Page 10 of Bound to His Oath

I quickly turned to run until I heard the one thing able to freeze me in my tracks.

"Nico."

I gulped, afraid to hope, and slowly turned. "What did you call me?"

A slow easy smirk crossed the man's handsome face. He set his cell phone down on the small table next to him and then slowly walked toward me almost as if he thought I might bolt.

I might.

"Nico, cuore mio."

Tears sprouted up in my eyes. "Luca?"

That smirk turned into a smile when the corners of his mouth curved up. When he finally stood in front of me, he raised his hand and stroked his fingers down the side of my face. "I kept my promise, Nico."

I gasped, my eyes rounding as the tears flooding them started trailing down my cheeks. "Luca."

"Don't cry, cuore mio. I'm here now."

I was not ashamed to say I burst into tears as I threw myself into Luca's arms. When his arms came around me, hugging me tight, I shuddered.

"It's okay, cuore mio. I'm here now and it's all going to be okay. I'm going to take care of you."

"Where have you been?" I sobbed. "It's been ten years."

I wanted to hit him for making me wait for so long, but I also wanted to kiss him since he was finally here.

"After I got out of prison, I knew the only way I could save you was if I had the money and power to make it happen, so I've spent the last several years making sure I was in a position where no one can ever take you away from me again."

That only made me cry harder.

"I'm so sorry," I cried. "I tried to tell everyone you hadn't done anything to me, but no one would listen to me, not even the police, and then your family moved away and I didn't know where you were, and—"

"Ssshhh, it's okay," Luca said. "I know, Nico. I know everything."

"How—"

The smirk was back. "I had people watching you."

I blinked in surprise. "You had people watching me?"

"I did," Luca replied. "I would have come to you earlier, but I needed to put a plan into place to rescue you and that took a little while."

My jaw dropped when Luca went down to his knees in front of me. "Luca, what are you doing?"

"Do you forgive me for being late, Nico?"

My brow flickered with a frown. "There's nothing to forgive. My parents kept us apart, not you."

My parents!

Panic seized me. "Luca, my parents. They are going to come after me."

Luca's eyes narrowed with a dangerous glint. "I hope they do."

"What?"

Was he insane?

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