The Mafia King's Unknown Doctor Wife novel Chapter 21

Chapter 21

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Massimo sunk under the water, thoughts drifting to his wife. She talked about the most trivial, useless things. Anyone else reading her messages about food and films and the color of wallpaper and the odd views she saw from her hotel room would surely find them tedious.

Yet Massimo enjoyed them.

It was all so new and strange. He’d hadn’t had conversations like this since his parents died. At eight years old, Massimo’s grandfather Fabio took over raising him and launched a truly bloody battle of vengeance.

Even after everyone responsible for the Ferraro’s death was six feet underground, Fabio stayed strict and vigilant, and instructed Massimo to become just as vicious and untouchable. If Massimo was sharp and dangerous and bloody, no one would be foolish enough to come after him.

And if they did, Massimo would rip them to shreds.

It wasn’t exactly a white picket fence type of childhood, Massimo reminisced bitterly.

Entertainment was a distraction. Small talk was inefficient at best and manipulative at worst. Creature comforts like weekends spent going to the movies with classmates or having meals with someone he could talk about anything besides business were unimportant.

Thus, they were harshly and ruthlessly snuffed out.

Sure, Fabio felt guilty about that these days, but the damage had already been done. Massimo was a lone freak who didn’t know the first thing about connecting to other people. He even didn’t know the first thing about being normal.

But his wife? She seemed painfully, beautifully normal. And Massimo found it more heart–pounding and exhilarating than a mafia shoot out.

He needed to start putting his phone on silent so he wouldn’t drop everything to read her latest message. Yet that had only made him start checking his screen out of habit every few minutes. Luca had suggested he clear his head.

But here in the tub, Massimo couldn’t escape his wife either. He wasn’t sure if he even fully wanted to.

Running out of air, Massimo lifted his head above water. Were those footsteps echoing on the bathroom’s tiled floors? He stood to hear them better.

And saw Elena, wearing nothing.

His eyes took in the sight of her before his brain caught up with the situation.

Her skin was unblemished and almost luminescent from the overhead lights. If it weren’t for the still red patch by her shoulder making her stitches obvious, she’d look almost untouchable in an otherworldly sense. Yet that wound made it clear her teardrop breasts, thin waist, and strong hips were firmly in this realm.

Something anyone could reach out and touch.

His eyes fell downward.

Elena hadn’t shaved since she arrived at the estate. But the hin state of her body hair let him know she was normally punctual and tidy about that. The unsteady whisp ran up her legs and covered her flower–just barely.

At that, Massimo’s brain finally took in the situation. His eyes shot up to meet Elena’s–the only safe place to look at.

“I–I’m so sorry,” Elena stuttered. “I asked the servant where the bath was, and–I, I never meant to disturb you!”

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Chapter 21

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Her body folded in on itself, and the movement drew Massino’s eyes once again to forbidden places. The way her squeezing legs and arms, trying to cover her top and lower regions, highlighted what wasn’t fully obscured.

Massimo hushed his traitorous mind. Elena was married. He closed his wandering eyes for good measure.

“I see. Leave now,” Massimo said, voice as even as he could make it.

Elena hurriedly grabbed her clothes and escaped. She got dressed in the hallway–she wasn’t keen on further exposing herself to her boss.

Her heartbeat rattled in her chest. She had just exposed herself to her boss! Could she be any more unprofessional?!

This surely wouldn’t help their already precarious relationship. The last thing she wanted was for Massimo to think she was trying to seduce him. Weren’t the rumors of his servants bad enough?

Kara clearly wasn’t as helpful as Elena thought, not if she knowingly gave Elena the wrong directions. There was no reason for her to go to the master bathroom! This estate must have at least twenty baths with how large it was.

How embarrassing. And why hadn’t she immediately covered herself or closed her eyes at least? She didn’t need to know her boss was so much of a man underneath his perfectly tailored suits.

The more Elena tried to forget the memory, the more her mind lingered on one thought: she had never been naked in front of a man.

She was a virgin. Her father made sure of that. No boyfriends or even friends who were boys were allowed while she lived under his worth.

Because Elena’s virginity was her only valuable trait. Mafia women’s purity was their prized commodity, and her father would use any bargaining chip he could claim.

Anything that could potentially taint her was forbidden.

Elena hadn’t been allowed to use tampons once she started her monthly bleeding, and her bedroom door had been removed and replaced with a sheer curtain to reduce her privacy. Her stepmother would randomly check on her under the guise of some motherly concern, but Elena knew the woman was actually checking that Elena hadn’t gotten desperate and started touching herself.

When Elena escaped her family and entered med school, she was too busy to think of sex or romance. She had exams to ace, finals to study for, shifts in the hospital to shadow. Anything outside of medicine fell out of Elena’s

head.

Now Elena was married, but still, none of that changed. They were more like online friends than husband and wife.

And before Elena could rectify that, she’d walked in naked in front of Massimo.

Elena paced in the guestroom for what felt like hours. Finally, she mustered up her courage and went to find Massimo.

“Things will be awkward if I don’t explain it to him properly,” Elena told herself, trying to settle her nerves.

She made a beeline for his office–it was the obvious place he would be. Elena was both relieved and terrified to see Massimo behind his desk, sorting through paperwork.

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