Chapter 123
Lucky
I’m feeling restless. It’s seven in the evening. Dinner was lonely in the big, stately dining room with just myself. I hope this is not how it is going to be. Whatever is going on, I hope that Nico can have it resolved within a few days and come back to me.
Every part of my body misses him. I ache for him. After our hot love making the other night, it feels as if I can’t get enough of him.
“Can I get you a nightcap?” Heidi appears in the small room off the dining room giving me a shock. What is it with his staff? You can’t hear them coming. I glance down at her feet and see she is wearing soft pump type shoes. No wonder you can’t hear them.
“A brandy would be nice, Heidi, thank you.” She nods and leaves me with my feet up on the love seat glancing out of the window. It’s already dusky. The trees surround this side of the property and look magnificent standing tall and proud. Some must surely be over a hundred years old.
Two guards stand outside the dining room, and I can see movement in the grounds. No doubt they are patrolling, what a job. Who would want that?
Heidi reappears with a crystal whisky glass and places it with a serviette on the octagonal table by the side of the love seat. “Will there be anything else, Miss. Gianluca? I am off duty now but we will have one of the other girls covering for me.”
“I’m good thanks, Heidi. Say, where is there a nice club to go out to. I fancy getting out of here.”
Her eyes bug out of her head. Nico will have a shit fit. However, with Yelena out of harms way I see no reason not to go out and enjoy myself. I want to listen to loud music and surround myself with people. Perhaps it is some kind of perverse side effect from being locked up for days and scared for the end of my young life.
“Ma’am,” she says I as give her a scowl. “Sorry, Lucky that is not a good idea. The boss will be mad.”
“Oh, Heidi for heaven’s sake sweetheart. I am not a kid and nor am I a prisoner. I’ll have my guards. Now, tell me where do you go when you want to let off steam?”
She hesitates and links her fingers together. “I don’t go out, Lucky. I am always so exhausted after a long day here.”
“Rubbish, you must know somewhere.”
She merely shakes her head. I get it. She’s trying to keep her job and protect me at the same time. “Don’t worry, Heidi. I have a mobile, I can find somewhere. Tell my guards outside that we are going out. I’ll go up and get changed.”
“Lucky, Mr. Nico he will be mad if you leave and go anywhere without him.”
Whereas I do not want to upset, hurt or piss Nico off since he owns my heart and lives rent free constantly in my head. I do want to go out. I can’t stand to be stuck inside this mansion all by myself. The loneliness engulfs me and I feel like I’m suffocating. Besides, I’ll have two guards stuck to me for the couple of hours I am out. It’s time for Lucky Gianluca to let her hair down!
I’ve been upstairs and changed into some faux leather pants that cling to me like a wet suit. My black ankle boots have diamantes on the top band and four-inch heels. On top, I threw on an off the shoulder red jersey. Downstairs the guards are waiting not looking too happy.
“What’s up with you guys?” I say as I step down from the last step, my clutch bag in my left hand. With a pistol in it that I happened to find in one of Nico’s drawers. Hey, I’m not taking any chances. It’s highly unlikely I will run into any trouble out in Atlanta city. But a girl can never be too careful.
“We don’t like it,” one of them says.
“Tough, I need some freedom. It feels like a goddamn mausoleum in here,” I say with an edge to my voice.
“Telling you, Miss. Gianluca, Nico will be pissed when he finds out.”
“So, don’t tell him. He has enough to worry about.”
“Too late,” the other guys comments. “I already messaged him.”
And right on cue my phone beeps in my clutch.