Love Me Like That || ✔️

Chapter 24

R o s a l i e

I stayed in the hospital for a week and a half. The first time I had Daphne in my arms a feeling of relief surged through my body. She was fine.. yes she was small but she was fine. They took the tubes out of her nose and she was finally ready to go home.

It felt weird doing this without Lucifer. Before he went on the mission I had a dream, a dream where we were taking our little baby home from the hospital. He had his arm wrapped around my waist and he had the biggest smile I'd ever seen. But that was just a dream and he was gone.

We passed by the guards guarding by the gates of Emma and I's home with the car, you could see that they were excited to meet Daphne as they followed the car with their eyes. I slowly got out of the SUV and took Daphne out. She was laying in my arms, wrapped up in a baby pink soft blanket, her eyes shut and her chest slowly rising up and down. I entered the house and was greeted with a happy Emma and cute decorations in the living room. There were hearts dangling off the ceiling and a sweet banner dangling off the ceiling also that stated, 'Welcome Home!'. I laughed and gave her a side hug with Daphne laying in my arms,
"I can't believe you'd do this for us". Emma cupped my cheeks, "anything for my best friend and my beautiful goddaughter".

I took Daphne to her nursery and sat down on the rocking chair, slowly rocking backwards and forwards with her tiny body in my arms. The more I looked at her, the more I saw Lucifer's features. I missed him. I wanted him.

A few tears rolled down my cheeks and I wiped them before sniffling and whispering to my baby, "your father would've loved you.."

I stroked her hair, "and I love you too.. I would do anything to protect you, my Daphne.." when I looked at her, her eyes had closed and her chest was slowly going up and down. I stood up quietly and put her in her cot gently before covering her with her blanket.

Just as I turned around, I saw Vincenzo standing at the doorway and watching us. Since Lucifer's death he had been more timid and quiet, he couldn't show that he was hurt because if he showed that then our empire would've fallen. I put my index finger on my lips and walked out of the room, closing the door behind me. He looked at me worriedly, "How are you Rosalie?".
"I'm okay.. just trying to hold everything together" I replied.

Without a warning, I felt Vincenzo wrap his arms around my body. It was so unexpected, I was close with Vincenzo but I hadn't seen him upset before. He whispered, "I'm so sorry for not being able to protect him Rosalie... I am so so sorry... I miss him like crazy he was my brother and I couldn't protect him..".

I rubbed his back and pulled away from him before putting my palms on his cheeks and giving him a sad smile,
"You did everything you could, Vince. You can't have predicted this would happen and we can't do anything about it now.. so please stop blaming yourself for something that you had no control over." I placed a kiss on his cheek and hugged him.

"I couldn't protect him but I will always protect you and Daphne with my life. We're a family now. You, Me, Marco and little Daphne." He smiled down at me after pulling away.

I smiled back at him and we carried on to the living room where all of my men were standing around in with Marco sitting down with his arms crossed and a leg resting over the other. "I tried to keep them out of the house but they were too excited and wanted to see principessa." Marco shrugged as he told me.

I chuckled and tucked a strand of hair that had fallen behind my ear before replying, "well she's sleeping right now so maybe later. I'm sure you all want to meet our little Daphne and you all will, just not now". The men smiled and nodded before leaving whilst Marco sat there with a smirk.
"What are you smirking at?" Vincenzo asked him.
"I saw principessa first" Marco replied with a smirk. I rolled my eyes and chuckled,
"You're such a child at heart, Marco".

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It was 2am and I woke up with a gasp. I heavy feeling in my heart, something was definitely wrong. I got up and put on my long cardigan before walking quietly over to Daphne's nursery. I turned the door knob and got in. It was dark with just the moonlight shining into the room, I felt a breeze and looked over to the window.

It was open and the white curtain was flowing around. I quickly walked to her cot and my heart sunk. I screamed and tears started to flood my eyes. My screams filled the whole estate and in seconds Vincenzo and Marco were in the dark room with their guns up in protection as Emma also ran towards the room.

They lowered it when they realised it was just me in the room. Vincenzo looked at me and then at the cot before realising what had happened. Marco and Emma quickly kneeled down to the floor and hugged me and Emma tried to stop my tears from rolling down but it was no use. It felt like a part of me was missing again.

"My-My baby.. WHERE IS MY BABY?!" There were flames held within my eyes as my eyes continued to flood with tears. Vincenzo rubbed his face and whispered shit to himself as he kept tossing and turning in the room. He took his phone out and called one of the men, "gather the men, we're going on a hunt." He darkly said into the phone.

Within minutes rows and rows of men appeared in front of me at the living room. Emma had helped me walk to the living room to make sure I'm in a more spacious place to breathe better. She gave me a glass of water to drink as she stroked my hair, my hand shook as I brought the glass to my lips.

"Come hai potuto lasciare che questo accada eh?! Ho assunto voi figli de puttana per niente?!" (How could you let this happen huh?! Did I hire you motherfuckers for nothing?!) Vincenzo growled at the men that had their heads down in defeat. Marco stood behind him with one hand holding the other arm's wrist and his other hand holding a gun. He looked angry and sad at the same time but didn't exactly show his sadness.

"You will find who took Daphne and bring them to us. Do you understand?!" Marco shouted and immediately he got a "YES BOSS!" In unison.