Just this once

"Nick… In the eyes of everyone, he's my brother. Won't it be strange if I don't go and check up on him?" Luciana reasoned, looking up at him expectantly. 

"Okay just this once, my wife cares about everyone else except me," he said. 

Luciana shook her head at his words as if to say he was mistaken. 

"Who made you believe such lies? Can't you see I'm worried I'm about you? Especially since the maids told me you stayed all this while taking care of me. I was hoping you'd sleep for a while longer but I didn't know you'd wake up so soon," she said, stroking his face with her fingers and trying to smoothen the frown and fatigue on his face. 

Nicholas held her gaze allowing himself to be stroked by her like a little kitten. 

"Next time something like this happens, don't put your body in such strain. I feel heartache seeing you tired like this," Luciana said.