Chapter 44: Making Up With Her
Gianna sat silently on the bed, holding a pillow on her lap and lost deep in thought. Charlie laid while keeping his head on her stretched out legs. Charlie whined in sadness, he knew very well that she was upset or sad about something. Listening to his whines, Gianna came back from her trance and rubbed his fur and massaged his head.
"I'm sorry Charlie... I couldn't spend time with you since so many hours... you must have missed me a lot right? I missed you a lot too." Charlie stood up on the bed and went towards Gianna, he snuggled and brushed his fur against Gianna's neck and then licked her cheek. Gianna smiled softly and kissed his forehead.
"Charlie, you're the only one whom I always trust and love blindly without any kind of misunderstandings and lies in our relationship. I feel really grateful to have you in my life." Gianna said, and a lone tear strolled down her cheek, instantly Charlie licked away her tear and woofed twice as if telling her not to cry, Gianna smiled again and hugged him like he was the favorite personal teddy of Gianna.
Xavier stood outside in front of guest room door, holding a food tray carrying her lunch as she didn't have anything since so many hours as she refused to have anything. He sighed in grief as he heard her words from inside. He knew she was feeling lonely, and she must've lost the trust she had for everyone in her heart. He knocked on the door twice but got nothing in response, so he opened the door and saw Gianna had turned her face away towards the window, he knew she was ignoring everyone... so he took slow and calm steps towards the bed and laid the food tray on it.
"Gianna... I've brought lunch for you, please have something, even a few bites will do." Gianna remained silent without turning her head to the source of the voice.
"Look here, Gianna. Please don't be stubborn and think about your health." Charlie barked as if agreeing with Xavier, he moved towards the tray and pushed it a little towards Gianna using his nose. Xavier rubbed his head and fur and commented "Smart boy."
"How should I look towards you? I'm blind, can't you see? And it's not me being stubborn, it's you! Why am I here? I didn't argue in front of everyone when you insisted on me staying here, but now that I'm alone with you, I want to know why am I here!?" Gianna said in a slight loud voice.
"What do you mean, mio cuore? I just want you to be safe with all of us here..." Xavier said softly in gentle tone.
"Don't call me that...! Please leave me alone, you're no different from Robert and Elias...! They kidnapped and kept me in some kind of premises and you? You have kept me here under your watch in your house...!" Gianna exclaimed sternly.
"You are indirectly saying... I've also kidnapped you!? Gianna, listen. I know you're upset that I hid the fact that our family is mafia based, but it was for your welfare, alright? I also know that you must be hurt, and we broke your trust but if you think I'm selfish just like your relatives then Gianna you must really think before saying so, I don't care about your late parent's possession, and I'm not greedy behind anything, everything I've today is the fruit of our family's hard work and our efforts, I can't believe I'm hearing such baseless accusations from YOU." He emphasized on "You" and sighed before turning away and walking out of the room not before banging the door behind.
Gianna flinched at the loud bang and tears gathered in her eyes.
"Charlie... what do I do now? I'm such an idiot... I didn't realize what rubbish I was speaking, I made him upset." Gianna started crying and Charlie whined before going to her lap and hugging her legs.
After a while, she rubbed her tears away and sniffed. She took the food tray and slowly ate her food. She was thinking how her words must have hurt him. Here Gianna was regretting her choice of words and how she hurt his feelings whereas Xavier was clenching his fist in frustration for behaving like that with her.
Both sides were feeling guilty at the same time but neither of them were ready to face each other.
Like that two days had passed with them ignoring each other. Xavier would glance at her from time to time and stare at her, when she would feel a gaze on her, he would look away from her. Everyone had already realized that a silent Cold War was going on between them.
Derek took Charlie after lunch to the dog's house behind their mansion, where all their guard dogs, or he could call them their pet dogs lived together like a family. The dog house was not small, the dogs had all the luxuries provided to them, but they had to train their sweats off to live there. Amongst them was a cute pretty white dog, she was not a guard dog, Brinley had brought her home when she found her near some alley left in a cold cardboard box. She got scared of new visitors, so she instantly ran inside her chamber and hid inside the blanket and drifted off to sleep.
Charlie made many friends and soon enough they started playing with each other. They would bark a few times as if talking to each other.
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Gianna was going towards her guest room slowly by touching and tracing her surrounding things. She didn't have her cane and she came to know that Charlie has made many new friends, she was delighted by that fact but at the same time she was feeling helpless without Charlie. Amelia saw her and went rushing to help her. Gianna had a small frown on her face, but she didn't reject her help. Derek was also with Amelia, he stood by watching Amelia help her older sister gently like she's her favorite fragile doll which might break on touching.
