Chapter 115 Drastic Move
"What does that mean?", Isabella asked, having an inkling of what he was talking about.
"It means what it means Amore! We'll be leaving immediately!", Luciano said.
"Look...
I can't just wrap my life up here because you want me to.
I have a kid, I have a job, I have friends...
I have a life here alright!
So trust I won't be doing that!", Isabella said, rushing her breaths afterwards.
The effect she intended, very different from what Luciano interpreted.
The spit fire he subconsciously fell in love with.
"You have no choice Amore!", Luciano countered, a ghost of a smile on his face.
He didn't even listen to me, Isabella thought, starting to get exhausted from the amount of energy she'd been expending.
She watched as Luciano stood up and approached the door and unlocked it.
Unlocked it?!?!
Isabella grabbed the nearest cushion, instantly on defense.
Afterall, from what she heard people were trying to kill her.
However, unlike anything she anticipated, Andreas walked in, with some other men she recognized from the mansion.
"Good morning ma'am!", Andreas said.
The man was smart, he automatically knew the lady's role had upgraded in the Don's life.
"Wait! What really is going on?!", Isabella asked as she saw Luciano stalk towards her bedroom, where Sophia lay asleep.
"You know on second thought...
Leave everything!
We don't want to raise suspicion!"
What? Isabella asked herself.
She wasn't sure how and when vans parked downstairs, or how Luciano had located them.
It was just too much!
She planned to get decorations for her daughter's baby.
"Give her to me!", Isabella ordered as she snatched Sophia from Luciano.
Her actions made the men pause, they weren't exactly expecting any resistance.
"Look!
You can't just come into my life and demand!
That's why I left in the first place.
Me and my daughter...
We're happy here!
We didn't have to worry about getting killed till you show up...!", Isabella drawled as Luciano interrupted her.
"Leave us!", he said, the group of seven immediately following after his command.
"I'm not trying to boss you around!
You are in actual risk...!",
"Yeah cause you showed up...!", Isabella drawled as Sophia started getting fussy in her embrace.
Luciano shifted his gaze to Sophia who looked in discomfort.
"Look! Come with me!
I'll explain it all to you as soon as we get to the villa!", Luciano said, stretching out his hand.
"Villa?
What villa?
I didn't sign up to go to any villa
I'm not going with you!", Luciano heard, however he couldn't register it because he paid more cognisance to the shuffle from downstairs.
"... Why aren't you saying...!", Isabella's question was interrupted by a man from Luciano's command who came in to report danger.
"Boss! We have to leave now! Some men showed up, but we neutralized them. We don't know if there'll be more!"
Luciano turned towards Isabella once more, giving her an "I told you so" look.
She couldn't specifically say though, she had never seen him make that face.
"Do you have anything significant you want to take?!", Luciano asked gently, being patient in the face of adversity.
"Ughhh...!", Isabella drawled as she looked around.
"My phone...!", she said as she hurried to grab it.
In an unspoken agreement, Luciano approached her and carried Sophia as he waited for her to stuff some things in her bag.
They all left the apartment soon after, Isabella locking the door behind her.
Luciano simply stared at her, he thought, she thinks a lock would stop them.
The team wasted no time in evacuating mother and child immediately after the threat.
They were now on route to The Rossi Villa in Umbria.
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"I deserve to know the truth!", Isabella said, unable to bear the silence in the van.
He looked very comfortable with Sophia in his arms, and she just couldn't take it.
She just couldn't take how normal it felt.
He hadn't been in her life for more than two years.
She literally ran away from him, and now he wants to pretend like it never happened.
Like the ra never happened!
"What do you want from us!
You can't just come back and pretend like everything is fine.
You can't just come and claim the child that you...!"
"The partition!", Luciano said as he interrupted her expression.
He had given an order, thus, the driver followed it.
"What do you want from us!?!", Isabella demanded, her eyes red from holding back the tears. It was all just too much for a straight face.
He didn't know he could be that saddened from her expression, he didn't know much as he hadn't seen her for a long time.
"I don't know how you can't tell I've been losing my mind!", Luciano simply said as he faced her.
"I can't tell anything!
I haven't seen you in years!", Isabella said, making it sound really worse.
In return, silence!
Luciano didn't say anything, it was like she became even more wild.
He loved that.
He loved that she was no longer scared of him.
He wasn't aware that he stared at her with admiration, with love.
Not really expecting his presence, his advice or his green eyes staring at her...
Like that.
Isabella was getting even more confused than she intended.
It seemed like she was fighting what she used to think about.
"L'audacia di tornare nella mia vita", Isabella whispered.
Luciano simply smiled as he heard her whisper.
He hadn't planned to, his heart just grew fonder with her absence.
"My daughter will have her birthday party!", Isabella commanded, still looking through the tinted glasses.
She really didn't know what Luciano's reaction would be, she had never commanded him before.
She was his daughter too, he could at least do that.
"Our daughter will!", he corrected, his hands snuggling his daughter and his eyes on his daughter's mother.
The situation wasn't planned, but, he liked the fact that he could have both of them to himself.
Except, he had a lot of explaining to do.
It wasn't his best trait!
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Translation;
L'audacia di tornare nella mia vita - The audacity to come back into my life.