Page 29 of Aria De Luca
To be honest I am scared for Aria to meet her just because of how Aria is right now, and I don't want to put Thalia through that either.
I stopped asking Layna for help with Thalia because Layna looks like she is exhausted from helping me. Thalia is my daughter, not Layna's so she is my responsibility to take care of.
I can't keep having Layna help me.
"Okay, I will try that," I say as Charles starts grabbing his papers on my desk.
"I know you may not like it since that would put both Thalia and Aria in a vulnerable position, but you have to at least try. I think it would be a promising idea." He stands to his full height and looks at me.
"I'll try," I promise.
I'll try anything at this point to get Aria back.
A few hours later I take Thalia to my room with me to hang out and relax.
After the meeting with Charles, I feel like I just need some kind of reliever and Thalia is a good distraction since my attention is always on her when I'm with her.
Right now, she is sleeping on my chest.
All she ever does is sleep, eat, and cry.
But I should take her to her room so that I can start getting a more exact location on Dante. I've had her with me in my room for at least three hours but then I ended up falling asleep with her and woke up like this.
I hold onto her tightly as I sit up from the bed.
I leave my room after locking the door and then walk towards Thalia's room. I unlock her door and then walk inside. It is dark in her room, so I turn on the lamp that is on the dresser.
"I'll be back in a little bit, Thalia," I tell her as I set her down in her crib.
I stay in there for five more minutes, making sure she is going to stay asleep. Afterward, I leave the room and lock the door before going to my office.
I'm just wearing sweatpants. I would go to my room to change but I'm not having any meetings today, only finding Dante's location. Leo might come in to give me updates but that's it.
As I walk towards my office, I hear light footsteps in my office as I walk closer to it. I grab the gun I hold in the waistband of my sweatpants and hold it in my hands, aiming it low.
I slowly open the door and peek inside before aiming my gun at the person but when I open the door wider, I see familiar long brown hair and I lower my gun.
Fifteen
"What the fuckare you doing in here?" I ask as I walk inside my office and close the door behind me.
Aria turns around and freezes when she looks at me. "I was looking for something?" she says as if it were a question.
I put my gun on the shelf near me and walk closer to her. "What were you looking for that wasn't anywhere else in the house?"
"Tape," Aria answers smoothly but I know she is lying.
She likes to fidget whenever she lies.
"Is there no tape in the kitchen supply drawer?"
"There's a kitchen supply drawer?" she widens her eyes in surprise and I am almost as surprised.
How ironic that she is the one who decided to put a supply drawer in the kitchen instead of having people come to my office for shit.
"Yes." I walk up to her, and I don't see anything in her hands. "You can leave now."
"What if I don't want to?" Aria looks up at me with those big brown innocent fucking eyes.
