the abused wife of the Mafia King

Chapter19

Nicolas POV

I put on my robe and ran after her, only to meet confused Long in the hallway,

“Where did Lana go”, I asked him as I looked around to see if I could find Lana, but she was long gone.

“What happened, I just saw her crying while running out of here, what did she see?”, Long asked me.

I put my face in my palm and breathe in.

“Why would you bring her here Long, I was inside the room with my number one”, I tell Long as he shakes his head, knowing exactly what's wrong happened here.

Long signs and looks around.

“We tried calling you, but you weren't answering, and Lana was having this chest pain and she kept saying that something is wrong with you, she insisted to come and see if you are okay”, he tells me as he starts to walk back to the front of the house.

I look at long in shock, what did he mean by Lana was worried about me and was having chest pain.

I stop Long, and ask him, “What do you mean she was having chest pain?”,

He looks at me and with his same emotionless face, he says, “We were at the office when she held her chest and said she was feeling some sort of pain, I asked her what happened but she couldn't describe the pain, she said that she has a feeling that you are not okay, I insisted to take her to the hospital, but she refused to go unless she makes sure you are okay. We both tried calling you, but there was no response, so I got worried, and we came here”.

As soon as Long finished with his explanation, I had guilt and shame wash over me.

Lana was worried about me this whole time and I was here f*****g someone.

“I am such an i***t” I Cures myself.

“I'll go make sure she is, okay?” Long says as he walks away from me.

I return to my room to change when I get a call from Long.

“You need to come down to the front, Lana is unconscious”.

As soon as I heard that Lana was unconscious, I just put on my shorts and ran straight out, by the time I got outside, Long was carrying Lana in his arms walking inside the house.

“Hand her over and call the doctor”, I yelled out, panicking, wishing that she was not hurt.

I carried her in my arms, and she felt like a piece of paper, she was thin and weak, I wanted to treasure her but again, the thought of her leaving came into my mind.

I gently placed her on the bed and went to the bathroom to wet a towel, I came back and placed it on her forehead, took another wet towel, and cleaned her face.

20 minutes later the doctor came and examined her.

“She is fine, but she is very weak, she has no iron in her body, and not enough nutrients,” the doctor said.

She handed me a piece of paper with scribble on it.

“I have written down a few medicines on this paper, just make sure she gets enough rest and a lot of food and this medicine three times a day.

I read the paper, and it was a bunch of vitamins, so I handed the paper to Long and without a question, he left to get the medicines from the pharmacy.

I went and set beside Lana, holding her hand as I begged for her forgiveness, but she did not listen, she was sleeping without a word.

After a few hours of sitting beside her, she finally regained consciousness,

“Lana, hay, you are okay,” I said as I helped her sit up gently.

She looked at me with happy puppy eyes before she put her head down to hide the feelings of brokenness.

“I am so sorry for what you had to witness before,” I quickly apologized as I held her chin up.

Tears gathered in her eyes, but she refused to let them drop.

And soon there was a sad smile that formed up on her face.

“You do not have to apologize; I should be the one to apologize. I entered your room without your permission again, plus Nicolas, you are not my boyfriend, or I am not your girlfriend for me to get upset at your action”, she said, and every word of her came out like an arrow piercing my heart.

I tried to touch her face, but she moved away.

She was holding on to a lot of emotions and it was noticeably clear, but she did her ultimate best not to keep everything inside.

“I am sorry for making you and Long worried, I think I should take my leave now,” she said as she tried to get off the bed,

I held her wrist and pushed her back on the bed.

“The doctor said you need complete bed rest for a couple of days until all the vitamins and iron in your body levels back to normal,” I said in a deep voice.

She looked at me with pitiful eyes before she put a mask on her emotions and said, “Thank you Sir Nicolas for caring for me, but I really want to leave now.”

Suddenly she was not the girl who was king and warm, she was cold and careless.

Her words were doing more damage than I thought. Anger started rising within, and I was not able to control my next move.

“You will not step a foot out of here until you are all healed up, and if you continue to resist, I will tie you up the way I tied up the girl in the room,” I said in anger, like the ruthless mafia I am.

Her eyes filled up with tears and misery, I wanted to take back everything I said to her, but I could not, I needed to make sure she stayed put.

I got up and walked out of the room, without glancing another look towards her.

Just as I stepped out her door, Long came with all the medications.

‘” Long, can you stay with Lana, and make sure she is well cared for,” I asked as I walked away from her room.

Long shook his head in approval before he walked inside the room and closed the door behind him.