Unwanted Marriage with the Mafia Boss (Mob Boss’s Unexpected Twins Duet #1)

28. Chiara

CHAPTER 28

Chiara

“Adriano! Adriano, no! Stay with me! Stay with me, please!” My voice is full of desperation as I glance at him.

He’s slumped in his seat, his eyes closed. His dress shirt is completely covered in blood. I weave through the cars like a madwoman. Someone swears at me, but I don’t care. I only have one thing on my mind. I need to get Adriano to that clinic before it’s too late.

It’s not far away, but I feel like I’m losing him, and it’s the scariest thing I’ve ever felt in my life. He could’ve saved himself. I’m sure of it. He was closer to the car and he could’ve used it as cover.

Me... I was just standing there, frozen like an idiot. Too slow to move or think about what to do because the armed guy on the bike was coming toward us so fast that I didn’t even have time to process what was happening.

But Adriano threw himself in front of me. He protected me with his body, risking his life for me. Why? That’s not something a ruthless mafia boss would do for a woman he only wanted to use as a pawn. I doubt he believes he has to protect me as his wife. I bet dying for me isn’t in his mafia code or whatever.

Does that mean he has feelings for me? Or has he finally remembered that he could be a good person?

I pull over in front of the clinic and rush out to open Adriano’s door. “Help! Somebody help me!”

It doesn’t take long for doctors and nurses to surround the car. Everything around me is a blur as they put him on a gurney and wheel him inside. I run after them, my heart pounding like crazy. Now that we’re here, I can feel the full force of my panic.

It’s like a punch in the gut, and I almost collapse in the middle of the hallway. Someone mentions Adriano’s last name. They know who he is. I guess they have some kind of deal with him and his men, and they won’t be calling the cops.

But that doesn’t matter. I need him to be okay. I need him to live. A nurse gets in my way, and she says something, but I can’t hear her at all. My ears are buzzing, and my throat is too tight. I open my mouth, but I can’t form words.

The nurse waves at someone just as my knees give out from under me.

I open my eyes and blink at the beeping machine next to me. The clinic. Right. It’s not an ordinary one. Well, it is, but I’m pretty sure it’s mafia-funded and has way more equipment than a mere clinic should have, but I’m not complaining. My legs and my feet hurt, probably from running around in heels. I’m no longer wearing my dress.

“Hey, you’re awake,” a woman says with a smile on her face. Her curly brown hair is tied into a ponytail.

“How is he? How is Adriano?” I push myself up on my elbows.

“He just got out of surgery. He’s stable at the moment.”

Relief rushes through me. “Can I see him?”

“No, not yet, but we can talk about you in the meantime. My name is Laura,” she says. “They referred you to me because I’m a gynecologist.”

I furrow my brow. “Is something wrong with me?”

“So you don’t know you’re pregnant?”

“What?” My jaw goes slack. “That can’t be right.”

All the nausea, and feeling weird, and fainting... It makes sense, but it can’t be. Adriano and I used protection. Except, nothing is infallible. The odds are tiny, but it’s not impossible.

“I’d like to do an ultrasound to make sure everything’s okay,” Laura says.

“I...” I don’t know what to say or what to think.

“If you’re worried that someone else will find out about this, you don’t have to. I’ll delete all the records and make sure word doesn’t get out.” Her brown eyes are trained on me.

Someone else? She means Adriano, doesn’t she?

I give her a nod. “Okay.”

“Good. Now lie back down and I’ll set everything up.” She smiles.

I’m pregnant. The words still sound surreal to me. I’ve daydreamed about it, but I’ve never thought it would be anything like this.

And the baby’s father... Adriano is not my loving husband. He’s everything I hoped the father of my children wouldn’t be. He’s a mafia boss with a complicated past, present, and future, and I don’t think he even wants to be a father.

I could disappear. He let me go. I could find my parents, and we could all go somewhere far away from here. If we left our home to Adriano, he wouldn’t need to look for us. I could raise my child on my own.

“Let’s take a look.” Laura holds the ultrasound probe.

A few moments later, I frown at the screen behind her.

“Oh,” Laura says as she moves the probe around.

“What’s going on?”

“There’s two of them. Look.” She points at the screen, but I don’t even understand what I’m looking at. “You’re having twins.”

Twins? I don’t know how many more shocks I can take today, but this is a positive one. A smile erupts on my face, and the corners of my eyes fill with tears of joy. My babies! I’m looking at my babies. They’re real. This is really happening.

I can’t stop grinning. Right now, I want to have my happy moment. A moment where I can just enjoy the fact that I’m going to be a mom to twins. I’ll think about everything else later, when I’m calmer and once I’ve had the chance to think things through.

“Do you have a phone I can use?” I need to make sure my mom and dad are really free, and I want to let them know I’m okay too.

“Sure,” Laura says.

My pregnancy will be my secret.

For now.