Chosen By The Mafia by Nina Daniel (best reads of all time TXT) 📕

25

Lana’s P.O.V

I stepped into the mansion. Alone.

Nathan left me home and said that he had some work to finish, I was walking to my room that a voice behind me stopped me from taking further steps ahead, 

“Lana darling! what are you doing here?” I turned around and found Grace inquiring about my presence with an utter shock, 

“Uh, Hello. Mommy... Actually, we had some change of plans, Nathan came up with something urgent so he had to leave me here and go… and yeah, I’m here,” as I said blankly, I immediately covered my discontentment with a widely smiled and yes another thing that she forced me to call her ‘mommy’ because she said ‘she likes it from my mouth’,

“Oh my darling, This is absurd, how come there could be something more important than you? unless it’s something serious... did he inform you about it?” she kept whispering under her breath and finally asked me a question while forming tensed lines on her forehead. Sharing her thoughts with me, I got a little heavy stomach too

“Umm No. He was quiet all along the way just asked to wear this ring” I told her and showed the ring which I was wearing in my wedding finger. Her face immediately changed the colours and displayed the brightest one, 

“Did he propose to you already?” she said while her eyes shining like diamonds in the dusk,

“I think he was about to…” I sighed in frustration, I was waiting for that moment to happen and just one call ruined it all, “But I guess, joy is not a part of my fate,” As I mumbled, my eyes got filled with glossiness, my heart clenched on the fact that I have always been gifted with hardships and pain and when my life is about to get some peace, It vanishes away from my life even before I could get it, 

“Lana, my little girl, don’t you ever say this again,” her voice held a little tightness in it. She pushed me a little to move from my position and sit with her beside her side, “Come sit down with me and let me get your mind right,” she said while sitting on her respective seat beside a lamp and continued

“He’s head over heels in love with you, Lana, from a very very long time who you don’t even know about. I have seen him watching you like crazies. After his son’s death and divorce, he fell into a severe depression but then one day came, his men normally informed every single detail about Armando’s gang with proofs, and there he saw your picture in the abducted group. For a few days, he kept quiet like usual but there was a hope of his recovery, I’m a mother and I spotted it on his face, I kept a check on him and I used to see him smiling while staring at your pictures, he ordered his men to collect information about you and when he got to know that Armando was about to kill but didn’t because he chose you, My God, I can’t even describe how angry he had become that time, he couldn’t sit in a place knowing that he will hurt you which he did, he raped you and Nathan regrets it every second. But this is his story behind you, he saw you and that’s where he decided to recover you and keep you with himself. Now, my daughter, when I know who he loves and how much he does, how can I let you leave him? I want you to accept him with all your heart, I’m asking you to say yes when he proposes you, he is not expressive but he loves you more than anything,” Her mother ended a story while leaving me and my heart in a marathon, at that moment, I was blushing from top to bottom, I didn’t know what to answer and how to react, I was quiet till Grace grabbed my hand in hers and called out my name, 

“W-why didn’t you tell me before?” I gulped after saying this, my face was showing a different expression at the same time, Sympathy, Love, Happiness and mostly Guilty for not expressing him my feelings for him. My heart already belonged to Nathan and now, he has all of it and he can keep it forever. After hearing what Grace said, my body could only feel love and warmth gifted by her son’s patience, I so wanted Nathan to be with me right now, I want to give him what he desires, what he held from me for so long and that’s maybe because I was way younger than him but for me, age doesn’t matter, I love him, I want him tonight and I pray he comes home earlier, 

I didn’t notice that I had been smiling in front of Grace for straight 2 minutes, she even tried to catch my attention but I was so lost in Nathan that I couldn’t hear her, “Mommy, can you ask him to come home? I want to talk to him, let me end all barriers between us tonight, So, he doesn’t fear about anyone taking me away from me,” I said to Grace because I know, I’m ready to give him myself, he deserves it, since the day I stepped into his mansion, he had been treating me like his Queen indirectly, and I want it all directly now, I always wished for a Knight In Shining Armour and I definitely believe God has accepted my prayer because I see him as the one. The perfect man I wanted, and I need to tell him that I want him too, and it’s okay to love a girl way younger than him,

Grace smiled, watching me all charged in his love, “I’m so happy for both of my children. I promise you, Lana, he will make you his purpose of life, he loves you so much,” she said and pulled me to her to place a kiss on my forehead. Her kiss was so protective and promising that it boosted up my self-esteem, I’m definitely wanted by people in this world, I’m not alone now, I have them and I’ll fight with whatever tried to come between us, 

“I’m going to call him to come home early, okay? So my little bird, you go and fresh yourself. You must be tired after a long dinner,” she chuckled after saying this and I grinned on her remarks, “Yes yes, it was about to become my longest night but see, something spoiled it,” I said while forming a poker face and it made Grace laugh, 

I got up, kissed her cheeks and headed towards my room. 

As I entered there, I sighed loudly, my heart was heavy again on the thought that right now I might’ve been proposed or claimed by him or perhaps we could be having sex, it would’ve been my first realistic intercourse because I would’ve done it with the person I love.