Chapter 42

Chapter 42
|| KIERA STEVENS'S POV ||
His voice kept rising, earning the attention of the passerby. I was dumbstruck to hear the familiar voice. Walking near the window, I saw Jasper with a whiskey bottle in his hand. His hair was disheveled, buttons of his rich suit were undone.
What the fuck was he doing in front of my apartment?
He didn't stop there. The following moment, he began to yell those words out incoherently,
" Kiera...I...I ..still love..you.. please... forgive me..."
Fuck..I wished that I could slap his face hard so that he would stop blabbering. One problem was already inside my house but there, another one was already standing. I didn't even know what happened to him on the last day, Anastasia came to confront me, telling me that I was seducing him. It looked like Jasper was still holding on to the past.
" Wow..you have gotten a lot of pursuers recently! Is it the spark of leaving my side?", Luca spoke in a stern voice, looking down from the window.
I retorted weakly, feeling a headache coming,
" None of your concern! Whatever..we broke up five years back. I have to tell his girlfriend before he causes more trouble.."
He kept staring at my face for a while. Raising his lips into a smirk, he replied confidently,
" Allow me to drive him away, Kiera. Why bother someone else when you have the best person inside?"
He spoke with a malicious smirk, standing against the wall like a dominating boss. I must say that he looked fucking hot in his black outfit. So hot that my mouth watered but I forced myself to remember that he was the same man that I was having a legal battle currently.
I snorted with a short laugh, scrolling through my phone,
" Let you solve it? Seriously Luca? Your only solution is your gun which I don't want..I am calling his girlfriend to take him away from here.."
Dialing Anastasia's number, I waited for the call to be picked up. To my surprise, it was received faster than I thought. The speaker buzzed with her piercing voice,
" KIERA!! What the fuck..Are you calling me? How dare you call me after seducing my boyfriend?"
Fuck... I shouldn't have put the phone on speaker. I wanted her to hear Jasper's rumbling but she started cursing as soon as the call connected.
I looked over at Luca whose expression turned grim. Lowering the volume, I went near the window to grit my words out,
" Miss Anastasia! Your boyfriend is currently standing under my apartment's building. Please come here and take him so that he won't bother me or my neighbors."
Instead of listening to me, Anastasia started accusing me, putting on blind assumptions one after another,
"WHAT?? Your Apartment? You..you must have called him there..now you are just pretending to be innocent. Bitch.."
Before I could retort anything, Luca snatched my phone away. He was so close to me that he did hear every word, coming from her mouth. Luca spoke in a threatening voice, his eyes watching Jasper down there dangerously,
" Miss Anastasia! If you don't come to take him away, I will have no choice but to deliver him to you personally. I am afraid that you won't find his bones at that time."
" Hello. Hello... who is it...who..", Anastasia kept shouting through the call but he just hung up quickly.
I felt my throat dry. This man. Apart from being a monster, he was always there to protect me. Why couldn't he be just an average man?
My thoughts were interrupted when I heard Jasper shouting again. It was more like a pathetic cry for help. I pulled my eyes back at him and saw a big pit bull dog chasing him. The dog was trying to scare him off violently.
" Oh my god.. how did it..", I gasped, staring down at the scene in horror.
Suddenly, reality knocked my brain hard. I glanced up to see Luca smirking happily. I growled and glared at him,
" You did this?"
He fluttered innocently his eyelashes. As if he knew nothing, he started calmly, boiling my blood in anger,
" No. That dog is your son's pet..ask him.."
What...the..fuck...was wrong.. with this..guy...
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I still couldn't believe that he actually allowed me to come to Italy with him. Last night was horrific. Jasper got bruises from his bulldog. Fuck..I didn't feel sorry for him. He was the one who cheated on me and left my side when I was on my knees. I hated this type of man who never appreciated his woman's importance in his life. Life wasn't a game. I had learned my lesson a long time back that some broken things couldn't be fixed ever.
Jasper ran away with his car before Anastasia could come to get him. Luca left in the morning with Ryan in his arms. Now, we were landing in Italy after hours of journey.
Through a Bugatti, David drove me to a house, close to the ocean. As soon as I came out, the chilling breeze from the ocean hit my face. I looked back on the street, confused. Ryan was coming with Luca in a different car but there were no more cars except ours.
David clarified my questions, gesturing me to go into the little mansion,
" Luca has taken the little prince to meet the elder master. They will be back soon. You will stay here, Miss."
I curved up my lips, slightly disappointed,
" So, I am not allowed to meet his grandpa?"
I thought that I would convey him some respect as Ryan's great-grandfather. But it turned out that I wasn't needed here. I insisted on coming out of fear, thinking that they would keep my son hostage here even before the final trial.
David replied politely, opening the gate for me,
" It's complicated, Miss. You better stay away from this family for your own good. Luca has already taken much risk by bringing you here."
I let out a bitter laugh, slipping out of my heels,
" It's just..Ryan will be unhappy if he doesn't see me here. So, he just let me come."
David corrected my words, dropping the luggage at a corner,
" You are wrong, Miss. Luca brought you here because he knows that you won't be at peace without the little prince. Moreover, he never brought any women to his private place. You are the first person son here. I will always be at the gate. Tell me if you need anything."
I remained dazed after David left, speaking those words to me. It made me feel terrible to twist between feelings. I knew that we were wrong, not fit for each other. But I failed to ignore his care and attention in my life.
Should I feel special because he brought me here or all because of Ryan?
Ignoring the twisted feelings, I went to the other side of the room, finding a long balcony that gave the best view of the ocean. I let my worries go free, enjoying the beauty of the night, the shining star over the ocean. I hoped that Ryan would be here soon so that we could get some pictures.
Italy was a country, full of nature actually. These hills and oceans made me love my life again. The door creaked open slightly and I looked back, expecting Ryan naturally.
My smile froze when I found a woman around my age, standing in a lavender dress. She inspected me coldly. Arms crossed, her gaze was full of dismal and inferiority.
She spoke to me rudely, walking into the house without kicking her shoes off,
" Who are you?"
I was quite uneasy about her presence. David told me that he would always be out. Then, how did this woman come here? Did she live here? But.. David told me that I was the only woman who got to come here.
I replied with a forced smile,
" Kiera.. Kiera Stevens..And you?"
She smiled back arrogantly, still judging me with a scowl on her face,
" Cassendra Mitchell.. Luca's fiancee. You must be David's girlfriend? Luca never allows anyone to come here. I was heading for the next town. So I just thought of giving it a visit since it's my fiance's home."
The stab that I felt inside my heart was unbearable as if something was poking my heart with a knife. So, Luca had a fiancee here? What did you think of yourself, Kiera? His girlfriend?
I swallowed the pain heavily. No more strength left for me to clear who I was. Thankfully, David barged inside the room fast and blurted impolitely,
" Miss Mitchell! Luca doesn't approve of anyone here. Please leave if he gets mad at you."
The girl named Cassandra asked back grimly,
" Who is she then?"
David also hid the truth, leading her way out,
" Friend! She will stay for a few days here. You must leave now!"
Cassandra scoffed back, going out with David,
" Oh! I thought, she is the new whore of Luca! "
I dropped to my knees as soon as the door closed. Despite everything, I couldn't hold back the tears. No..I can't fall in love with him...He..he can never be mine...He has a fiancee...But why does it hurt? Does love hurt like this?