CHAPTER 42

Anna's POV.

I felt so upset with how Constance was acting, where is Jolyn?” I asked her.

At least that made her raise her head to look and answer me, “Master Lucius fired her”.

“Fired her?” At this point, I was done with the formal tone and the way she was speaking to me, although I felt overjoyed I wouldn't have to see Jolyn's rude self ever.

I still felt hurt by the way Constance was treating me, I knew I had to rattle her up. I cleared my throat gently, making my tone sharper and clearer.

“Constance, if this is how you're also going to treat me you'll force my hand to also report to Lucius that I'm being made to feel like an outsider by you”.

Her head shot up immediately, I could see the fear and worry in her Amber eyes. Good, I thought to myself at least she thinks I'm being serious right now.

“What do you want from me? I'm trying not to get into trouble. All of us are, you are now the wife of our master, and your status has changed, things have to also change” She said, softly but her frustration was evident.

“Says who huh? I don't care about your mafia rules. I'm not a figurehead, I'm an actual person and I want to be treated as one”.

Constance smiled sadly. “You can afford to not care because you're at the top in any situation Master Lucius can do his best to protect you from the consequences. But not us, we're the lowest class. Nobody cares about us”.

I don't know how exactly but what she said made me understand her and the others' position but still, I believed we could all still be friends secretly.

“I care Constance, and I'm not going to let that happen to any of you. I'm not asking you to get into trouble but please when the doors are closed can you be my friend.”

Constance smiled softly before responding, “Of course”.

I breathed out a breath of relief audibly “Finally, a real person I can talk to” Constance laughed at my visible relief.

I plopped back on my bed feeling as though a heavy burden had been lifted from my chest, with nasty Jolyn gone I could get Gracie back.

“So you rang, I'm assuming you needed something?” Constance said.

“Yes I'm famished and I would rather have my lunch in my bedroom today.”

Constance arched an amused brow at me, I rolled my eyes “Don't even ask.”

She raised her hands “Okay okay keep your secrets, I'll be right back with your food.”

“Thank you,” I said as she closed the door behind herself.

I let out another tense breath in a puff, now I felt bad for the way I spoke to Lucius earlier, especially closing the door while he was still trying to say something. Although I don't agree with everything he said still that wasn't the way to handle things.

Constance returned with my meal in no time, my tummy rumbled as I perceived the sweet aroma of beef stir-fried spaghetti.

Constance smiled and shook her head “I'll leave you to enjoy your meal. I have to see to some things for the house.”

I nodded my mouth full giving her a thumbs up. Just as she was about to open the door and leave I swallowed quickly and took a sip of water.

“Wait”, she turned around “Yes? Do you need something else?”

“No not I was wondering if you could tell Gracie I need to see her?”

“I Would love to but it's beyond my power in this house I may be the head maiden but where a person like Matias is involved in the positioning only a member of the Moretti family can intervene”.

I felt saddened by the fact, then an idea quickly popped into my head.

“Well, I'm now an official member of the Moretti family through marriage to the head of the clan. Tell Gracie she is to report back as my maid tomorrow morning”.

Constance had a surprised but low-key proud look on her face “As you wish Mrs Moreti” she bowed slightly and left the room.

I continued eating my meal in relish and by the time I was done, I immediately felt a heavy dose of sleep taking over me. I smiled to myself remembering my brother when this happens to me he'll tease me all day.

I missed him so sorely, that my eyes were half open when I heard a firm knock on my door. I murmured, “Come in.”I knew the person at the door definitely couldn't hear me but I was too drowsy to care.

I barely heard my door Creek open then I didn't know who but someone used the sunlight blinds making the room completely dark which I appreciated.

I didn't hear the person leave which bothered me slightly forcing myself. I dragged my consciousness from sleep as I felt the bed dip.

I wanted to panic immediately but I heard his voice “Relax it's me”

“Ohh okay,” I said awkwardly wondering why Lucius could be in my room especially when I knew I had upset him this afternoon.

Reading my thoughts he explained himself “I came here to find out if we're good, I was just trying to make you understand earlier that your safety is my priority and ….”

I found his hand in the dark stopping the flow of words “I understand, I want to apologize for how I reacted especially for walking out on you.”

He found me in the dark and pulled me to himself, whispering in my ear “It's fine, let's not fight again, it's so draining”

“I agree,” I whispered.

Something about the way he held me reminded me of the intimate moment we had shared in Paris and to be honest I wanted the experience again.

Feeling bold I found his lips in the dark, he responded well and I whispered “I want you”.

He didn't hold back in giving me what I desired the most, bringing me to the peak of pleasure.

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Lucius POV.

After I had my lunch I opened my Macbook to finish up some work. When I wasn't fighting or engaging in something violent and illegal, it was office work endlessly.

It's a life of hard work being a mafia boss, I ran my fingers through my head as she crossed my thoughts again. Call it selfish but I almost wished I never met Anna. She threw off my emotions way too easily.

The last time I felt this emotionally unstable was when I lost my parents. I was always occupied with sad thoughts of them that crippled me and clouded my mind till it sucked the motivation for life out of me.

Shutting my laptop off I massaged my temples thinking what the fuck to do with how this girl Anna was making me feel. Just the mere thought that I upset her isn't letting me concentrate and also the fact that she went out today.

If I find out she met up with her ex-boyfriend today, honestly, I'm going to skin him alive. I can't imagine another man laying his hands on my Anna.

I also wanted to tell her about the discussion I had with my family and the rule they had reminded me about, we needed to start working on getting pregnant immediately so they wouldn't have any arguments to bring up in a year.

Part of why I fired Joyln too was because of my uncle, if he put her there he could use her to manipulate things against Anna according to his bidding.

I'd seen him do it countless times, he took down the East Coast mafia clan by using the head maid to poison the family. Although I doubted he'd take it that far, I still had to be careful and not put Anna at risk.

Still, the faster she gets pregnant the better, and we have to be very tight-lipped about secrecy would be our biggest Ally.

I stood up immediately, deciding to put all these thoughts and questions to an end. Before typing in the code I noticed an email titled ‘Information on Chase Lancaster Monterio’.

I was tempted to open it and read, but right now I have something else to do and I refuse to be distracted by it.

I typed in the code and left my room. I stood in front of her room for a minute deliberately on whether to knock or not. A couple of maids sighted me and almost ran away but not without the look of amusement I saw cross their faces.

I finally knocked, but I barely heard a response. I almost turned back feeling maybe she didn't want to talk to me, but I remembered unlike my room she didn't have a camera and could see who was at the door.

I pushed her door open to see her asleep. I knew I should just turn back to my room but I couldn't resist. I put the blinds down and just wanted to hold her for a minute but she jerked up.

I had to calm her down and explain I was the one, awkwardly I tried apologizing but she surprised me by cutting me off with a proper apology.

To say I was surprised is the least I could use to describe how I felt. I didn't want to give away too much of my feelings so I held her close telling her we shouldn't fight often.

I could feel she wanted me and when she kissed me I doubted I had the restraint to hold back, I was glad when she told me she needed me too. Amid the passion I had long forgotten the other issues that I wanted to talk about. All that mattered at this moment was the pleasure we both shared.