Filed to story: Bring It On My Mafia Life Novel (Rhea & Lukas)
Her bravado was admirable. That was the kind of woman Lukas wanted, brave and smart, who could rule well by his side. Having been lectured from young by the father of the year, Daniel, Lukas had always despised weakness. Maybe that was why he was insanely attracted to Rhea, she fired him up.
Leaning over her, Lukas brushed the hair away from her face, murmuring, “You might not know it now, but I feel it in my bones. We are meant to be together, Rhea,”
Lukas changed his mind about helping her lie properly, the pain would serve as punishment for holding him hostage. So he turned off the light instead and waited.
…..
It was quite creepy because in the dark, his eyes never left her. If Rhea was a movie, then he wouldn’t mind watching her all day. And she didn’t fail his expectation because not long after, she woke up having sensed something was off.
Just as he thought, the gun was the first thing she searched for – she must be in a hurry to kill him. He couldn’t see her expression in the dark but he bet she was panicking, so he did her a favor by turning the light, “Looking for this?” and stepping into her line of sight.
Lukas took in the way she gulped down saliva out of nervousness. Does she think he’d hurt her? Well, he does need to punish her this time for her disobedience.
“I guess the field trip was all for nothing. In the end, you caught me,” She sighed in resignation, lying back down on the bed.
Lukas watched her in amusement, she submitted to her fate that easily. He loved it better when she fought like the wild cat she was. Well, not that he was complaining about this sudden change, she does look like a tamed cat.
Perhaps because she had slept and rested her brains, Rhea was able to think more clearly this time and knew it was useless fighting against Lukas. And gosh, it was late at night. She needed rest having worn out her body throughout the day.
“Can we do this in the morning? I’m really tired right now,” Rhea told him while tucking herself into bed. She would think better when the morning comes even though the night provides the best night to escape.
But that was pretty useless. If Lukas tracked her down this far, he pretty much had measures set up in case she runs again. She has been fighting him for a long time, perhaps, this was the time to throw him offside by conceding. Rhea bet he was stunned.
“If you want it that way then, baby girl,” He smiled at her.
Rhea was surprised by him readily accepting her request, she had expected a bit of protest considering she wasn’t trustworthy and had proven that plenty of times.
But she couldn’t tell out of the both of them who was thrown off balance when Lukas sat down on the other side of the bed and began to take off his boot.
“What are you doing?” Rhea felt the warning bell going off in her head.
“Well, you’ve been running all day and I’ve been chasing you. So that makes two of us,” Lukas’s reply didn’t answer her question.
“No,” Rhea shook her head to say he wasn’t following, “You don’t get it? Why are you taking off your boots?”
“To sleep of course,” Lukas looked at her as if she had grown two heads.
She crawled up to him on the bed, glaring at him defiantly, “Exactly, where?!”
He smirked, “Darling, you got us a room, where would I sleep otherwise?”
“On the couch in the sitting room!” Rhea pointed to the connecting room.
But Lukas looked at her as if she was bluffing, “Sorry, love, but I was raised as a prince and my body can’t stand anything less than a comfortable bed,”
“Is that so?” Rhea smiled, but it didn’t touch her eyes, “In that case, this princess would make herself comfortable in it,” she choose to leave instead.
Rhea was ready to get off the bed when Lukas suddenly pushed her back down, hovering over her.
“What are you doing?!” She yelped.
But Lukas didn’t reply, instead, he began to lean in and Rhea’s eyes went wide, realizing he wanted to kiss her. Nope, that wasn’t happening again.
She turned her face to the side just as Lukas dropped his lips to her ears, “Unless you want me to take off from the spanking incident, I suggest you behave,” He warned her.
Rhea went red in the face when she remembered that incident. She certainly didn’t want to experience that again – at least not with Lukas.
Hence, she didn’t complain when Lukas snuggled close to her, his arm wrapped around her waist in a strange intimacy. His warmth was somehow comforting even though she hated it.
Thankfully, it didn’t take long for Lukas to fall asleep and she was ready for work. Her aim was to retrieve her gun and she hadn’t even started when Lukas said to her with his eyes closed,
“You don’t need to bother about the gun, I’ve emptied the chamber. So unless you want to explore the inside of my briefs where the bullets tucked in safely, I suggest you keep your wandering hands to yourself. Pervert. ” He was smug.
What the….
The Scars Have Their Story
How did she fall asleep? Was the first thought that came to Rhea’s head when she woke up. She had sworn to keep an all-nighter so she could find the right time to escape Lukas. Except she failed miserably to carry through.
And speaking about Lukas, where is he? She wondered until she heard the sound of the shower running. Goodness, gracious! This was the perfect time to escape him! Although she had a nagging feeling in the back of her mind that it was not going to work, Rhea still wanted to try.
The feeling at the back of her mind came to pass the moment Rhea sat up and was pulled back.
“What the….” She looked down to see her left hand was cuffed to the headboard.
“Seriously….!”
Of course, asleep or not, Lukas was not stupid enough to leave her all alone. The man seriously got trust issues! And that was the same thing Elijah said to her each time she tried to see his face.
Rhea plopped back down on the bed with a sigh. She hasn’t gotten the chance to think about Elijah lately because she’s busy plotting her escape. But the thought of Elijah made her heart throb.
At one point, Rhea became angry. Wasn’t Elijah good at what he does? Why can’t he just break into here and whisk her away as he promised? He said he was a highly trained mercenary, what’s so hard about….!
Rhea released a deep sigh remembering that Lukas was not simple either. She had tried escaping him and look where that landed her? Rhea had to force herself to recognize that Elijah was not just trying to rescue her but hide his identity as well.
…..
She just couldn’t understand why he was so obsessed with his identity. Look at Lukas, everyone knew he was the boss of the Luciano family and he probably got tons of enemies aiming for his head, yet he was fearless. What’s the worst that could happen if his identity was revealed? But then Rhea had to respect his choice.
She just missed him.
Rhea knew he tried to save her the last time using a substitute, it’s just annoying that Lukas had to be there at that moment and stick his nose into her business. God, how much she hated him!
And speak about Lukas…
As if Rhea jinxed her luck, the Lukas she was thinking popped out of the bathroom and in her line of view with nothing but a towel wrapped around his waist.
“You…!” Her eyes raked over his chiseled chest and her ability to form speech got lost.