Taming My Arrogant Husband novel Chapter 46

Daniel's POV:

"Sophia!"

I immediately opened the door of her room when I heard her faint scream inside. It was already 11 pm and I just arrived from the late office meeting. 

She's having a nightmare again and she was saying the same line as when I first saw her this way. 

But this time she's shaking and she seemed more scared than before, so I decided to wake her up. 

"Sophia."

I hold her hand as I shaking her shoulder. 

"No! Please don't do this!" She's crying in her nightmare. 

"Sophia, wake up!" I dropped her hand and continued to shake her shoulders. But I was surprised when I heard the name that came out from her mouth. 

"No! Joseph, please stop doing this!"

"What the fuck!"

-'Joseph? Joseph De Lucca?'- I repeat mentally clenching my jaws. 

"Help! Somebody help me, please!"

-'Forgodsake, why is she asking for help?'-

I tried again to wake her up but the reaction she gave me left me in total shock. 

"No! Please don't touch me! No, no, no!" She jolted bringing her knees up to her chest while crying. 

"Hey, it's just me!" I tried to hold her hand but she moved away not looking at me. "Sophia, it's just me, Daniel. Look at me."

She slowly looked at me with tears flowing in her face. And her eyes widened when she finally recognised me. 

"W-what are you doing here?" Shock and confusion was written in her eyes. 

"The Joseph you were mentioning in your dreams and the Joseph you saw in the restaurant earlier were the same?"

"H-how did you know that? How did you hear---"

"You're having a nightmare and you're screaming." I said cutting her sentence. "Why are you asking for help and why are you begging him to stop?" She looked at me shaking his her head."Did he do something to you?"

She didn't answer my question. She avoided my gaze wiping her tears. 

"Thank you for waking me up. I'm fine now, you can go back to your room."

"You didn't answer my question. Did he do something you?"

She shook her head. 

"Are your nightmares connected to what happened to you in the past?" I asked her again but she remained quiet. "Sophia, tell me, did Joseph do something to you before?"

She glanced up at me then suddenly chuckled to my surprise. 

"Thank you again, Mr. Kelley but I'm fine now. You can go back to your room."

"Sophia----"

"I can't tell you everything." She paused. "No, I think it's better to say that, I can't tell you anything about my life, because we're not really a couple and we're not even friends. And soon we will separate, so it's better not to know anything about me."

"Sophia, why don't you try to tell me?"

She chuckled again but I didn't miss the couple of tears that flow down on her face. She immediately wiped them and shook her head. 

"I can't, Mr. Kelley." She cleaned up her face using her both hands. I wanted to ask again but she looked at me and plead. "Please, I want to be alone. I want to go back to sleep."

I just sighed nodding and walked towards the door. I glanced at her again but she was already lying on her bed with her back facing me. 

I took my phone and dialled my mother's number as soon as I shut the door behind me. I walked to my room while waiting for her to answer her phone. I hope she answers it as I can wait until tomorrow. 

I took a deep breath when she finally lifted it after five rings. 

"Son, what happened? Why are you calling at this late hour? Is there something happened with you or with Sophia---?"

"No, Mom we're fine." I cut her off before mention all the possible reasons why I called. 

"Then what happened, why did you call at this late hour?"

I sighed. 

"I just have something to ask with you about Sophia."

"What about your wife?"

"Mom, do you know someone named Joseph De Lucca whose related to Sophia?"

She suddenly became quite on the other line. 

"Mom?"

"How did you know him?"

"It doesn't matter how I get him, Mom. I just need to know if you know this guy?"

"Son, I'm not the right person to tell you about---"

"So that means you know him?" I heard her sighed. "Mom, please I need to know about him."

"Son..."

"She's always having nightmare, Mom, and I heard her begging and asking for help while she's mentioning the name of this Joseph guy."

"Ohh... I didn't know that, son. How is she?"

"She's fine now but she didn't want to tell me about him."

"She is the only one you can ask about it, and she alone has the right to speak about her past."

"That means I can't get any answers from you?"

"Daniel, I can't tell you anything, son."

"Then I have no choice."

"What do you mean you have no choice?"

"You don't want to give the answers, then I will get them on my own."

"Daniel Kell----"

I didn't let her finish what she was about to say as I ended the call. 

-'I'm sorry, Mom but I can't just sit down not knowing what happening around me.'-

It's not the first time I saw her shaking from her dream, but it's impossible that she's mentioning the name of the person she saw earlier at the restaurant. 

-'Is there something you haven't told me about, Sophia? Who is this Joseph De Lucca in your life and what did he do to you?'-

I remember her reaction when I came back to our table. She looked so pale. 

I shook my head as I also recalled what happened when we were in the convenient shop outside the hospital. 

-'Why did she react that way? Why would she want to chase that girl?'-

I put my phone over my bedside side table as I sat down at the edge of my bed. And I massaged my temples when the image of her crying in the mall while talking to her mother suddenly flashed in my head. 

-'Forgodsake, Sophia! You seemed like a puzzle that I had to solve first before I could get the answer.'-

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"Andrew, cancel all my appointments today."

I told Andrew the moment he entered my office the next morning. 

He frowned. 

"But why?" He asked giving me the latest reports came from the finance department. 

"I just have some important things to do."

"What about the lunch meeting with Mr. and Mrs. Giovanni at 11:30?"

"Just tell them I have an emergency or it's up to you whatever you want to tell them."

He scrunched his face then dropped himself on the couch. 

"Tsk.tsk.tsk. This is what I love my job, lying pretending and don't forget making shitty excuses when my boss is not around." He said rolling his eyes. 

"Ahh... so you're complaining? Okay, you can start to pack all your things because this will be your last day as my assistant."

"Whoa!" His eyes widened as he stood up. "Who says I'm complaining? Don't you know that I love my job? In fact, I love everything in it! I love making shitty excuses, and if you want I can make you coffee every morning!"

I smirked at him. 

"Really, I thought you're tired of being my assistant?"

"Of course, not! And don't worry about your appointments today, I'll take care of them." He said walking towards the door. 

"Where are you going?"

"I'm going to go back to my office."

I chuckled when he closed the door.

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"Mr. Kelley, there is a certain Mr. Nonato Alejandro waiting for you outside, he says he is your private investigator and he wants to talk to you."

"Okay, send him in, Denise."

I took a deep breath and a few seconds later, the private investigator I hired through the help of Andrew came inside. 

"Good afternoon, Mr. Kelley."

"Good afternoon, Mr. Alejandro, please take a seat." He sat down in front of my desk. "So, how's the work I've assigned to you? Did you get any information about my wife's background?"

"Yes, Sir, her full name was Sophia Yzabelle Anderson Del Mundo before she married you. She was born and attended high school in Bologna Italy, but continued her college here in California."

"Here in California?"

He nodded.