Chapter 163
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On seeing the furrowed brows and the befuddlement flickering in my green eyes, Alessandro sat straight on the bed, his back perched against the headboard and said, "Bring him in." His words not meant for me but at the people who swung the door open to kick a bounded person in whose upper body and legs were restrained in ropes. The person was dressed in all black as if wanting to cloak their presence from the world, but here they were trashing around on the floor like a wriggling worm, their grunts and complaints muffled by a scarf tightly wrapped around their mouth.
I didn't have to question who the person holding a frantic look was. Antonio and Piero, who had pushed the person into the room, walked to where the guy was for Piero to stomp his foot down on the person's back, earning a painful grunt from them.
"We had found this person loitering around our territory and caught them." Piero explained with a smile whilst grinding his foot further down the person's back, putting his weight into it.
"After that we interrogated him and had learned that he was from your organization." Added Antonio with a bored look on his face, his hands pushed in his pockets. "We obviously told Alessandro about it."
My lips parted, agape, mystified. They knew already?
Alessandro pulled me back by my hand to have my back flushed against his torso. He lassoed his arm around my waist and used his other hand to caress my head. "I wanted to see what you were going to do, so I said nothing to you, but here I find out that you were about to leave me for good instead of conversing with me about your problems." He sighed bummed, but somewhere also relieved that he could thwart my plans of escaping him.
Capitalizing the moment where everyone was in a conversation, the man who got caught grunted as he tried to free himself. When Piero felt the man move under his feet, the smile that was always present on his face faltered. His face darkened, and a storm brewed in those normally clear blue eyes where he unleashed his rage by crouching, his feet still on the man's back, to slam the man's face into the ground before yanking his head back by pulling on his hair- causing the man's upper body to arch.
Bringing his mouth close to the side of the man's face where the man squinted teary-eyed, letting out muffled whimpers as a trickle of blood trailed down from the gash on his forehead, Piero spoke in a tone that could have frozen peas, "Be quiet for once will you. Why the hell are you crying when you were the one who looked down on my family. Let me show you what happens when you bite off more than you can chew."
Piero pulled out a pocketknife, flipping it open and with a swift movement, placed the sharp side against the man's throat, earning a strangled sob from the man.
"Piero." Alessandro called out to his little brother with a dull expression. "Don't do it here. Cleaning the blood up will be annoying."
Piero answered with a momentary smile, his voice jovially like usual, "How rude of me! I will deal with this thing in a different room you guys can enjoy each other." and like a discarded cloak his smile fell off instantly and pulled the terrorized man by his collar before dragging him over the floor out of the room, his struggling, weeping figure being the last thing that I saw before the door closed on him.
With a blank expression, I absentmindedly pointed with a withered index finger at the door. My mouth was agape, and I had to stutter out the words. "W-Who was that?"
Alessandro, who had been cuddling me for a while with his chin resting on my shoulder, hummed, his eyes flickering for a second to the door before looking at my stupefied face. "That's Piero, Bambino."
"There's no way that, that was the same guy who always wears a stupid smile on his face."
"He gets a bit protective when his loved ones are in danger and since you're going to be his brother-in-law, this behavior should be expected."
"But... I haven't even agreed to... marry you." My voice came out drawled as I was still stunned, staring at the door. How can a person change like day and night so quickly?
While being lost in thoughts, Alessandro hooked a finger under my chin and turned my head to place a chaste kiss on my lips. My eyes, that were wide open, finally fluttered close as I indulge myself in the kiss.
Disconnecting the kiss, Alessandro asked, "Do you love me?"
Vertical lines appeared between my brows while my bottom lip pushed out as I pouted. "That's a foul play." Not liking how he made my mind go mushy with a kiss and then overtook me with the question.
"I have to know if the words that came out of your mouth today were true. So, do you love me?"
Now it was my turn to kiss him. My lips moved against his languidly before nibbling his bottom lip and letting him go. On disconnecting our kiss, he lets out a disapproving growl, the thirst in his eyes only growing by the minute. I love it when he looks at me like that; I thought.
With a heavy breath, as if I had run a marathon, I spoke against his lips in a whisper, "Was that enough confirmation?"
"No." He growled and placed his hand on the back of my head to pull me back in a hungry kiss. His mouth ravishing mine completely until he left my lips plump and tender.
Though my lips felt raw, my heart felt full, a feeling that I'm going to have to get used to. Reeling my mind back from the kiss, I said, "I will marry you under one condition."
Worry puckered the skin between his brows, and I chuckled. Bringing my hand up, I used my index finger to soothe that spot until it was wrinkle free. "Relax, you will destroy your only got feature if you keep frowning like that. I will marry you if the wardrobe in this house gets changed to a colorful one. I'm getting tired of seeing people wearing monochrome outfits."
Alessandro grabbed my hand that was massaging his forehead and placed a kiss on the palm, and I felt my face heating again. "I will give you anything that you want." Alessandro said with seriousness as his eyes bored into mine.
Willing my heart to calm down, I cleared my throat and said, "But my organization wouldn't leave me alone."
"Don't worry about them. I have already obliterated them."
Shock contoured my face on hearing the news that the organization that I worked for doesn't exist anymore.
"They must have sent that guy after you before we got rid of them." Alessandro asserted, pulling me down with him on the bed.
"Should I question why you guys could figure out where my organization was and from what point you decided to destroy them?" Crooking one of my brows, I splayed my hands on his pecs before gliding them to his broad shoulders and wrapping them around his neck to pull him closer. He wrapped his hands around my waist securely and pressed me against him.
He hummed, placing a kiss on my forehead. "Let's just say I always get what I want no matter what."
So, you were never planning on letting me go in the first place even if I had won the bet; I hummed inwardly before a yawn escaped my lips as my eyelids drooped. Now that the problems that had plagued me, shackles that pulled me down to the depths of the sea, left like the hurricane exhaustion had finally gained on me.
Noticing how my body snuggled closer to his body, yearning for warmth, Alessandro brought the duvet up, covering the both of us and making sure that everything below my chin was tucked. "Sleep. I will be here when you wake up."
My eyes were closed as the drowsiness doped my mind. I let out a feeble chuckle, nuzzling my face against his bare chest while letting out a content sigh. "I don't doubt that."
