Betrothed To The Mafia Lord novel Chapter 48

Luca’s POV

I placed Aria carefully into the back seat of my car before sliding in and settling in carefully beside her. Her head wobbled around the seat uncontrollably and I held her against my side as the driver started the car and started to pull out of the spot it was packed in, into the busy streets once again.

Once the car was moving at a steady pace again, I loosened my arms from around Aria’s body and placed her until she was leaning the side of the door with her head leaning backwards against the headrest, to avoid it from hitting the window of the car incase it jolts up unexpectedly again like it has been doing.

Aria mumbled something incoherent and I leaned towards the front of where I was sitting and clicked on a black button, and a dark glass slid up immediately, demarcating the back side of the car from the front and giving me much needed privacy.

Showing any kind of affection before my guards wasn’t something I was used to, and I didn’t want them to start thinking I wasn’t the cold, heartless person they used to think I was, hence the demarcation glass– because I was leaning towards Aria in the next second and touching my hand lightly against her forehead to check if she was running temperature, which she thankfully wasn’t.

She moved her head around without opening her eyes and I moved my fingers through her hair slowly, watching her deep in announcing state, a deep feeling of restlessness settling above her in such a huge wave, to the extent that I was able to tell myself.

“You’re fine now.” I whispered quietly as I moved my fingers through her hair once again, feeling my chest squeeze together tightly and tenderly when her face scrunched up for a few seconds before relaxing once again.

I was hoping none of the drugs those boys had injected into her wasn’t going to have any serious effect on her, feeling anger and rage course through my veins and blood at the thought of Ivan injecting the said drugs into her veins just to have his sick way with her. I was tempted to order the car to be turned back around just so I could get back there and beat his ass up.

But Aria was my complete priority now and all that matters now was about me getting her safely to the hospital and ensuring that she was truly fine.

I dug out my phone from my pocket and turned my data on almost immediately, wincing and quickly silencing the phone and hearing a thousand pings go off at once, a quick second later as tons of notifications came into my phone all at once.

The plentiest notifications seemed to be coming in from my gmail app and I tapped on the icon first and it opened immediately. The first thing my eyes captured before the app automatically refreshes itself was that particular share offer from a certain company — a particular email which I had promised myself I was going to hand over to my secretaries to check them out and get back to me, but had completely forgotten about it until this very moment.

They might have been thinking about how rude I was and how I hadn’t even bothered gracing them with a single reply.

But it definitely wasn’t like that one bit.

The tons of emails that had come in all had business-related headings and I scrolled through everything without bothering to open any of the messages, knowing damn well that I wasn’t going to be opening any of those emails.

I was going to have to end up giving this particular email up and handling it over to my secretaries to handle and manage themselves and create a new one once again, the way I had done with my last two emails which I had ended up giving up due to the amount of deals that comes in from there, which I was way too busy to handle on my own.

I closed the email app without clicking on any of the mails and clicked on my iMessage app, completely turning a blind app to the rest of the social media related apps where thousands of notifications were waiting for me.

Some messages were waiting for me already like I had expected, and I scrolled through the list of new messages, seeing that James had sent in a couple of new messages… but I wasn’t in the mood to discuss a thing with him yet, so I didn’t bother replying to the text or even clicking it open before scrolling past it. There was a few more messages from one of the heads of one of my warehouses but I ignored it, promising myself I was going to see it later tonight.

And with that, I exited the app and clicked on the side of the button on my phone, turning off the screen of the phone before I placed it on one of my thigh and glanced upwards from the demarcation glass as I slowing ran my hands through my hair, my curls tangled against each other a little, due to the fact that I had combed my fingers through it a thousand times today, thereby ruining the curls and whatever hair treatments I had put into it this morning.

The car suddenly moved upwards and into a porthole and the back of the car moved upwards unexpectedly. I quickly reached my hand out to steady Aria as she bounced around on the seat before she mistakenly end up hitting her head against the window or the car or worse, the roof.

The car got steady once again and I slowly untangled my hand from her arm and watched as she relaxed against the backrest of the seat once again. I checked her pulse and placed my fingers against her nose trills to ensure that she was still breathing perfectly, which it seemed like she was doing, thankfully.

The car finally slowed down before stopping and parking into a particular spot in the hospital premises. I clicked on the same black button and the dark glass which had demarcated the car slowly slid down, back into its place just as my side of the car got pulled open by the driver.

