it was bound to be awkward if her father and brother heard us having sex.

"Yeah, she's asleep now. Managed to calm her down," I replied.

The words 'managed to calm her down' almost brought a smirk on my face because only Alena and I knew how that went. I did try to calm her down by having her close to me but the only way I could keep things off her mind was to please her. Alena was pleased. She was fully satisfied.

"Great, that's good to hear. We can talk now," Mikhail interrupted.

I nodded, gesturing for him to take a seat by the sofa.

Mikhail went to join me at the sofa, followed by Alexei. The three of us were seated and comfortable enough to have a conversation about what happened-as much as I wanted to be upstairs with my wife and wrap my arms around her, there were other things I needed to worry and settle.

What happened today could never happen again. Never.

"She was traumatised. We could see it on her face," Alexei started to speak as he looked at me, glancing a few times at Luca who already rolled his eyes.

These two didn't get along and they were never going to get along. There was always some sort of misunderstanding between them, they could never agree with something. I knew because Luca never liked Alexei, he wasn't afraid to show it either.

Alexei, on the other hand, wasn't the one to lose. He made it known about how much power he had. We didn't have a huge gap between us which was one of the reasons why he didn't feel the need to respect me as his brother-in-law or one of the leaders of the mafia. Bad blood. It was always like that between the Italians and the Russians.

"When she was kidnapped, she went through a lot. That man was the cause of it and we could tell because she was terrified

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to scream but she couldn't and she just froze at the spot."

before he sighed, "That man came near my wife,

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happen again. We don't know what kind of twisted plan he has. He might come after your wife

you think he's

he works for

Who do you think he might be working for? Anyone you know? Anyone you

after her in order to hurt me. As much as I tried to deny the fact, Alena

it was to accept

lot of enemies. I'm

I keep track of

the people you expect to be on your side are the ones stabbing you at the back. I can't keep track of my enemies

saying... you

n trust your a

don't even trust anyone. Any can

on his face showed just how much he agreed with me, even

be happy for you if you gained more I had been in the mafia for years and I had a lot of experience as well, not as much as Mikhail but I knew

of the reasons why I

trusted the ones I

ex-wife, even though I had never expected her to be the one to ruin me. Love could be our biggest strength and also our biggest weakness, it was difficult to know

heart, the moment she came walking in the door and asked for my

who knew what they wanted and most of them only wanted

a

She loved helping people.

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the lucky one to have a daughter

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We'll continue to investigate and find out more about this man. Until then, none of this can ever

was still clear in my mind. The promise I had made to protect his daughter was a promise never to be broken. I was left with the pressure to keep up because he could take her away anytime he wanted. It was as if he was waiting

"It won't."

to make sure she

"That would be impossible.