Legally Bound To The Mafia Boss

Arielle woke up the next morning in a bad mood, she wasn’t looking forward to the day at all, she woke up to another threatening message from Lily, and on top of that, she had a banging headache, she just wanted to stay in bed all day and that’s what she did until Luciano walked into her room without knocking, one would think he would let her be after their confrontation last night but no, he just has to be the agent of darkness functioned against her, she glared at him, how can he look so good right now when she looked like hell and felt like hell.

“Don’t you have better things to do than being here? What do you want this time?”

She asked with a frown.

“Ooh my lady, once we are done with this, you won’t have to deal with me anymore,”

he said and sat down.

“And what’s this about? I want to be alone,” she said and waited for him to talk.

“It is about our little fight for ownership, I want us to resolve it right now,”

He stated.

“And what if I am not in the mood to talk right now?’

She asked seating up.

“Please be in the mood because I don’t have time to waste and I have a company to run which won’t do if you are still withholding signing.”

He claimed.

“What would you have me do? I told you I am not signing anything over until I feel like it, stop pushing it, if you want to run the company, then do it while getting my approval,”

She stated.

“I don’t need your approval when you signed that once I am back you will give everything back to me, all you have to do is resign,”

He stated and she stared at him in confusion.

“What do you mean by that?”

“I mean, you seem to miss a clause you signed woman, maybe you didn’t read through enough,”

Luciano said and pulled a file she hadn’t even seen him holding in her face, she took it and opened it, there was a new clause that she hadn’t seen but she had her signature there, she could have sworn she had never seen it when she had signed.

“You just added this right? There is no way it was there from the beginning,”

She let out, this was his way of getting rid of her, no wonder he had not been bothered by anything she said last night, he had it all planned out, did she really expect him to play fair, she should have known better.

“It was, it is not my fault if you didn’t see it,”

He said and Arielle glared at him.

“I should have known you will never play fair. you know what? I am not going to fight with you, I thought about it and there is no need for any of this, take what’s yours and leave me alone, where do I sign?”

She asked and he handed her a pen and showed her where to sign, she did without reading, she couldn’t bring herself to try and read anything right now, she just wanted him gone.

“Now that’s the spirit, even though I was expecting a show but this is good too.

“I don’t want to fight, just leave me alone.

Arielle said in a defeated voice, there was no point in fighting him.

“What’s that? I thought you were talking about making my life miserable. Why have you accepted defeat so easily? I wanted to see that fighting spirit,”

He mocked, closing the file she had signed, even though she didn’t feel so good, she kind of felt relief that she gave back what he owned and now she was free, she took a deep breath and faced him.

“I don’t need to fight you Luciano, you win, now just leave me alone please,”

She pleaded.

“Why, did you give up so easily because you thought I would ask you to come back to me if you did, is that it?”

He asked. She realized he was trying to provoke her, he doing this on purpose.

“Why would you think that? Why will I want to be back with you?”

Arielle asked.

“You know why,”

“I don’t, you tell me, you tell me why you think I will be foolish enough to want to be with you again even after how you treated me? Why will I want that?’

She fired at him, hating the fact that she was almost in tears again.

“Why? Because you love me, you love me and wish that I love you too,”

He let out and she froze in shock, so he knew, he knew that she had feelings for him and was using them against her, he thought that’s the reason she was not fighting him, maybe that was it.

“You are right, I love you, that’s why I am not fighting you, but you are wrong about me wanting us back together, I will rather be alone than be with someone like you,”

She yelled at him but he didn’t look moved, she covered her face with her hand to calm herself and breathed in and out a couple of times before removing her hand from her face.

“Now that you have gotten everything you want, a love confession, your property back, will you leave me alone?”

She asked as she walked to the door and opened it for him.

“Don’t expect that I will love you back, I told you not to fall for me,”

He said as he walked towards the door.

“I never asked you to, my feelings are mine and I will sort them out myself, you are doing a good job at making me want to forget how I feel,”

She told him as she waited for him to leave.

“Good, thankfully you are sensitive enough to know you don’t stand a chance against me or with me, have a nice day,”

He said and left, Arielle closed the door behind him, fell on her knees, and burst into tears, she managed to get up and got on her bed and continued bowing her eyes out, she made a mistake falling for him and made an even bigger mistake admitting those feelings when she knew he would only mock her and he did mock he and walked out on her.

Arielle spent the next couple of days not leaving her room, she only got out of bed to take a bath or pee, or eat when the chef brought food for her, aside from that, she did nothing but cry and sleep, she hated herself so much for being such a weakling and for letting Luciano get away with hurting her, as he had promised, he never came back to her room, maybe he never even came back to the house because she never heard him come in or leave, not that she had been checking, she half expected him to at least show up just once but he never did and by the third day, she gave up and resulted to self-pity and self-loath, she managed to get out of her room only to find Yoey who froze at the sight of her.

“What?” why are you looking at me like you saw a ghost or something? Just keep walking,”

She told him and watched him fumble with whatever he wanted to say and finally, he gave up and walked away without saying anything to her, she went back into her room after that and never came out again, she spent the whole day feeling pity for herself.

By the fourth day, she got tired of feeling pity for herself, she woke up that morning and walked into the restroom, looking at the mirror for the first time in days, she didn’t like what she saw in the mirror.

“You look horrible,”

She told the woman in the mirror who looked nothing like her, she had puffy eyes and a red nose and her hair was looking so bad because she hasn’t even washed it for days now, she glared at her refection hating what she had turned herself into while the reason for her present situation would probably have forgotten her already, yet here she was barely existing, no wonder Yoey had looked like he saw a ghost yesterday, she was sure he would tell Luciano about it and they will probably have a great time mocking her.

Arielle spent time in the bathroom cleaning herself up properly, after which she got dressed in proper clothing instead of the nighties she has been wearing for days, after that, she tidied up her room which was messy even though all she did inside was cry and sleep, she looked around the room and suddenly realize she didn’t have to be there

she really had no reason to still remain in the mansion, what was the point, they were divorced anyway, she had enough money with her to move to a new place and she suddenly wanted to be out of anywhere near him, she walked to her wardrobe, got the things she needed and left the house, nobody tried to stop her neither did anyone ask her where she was headed to, they let her leave the mansion and she took a cab and travel a long hour before she stopped and checked into a hotel, she didn’t have any plans yet so her stop was to make plans, find the best place that will suit her, a quiet place far from all of the problem the city comes with, somewhere she would not be reminded of Luciano or anything that happened.