Why are people so mean? Why do so many people care about the relationship I have with him? My relationship with Giovanni is no one busy except our own!
“Kristy, they came up with this plan. They tried to make you look like a junkie or that you were gay. They thought that would make Giovanni back away from you. I told them he is totally into you. Maria really wants him back! Sophie wants her parents together. Everything was set up in the beginning.”
Stupid bitches. If she had treated Giovanni right when they were together, he would still be there. Dumb fucks!
“Candice, I get all of that. Why would they fuck up my truck? Why would they have me jumped? Does Maria really believe Giovanni would go back to her after all that?”
My voice is getting a lot louder. My face is heating up. A few people look in our direction. I do not give a shit! I am pissed off!
“Kristy, if they did that to you, they did not tell me about it. I was just too sexually assault you. That is all I did. I swear! I have done shit for them for years. I do not want to do it anymore. I already told Giovanni everything.”
I stare at her I disbelief wondering if she is telling the truth. Giovanni never told me he had talked to her.
“You talked to, Giovanni?”
“Yes, he came to see me. He was very pissed off at me. He told me if I was smart to get out of town, never to come back.”
We both sit there in silence finishing our beers. I almost feel sorry for her. I probably would have felt sorry for her if I had not been so pissed off. What kind of power did Maria think she had on people? I did not know that except I knew one day I was going to face her too.
“Kristy, I am really - sorry. I did not mean to hurt you. I had no idea it would make you that sick. If you want to press charges I wouldn’t blame you.”
She is being manipulated I realize that. I know how it feels because Hugh did it all the time to me. He was a manipulator!
“Candice, I am not going to press charges. If I were you, I would stay the hell away from Maria and Sophie. For that matter, stay the hell away from Giovanni and me. I hope you have a good life.” I stand up walking away from her. Hoping I will never see her again.
I walk up to the bar where Angelo is standing, “Angelo, what are you doing? Are you spying on me?” I question him teasingly.
“Why yes, ma’am, I am.”
When Angelo drops me off at my place, I get ready to leave the car. Half way in and out of the car, I remember Sebastian is staying with me.
“Angelo, Sebastian is going to take me to work tomorrow. I appreciate the ride today.”
“Of course, ma’am.”
I give him a hug then I walk up to the door. I have no idea why I hugged him still I did. I turn to him to see his face is very flushed. I smile, wave bye to him then go inside.
CHAPTER 31
When Jon sees me enter the building he comes up to me, “Kristy, I am sorry. I did not know all of this was going on. If you need to go to the garage I will take you.”
“Thanks, Jon but I am fine.” He looks at a man walking up behind me. He smiles at me then quickly leaves.
“Ms. Price, I am James. I am the head of security here. Giovanni ask me to look after you.”
I shake my head wishing all this shit would just end! I feel like I have no privacy. Everyone is watching me. I laugh to myself thinking I am use to this. Hugh had me watched all the time. At least with him I did not know who was watching me. No one ever approached me.
“Okay, James thanks.”
We both head to the elevator. When I get to my door, I knock on it. James takes a seat that is outside my front door.
Sebastian lets me inside. I walk past him to the kitchen. I make me a stiff drink taking it to the couch.
“How was your night, Kristy? Did you have fun? You look a little upset.”
I let out a big, loud sigh. I take a big drink out of my glass, “My night was informative.”
“So, what friend did you meet with?” He ask as he brings his drink to the living room. He sits next to me. I turn my entire body to him.
“I saw, Candice, she told me it was Maria and Sophie who put her up to it. She also told me if they are the ones fucking with me then they never told her. She also said she has already talked Giovanni.”
He quietly sits next to me looking down to the ground. I figure whatever he has to say I am not going to like. I was right!
“Kristy, is Giovanni really worth all of this shit? I mean look at everything that is going on.”
I look at him understanding where he is coming from. He thinks I deserve better. He thinks he can give me better. He thinks we make a great couple. I know this because he has told me all of that before.
“Sebastian, he is definitely worth it! You know I love him.”
“Well, Kristy, I am here for you when you need me.” He gets up kisses me on the head then heads to the spare room.
I decided on a hot bath. Again, my ribs are killing me. Once I get into the water, I start to think. Maybe I cannot take care of myself as I think I can. If Giovanni is putting security on me maybe, I am in danger. I wonder if Maria is not messing with my truck who is. She has to be. I bet she had someone do it. I got tired so I leave the tub then get ready for bed hoping to sleep well.
Taking my phone to bed, I call Heather.
“Oh my God, Kristy. I haven’t heard from you in months.” She screams that as she answers the phone.
“Hi, Heather. I have been super busy at work. Sorry, I have not called you sooner. How is everything going with you and Randy?”
“We are doing great! Tell me all about you and Giovanni. Do you like your job?”
“Heather, I love my job. It keeps me very busy. Giovanni and I are good. Everything here is excellent! I am glad I made the move.” I figured I would not tell her everything. I did not want her to worry and I knew she would.
“I am so happy for you. I miss you, Kristy.”
“I miss you too, Heather.”
We did not talk much longer after that. We say our goodbyes then hang up. I get to bed except I do not sleep very well.
