Filed to story: Bring It On My Mafia Life Novel (Rhea & Lukas)
Lukas parked across from her uncle’s place and Rhea worked on the seat belt while scouting the area.
“You know you don’t have to do this alone,” Lukas said to her.
“I’ve been doing well before you arrived and turned my life upside down. So no, I don’t need your help,” She turned his favor down with a grimace. Rhea didn’t trust him one bit.
Lukas looks like he’s on her side now – that is, if he truly was- but the next minute he might turn on her just like he did with Big Joe – she was never forgetting that incident nor was she forgiving him anytime soon. That betrayal hurt her real bad.
“I’m not saying that you can’t protect yourself considering you’re holding me at gunpoint,” He didn’t forget he was a hostage as well .
Rhea rolled her eyes, but that didn’t stop him from going on with his words, “I’m just worried about you. It’s you against whatever you’re going to face in there. But with my presence, I can even out the odds and you can even use me as a shield if the need calls for it,” He showed off his great plan.
Rhea turned to him, “Why do you even care?”
“As I said, I’m just worried about your safety,” Lukas turned to her as well, looking straight into her eyes when he spoke.
“Exactly,” Rhea pressed on with her question, feeling that he was beating around the bush, “Why do you care so much about me? I’m not even one of your lover….” She paused, coming to a startling revelation.
…..
After a moment of silent deliberation, Rhea looked up with parted lips, still reeling from the shock of her discovery. She asked him, “Do you like me?”
Lukas didn’t say a word, putting up his usual passive mask but the turmoil in his gaze was obvious. Rhea now understood that phrase that said the eye is the window to the soul. Lukas could hide his emotions but not those eyes, they told her the truth – she didn’t want to hear.
“And if I said yes?” He didn’t give get a clear answer, yet his brows were raised in a challenge. That challenge was truth enough for her.
Rhea wanted to take a step back and then run – run without looking back or even turning back. She now understood why Lukas would not let her go, it was because he was taken by her.
Unfortunately, this wasn’t a good thing for Rhea, no, it was a disaster. Yeah, she was attracted to Lukas, like hell, who wouldn’t? The guy was young, rich, sexy as sin, smart – she was intrigued by how his mind worked and that was why she pushed back at every curveball he threw at her. But he was darkness himself.
She couldn’t be tied down by the Mafia. She was young and had the world out there to explore – which she would do once she’s in control of her trust fund. She had a lot to offer the world than just being the wife of a Mafia Don – that is if their relationship even gets to that point.
For all she knew, Lukas might just be interested in what was in between her legs and wanted to add her to his list of conquered women. Gosh! No wonder he had a pack of panties in his closet!
But even when Rhea told herself that, she couldn’t help but think her case was a bit different. She had seen the way Lukas treated that mystery lady – she had no doubt was his lover- aside from when she – Rhea – intentionally pissed him off, he has never treated her that way. He has been unusually lenient with her.
Oh God, no.
He can’t be interested in her.
Rhea was not suicidal and she had Elijah she liked as well. It would be a huge betrayal moving from him to Lukas like that; she was not even a fan of that. So no, Lukas should keep his likeness to himself.
“Cat got your tongue?” Lukas teased her when she went silent for a long time. He could see the gears in her head working, “Or is it a bad thing if I like you?” His gaze flickered with an unknown emotion for barely a few seconds before it was back to normal.
Rhea put the gun away and without warning, pulled Lukas forward by the collar so their faces were meeting. Slowly, like a cat, she lowered her lips to his ears, “What do you think?”
Lukas’s body coiled with anticipation and she definitely didn’t fail him when she nibbed his lobe. He groaned, his lower body reacting to the stimuli immediately.
F*ck, he needed to touch her but he couldn’t when his hands were cuffed.
“You need to uncuff me,” He grunted, putting his hands between them so she could notice them.
A wicked smile formed on her lips, that made him wonder if he should be wary or thrilled, “What’s the use when I can have my hands all over you?”
God, she’d be the death of him.
Then her hand was in his hair, pulling tight enough to cause a sharp throb while her lips were trailing a kiss down his throat. A painful pleasure.
But Lukas should have chosen the first option because, by the time he realized what Rhea was doing, his hand was now cuffed to the steering wheel.
“Shit!” He cursed out, “Seriously, Rhea?!” He shrugged with his other free hand.
“You are the master of betrayal, why should I trust you? I’ve been doing well before you came along, I would also do well now without you interfering in my life and treating me like some barbie princess,” Rhea told him already stepping out of his car.
She came to his side of the car and without him guessing her intentions, took the keys out of the ignition, “Oops, I guess someone would have a nice rest,”
Lukas growled at her but she had already pulled away from the lowered window.
“Be a good boy, Lukas, and who knows, I might treat you to some goodies when I’m back,” she winked at him.
Except she was not going to be back because Lukas was surely going to skin her alive after this.
She just humiliated him.
Who Sold Me?
Breaking into her uncle’s place was much easier than she thought but strange as well. Rhea knew they would deny her entrance if they had any idea it was her. Even if they didn’t, it was always better to take the enemy by surprise.
So when she climbed over the wall – her favorite spot. Having lived here most of her life, she knew the weak points – she had been conscious of security and had pretty much camouflaged herself for most of the sneaking in.
But Rhea shouldn’t have worried because there was literally little to no guard at all in the place. Even the staff had been drastically reduced that none of them noticed her presence until she was in Costanza’s room.
However, Costanza’s room was empty, as if there was no one living there at all. No, no, no, that can’t be possible. She had specifically come back for her dear cousin, to teach her a few lessons.
Costanza wanted her dead, right? What would she do now the person she wanted to destroy so much was alive and back for vengeance? Rhea at least wanted to see the smile wiped off her face. Big Joe might have given Costanza a beating, but she hadn’t done hers.
Her heart beating frantically, Rhea ran out of the room only to bump into a staff on the way – one she knew too well. She pointed the gun at her, roaring, “Where are they?!”
Rhea knew the girl, she had been one of Costanza’s closest maids. Back then, Costanza used her to carry out most of her malicious plans and Rhea had to say, she liked the terrified look in her eyes now. It fueled her; made her feel in power.
“W-who?” She choked, tears already running down her cheeks.
Rhea snorted inwardly at her weakness, such a chicken. She wondered how the girl would have survived if she had gone through what she experienced the past month.
…..
“You know who I’m talking about! Costanza, her mother, and my uncle!” Rhea was running out of patience – and time.
Once she was through with this, Rhea was leaving through the backdoor to her freedom. But Lukas wouldn’t sit still either, he wouldn’t be the leader of such a large organization at a young age if he didn’t have real skills. She merely slowed him down and had a feeling that Lukas had been indulging her all this while.