One Night Assassin

|CHAPTER 18| |Feeling isn't just a word|

|CHAPTER 18|

|Feeling isn't just a word|

Just sitting there, waiting. I have to say, it was pretty nerve racking considering the person I was waiting for had more dirt with the cops than any known serial killer.

"I got it! I'm not a kid you know, I can walk myself out."

Recognizing the deep voice clear as day, I roll my eyes before standing up. And low and behold, the sight of Adriano and a police officer become clear the moment they come around the corner of the hallways from the jail cells. I was a bit taken aback when I saw Adriano's disheveled appearance. His raven black hair is a disarray of messy long curls as his wrinkled clothes reflected something similar.

The moment his eyes met mine, he new how raged I was by the look of fury that was radiating in my eyes.

"Luna, I can e-" he starts to say almost running up to me, but I put a hand between us before he could even get near.

"Let's just go home, okay?" I give him a expressionless look before turning my back to walk out. Feeling Adriano's heels on the back of mine with each step I take. Until finally making it outside.

"Please, Lune. I know you're pissed and I get that, but please just let me explain," he says from behind me the minute we make it out the door, making me stop in my tracks before slowly turning around. A glare plastered on my face, a glare that showed him how pissed I actually was.

"Let you explain how you got in a bar fight at 1 o'clock in the morning with a guy you had no recognition of?! I-I just don't even know what to do anymore. I care too much about your safety to have stuff like this happen, all the time. Which is stupid because of the type of person you are." 

Just now realizing how close Adriano's gotten by how close I was looking up into his blue eyes, I look down at my shoes to avoid the look in his eyes.

"And what person am I exactly?" His voice too monotone to even know if he was angry or just messing around. My question is never answered even after turning around to see the straight look plastered on his face.

"An assassin. You kill people, and you get no grief whatsoever for the–whatever amount of people you've killed."

"563." His expression never wavering as he continued, "In my whole business, that's the amount of assassinations I've completed," he finishes in a whisper, making sure that none of the cameras catch anything we're saying. 

But the sad thing about this scenario, was I wasn't even shocked. The fact that what he said, didn't even affect me whatsoever, even as utterly stupefying as it was. So I decided to just stand there with an unreadable expression on my face, up until I assumed he got the point of what I was currently feeling.

"Luna, I realized something last night, something I should have put in the past a while ago," he says as he starts to take closer steps towards me, making me take a few small steps backwards. His eyes were gleaming with something different than what they usually do. Something, kinder.

"Adriano, I don't know what could be different, or what you could even be talking about, but the look in your eyes right now is honestly scaring the living crap out of me," I say as he looks down straight into my eyes, but my words obviously we're obviously not taken seriously when I see the smirk slowly etching its way on his perfect lips.

"You don't see it, do you, Luna?"

"See what?" I reply even more confused than I originally was. Suddenly, his hand is softly set on my cheek, making my breath hitch at the feel of his large cold hands on the side of my face.

"You don't see the beauty and kindness you radiate. That's what attracts people to you, you're just too damn sweet for your own good. But that's the thing I love about you, you still don't take s**t from other people. And that's what I realized last night, I keep letting the fact that I can't move on from the past, hurt someone so close to me, all because I'm afraid to accept what I really feel for them." 

A smile starts to appear on his face, but I just kinda furrowed my eyebrows, a bit confused on where he was getting at. But nevertheless, I was still smiling a bit at all the nice comments he was saying about me. Suddenly, he get a millimeter from my face, so close I could feel his nose a breath hairs away from my cheek. Until finally whispering something in my ear.

"And I forbid to let that person to be the one that got away."

Those were the words, those were the words that Adriano said before finally placing his lips on top of mine, in so which made me let out a small gasp in shock, but that just gave him access to slip his tongue in my mouth.

Falling completely in bliss as I recollect my current situation. 

It actually happened, the guy that always made my stomach flutter in the weirdest ways every time I saw his rare smile, every time I got to see that glow of happiness twinkle in his eye on rare occasions, just confessed his feelings for me. It was what I wanted, what I've been wanting for the longest time I could even imagine. 

It is what I wanted, right?

It hit me, it is what I wanted, but not like this. There has to have been something, or someone who had made him change his perspective on the way he looks at me, because even he said before he couldn't be with me after everything from the past.

"Hey, are you okay, fiore." There was that nickname he'd always call me by again, another thing that he would do that'd make me smile. But now was not the time to show his effect on me, it was time to actually be an adult and face the facts.

"What made you change your mind about this whole thing?" I ask pressing my lips in a thin line, trying to not flush red at the kiss we just shared a few seconds ago. 

"What do you mean? What whole thing?" He tilts his head a bit in confusion, swiping his thumb over my cheek as he still holds my face in his large hands. I close my eyes before backing away from his grasp to look at the ground, avoiding his gaze, not wanting to end up backing out of the question in fear of what he may say.

"Us? You always said we could never work due to the whole dad/wife thing. What made you change your mind, Adriano? Better yet, who?" 

Looking back up from gazing at the ground, I see Adriano's eyebrows were furrowed. Immediately, he starts to shake his head, walking up to me and immediately wrapping his arms around my waist, making me take a shaky breath in at the feel of his arms around me, but yet still managing to keep a straight face.

"No one 'changed my mind', fiore. I've known my feelings for you ever since the day I've felt them. There was just someone who talked to me last night at the bar, and they made me realiz-"

"Nightmare, that's the thing," I say shaking my head and pushing away once again before continuing.

"I want you to realize it own your own, because if you don't, you'll always be wondering if you made the right decision being with me or not. And I don't want that, I want you to be sure, be sure of us. And that's not gonna happen until you finally figure that out for yourself." 

I finish before walking away, him not even realizing how much I didn't want to hear his earlier words. I was hoping to the goddesses that it wasn't someone else, but him who finally made him come to the conclusion that he actually had some ounce of feelings for me.

But it didn't quite work out that way...

"Luna! I'm not gonna let you walk away from this just because you think I'm not sure about the way I feel towards you! Please, that's a petty act and you know it." 

I knew it was a bit on the petty side, but I knew I couldn't risk if, I've gotten played by Bryan before, and I forbid to be hurt again for something as small as him not being sure. 

"Here's the keys, I'll meet you at home, alright? We need to discuss our game plan for the next mission. If we're gonna get these guys for good, we're gonna need to set feelings aside for a while," I say turning to face him and throwing him the car keys, an unreadable expression on his face. Masking the sadness I was feeling with a unfazed expression.

Immediately, I turn back around and start to make my way away from the scene that just played out. No matter how much I wanted to turn back around, I knew I wouldn't, I couldn't.

"Dannazione, Luna! What in the hell do I have to do in order for you to realize my feelings towards you are real ?!" He yells from behind me, making me stop in my tracks. 

I wanted to say the words I've been holding back for the longest time. I was going to, I had to.

"Realize that what I feel for you is more than just 'feelings'..."

But I didn't say it. I decided instead, I should just choose the ladder.

"I guess you'll just have to figure that out, now won't you?" Smirking a bit as I just walked away, but this time...

He didn't stop me.