Matteo's Eyes

Chapter 15

His eyes open and he laughs weakly, "Bullet proof vest. I'm fine just a broken rib or two. You hitting my chest didn't help." I hit his chest again mad at him for doing that to me.

"You idiot. You scared me." He tries to sit up but I have to help him. Once he's up enough I hug him.

"Ouch. That hurts."

"I don't care." I squeeze him tighter. Shay gives in and wraps his arms around me. "Don't ever do that again or I will personally kill you."

Shay laughs and I help him up.

"Shay are you okay?" Mr. Orlove asks as he jogs over to carry him.

I don't hear the rest of the conversation because I am already over to Angelina and Gia helping them calm down and come back to reality.

"Ivory." Dad calls me over to him and Mom. "Are you okay?" I look at the boy that Lorenzo is now taking care of.

"Yeah, I didn't kill him so we can get information out of him. Shay saved me, again."

"Yeah we saw. Are you sure your okay though?" Mom asks me again.

"Yeah, just a little shocked thats all."

Mom and Dad hug me and then go over to Lorenzo to take care of the boy. The Orlovs left with Shay to go to the hospital. Gia is crying to her mom about how scared she was and I almost feel bad. Angelina is in the car probably crying. Matteo walks over to me.

"That was crazy." I laugh at him.

"That's all you have to say?"

"Yeah, you were a literal badass. You were about to take a bullet for Angelina." Matteo says as he turns to look at me.

"Yeah I guess I almost did."

Matteo puts his arm around my shoulder and we start walking to the cars to head home, "You are going to be one damn powerful mafia boss and I get to brag that I am your brother."

***

Everyone heads home except for Matteo, Dad, Shay, and I. Mr. Orlov took Shay to our compounds hospital and then left. Shay is still in there right now resting. Matteo, Dad, and I are standing outside of the boys cell figuring out how to go about this.

"We could light his clothes on fire, use a fire extinguisher to put it out right before his flesh burns, and then ask questions. If he doesn't answer, repeat the process." I suggest.

"No. No. I will talk. I will talk." The boy cries out from the cell.

"Well that was easy." Matteo shrugs, "Well how many of you are there?"

We start a not to long questioning process. We quickly find out that there are about 3000 men that were with Marcello and Miss Dominic. After they saved me, there were 2,500. Now Miss Dominic is leading them all in a base. The boy, who's name is Josh, says he's never been to the base.

"This was to easy. I think it's all lies." I turn to Dad after we get all the information.

"I agree but there's not much else we can do. I will keep questioning him. You guys go check on Shay." Dad walks back into the room with Josh to continue questioning him.

I leave Matteo behind and quickly walk, almost run, to go see Shay. When I walk into the med bay I see nurses trying to get Shay to stay in bad lying down.

"Shay!" I yell at him in a sharp tone. He shrinks back down into his bed. "You need to rest. No getting out of bed."

"Fine." he mumbles.

I sit next to him, "How are you feeling?"

"Better now that your here." Shay winks.

I feel myself blush but roll my eyes so he doesn't notice. "Seriously, how are you? Are your ribs broken?"

"Yeah I broke three ribs. The nurses said that they are surprised I didn't pass out from not being able to breathe." Shay proudly says, tilting his head up with a smirk like a child.

"Did they tell you how long until you will be fully healed?"

"Don't you worry, I am just fine to cuddle."

"Did they put you on pain medicine? I think you are high on something."

"Nope, I just realized how much I like you and that I want to be with you. Like I said before, I'm ready to be more than friends when you are." Shay says this part more serious.

"I'll let you know when I am ready. I've got to go. I'll check in later." I say as I quickly get up and walk out.

I walk back to my room to change out of my smoky clothes. I don't really know why but I'm still not ready to be more than friends with Shay. Well other than the fact that he dated Emily. God that bitch. I wish I could run her over with a giant truck and feed her to sharks. Shay knows most of what she did to me. He knows the basics but he doesn't know the things she said to me when it was just her and I. She would always tell me I'm fat, ugly, a disappointment, and I believed her. I still sometimes do. Confidence is something I lack and one of the many things I fake.

I change into joggers and a sports bra. I look in the mirror and stare at my stomach. Honestly I don't think I'm fat but I don't think I'm skinny either. My stomach is mostly flat with abs somewhat visible but the sides of my stomach push out a little more than I would like. I don't have an hourglass body shape like other girls. I'm shaped more like a square. Who would ever love a square?

I don't know how long I stand infront of the mirror judging my flaws, long enough that I realize someone is watching me. I look up and around my room.

"Ivy, you're beautiful." I look in the doorway and see Shay. His shirt is off but most of his stomach is covered my the wrap that goes from just below his chest to right above his belly button.

Shay has a perfect body. Muscular but still skinny, abs that are sculpted by gods, a face that I could look at forever, and eyes I get lost in. "Easy for you to say." I murmur not thinking Shay would hear it.

Shay approaches me. I watch him get closer and closer. When he stands so close I can smell him he grabs my hips gently and turns me to face him, "I think you are perfect. Your body is amazing and your face is absolutely beautiful." he pauses letting his hands run up and down the sides of me lightly and slowly sending chills through my body. "More importantly though your personality is indescribable. You are able to be a badass when needed but you aren't cold hearted. You can comfort anyone and make them feel better. You-you...you're just perfect Ivy." When he finishes talking his hands are on my checks and his thumb is brushing away a tear that fell. I don't know when I started crying but I did.

"Do you know all the things she used to say to me?" I look up at Shay.

"No, but I heard some of them when I dated her." Of course she still talks bad about me.

"She would always say I'm fat, ugly, a disappoint,. She would always say that no one could ever love me. Then when you dated her I started to believe her even more than before because the only guy I ever liked, chose her."

Shay bites the inside of his cheek, "I'm so sorry Ivy. I'm so sorry." He puts his forehead against mine with his hands still on either side of my face.