Filed to story: Bring It On My Mafia Life Novel (Rhea & Lukas)
He shifted out of her way and she let out a huff showing that she was annoyed by his action. Natalie walked to the entrance with her head lifted high, however, she knew the amount of self-control it took her not to look back.
It was her. Her child.
She was so close to her and yet she didn’t know. Natalie felt her heart breaking into a thousand pieces and knew she wouldn’t be able to get a good sleep tonight.
Lukas Was Not Smiling
“How could she be so clumsy?” Lukas muttered to himself as he wiped the ice-cream stain off his pants.
However, when he cleaned close to his crotch, a sheepish grin couldn’t help but cross his lips when he remembered how wide her eyes grew when she almost touched him there.
Lukas stared back at his reflection in the mirror and tugged his hair back, checking his appearance. Victor was right, he did look good with his hair down. Of course, why wouldn’t Rhea fall for this face? His face should be praised as the conqueror of women.
“Seriously?” Lukas groaned afterward. What the hell was he doing? He wasn’t a damn narcissistic for crying out loud.
With a huff, he tossed the tissue into the bin and made his way back to the shop only to see Rhea carrying a child and he halted at once.
At first, he wondered whose child she had in her arms? But that didn’t matter in the next seconds she began to rock the child, humming a lullaby and he just stared at her transfixed.
The whole world might as well have gone to hell because the only person that mattered to Lukas at that moment was Rhea. She looked so breathtakingly beautiful while carrying that child and suddenly, his imagination overlapped his reality.
In that imagination, Rhea wasn’t just carrying any child, it was their child that had his blonde hair and her beautiful green eyes. Then, Rhea glanced up and Lukas forgot how to breathe while her smile grew wide.
His heart was pounding so hard and it looked like it would burst out of his chest, but that was until a third green eyes appeared in his imagination. Only that it wasn’t his imagination.
…..
Lukas was suddenly roused back to reality and he realized that another woman was staring intently at Rhea from the back. His survival instinct kicked in and the first thought that came to his mind was that she was an enemy, else why would she be invested in Rhea like that?
Who could have sent her? His father or a rival family? He might be invisible at the moment but that doesn’t mean the other families weren’t poking their noses in his business, trying to sniff out his weakness.
Lukas was thinking of the best way to get Rhea out of here safely when he noticed something else. For someone sent after Rhea, he couldn’t sense any killing intent from her and she was staring at her with emotion. Like really strong emotions. Something was not right here.
Then the woman turned and their gaze connected; she stared at him just as he stared back at her boldly. Lukas’s imagination was not wrong, the strange woman did have green eyes. Eyes surprisingly akin to Rhea’s.
Instantly, the woman upon realizing that she had been caught staring, put on her glasses and Lukas regretted the action because he wanted to confirm something tingling at the back of his mind.
So the instant she stood up to leave, Lukas was already on his way and intentionally blocked his path. Why did he block her path? He had no idea. He has gone from thinking that she was a spy to whatever stupid hypothesis he had in his mind. It didn’t make sense.
Seeing his action, the woman lifted her brows and asked haughtily, “Do I know you?”
Lukas stared at her but he couldn’t see her eyes behind those aviator glasses she was wearing. He suddenly wished they were in a less public setting so he could kidnap her and question her all he wanted.
But then, if Rhea heard that he kidnapped a strange woman on their date – by the way, was this a date? – she would really skin him alive. Hence, when he couldn’t see what she wanted, he bowed his head in apology.
“No, sorry, my bad. Forgive my rudeness.” He moved out of her way, just as she rolled her eyes and walked away with her head held high.
She was definitely rich, Lukas could tell even though she didn’t dress ostentatiously. But that modest dress she wore cost a lot a ton. Who was she? And why did he have this disturbing feeling that she looked too similar to….
As if Rhea knew what he was thinking, she lifted her head and those beautiful green eyes bored into him innocently. The same green eyes as that woman….
Oh God.
Lukas would have run out of that door and chased after that woman had he not remembered he would only startle Rhea who would not let him rest until she got the information out of his mouth. So he just smiled back at her, pretending that nothing happened as he walked back to his seat.
“Look at this beautiful baby,” Rhea said to him before he barely sat down.
She turned her arm in such a way that he could see the small, red thing cocooned in layers of clothes like an Egyptian mummy.
“Ugly,” was the first thought that came to Lukas’s mind when he saw the child and didn’t know he said it out loud until he lifted his head to see a furrow on Rhea’s face while the baby’s mother glared at him.
Shit, they heard that.
But that was the truth though.
“A-hem,” Lukas cleared his throat and shifted uncomfortably on his seat. If those eyes were bullets, these women would have killed him.
“I meant to say that the ugly little human is surprisingly adorable,” Lukas rephrased his words at once while lowering his gaze. These women were scary.
But none of the women believed him and huffed as they looked away, Rhea in coalition with the baby’s mother to his surprise. Shouldn’t she try to defend him as her partner?
Whatever.
In the next minutes that followed, Lukas was totally ignored as Rhea tended to the baby until the mother was done and took the child back from her.
“Thank you so much,” She said to her.
“No, it’s nothing,” Rhea told her before the woman finally took her leave. It was at that moment that she finally remembered she came with Lukas and she turned to him, “So, I’m….” She trailed off.
Lukas was not smiling.
Fight Me
Lukas looked like one threw shit on his face and Rhea couldn’t understand why? Did she do something wrong?
She gulped, calling his name carefully, “M-Lukas?” who knows? She couldn’t always tell what he was thinking?
“I’m never having kids,” Lukas said to her surprise and that only made Rhea more confused. What does having kids have to do with his face looking like that?
Could it be because she frowned at him for calling the child, ugly? Rhea couldn’t help but shake her head in disbelief, sometimes Lukas was more childish than she thought.
Well, it was refreshing to see this side of him. This side of him was better than his serious and mean side. Sometimes he was so scary she imagined if he had the same red blood flowing through her veins?
Unfortunately, Rhea didn’t know that Lukas was angry over the fact that she shifted all of the attention to the baby instead of him. He brought her here so she can see him in a different light, but all that baby did was sabotage their time together!
He was annoyed to death.
That was when Lukas had that useless thought. If somehow, you know, he and Rhea got married and have a kid, then her love, affection, and attention would have to be divided between the both of them? No, that thought didn’t sit right with him. Rhea was his and his alone.