I get up the next morning going into the kitchen. Sebastian is there having coffee in only boxer shorts. What a beautiful sight to see I smile to myself. His body is so firm. He has a serious six-pack abs. Yum Yum!
“Good morning, Sebastian.”
“Good morning, Kristy.” He hands me a cup of coffee. I take it to the patio. Sebastian joins me. He takes the seat across from me smiling.
“You know Kristy - friendship is like peeing on yourself. Everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling it brings.”
I laugh aloud at him. It feels so good being around him. I do enjoy his company.
“Sebastian, how come you aren’t involved with anyone?”
He gets up going into the kitchen. He comes back on the patio with the coffee pot. He pours us another cup.
“Kristy, I was married for ten years. I did not make a good husband. Being on the road with groupies, well you can put two and two together.”
He takes a drink of his coffee then goes on, “I had a lot of one-night stands. I am not proud of that! I have been alone for the last year.”
I keep looking at him wondering if he has a sexual disease. He must have read my mind.
“Kristy, I am sexually clean. I test myself every three months. I always use a condom. When I commit to someone, I totally commit. I wish I could have done that with my wife. At the time, I was young and couldn’t commit.”
“Sebastian, why have you been alone for the last year?”
“I am trying to get right with myself. I am going on forty-three. I want a relationship except I do not want to settle. All this time I have had to myself has made me learn the type of woman I want in a relationship.”
He drinks his coffee staring out into the ocean. I think he is done so I get ready to stand up.
“Kristy, when I am with you I am the happiest I have been in years. You make me h
appy make me feel good. The type of woman I want is you! And, I believe it should be you!”
I look at him feeling sad. I really do love Giovanni I know that. I love Sebastian, although not like he feels for me. If I had a chance, I probably could fall madly in love with him.
I did not know what to say so I said nothing. I walk to my room to get ready for work. When I get out of the shower, I find Giovanni sitting on my bed with his head in his hands. I run over to him, jumping on him. He falls back on the bed.
“G, when did you get here?” I start kissing him all over his face. I am so happy to see him.
“I just got here.” He sits back up. I think I am happier to see him than he is to see me.
“Giovanni, what is going on with you? I know something is.” I am standing in front of him with a towel wrapped around me. He looks up at me with sad eyes.
“Kristy, can you get ready real quick? We have an errand to run.”
I get worried because he definitely was not acting like himself. He asked me I got ready for work so I did.
When we get back into the living room, Sebastian had already left for work. When we get to the front door Giovanni turns to me. He hugs me then kisses me, “I love you, Kristy. I have missed you so much.”
I notice the security guard from last night is not there. We walk to the elevator hand in hand. Once the door opens, James steps out. He looks to me, then to Giovanni, “Mr. Tuscany, everything is under control! Everything looks good.”
“Thank you, James.” Giovanni and I get in the elevator. James stays where he is.
Once we are in the elevator I turn to him, “Giovanni, what is going on? You are starting to scare me a little bit.”
He turns to me hugging me, “everything is fine. It will only get better, baby.” He leans into me kissing me, “trust me, Kristy.”
I lean my body into him. If I am going to have a relationship with this man then I need to trust him I tell myself.
When the door opens, Angelo was waiting for us. They give each other a nod.
Once we get into the limo, Giovanni holds my hand stroking his fingers over mine. We pull up to the bank he uses. We get out when Giovanni pulls me into him. Holding me so tight, I flinch in pain from my ribs.
“I am so sorry my love. I forgot about your ribs.” I did not say anything to him about that. I assumed Brody or Sebastian had.
When we get into the bank Max comes up to us, “Mr. Tuscany, Ms. Price, it is so good to see you.” We follow him to his office.
When we enter, his room there is another man inside of there. He stands when he sees us, “Giovanni, it has been a long time.” He comes over giving Giovanni a hug.
“Larry, this is my girlfriend, Kristy.” He takes my hand into his, “nice to finally meet you.”
I smile at him wondering what is going on. We all take a seat. I look at Giovanni who sits there smiling.
“I am going to give Kristy access to all my bank accounts and I want to put her in my will giving her everything I own.” Giovanni is explaining this to us.
He throws me for a loop. I stand up looking at Giovanni, “What the hell are you doing? Have you gone crazy?” I am ranting, fuming.
Giovanni turns to look at me then he turns to look at them, “could you gentlemen give us a minute, please?”
They both leave the room. Giovanni comes to kneel in front of me taking my hand, “Kristy, I love you so much. I told you one day everything I owned would be yours. I meant it. Now I am doing it legally. I do not want anyone else to have what belongs to me. I have already given to my son what belongs to him. My daughter already got hers. My ex-wife gets nothing. I want you to have it. I want to do this for us. Please do not give me any shit over this. Just let me do this, please.”
I sit there staring at him. I do not understand why he is doing this. I do not know what to think! I cannot believe he wants to leave me everything he owns. I have to wonder if something is going to happen to him.
“Giovanni, what is going on?”
"Kristy, we don’t have time to talk about it now. I told you I would tell you everything and I will. We can talk at dinner tonight.”
