Mafia Prisoner

Ch. 62 - Handle with Care

Niko POV

I heard the doctor loud and clear. I wouldn't harm her, not even a rough tug. I knew he was trying to convey no rough sex and that was no problem. Viv barely let me touch her.

I sighed walking back to the house with her next to me. My hand was spread across most of her back and even though I knew I should pull away, I couldn't. The doctor said she just needed some vitamins and medication, but I could feel something wasn't right with her.

These last few months she crept into my soul and found a permanent space there that irked me to no end. She was the worst person to ever enter my life, yet I wouldn't change having her here.

"Come upstairs with me." I tried making my voice sound less like an order but that was stretch for me.

"Why? I need to get Amy." I could see the panic in her eyes. She was either afraid of me or what might happen to the girl.

"Sophia is home. She has the girl playing with some other kid. She is fine." I reassured Viv as we stood at the bottom of the stairs.

"What friend? Your family is mean to her. I won't let her feel like that again." Her hand balled into a fist and her body tensed.

"Shhh. I promise she is fine." My hands rubbed up and down her arms. I was never caring to a woman, or anyone before. I didn't know how to be, but I knew deep inside I needed to show Viv I wasn't against her.

I don't know why or what was causing the sudden urge to comfort her but it was there. I was so tired of fighting the way I felt about her. Right now, I just needed her, even if it was just her giving me nothing more than attitude.

"I had Sophia call that Zander boy. His parents said he had been asking how she was and wanted to see her. They are all playing in the game room." Her body relaxed but her eyes still scanned the room. "Do you want to check on her?"

"Yes, please."

"Come on but then upstairs. I want you to relax the rest of today." My hand instantly went to the small of her back again guiding her down the hall.

Vivian's face lit up with a smile watching Amy and the boy play a board game together. Both Sophia and Mario were in there with her and no one would harm her. "She is safe and happy. Will you come with me now?" I pleaded. I had never done anything like this before and I didn't want to be denied before she even saw it.

"Ok." She started walking back to the steps then turned to face me. My hand wrapped to her waist wanting to feel every part of her. "Thank you! That was sweet of you to do that for her." She gave me a smile then continued up the stairs.

I didn't say a word back. No one ever called me sweet before. My body was whirling inside, mostly my stomach, from her words and that sincere smile. I made her happy and fuck that felt way too good.

We walked to my room making her tense some. "I'm not trying to take your body. I know you said it's not happening. Just please relax for me." I spoke low in her ear as I guided her to the bathroom.

"Oh my god!" She gasped as I opened the door. I had a large three-person sauna tub with a self-heater. Marie helped me fill it with oils and flower petals.

I walked to her garden after I left her at the doctor and my heart squeezed tight in my chest. She hasn't been out here since we left for Chicago. Everything was dying and I can't explain how it broke me.

I didn't know why but I took the rose heads from the vines that grew on some trees. The trees were tall with bins wrapped around the base with these green thorny vines climbing to the top of each one. It was a picture of beauty surrounded by a dead world of brown brittle flowers.