A Lifetime With You by Athrhteera

Chapter 105

Alena

Oh my god, Zachary I exclaimed, making my way towards him

Zach had bursted out into laughters before wrapping his arms around my body. We were hugging each other because it had been so long ever since we talked-he had kept his distance when Matteo misunderstood things and he was still keeping his distance, just a bit less scared now.

"How have you been?" He asked, smiling.

We had pulled away from the hug as we looked at each other.

He hadn't changed much ever since I last saw him but he had left his hair longer. He used to cut his hair short because he wanted to keep it neat. However, the long hair looked well and he didn't fail to rock it.

"I've been okay. What about you? You look different," I replied.

"It's just the hair, I guess."

"Just the hair?"

We chuckled, "Yeah, just the hair."

took him a few seconds to look at me as if he was scanning for something different. Not much had changed ever since I went on maternity leave except for my weight, I had lost a lot after what happened. Nobody else needed to know the tragedy. "You look different too," he added..

I raised an eyebrow, "I think I still look the same."

Zach wanted to point out about my weight but I knew he had assumed I was probably inappropriate. The expression on his face had changed before he cleared his throat, "How have you been holding up, Alena? Lily told me you were having a hard time."

I had to admit, it wasn't easy for me.

It wasn't just because I had to accept the fact that I had lost Marco but also because of what I went through during my healing stages. The decisions I had made were the cause of my own downfall and also the cause of being separated from my beloved husband. If I told anyone here at the hospital about what happened, they were probably going to call the police and pointed us as criminals. Our families were indeed criminals, they had involved themselves with money laundering, drugs and many illegal activities. Then again, it was how we had always made a living.

I never loved the idea of killing people for the sake of my own success. I also never loved to judge how people work hard to gain power and money-both of our families had sacrified a lot of things along the way to be where they were. Of course, they weren't going to waste it all for nothing. I couldn't judge my family for the way they made money. I couldn't judge other people if they saw us as criminals. Everyone had their own opinions when it came to something, they were free to think about whatever they wanted.

It was best to keep quiet about my family's background; like I always did before.

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"I went through a roughrpatch," I responded.

"A rough patch? Alena, you were grieving.

"I know. You don't have to state the obvious, Zach."

"I'm sorry. I just can't imagine if I were in your shoes," he replied

"I wouldn't wish it on anyone. Absolutely no one,"

Zach nodded a few times as he stood still at his spot. He was probably thinking of any other questions he could ask about me but he was taking his sweet time-I didn't have anything important for the time being and I wasn't in a rush either. I kept quiet as I continued to look at him, incase I could ask him something first.

My eyes wandered down to his hands and I saw a ring which caused me to point it out.

"Wait a minute. Is that a wedding band?" I asked, eyes widened.

his head, "I knew you were going to say

had attacked him in different directions which had caused him to laugh. I was mostly confused but I knew he was always the type to pretend it was

married, Alena. Jesus, calm

"The ring?"

to show

"So, you're seeing someone."

someone. We're in

before I patted on his arm, "I'm happy

I know

to meet

introduce her to you when

beep and it meant he was in a rush. People who worked in the medical field could never have much of a free time, we were bound to be paged or called out for an emergency. We had responsibilites and we needed to focus when we had

calls. See you for

""Yup, go ahead."

own again and I took the opportunity to finish up where I left things because I knew I wasn't going to have the energy to settle in tomorrow. I was going to be busy and it was better to do these

to look at my phone on the desk

a call from Matteo which left a smile on

I could imagine him sitting

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about me and he couldn't leave me alone even for a second. "I hope I didn't

you busy? Did I

I shook

my

he could see me before answering, "Not at all. I was just cleaning a few things in my office. I still have some

your schedule. That's why I

"Sneaky, aren't you?"

the edge of my desk with my arm crossed around my body-I loved it whenever he called me and I could just

me whenever I was busy and I appreciated

you," he

me

"Did I?

Matteo,"

my wife? I love

though the details were little. I loved it when he told me how much he loved me or

course you can. We're only away for a little

like

I laughed, shaking my

looked at it, seeing he had requested to switch to a video call. The smile had never left my face as I pressed onto the screen, immediately seeing his face; he had already placed the phone a few inches away from his face which meant

I was holding it

too close." He

"Am I?"

face. Just your forehead and

sorry." I moved the phone further away from my face and as soon as he could see my whole face, his his lips

lit up eyes

and

man in his thirties. We were far from the young lovers we saw down the streets whenever we walked but we knew love was never serious for anyone. Love was

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