Filed to story: Bring It On My Mafia Life Novel (Rhea & Lukas)
The tension was high in the air and this was the climax of the match. There were barely two minutes left and if she could hit him for the third time, she would win the deal. The victory was at her fingertip, she couldn’t lose.
However, Rhea knew Lukas wouldn’t make it easy for her either. With one stroke of luck, she could really win but Lukas would not let that happen. Whatever tricks she had been applying since the beginning wouldn’t work anymore. But a girl got to try, right?
So, Rhea danced over to him like the gypsy she was and wrapped her arms around his neck and he surprisingly let her. But she knew Lukas was alert and wouldn’t let her pull any surprises on him.
Moving to the tune of the music, she ground against the unresponsive man, all except, his calculating eyes. She would have thought he was a statue had she not gotten a response down there and a naughty grin curled her lips.
Slowly yet slyly, her hands reached and were about to trace his erection when he pushed her and she twirled away playfully.
But on a serious note, It seems, that getting that third hit wasn’t going to be as easy as she thought.
Have His Eyes On Her Forever
Like a dog loyal to its follower, Rhea still went back to Lukas, her arms wrapped around his neck once more neither was he complaining. But she recognized his tactics, Lukas was intentionally wasting her time. When she danced with him with the hopes of lowering his guard, she was the one running out of time, not him.
So when she danced around him once more, Rhea couldn’t waste her limited time and struck. She raised her knees at the same time she placed her hand on his shoulder, but Lukas was faster.
He blocked her kick and took her wrist, and twisted it back. But then, Lukas must have applied too much force because she shrieked as loud as a banshee at the gesture causing him to let go of her immediately with a look of horror.
Rhea fell to the ground while cradling her wrist he must have broken in the process. Lukas went as white as a ghost when that thought hit him – he injured her. He has hurt her in his quest to win some stupid deal.
Lukas was so plunged with guilt that he didn’t even realize when his legs were swept out from beneath him and he landed on the ground with an “Oof!” his breath knocked out of his lungs.
It wasn’t until Rhea was straddling him with the happiest look he had ever seen on her face since she arrived here that it dawned on him, that she tricked him.
Even when a mighty roar came from the audience and there was celebration everywhere, Lukas was lost in his thought.
He knew the reason Rhea won. She didn’t win because he was distracted by her petty tricks, no, it was because he started developing emotions.
The emotions his father Daniel had worked over the years to eradicate out of him, it was back and stronger. Lukas hadn’t always been this cruel and violent, no, he had been a sweet, young boy, taken care of by his mother. And that was the problem. His father wanted him to toughen up, his mother was making him weak.
…..
So Daniel hit his mother most time when she wouldn’t let him train. And then he would tell him later, “You see that anger, resentment, in your chest. That’s what I want! No Luciano is a weakling. Turn those negative feelings into a weapon and when you’re strong enough, come for me.”
So he worked day and night, trying to be smarter and stronger, pushing everyone away except for his mother. Lukas wanted to prove to his father that one could still be stronger and love at the same time.
But for who? His mother died before he could prove it. Who was he proving it for then? He remembered his father telling him, “Your mother only died because she’s a weakling. This world only has space for the strong.”
So, he decided to be strong from then now. And guess what, while being stronger got him the respect he wanted, it left him empty. Lukas knew something was missing, he couldn’t even tell if he was living or merely existing.
But that wasn’t the case anymore. Rhea, made him feel alive. Those emotions made him blind enough that she even defeated him.
Thanks to that, common sense told Lukas that he shouldn’t let her near him, but that was the problem, he needed her near him.
She made him calm and happy. A feeling that he hadn’t experienced for a while now. Rhea would burn him alive but that pain was a huge reminder that he was alive and not just an existence. He needed her.
Lukas didn’t need Victor to force the truth out of his mouth any more because he knew at that moment, that even if Elijah returned with his weapons and demanded Rhea, he wasn’t giving her to him.
Like the wolf that devoured Little Red Riding Hood, Lukas wasn’t letting go of her because he has his eyes on her – for a long time now. Lukas just made up his mind that he would have his eyes on her forever.
She won?
She fucking won?!
Rhea couldn’t believe it! It seemed a bit surreal! She didn’t even imagine herself winning in her imagination after Mimi suggested she used her feminine charm instead of fighting him like a brute.
Honestly, she had run out of ideas on how to secure the third hit until the pain in his wrist gave her an idea. Be a barbie. Men were naturally protective of women, and what more, one who has a crush on you? So she applied it and it worked in her favor!
Rhea did a little Victory dance on Lukas? Oh shit! She realized at the end as she tried to stand. She straddled him earlier to suppress and rub her victory all over his face. But then, the match was over and the touching wasn’t permitted anymore.
But before she could stand, Lukas had already grabbed her waist and pushed her down to him so he could easily whisper into her ears.
“You’ve been having your fun all this while and now, it is my turn, hence, you don’t get to argue about the no-touching rule. You should start running, now, Rhea, find a good place I would not find you and hide out until I cool off, because once I get my hands on you, I’m fucking your brains out. You have just a minute until I’m after you like a cheetah. “
Rhea didn’t have the time to be shocked because she could see the truth in those darkened gray eyes. As much as she was attracted to Lukas, fucking her brains out wasn’t her ideal type of sex nor was she ready for sex with him. Now, maybe?
So she ran like the flash, past her newly formed fans and her bestie Mimi who wanted to pull her into a victory hug. But Rhea gave up all those and ran for her life, no, , in this case.
All the while, her heart kept beating in her chest. Lukas knows the base like the back of his hands, where could she possibly hide that he wouldn’t be able to find her.
The Future Seemed Bleak
Rhea hid successfully – In Victor’s walk-in closet. She figured out that Victor’s place was hardly frequented by Lukas and for very good reasons. Who in the world loves all? Him, Victor.
Hence, she hid in his closet for over an hour and came upon a piece of disturbing news in the end.
“How could you be so easily tricked?” Victor laughed at her.
He stumbled upon her hidden behind one of the cabinets in his closet after she nearly gave him a heart attack. And right now, they were seated in his room, and by ‘they, she means Mimi’s part of the party.
“Lukas tricked you,” He confessed.
“What?”
And yes, that was the disturbing news.
“H-how? W-why… How could he do that to me? Did you know I was frightened? How much my heart skipped a beat when I thought of him finding me and keeping true to his threat!” Rhea was flustered, her hands on her chest.
Her heart had never stopped pounding the entire time she was hiding out in the closet and in the end, it was all for nothing? It was surely an expensive joke and Rhea was greatly annoyed by that. What if she had a heart attack or something?
…..
But Victor asked her instead, “Haven’t you wondered why Lukas doesn’t have any friends?”
She rose up angrily, “What has that got to do with the fact that I’m mad and you are the only reason I haven’t gone down there to give him a piece of my mind!”
Yep, she was very mad.