Luca silently followed behind Sophia and showed her the way when required.
A word not passing between them after the showdown back inside the maze.
He wasn’t speechless.
He was a confused mess.
Nothing was clicking.
While he was in his head thinking how he was going to kill and destroy his enemies to remove the thoughts of Sophia, he didn’t notice her trying to jump over a wire and that wire was…
He heard her gasp and then “Ah ah ah. Ow…”
He immediately sprinted towards her and on seeing the wire, he pulled her away from it.
His heart pounded as he saw how her leg had strained the wire from its position.
He lifted her slowly away from it.
His eyes were not straying away from her legs’ connection with the wire.
It wasn’t just a normal electric wire.
That was for an alarm which was going to take off in…
“Shit” Luca cussed.
This place if they don’t leave soon and maybe switch it off would go up in flames and he didn’t want to be amongst the items to enhance the fire.
Sophia moaned where he dropped her on the ground.
Another time he would’ve loved to hear more of that sound however now they needed to leave here very fast.
The maze’s leaves were strewn everywhere but soon would be up in flames, he crawled to her side and looked down on her leg.
Everywhere was dark but he knew something was up on her leg with how she was moaning in pain.
“We need to leave here” he said to her and stood up.
He would lift her since her leg wasn’t all good.
The alarm blared and he groaned at the reminder.
This was the reason this place was restricted and no one was allowed.
Not even his securities.
The maze was close to his fence but nothing was impossible even with the barbed wire lining the fence.
The mafia could do anything to get to their enemy and now he had a vulnerable woman by his side and a fault in his already made out plans.
He could leave this place but no.
He had someone to protect now.
“Stand up Sophia. We don’t have time. Should I carry you?” He would if she said the words and not go on with the stubbornness he knew she was going to go with.
“No. I can walk on my own” she tried standing up on one leg, trying to find balance and purchase with the air and all she got was stumbling on her feet and almost falling with a squeal when Luca muttered words beneath his breath and threw her over his shoulders.
Her body hung upside down and she squirmed on his shoulder wanting to come down but he began moving causing her to bounce. Enjoying the story? Read on at g.com.
She whimpered, scratching against his back.
“Put me down Luca” she bit out.
“You don’t expect…to…ah…put me down” she choked and Luca stopped and dropped her back on the ground.
He looked out at the front, checking how far to the exit they were and they still had a long way to go.
How far did she run off?
He looked behind him and groaned at the blaring sound of his alarm.
“I could’ve thrown up my guts like that” he was brought back from his appraisal by Sophia’s voice and her limping to stand close to the mazes’ hedge walls.
A fleeting thought passed through his head of leaving her here.
At least she would let him be.
Her trouble and arguments would end.
He would be free.
But can he?
He shook off those thoughts and sauntered his way to her.
If she died, he was going to next.
The thought of her not existing in the same time and world with him was the highest level of torture and torment he could ever undergo.
He wouldn’t tell her but even after she left his home his eyes would forever be with her.
When she marries, gives birth to children with her husband.
Luca groaned at that word.
Husband.
Another man’s hand on her body, his lips kissing a lip he just kissed and felt like the highest intoxicant one could ever absorb into his body.
That was nirvana.
He couldn’t even comprehend those images in his head.
It felt like a sin to think about her with another man and give birth to his children.
He was hers.
“…I don’t usually run before you brought me to this prison—”
He dragged her face to his eyes, he didn’t even know she’d been talking.
What a garrulous little brat. Enjoying the story? Read on at g.com.
They could die here and she would still talk about why she was dying alongside him.
He chuckled and kissed her nose.
Sophia ceased talking, her eyes trying to decipher the man in front of him.
She didn’t know the time or how much time had gone by but the day wasn’t bright yet but she could feel a ghost of a smile on his face.
What was happening between them?
The back and forth.
She pushed back into the walls “Stop touching me without my consent” she didn’t care.
He could touch her for all she cared but she needed to attain self respect and control.
“You seem to like it when I touch you,” he said.
She did but she didn’t have to.
“Why do you hate me?” He asked, his voice low and sad.
Sophia’s breath catches and she takes a slow breath.
She had never heard his voice this broken and down.
She couldn’t answer but she had an answer.
Plenty of reasons.
Yes, he killed her father in cold blood.
She can’t forgive him.
She said nothing and stared straight at his silhouette and how his eyes crinkled before “Let’s get out of here. This place is about to blow in minutes. I don’t know if you’ve been hearing that alarm that’s been blaring for the past few minutes but I’m outta here” he smoothly changed the topic and stepped away.
She breathed out, missing the heat from his body.
She had heard the alarm and thought it was an electrical issue or something.
He had problems himself so his properties weren’t an exception.
“Ok” she limped to his side.
Not knowing what she was doing but she needed it.
She touched his shoulders “You can carry me” she said answering his former question.