His Bride: Being the mafia’s princess

“Hello Mom, how are you doing?”

“I’m fine, and you? What about everyone else at home?”

“We’re all fine over here, so there’s nothing to worry about.”

“Yeah, I’m good. I just thought to hear from you again.”

“Okay, talk to you later, Mom.”

“Yeah, bye.” Lillian brought down the cellphone from her ear with a sigh.

Her lips were curved into a small smile as she stared at the phone screen for a moment before dumping it on the small table beside her.

She left the rails of the balcony to sit on the empty seat and crossed her legs against each other. Glancing down at the table, she let out a tiring sigh.

There was nothing there to chill her throat with, like a glass of juice or even water. Now, she regretted not taking one with her when she was stepping outside.

“You’re here.” Bella strolled freely into the balcony and made herself comfortable on the next empty seat opposite Lillian.

“I actually thought you went to your room to relax.”

“Why? Do I really look that tired?” Lillian glanced at her with a slight of worried look on her face.Belongs to (N)ôvel/Drama.Org.

She feared her expression was obviously not welcoming to the people around her and didn’t want that at all, considering the occasion of the day.

Bella studied her for a while before answering, “You don’t look tired. Instead, you look pissed about something. Like, you would bring down this mansion in the next minute.”

“Pissed?” Lillian felt a little disappointed as she exhaled out a large amount of air from her mouth.

Even though Bella was partially right, which was the reason, she left everyone in the dinning room behind to call her mother here in the balcony.

Seeing Don back then suddenly brought back the anger she thought had cooled off. After their encounter in his room, she tried to let him be, maybe he would realize he hurt her feelings when she no longer regarded him, but it seemed like she was mistaken.

Bella sucked in her breath, stating her findings and conclusion, “My brother angered you, didn’t he?”

“Who else?” Lillian didn’t think before she replied and when she finally realized it, she tried to pretend she was not shaken up.

Bella heaved a sigh and pushed the glass of water she had brought along with her, “Here drink this while I listen to what happened between you two.”

She didn’t understand why her jerk of a brother didn’t want to change towards his wife yet. She had been expecting a good change in their relationship since it’s been months in their marriage.

No one knows when they would start acting like a married couple.

“Thank you.” Lillian mumbled.

“We kissed. I initiated a kiss, but instead, I got scolded.” She groaned out and sipped from the glass of water.

Thinking back to it, made her quite embarrassed, which was why she wasn’t going to forgive him until he realized how much he’d hurt her.

“On the lips?”

“Yeah.” Lillian nodded and glanced at her with a look that clearly said, ‘where else?’.

Bella was rendered speechless for a moment. She exhaled sharply as she stared at her sister-in-law pitifully.

It was so obvious Lillian wasn’t aware of the reason, and was certain her brother wouldn’t tell her either – the reason he hated being kissed on the lips.

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Slowly, her eyes opened to the white ceiling as they roamed round it for a while. She made to lift a finger, but it seemed as though a heavy force pulled her down. Instead, she turned her head to the side to call for help.

Luckily, the nurse was in the room, but her back was turned against her. She seemed to be busy with something on the table, so she didn’t really know what was happening behind her, not until Eva pushed down scissors, that was when she turned to look back at her.

Eva had been trying to call her, but her voice was failing her woefully. It refused to respond to her urgency. Her throat was dried as if it had never been hydrated before.

The nurse, whose face held a shocked and startled expression for about a few seconds, quickly rushed out to her aid. Seeing her open her eyes now brought so much relief to her, as well as making all her fears vanish into thin air.

Even when the doctor had assured she was going to be fine after his check-up on Eva, she still had an iota of pity inside her.

The drug given to Eva wasn’t an ordinary one, and the fact that she was given more than the required dose troubled the nurse, even if she couldn’t do anything about it.

“What do you need, ma’am?” She crouched down to her level with so much worry written on her face.

Eva, instead, was feeling rather exasperated as she yelled in her mind about what she wanted, but the words refused to come out of her lips. She was beginning to cry inside her mind as she suddenly wondered if she had gone dumb.

Tears were beginning to roll down her eyes, and even the nurse became surprised. But this didn’t stop her from pointing towards the water bottle on the desk until the nurse got her message.

The nurse rushed out to give her what she wanted immediately, and she gulped it all down like a beggar who hadn’t tasted water for days.

She didn’t let go of the bottle until it became empty. Neither did she let go of the bottle until she was sure to absorb every single drop from it.

She exhaled out slowly, catching on her breath as she gulped down hard. It felt as though an arrow had just been passed down her throat, this moment.

“Are you okay now?” The nurse was curious to know if she still needed more water, as she could guess what she had passed through right now.

Besides, she still needed to know why Eva was still in her world, acting like she didn’t know or have idea on what was happening around her.

“What happened?” Eva spoke out loud and clear to her surprise, and it also surprised the nurse in the sense that she finally asked what she had been expecting from her for a while now.

A feeling of joy washed through Eva to know she had not gone dumb, as a tear rolled down her right cheek. She exhaled sharply and placed a hand on her chest to calm her already pounding heart.

The nurse’s surprised expression couldn’t help but to increase, this time, with a different reason behind it.

Eva lifted her gaze to stare at the nurse for a while before it all began to replay in her memory like a movie.

She could remember she was having a discussion with her father’s guest, Mark, when she suddenly began to feel an outrageous pain in her abdomen, then she slipped into unconsciousness.

With her brows arched and forehead wrinkled up in a frown as she stared at the nurse like she was responsible for whatever happened, she asked, “What happened to me?”