Mrs. Armani

Chapter 35

Trigger warning: mention of attempted suicide

chapter 35

One year ago.

There was a hollowness& heaviness in Nickolas's heart that weighed against his chest, as he sat in his Rolls Royce.

Since when had the ecstasy of closing deals and breaking financial records stopped giving him the high that he chased?

He knew the answer, he just didn't like it.

His beautiful wife.

She was the symbol of everything Nickolas should've stayed away from. For him, her laughter reverberated through space and time, and reached out to him, holding him in her grip, her smiles were a drug, and he was a goddamn addict, wanting her over and over again, or the way she tied her hair whenever she went over her papers and ever so often a single tendril would fall over her face, and Nickolas had the urge to put it back so that he would have the simple pleasurable opportunity of touching her or, or perhaps when she simply looked at him.

When she bloody looked at him with those eyes.

When she looked at him, he felt as though he had conquered everything there was to. He had the entirety of the universe in him palm, when she gave him even an ounce of her attention.

It was Friday.

He had missed their fourteenth dinner date together.  He was a bastard. He knew that. He missed every one of the fourteen dates with intention.

He was never supposed to be this enamoured with her.

He had turned into a fool for her.

She was changing his every fibre and very core of his being.

He simply could not afford that.

He had to put at least a semblance of distance between them.

His enemies were already waiting for even the slightest slip by him and Vittoria was his biggest weakness.

Vittoria was his everything.

Hence, she was a target, a perennial target for his enemies.

He was never supposed to meet her.

It was always supposed to be him, in the shadows, watching her, but doing that had become unbearable& then he did meet her, and she had forever changed him.

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Present day.

It had been exactly 1 grand total day since she had left him in the beach house. Now she lay here, in Gianni's condo.  Nickolas had called up her phone every goddamn hour since she had left. She had threw her phone away, somewhere in Gianni's living room. Gianni had been home for her almost the entire day today, Ada had come over last night, staying with her, holding her close as she wept.

Gianni and Ada had gone for a quick grocery run.

Vittoria heard the door to her room open, as Gianni and Ada got back with bags of groceries set on the table in the living room.

"She looks like shit." Gianni said as she sat next to Vittoria on the bed. "She does." Ada quipped.

"Well, for the record, I feel like shit." Vittoria said as she stretched her arms, she had been woken up from her nap, just a few minutes before they returned.

"We got Damien." Gianni said, as Damien walked inside, cautiously.

"Vittoria.." he started.

"Start talking, big shot, tell her everything she needs to know." Ada commanded.

He looked at her, before his gaze drifted back to Vittoria.

"I want you to know is that Nickolas doesn't have whatsoever feelings for Heidi, it was all more like a convenient arranged marriage, I know it doesn't seem like it from the pictures, but Nickolas didn't care for Heidi that very much, it's just that Heidi started to get obsessed with him, it wasn't all pretty." Damien said as he shook his head.

"What do you mean? Why didn't you tell me all this before?" Vittoria said frowning.

"Look, to be honest, I didn't think it would go this far, I thought Nickolas would've reassured you and Heidi would've left, but since none of those things have happened, I have to tell you now- Heidi didn't take it very well that he didn't want to get married to her," Damien said, "she lost her mind when she realised that he was going through with marrying you, she thought he would eventually get rid of you and go back to her, so when she realised that he had every intention of marrying you, she tired to hurt herself, really badly."

Vittoria gulped. "What happened then?"

"She tired to hang her self, but not before threatening me." Damien spoke, he looked up at her.

"Why would she threaten you?" Vittoria sat up.

"She was pregnant at that time," Damien said, he glanced at Ada with nervousness, "with my child."

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