Love Slave to the Mafia Boss's Passion 18 novel Chapter 317

“Seems like you had a good life…” Hayden commented dryly.

“It wasn’t bad. Then I met Harvey, and everything changed. He changed me or maybe he made me want to change. Now that we’re getting married soon, I just keep thinking of our future together and the more I think the more that I worry. I know it doesn’t make much sense because I was arranged to marry another gangster boss before. Maybe it’s because I love Harvey so much that I’m worried about everything. Marrying him. Living with the Torex gang. Having children. Making sure that our children will be safe...” Amelia continued explaining.

“Well, I can’t pretend to understand what you’re thinking but I guess it’s not wrong for you to feel worried,” Hayden replied.

“Thank you…” Amelia said as she looked straight at Hayden.

“For what?” he asked.

“For…listening…” she replied with a small smile.

“Sure…” Hayden murmured.

…

Hayden had a faraway look in his eyes when he was done with his story. Although he didn’t tell me directly why he told me that story, I believed that I could sort of understand. The things that Amelia was so worried about were exactly the things that plagued my mind with endless worry. The future seemed uncertain, and it scared me.

“It feels nice…” he murmured softly.

“Huh?” I made a questioning sound.

“Your fingers in my hair…” Hayden replied casually.

My entire body froze and so did the hand that I had been absentmindedly running through Hayden’s soft blond hair. While Hayden was telling his story, I had somehow started playing with his hair. It seemed like the most natural thing to do to pass the time. With his head laying in my lap, I just somehow started doing it without thinking.

“Why did you stop?” Hayden asked as his eyes glanced up at my face questioningly.

“Do you like it?” I asked after snapping out of my shock.

It felt a little strange now that I was conscious of what I was doing. His hair felt so soft against my fingers and soon I had resumed stroking his hair again. Hayden closed his eyes and sighed while I smiled a little to myself. I felt oddly happy that I could help him relax.

“After that Amelia ended up doing stupid things and she ended up like that…” Hayden mumbled so softly that I almost didn’t catch what he was saying at first.

The heavy regret in his voice told me that he didn’t want to go into the details. Hayden probably felt responsible, at least partly, for what happened to Amelia. I didn’t want to push him to recall any painful memories but if he was telling me about Amelia then she probably had something to do with the deal that he made with Harvey.

“Is Amelia related to the deal that you made with Harvey?” I asked.

“Yup. When Amelia didn’t wake up, Harvey felt extremely responsible and so did I. I should have never encouraged her to pursue an unrealistic dream like bringing about peace. I should have stopped her…but I didn’t. Harvey wasn’t really himself back then and maybe he isn’t like his old self even now. Knowing how our father is, he would have demanded Harvey to marry someone else and make babies right away when he saw Amelia in a pretty much vegetative state,” Hayden explained matter-of-factly.