Betrothed To The Mafia Lord

Chapter 126

Sofia’s POV

“Well then, can you tell me something about your childhood? What it felt like for you, what it was like

growing up and finally coming of age, and all those kinds of stuff.” I said to him after a minute and

watched as he stared at me blankly for a fleeting moment, right before the sides of his lips started to

stretch out a little into a small smile. Content (C) Nôv/elDra/ma.Org.

“Why? You’re curious?” He demanded in a light voice and I find myself nodding my head in reply befute

I could think and I watched as the tiny smile at the corner of his lips started to stretch into a small

chuckle.

“I am.” I mumbled out in a small voice and watched as he chuckled a little before starting to lean

forward until he was leaning into my side of the couch, right before he started to speak.

“You still haven’t gotten around to telling me about yourself, Mrs Ricci, you know that?” He started to

say after a moment, the sides of his lips still stretched out a little.

“I would, like I said I was going to some time ago, I’ll tell you about myself like I said I would.” I replied

after a moment.

“How about you start right now then? After all, you were supposed to start the whole speech about

one’s self first, but I had started it along with you, and now, you do know about the fact that I have no

siblings and have been alone growing up.” He started to speak and I gave a small snort before I could

help myself.

“You didn’t get to tell me about your childhood.” I pointed out almost immediately, slightly staring at him

from the sides of my eyes.

“That was because you haven’t gotten to telling me about yourself, remember, after all, I asked first.”

He started to say after a few seconds and I rolled my eyes a little before moving forward a little on the

couch and huffing out a little puff of breath.

“Fine.” I muttered and lifted my finger to use in moving my hair to the back of my ears when it had

gotten into my face way too much that I’d prefer at the very moment.

“I’m all ears.” He said in reply and I rolled my eyes a little before moving my hair away from my face

towards the back of my ear once again.

“But then you’d also tell me about you, right?” I demanded, because knowing who Ryan was, I didn’t

want a situation whereby I’d tell him about myself finish and then once I was done, he’d suddenly

disappear on me.

“You wouldn’t run away after I am done with speaking about myself and letting you know about me,

right?” I demanded while giving him a pointed look. He carded his fingers through his hair and waited

before finally starting to reply.

“No, I wouldn’t. What makes you say that ?” He replied aafter and then proceeded to question.

“Well because I know you. And I guess I know what you can do in a moment like this.” I paused and

gave him a pointed side look and decided to wait until a few seconds had passed before finally

continuing.

“And I don’t want a moment or situation whereby I’d finish speaking to you about myself and tel you all

that you needed to know about me, and then when it gets to the time for you to finally start to speak

about yourself, whereby you’d then start replying questions hair heartedly which would leave little to no

space and strength to be able to hold a conversation together l, or whereby you’d start answering

questions with a few mumbled words, and then you’d want to get out of my sight before I can even

decide to blink, which was how you acted throughout the week when I had tried to start up a

conversation between us, more than once.” I said to him and watched as he kept on staring at me after

I was done, as I’d he hadn’t been expecting me to say all what I had just said, moments ago.

But that was the truth.

Knowing just how it was for me to be able to start up a conversation with him before, it could even be

more hard to get him to open up to me once I’d be done with my own side of the deal, and of course he

could choose to not speak to me about himself, but I didn’t want any of that, which was one of the

reasons as to why I was speaking up at this moment, because I didn’t want any of these.

Because, obviously I couldn’t order him to open up if he refused to, and I was dying to know

something’s about him, after being unable to go out and interrract with people the way I used to do

when I was still back at home, this was all new for me because I had been stuck with seeing the same

faces over and over throughout my first week of marriage, and I wanted to know some things about

those people so bad, to enable me start to feel some kind of connection between us, that was one of

the reasons as to why I had tried to start talking to them and trying to get them to open up to me– to no

avail.

Of course as expected, talking to Matilda and Sarah had been really easy and even though I had

danced around the whole topic about my childhood or how it was back at home, all because I had still

felt unsure around them and still didn’t know their true intent about me.

But then, after the incident which had happened on that particularly evening when I had ended up

fainting, and Matilda had taken me into her arms and held unto me as I had shed tears unto her

shoulders, after that particular day, I was starting to reconsider being completely open with them when

it comes to things about my family or not.

Also, I wasn’t going to be completely opening until mouth Ryan as well, of course I wasn’t, I never

planned to in the first place, I wasn’t that dumb.

I had rather planned to fill the whole space with things about my school and my friends, and also my

brother, leaving stuffs about my parents and the way the house was, completely out. It was the way I

hadn’t tried to ever deceive myself that Ryan was going to ever tell me the truth about himself, or the

whole truth.