“Giovanni, seriously we haven’t been together long enough for you to do this. I have money! I don’t need your money.”
He caress the side of my face, “Kristy, I know you don’t need it nevertheless I want you to have it. It is not about the amount of time we have been together. It is how I feel when I am with you. I love you so much. If you could actually see inside my heart, you would really understand how much you mean to me! I would do anything for you. What would make me happy is if you would just let me do this. I have to do this.”
There is a knock on the door. Giovanni gets up to answer it. They walk back in and retake their seats.
“Are you really sure you want to do this, Giovanni? You have quite a few businesses. You have a lot of money.” Max has asked him.
Giovanni looks to him taking my hand. He put my hand to his mouth kissing it. He leans in giving me a passionate kiss in front of them.
“Absolutely! I know what I am doing! I do not want to get questioned.” Giovanni is starting to get frustrated. You can see that on his face.
“Giovanni, I am your lawyer. I have to ask if you are in a good frame of mind.” Giovanni laughs aloud at what Larry has said. I turn to look at him. To see if he is in the right mind frame. He seems like it to me.
“Alright then let’s get started.” Larry says taking a bunch of papers out of his briefcase.
I end up getting seven business. They are in different places. Washington, California, New York, Italy. Some states have more than one business there. Max has put me on six different bank accounts. Let us just say Giovanni is on his way to becoming a billionaire.
When we leave the bank, I am in shock. I did not know about most of his businesses or all of the money.
“If something happened to you, what am I supposed to do with all of this?”
Angelo gets in the driver seat putting up the partition between him and us.
Giovanni takes my hand and turns to me, “Kristy, I have already decided to sell most of the businesses. I want to spend more time with you. I will keep everything in California. The rest will go. I already have a buyer for my businesses in Italy. We can make California our home. Everything we sell goes into our account. See I am doing this for us. I have to go to Italy in the near future. When I get back I am going to marry you.”
I look at him not sure how to take that. He will be a good husband. I only wonder if I will be a good wife to him. He pulls me on his lap kissing the hell out of me. Ouch, my ribs. I hurt like hell yet I kiss him back.
“Tell me what else is going on,” I ask him as I lay my head onto his shoulder.
“Last night I had dinner with, Maria. I told her I knew she used Candice to get to you. I told her I loved you and nothing was going to change that. Not she or Sophie is going to break us up. I told her to get out of my life. To stay away from us. I let her know I was not her friend. I told her I hated her. I told her to go back to Italy.”
He is happy and I can see the relief on his face. We sit there holding each other. He kisses me then pulls my pants down. He stuck his fingers inside of me. He works them all around. Pulling them in and out.
Aww, how I miss this man. I miss his touch. I am so glad he is home.
I lay back into the seat arching my hips to him. I brace up to him so he can reach in further. His hands are so busy working in me. I let out a yell as I cum.
I get myself together just as we get to the condominium. I kiss him getting out of the car.
“Wait till you see what I have for you when we get inside,” Giovanni is nibbling on my ear.
I smile to him. I cannot wait. I am so ready for him. He pulls up my shirt looking at my side.
“I am afraid I will hurt you.”
“G, it’s not as bad as it looks. I am feeling better. It doesn’t hurt that bad.” I lean into him again kissing him.<
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Giovanni and Angelo stop by the car to talk. I continue to walk to the front of the building. Someone had called out “Kristy.” I turn around when this man stabs me in the side I was hit.
“This is for, Mariah.” Just as quick, as he walks up he is gone.
I fall to the ground holding onto my side. Giovanni runs over to me. Angelo gets on the phone calling 911. When Giovanni reaches me, he takes off his shirt wrapping it around the knife, which is still stuck inside of me. I hurt so badly! I try to look at the knife except Giovanni turns my head to him. I believe I freaked out then I passed out.
When I wake up, I am in the hospital. What is going on? I have an IV in my arm. Tubes are up my nose. Giovanni is sitting in a chair next to me. Sebastian is sitting in a chair at the end of the bed. I have a hard time breathing. The pain is just so incredible.
“Hey G,” I am whispering to him.
He smiles then comes over to me. So does Sebastian. I look at them giving them a smile.
“You gave us a scare.” Giovanni softly tells me then bends down to kiss me.
“Where am I?”
Giovanni holds my hand kissing it. He rubs my hair back out of my face, “you are in the ICU unit of the hospital.”
Sebastian leaves the room to go get the doctor. Within a few minutes, they are back.
“Ms. Price, can you tell me what happened to you?” The doctor asks me when he comes to check my vitals.
“I remember some guy stabbing me. It hurt like hell” I look over to Sebastian who has tears in his eyes.
“Yes, you were stabbed. We had to do surgery. If the knife had been a little deeper, it would have killed you. We got the knife out. However, we are treating you for infection. We are going to keep you for a few days. Just as a precaution.” After the doctor explained, what was going on he leaves the room.
Sebastian comes over to me bending down kissing my cheek, “Kristy, what am I going to do with you?”
I smile at Sebastian taking his hand kissing it. I turn to Giovanni, “I am getting tired, G. I am going to sleep.” I did go to sleep.
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