After escorting her towards the guest room, Amelia left as she was appointed to do assignment with Derek, she disliked the fact that he was her partner, but she couldn't do anything as the professor was not ready to change any partners he had assigned.
Gianna sighed and went towards the couch, she sat and pondered how much time has passed since she met Moretti family, she came to trust them, care for them and started having feelings for a man named "Xavier Moretti", she thought, even if her mind told her that they had kept things hidden away from her... they had also shown her the world where she couldn't even imagine living before, her heart was screaming at her to stop making fuss and forgive Xavier and his family, to mend things with him.
Charlie like an angel threw a cupid by holding the hem of her dress and making her stand up.
"Huh? Charlie? What're you doing here? Weren't you playing with your friends?" Gianna asked in confusion as she stood up from the couch.
"Woof! Arrf! Woof, woof!" Charlie exclaimed.
"What're you trying to say...? You know I can't understand you right? But you're my smart boy, you understand everything I tell you." Gianna praised him and patted his head in encouragement. Charlie held his head high shamelessly to get patted proudly. He tucked her dress again, making her follow him. He took her towards the backyard garden behind the mansion and barked thrice before running away.
"Huh? Where are you going leaving me alone in the middle of somewhere I don't even know...! Charlie...! Come back, please...!" Gianna called out to him, but he ignored her calls and went back to play with his new friends.
"Now I doubt if you also love me or not, everyone is ignoring me nowadays... I'm angry with everyone, not the other way around!" Gianna whispered and stomped her right foot on the grass lightly. She heard someone chuckle, and instantly her cheeks turned red in embarrassment, and she clenched the hem of her dress.
"W-Who's there?" Gianna asked nervously.
"It's me, mio cuore." Gianna gasped hearing Xavier's voice.
"You...!? Didn't I tell you to stop calling me that... I don't even know what it means. And what're you doing--" Xavier placed his index finger on her lips silencing her and came close to her.
"Hush... I know you don't know what it means, but you already know that it has a special meaning behind it, don't you...?" Xavier said in a low husky voice. Gianna gulped loudly and moved two steps away from him.
"I-I don't know anything! What're you doing here anyway?"
"Well I told Charlie to bring you here by any means."
"How did you do that? It's not like he understands everyyything right...?" Gianna emphasized on 'everything'.
"Well... it was easy, we were playing fetch, and then I threw a piece of treat from here in your room through the window there and told him to bring you here. Simple." Gianna gasped in shock.
"The guest room's window is visible from here... is that why I hear dogs playing and flower's fragrance when I open the windows..." Gianna whispered in realization.
"Mhm. I specifically chose that room for you... Gianna." He exclaimed and brushed her hair which were swaying due to light wind. Gianna went into deep thought, and then she looked up and said,
"I'm really sorry Xavier."
"I'm sorry, Gianna."
Coincidently both of them said at a same time, she opened her mouth in surprise and Xavier laughed, making her giggle too.
"Gianna... I made you come here because I wanted to properly apologize for all the things I've done which had hurt you in some way or other. Gianna I had no intention of hiding anything from you, but I was hesitating because you might feel scared and break the connection we had before or one of my enemies could've harmed you, so I kept things in the dark for such a long time..." Xavier said and brushed her open hair, setting them however he wants. Gianna held his hand and squeezed his palm lightly,
"I'm also sorry for behaving and talking rudely with you, I don't know what got into me... I never behave like that, I swear." Gianna exclaimed confidently making him chuckle.
"No it's good for me to see these new sides of you, you should throw tantrums frequently. You look cute when you do so." Gianna hit his vibrating chest lightly while he was laughing.
"Cute doesn't sound great from the mouth of a mafia leader... you know?" Gianna huffed.
"Oh? You sound like you know mafias really well." Xavier taunted and Gianna gasped.
"Oho! Mr. Mafia don't you know I'm also from mafia family? I discovered this not long ago, but it's a true fact!" Gianna said and smiled confidently.
"Whatever you say Mafia Queen. Your words are commands for me." He said and kissed her forehead making her giggle. She touched his lips to feel them and stood on her toes to kiss his lips. They locked their lips together, savoring all the feelings they were feeling at the moment.
Xavier returned to his office after spending some time with Gianna, Charlie and Moretti family's dogs. Gianna was feeling tired, so she returned to her room with the help of a maid.
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