“I got out of the car and pulled Aria into my arm as I lifted to my full height and started to make my way into the kitchen. Aria felt extremely light like I had expected and I raised her upwards until she was pressed up against my chest as I carefully but quickly made my way into the hospital building. The doctors and nurses fell around themselves as soon as they sighted me and a stretcher got wheeled out some moments later and I carefully laid her on it, with the help of a male nurse– even though I didn’t need any help with laying her down on the stretcher– I mean, she weighted next to nothing in my arms.

She got wheeled into a room upstairs and I waited outside and paced around in the hallway as they busied over her inside the hospital room.

Not wanting to stay still because I know I was going to start to imagine different bad things that could end up happening to Aria— and also not wanting to keep on walking about because my whole body was starting to really hurt again and I could already feel my body system start to weaken once again, the way it had almost ended up shutting down, last night.

I ended up leaning against a wall and I banged my head against the wall a few times, and feeling my headache grow more intense with every smack and hit against the wall.

My phone started to vibrate in my suit pockets and I dug the phone out in the next second.

James' name flashed on the screen of the phone but I ended the call and inserted the phone back into my pocket once again. I knew he wasn’t going to call again, which I was grateful and thankful for.

I was feeling almost overwhelmed at this moment, the adrenaline— that had been swimming through my whole body since the moment I had received the first and last text from Aria today, was starting to wane off and I was starting to really feel weak and drained.

A doctor in a really long, white coat walked out of the room Aria was being taken care of and I watched as he glanced around the hallway until he sighted me. He walked towards me and stopped a few feet away from the spot which I was standing in.

Be held a hand out with a small tip of his head, “Mr Ricci, a good evening to you.”

There was nothing good about the damn evening.

I wanted to snap those same words back to him but fought the urge back down as soon as it popped up into my head before deciding to remain quiet and just stare at him until he dropped his outstretched hand.

“How is she?” I asked after a few seconds and watched as he moved his shoulders a little in a cost that appeared almost too wide for his shoulders, and too big for his frame.

“She is out of immediate danger, thankfully.” He paused and clasped his hands at the front of his stomach before continuing, “At least, for now.”

The intense relief that I had started to feel trickled out immediately like a lit candle flickering off the moment a light gush of wind blew by and I stared at him in confusion – which only lasted for a few seconds before a scowl started to form on my face.

“What do you mean by that?” I demanded as I pushed off the wall I was still leaning against and hadn’t bothered pushing off when the doctor had started to talk to me, until this very instant, that is.

“It means that, she was in a really grave danger and I super glad you had brought her into the hospital when you did, without waiting a moment longer.” The doctor started to say again and my mind started to move around in my head as I tried to remember if Aria had acted in any kind of weird way in the car that could have given off the fact that she was in grave danger, but came up with nothing.

“Wait… what did she get injected with?” I asked after a few minutes and the doctor cleared his throat before starting to reply.

“A set of very hard drugs .”

My eyes widened a tiny fraction, a little ding going off in my head that sent a trill of terror sliding down my spine.

Those boys were completely dead meats at this point.

“Which kind of drugs?” I rephrased, my chest tightening with the amount of fear that was gripping it. I know the amount of damage a little sniff of injecting hard drugs into the body could cause, but on hearing that more than one drug got injected into her, made my head start to feel like it was spinning a little.

“Let’s head into the office, I’ll explain further in there and we can talk about the operation which she is going to be undergoing in an hour.” The doctor started to say as he started to move away, towards the end of the hallway which I figured was the way to his said office.

“She is going to need surgery?” I demanded, the first thing I said after getting into his office and sinking gratefully into the seat on the other side of his table.

“A brain surgery, yes. And it is going to be almost fifty/fifty. Which means it could go right or wrong.”

“The fuck? Why? Is it that bad?” I echoed out in a low voice and the doctor nodded his head once before leaning forward in his seat and placing his hands on the empty spot before him, on the table.

“It honestly it.” He paused and continued a few seconds later as he started to search though a pile of files on his table for something.

“Her brain suffered a shock, which was a really risky thing. I am amazed that she was still able to breathe without the aid of an oxygen mask when you had gotten her here.”

“Fuck.” I whispered, glancing downwards at my feet and breathing out a harsh sigh.

“We found ecstasy, heroine and two more hard drugs which we were unable to identify at that moment when we had carried out a test on her. And when the mixture of drugs got injected into her blood, her brain had gone into shock immediately, bruising a very sensitive part of her brain in that same moment.”

Fuck.

Fucking fuck!

Just what had those stupid set of useless boys gotten my little cousin into?

I was going to end us strangling them to death if anything happens to her.