Flashback Continues...
Phoebe Point of View
Hmm, why is my head feeling so light?
Woah, I feel well rested and well spent all thanks to Nicco. I thought he would leave me after making love once but I didn't know he is an insatiable monster.
Heavens, I wonder where he get such energy from.
"You are smiling again?" I heard his hoarse just-woke-up voice which did things in my stomach. It has been two days and we are still in bed and credit goes to Nicco who is teaching me love making skills and positions so skillfully that even a novice like me understood the depth of seduction.
Two days... Oh God!
I don't know how he managed to feed me in the bed when he did not even leave me and I did not even see any servants in his penthouse.
"You are awake." I stated moving out of his arms to flex my muscles. My body is so stiff from all the tumbling, not to forget how twisted I had to curve my body every time he was trying something new with me.
"I was hit by bright light suddenly which woke me up. I thought it was mid day sun but realized that it came from someone in my arms who smiled widely." I raised my eyebrows up and down at his impressive dialogue.
Oh, so he is now practicing flirting with me. Not bad. I almost, almost smiled at his pick up line but controlled myself.
"Well, your pick up lines won't work on me. I'm still angry at you so it's better you don't tick my fury." I answered a little arrogantly, hiding my smile. I did not forgive him for stranding me all those months. I suffered a lot because of him and I agree he suffered too but I am not going to forgive him that easily.
What worse is, he doesn't even tell me the reason for what he did. One thing is clear, he did not avoid me for what foolish act I did and when I asked him the reason, he ignored me and indulged me with bed activities.
Such a sly man!
I looked over to him again and stood up from bed feeling very weak in the lower part of my body. My legs shook a little and there was a stinging ache in my lover stomach.
Oh my, I'm so sore!
"Bella" He sighed and opened his arms for me. "Come here." He ordered, expecting me to come to him as ordered. I shook my head in defiance and continued to walk over to the closet to dress myself in some simple shirt.
Once I'm back in a shirt, Nicco gazed up at me and called me to him again but this time, I went him not able to ignore his serious look.
When I was safely wrapped in his arms, he kissed my forehead and sighed long. "I was ten years only when my mother died in an accident, I was so heartbroken. I was looking for my father to lend his shoulder to cry but I found him nowhere. My mother's dead body was on hospital bed and I was alone with her, didn't know what to do." He looked so sad and his voice thinned in emotion. His arms tightened their hold me which I didn't mind.
"Where was your father, then?" I asked cautiously as I observed hardness in his tone whenever he mentioned his father.
"I called my father but he did not care to pick the calls up. Cops arrived and tried to contact my father which was futile as well. I did not want to leave my mother in the hands of stranger to cremate her so I held her to me tightly waiting for my father to come. I was left alone with my dead mother in the hospital for two days but I did not receive any message from him. I didn't know what to do, I was just ten and I saw the real volume of pain and betrayal at such a sensitive situation. Two days later, a very nice cop got hold of my grandma's contact number and contacted her about the situation."
I cannot fathom the inner battle a ten old went through all alone feeling lost and helpless. No amount of tears can wash away such grief that he had experienced.
Niccolo looked at me with sadness filled eyes and hugged me closer proceeding further.
"Grandma was in Italy at that time so she asked uncle to take care of the situation before she arrives. A person who looked like father reached hospital with a lady by his side. The cops explained him the situation and when he asked his men to look for whereabouts of my father, he came to know that he was having his leisure time with his mistress in Greece." He laughed humorlessly but the fire, the anger in his eyes which flamed up with just a thought of his father explains how much he hates that man.
If I know who his father is, I will not care about the consequences and just kill him with my own bare hands.
That person is not a human at all. I wish I had the power to curse, If I can I want to curse him to undergo the agony Nicco went, ten folds more. I wish one day Nicco gets the power to crush that man emotionally, mentally and physically.
"Ssh, it's okay. We will talk about this later." I whispered and hugged his head close to my chest and ran my hand through his hair, massage his head slowly. He shook his head and went on to tell what happened later.
But I did not understand how his past is related to leaving me...
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