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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before he sighed, "That man came near my

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he has. He might come after your wife next

think

he works for

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

after her in order to hurt me. As much as I tried to deny the fact, Alena was supposed to be safe if she wasn't my wife. She was always in danger ever since she married me. That

it was

have a lot of enemies. I'm

I keep track of them.

the back. I can't keep track of my enemies just to be one step ahead of them.

saying...

n trust your a

anyone. Any can

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

much as Mikhail but I knew how bad things could turn when you became more successful. People in the mafia was never going power, they were always going to

of the reasons why I never learned

the ones

the one to ruin me. Love could be our biggest strength and also our biggest weakness, it was

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

even more. I had met a lot of attractive young women who knew what they wanted and most of them only wanted money and sex. As for Alena, she thrived for her own success. All she wanted was to be successful

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She loved helping people.

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one to have a daughter like

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his daughter was a promise never to be broken. I was left with the

"It won't."

have to make sure she

sighed, "That would be impossible. She starts working again next