Like I had said before, I wasn’t that dumb.

Ryan breathed out a small laugh and I glanced at him from the side of my eyes, hoping he hadn’t been

speaking before, because I hadn’t gotten a thing whifh he had said — that is, if he had actually been

speaking some moments ago, because I had been totally lost in thoughts.

“You know what? I see where you’re coming from.” He started to say while looking at me and I felt my

heart steer to settle back down almost immediately on realization that he hadn’t been speaking before

and had only started to speak just now.

“Oh yeah?” I mumbled out in a voice I hoped sounded as cool as it had sounded and appeared in my

voice, and by the way Ryan’s lips stretched out into a grim, I was seriously starting to suspect that it

hadn’t been able to sound any kind of cool way to him, and that thought made me huff out a small

breath.

“Yeah, I see where you’re coming from right now, I see it now.” He mumbled and leaned into the side of

my couch almost immediately before he continued to speak. “Well, it wasn’t my fault, I just felt like

everything was still all new to you and I hadn’t wanted to crowd into your space in any kind of way,

which was why I was always leaving your presence immediately whatever we were talking about in that

very moment was over.” He continued to speak and I found myself chewing on the lower part of my lips

unconsciously as his words slowly sank into my head, and once his done was completely stored into

my head, I stared up from my thighs and stared at him fully, turning a little to the side.

“Yeah, that.” I muttered in a small voice and gave a small push of my shoulders. That part about him

not wanting to crowd into my space sounded like a truth and a lie at the same time but I didn’t think it

was necessary for me to point it out, and so I let it go and breathed out a small sigh, lifting my hand up

to brush my hair to the back of my ears seeing as it was starting to almost getting into the teeth

attention which I was showering the left lower part of my lips.

“And the part about me barely replying to your questions and trying to carry on a conversation each

time you try to start one isn’t all that true.” He started to say and I had started to nod my head along

with all which he had been saying until it got to the last few words.

“We both know how true it is.” I said to him with narrowed eyes and watched as he hesitated for a few

moments before nodding his head once.

“Alright, well honestly, I am not used to speaking to people all that much, talk less a stranger, and

also…” Hevtreiked off and gave me a look from the side of his eyes before he continued after a few

moments. “And you know, it wouldn’t even be appropriate for me to keep up a conversation with you

because you were a newly wedded wife.” He continued, completing his sentence with what had never

ever crossed my mind for once.

“Oh.” I mumbled in a quiet voice and watched as he gave a nod of his head.

“What about now? Is it now appropriate?” I demanded after a moment, already steering to get worried

about him, because I didn’t want him to get into any kind of trouble all because of me.

“To be honest?” He asked and didn’t wait around to even give a nod of my head before he was

continuing. “It isn’t. It still isn’t appropriate for the of us to say in a place without anyone's knowledge.”

He replied and my eyes widened immediately.

“What?” I demanded and felt myself start to shift towards the other side of the couch, the fact that

we’ve both spent a lot of time steering to float around in my head almost immediately.

What if he gets into trouble because of me? I asked myself as I felt my heart start to pound a little

against the sides of my chest.

“Yeah, it isn’t.” He confirmed once again.

“Luca said so?” I asked in a small voice, a very quiet voice in my head had already started to ask me if

there was anything that I was going to be able to do if it was true that Luca had given that order… What

could I even do? I asked myself mentally as a small sigh slipped past my lips.

“No, he didn’t.” He replied and I felt relief start to course through my veins almost instantly.

“But he doesn’t need to, because it’s already like a common law.” He continued after a few moments.

“Oh, what law?” I asked in a small, curious voice.

“The bodyguards laws.” He replied and I found myself muttering out another quiet ‘oh’

“So, I guess we’d have to break this small meeting up for now, right?” I found myself saying after a few

moments and watched as Ryan gave a small nod or his head.

“We can totally continue it another day,” I said to him, and added in my mind. ‘I don’t want anything t

happen to you because of me’.

“That’d be really cool.” Ryan started to say as he pushed himself up to his feet and I stared up at him

and he started to take a few steps away from the side of the couch.

“It was nice, what we had to do today.” He said quietly and I nodded my head once before echoing

those words after him, agreeing with him because he had spoken my thoughts.

“I guess I’ll see you around, Mrs Ricci.” He said and gave a small bow.

“But, you can just continue to call me ‘Sofia’, you did refer to me with my first name some while ago.” I

pointed out and watched as he started to shake his head almost immediately, even before I could finish

speaking.

“That was a mistake, Mrs Ricci, I’d never refer to you with your first name on purpose, that’d be me

disrespecting you.”