Heaven Venezia:-
I entered the room to find Giovanni standing in front of our huge wedding portrait hung on the wall. We looked so happy and in love as we look at one another in the picture.
As I look at him, standing in our bedroom I can't help but feel relieved. It's better to have Giovanni with me than not being at all. I have suffered the loneliness, the pain during the time he was missing and it was all because of that b***h. She thinks she has got the upper hand but I will show her who has the upper hand over here.
"We look so happy in it." I heard him speak, from his position. His gaze still fixed on the portariat "And, in love."
"Because we were." I tell him honestly, after approaching his side "You made me happy. Gio. It was all you and your lvoe that made me happy and bloom with colors."
He turned around to stare at me, and just stood like that for a few second until I saw his hands trembling as if he was trying to reach for mine, but he was nervous to do so. I smiled and placed his hand on mine and brought it to my lips for a kiss.
"Don't." I tell him "I know what you are thinking, so don't. We are going to figure it out and I am going to make you remember everything. I don't want a life if you are not in it, Giovanni. You are my husband, my life, my world and father of our children. I will love you no matter what, just like you will."
"Ca...Can I kiss you?" he asked, his voice quivering "I don't know why, but I feel this need to kiss you. To feel you."
"You never have to ask to kiss me, Gio. You never did." I tell him "Go for it."
I looked into his eyes and he moved close to me, his eyes filled with something that he could not even describe to me. When he kissed me, I felt a flood gates opened and he finally showed me the true extent of his feelings towards me. I wanted him to know how much I loved him and wanted him, even if he could not remember where that desire came from.
At that time, my husband was in front of me, the husband I had married despite all his flaws, the real man behind the illness inside Giovanni’s head was trying to speak to me. His arms circled me protectively and his lips pressed onto mine, growing passionate, hungry as it was, as if he didn’t want to let go and risk losing me again. I touched his chest, which was rising and falling steadily to a rhythm I thought I’d never lose.
When we at last reached the end and pulled away from one another, he cupped my face and stared into my eyes, just as I was all too familiar with.
"Why does it pain me so much…not to remember you; not to know every single detail about us. But I know I need you, Heaven. All my attention, my whole being is filled with it." he tells me, his voice raspy "I am sorry, you have to go through this because of me, and I am trying. I am trying really hard to remember, but I can't. All I know is that I need you by my side, to breath and to feel alive. Like without you I am empty."
I smiled at her through my tears. And, you remember the answers at heart, Gio, that is why you manoeuvred to achieve that.” All that we shared—the love we had—it does not disappear into thin air just because the memories melted away. This is what we are going to do, this fight we are going to do it together and I will be there with you all the way.
He looked at me and smiled, and then nodding, he brought me against his chest again. For now, that was enough. We stayed like that for what feels like hours, and I inhaled his scent in me. This is the man I love and for this man I am going to burn down the whole world if I have to, but won't let anything happen to him.
As we pulled away, Giovanni cups his face and looked at me from head to toe when his eyes landed on the blood on my dress and he panicked, fear clouded his face as he placed his hand on my belly, and at that moment how much I wished to tell him that he is going to be a father again, but this will only make him worry more, and make it hard to remember. The more he pressures his brain, the more sick he gets.
"Heaven, oh my God, are you alright? You are bleeding." his lips trembling in fear as he checked me head to toe for any other injury, grabbed my wrist and begin to take me out of the room "We need to get you to the doctor. You are hurt."
"Gio, relax. I am alright. This is not mine." I tell him "It's not my blood. Just relax and take a deep breath."
"No...no, you are lying. You are hiding it because you are scared of hurting me." he refuses and took me by surprise when he turned me around and unzipped my dress and took it off. I stood in front of him in just bra and panties, as he turned me around and I swear I saw his pupils darken.
"Gio," I said quietly, and without thinking touched his chest to feel the frantic beat against my palm. His hands moved all over my body body, tenderly palpating me to feel out for signs of injury. When he found none he sighed deeply, his eyes shutting with relief. Lifting my chin up with his fingers, he opened his eyes and stared me in the eye, his eyes glinting with another energy; dominating desire and lust. Yes, there was lust that Giovanni always had for me.
"I felt… I was scared to death that I will lose you," inhaling deeply, he said, his voice faint. "This overwhelming fear…it’s stronger than anything I can remember even if the memory is dim."
I initiated a gentle kiss on his lips and I felt the breath on my lips from him. "You won’t lose me, Gio. Not now, not ever. I’m right here, and nothing—no memories of the past, your amnesia, or Carmen—can change that fact. I’ll fight for you. For us."
He embraced me tightly, touching the curve of my back and I slightly shuddered. "Honestly, I don’t get it all," he said, shaking in front of me, "But I get this bond with you, Heaven. It is something that is so strong, so profound. I do not know why or how but I know that it is real. We are real."
"Because we are." I tell him, caressing his face "We are invincible. You are invincible and my dangerous husband, with or without the memory."
"I...I scared our daughter. Didn't I?" he asked worried "Is she alright? Where is she?"
"She is going to be fine and currently she is sleeping with her brothers." I tell him "You need to rest, Gio. Shall we go to bed and sleep together? It feels like I haven't slept for years because you weren't there beside me."
"You want me to sleep with you?" he asked, nervously scractching the back of his neck, like he always do and I chuckled.
"Yes," I answered "Only if you are comfortabl...." in response he kissed me, and carried me to the bed gently and laid me down.
"I would love nothing more than that." he murmrus, lying down next to me and wrapped his arms around my waist "I will find a way to get back to you, Heaven. I will do everything to remember and return to you. Even if I have to fight the world for it, I will, because I know you are worth it and the only one for me."
"I know you will, because I know my husband doesn't say those words unless he means it." I smiled and he pecked my lips before we oth drifted to sleep and for the first time in a very long time I slept in peace, knowing he is beside me.