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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couldn't and she just froze at the spot." I replied, only looking at

times before he sighed,

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know what kind of twisted plan he has. He might come after your wife next

think he's working

I think he works for

been trying to find out about him for months but we couldn't even get a single clue. Out of nowhere, he just decided to appear in front of my daughter and now he's gone again. Who do you

blame him for that because Alena was my wife and that man had came after her in order to hurt me. As much as I tried to deny the fact, Alena

as it was to accept

enemies. I'm

I keep track of them. Don't

keep track of my enemies just to be one step ahead of them.

you're saying... you

n trust your a

even trust anyone. Any

just how much he agreed with me, even though he wasn't going to admit it

for years and I had a lot of experience as well, not as much as Mikhail but I knew how bad things

I never learned to

the

was once broken by my 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

love came easily with Alena even though I had promised myself never to love. She had opened my heart, the moment she came walking in the door and asked for my help. I could sense the good energy coming out of her and how much she was willing to risk, just to

they wanted and most of them only wanted money and sex. As for Alena, she thrived

had a

She loved helping people.

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Until then, none of this can ever happen again. Do you hear me, Matteo?" Mikhail said as he left me

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

"It won't."

have to make sure she

would be impossible. She starts working again next