Chapter 370. Ria Delano

Lucien

He stared at his wife as she lay, a slight figure on the hospital bed. She had fainted in the corridor on hearing about Paddy and had been brought there. Seeing Claude sporting a thick bandage and lording it about in the corridor had only added to her distress, caught as she was totally unawares, for he had skipped telling her about their rash son and his actions.

Although she was showing signs of coming to, she looked so tiny and white as she lay there, helpless, vulnerable…

The Mafia Don sighed. F*ck, but how he loved her! And to think of the incessant pain she was being subjected to, mainly because of him, had him feel guilty as hell.

Now her lids flickered, the beautiful mocha-coloured eyes widening as the curling lashes lifted to look around the room and finally, to meet his gaze.

She lay for a while, blinking as memory returned to her, eyes going around the unfamiliar room in surprise and alarm.

Turning to him, she wh