Betrothed To The Mafia Lord

Chapter 289

Luca’s POV

“Let’s head inside already.” I said to her just as I pushed myself off the wall that I had been previously

leaning against, as I stepped into the sitting room after staring at the doorway with my brother beside

me for long minutes.

It didn’t take long for Sofia to notice that she wasn’t alone in here anymore, and I noticed the moment

she froze at first before slowly turning her head around until she was staring at me– and at my younger

brother ego was currently standing beside me. I watched as she slowly pushed herself to her feet, a

small breath falling past her lips as her mouth fell open a little.

She started to make her way towards me and I offered her a smile and beaconed for her to come

straight towards me. She puffed out a small breath as she walked straight into my side, pressing into

me and gripping my shirt with one of her hands and I wrapped my arm firmly around her waist and

hummed a little, feeling that particular feeling of fulfillment come to settle over me in that particular

moment.

Sofia peeked up at me after a couple of moments had passed, and after a fleeting moment, she was

pulling out of my side and attempting to stand on her own. I knew that that small wave of security and

safety that she had wanted to feel as soon as she as she had settled her eyes on me had been curbed,

and now she was able to stand on her own and offer me a smile, which I returned instantly, not caring

that I correctly had an audience with me.

Sofia was the first to break eye contact and I watched as she stared up at my brother who was stabbed

beside me. A quick glance at my brother showed that he was still in a little bit of shock from the display

of comfort and affection he had just seen some moments ago.

“Hello.” Sofia finally started to speak, almost bouncing on the balls of her feet as she waved up at

Armani. Armani had a smile on his face almost immediately, and was returning the wave with an

enthusiastic one, to my delight.

“You’re so beautiful.” Armani blurted out of the blue and I watched as Sofia bursted into a little fit of

laughter, as she lifted one of her hands up to shield her mouth. I sneaked a glance at Armani to see

him still staring down at Sofia, with a smile still spread out on his face.

“Uh, thank you.” Sofia finally responded, still smiling a little with a little bit of color staining her cheeks.

“I’m Sofia.” Sofia started to speak after a couple of moments, taking the lead once again, and I felt

something that felt so much like pride start to tingle and expand in the middle of my chest as I watched

as she offered her hand to Armani who had finally managed to shake himself a little to be able to get

more words out or himself.

“Forgive my manners, My name’s Armani.” He finally started to speak as he accepted Sofia’s hand into

his bigger one, and before I could blink, he was moving forward and closing the distance between them

to take her into his arms. I watched as Sofia went into his embrace willingly, the slime still dancing

around the corners of her lips as she leaned into him.

It pleased me so much as I watched the two people that meant the whole world to me hug each other

this way, it was something I hadn’t known I needed to see until this very moment, which was why I

couldn’t take my eyes off turn until they finally started to slowly pull out of the hug. I’d have leaned into

them to envelop both people into my arms some moments ago, as soon as that thought popped into

my head. But, I refrained from doing that and made sure to hold myself back because I know that they

might both find it weird for me to suddenly be doing that when they least expected it. And so I hummed

a little and moved my weight around my feet a little as I watched them place a little bit of space

between each other as they began to talk to each other once again.

Armani was speaking more this time, which pleased me a whole lot. Armani has always been a really

shy person, which was why it hasn’t really shocked me when he admitted to being scared of women– it

has just caught me unexpectedly because when we had both been growing up together, we had never

had that particular conversation for once. It was also why I had thought he was into the same gender

when we had both talked on the phone, some days ago.

I clapped my hands against each other a little and watched as both heads turned around to stare at me

at the same time. It looked like they had almost – if not completely, forgotten that I was right here, some

feet away from where they were both currently standing. As if Sofia could now perfectly read my

thoughts, a small bashful look crossed her face and she bit at the inside of her cheeks before starting

to dudk her head, breaking eye contact with me. I breathed out a small laugh and turned around a little,

right before I started to speak. “Let’s all sit down, shall we? It’s going to do your legs good… and I bet

you’re still feeling jet lagged, Armani?”

I was moving towards the couches as I spoke, and I turned around to stare at my brother as I said

those lose words.

“I am, a whole lot. I can’t wait to take a freaking bath and sleep for days.” Armani responded after a

moment since he had chosen that same moment to sink into one chair, the one at the left side of where

I was standing in, and where I had been about to sink into.

“Perhaps, after you have dinner, you’d be able to go do all what you want to do as fast as possible, so

you can be able to fall asleep really fast.” I said to Armani after a moment, sinking into the chair which I

had been standing right in front of for long minutes. I watched as Sofia glanced from where I was sitting

in, to where Armani was sitting, clearly torn between what to choose and go for. I chuckled a little,

remaining silent and just watching her and it took a few long moments for her to finally start to move

towards where Armani was sitting.

I snorted a little when Armani instantly sat up and started to speak.

“Oh, no. You can sit with Luca if you want to, don’t feel obligated to sit beside me, because I’m like a

visitor here or because you feel like you have to, when you really don’t.” Armani said to Sofia in a single

breath as he looked up at Sofia who was still standing a few feet away from him. I rolled my eyes a little

in the next moment, because I knew that he was going to be really pleased if Sofia would end up sitting

beside him, but was just currently feeling like he had to act matured or something.

“Oh, it’s not about that, and no, I’m not choosing to sit here because I have to. I don’t do things

because I have to, Luca doesn’t force me to do anything.” She started to speak and it hit me all over

again in that particular moment.

It wasn’t like I sometimes forget about all of this, it was more like because Sofia had never Mentioned it

out in the open like this before, it has never been like this, it was always just ke thinking about it.

Scratch that, it wasn’t me always thinking about it. I rarely think about it, and each time I do, it’s always

to ask myself if I’m forcing her to do something she doesn’t want to do, or not– and nothing more, that’s

it. I dragged a deep breath into my longs in the next moment, instantly clearing my head out for any

unnecessary things, in order for me to be able to listen in on what else it was that Sofia had started to

say.

“I just wanted to sit beside you, because I want to still talk to you, I guess?” She continued to speak

and I felt my insides turn into a soft pile or gooey goe, due to how cute she was currently being.

“Really?” Armani asked in the next moment, staring up at her as his face brightened up. So much for

trying to act matured, my foot. Content property of NôvelDra/ma.Org.

“Yeah, you see… I was really excited about you coming back here.” She continued once again,

shrugging her shoulders a little as she admitted softly. Armani face was currently filled with awe as GW

stared up at her in that moment,

“Whoa, me too. I was, you know, excited about coming back here, and also…” Armani trailed off and

shrugged his shoulders a little, and I noticed a little bit of color making its way into his face as it moved

across his reddened ear. He turned his head around to stare at me for a fleeting second before turning

back around and focusing on Sofia, right before he continued to speak. “I was also excited to meet you,

and stuff.”

“Oh.” Sofia whispered as soon as Armani‘s words has sank into her ears, and I watched as Armani

nodded his head slowly, the flushed hue still visible on his face as he was still staring up at Sofia.

As if just realizing that she has been standing on her feet all these while, he instantly parted a spot

beside him and urged her to come forward in the next moment.

“Oou, come sit down already, you’ve been standing for a while now.”

Sofia giggled a little and turned her head around a little until she was staring at me. I nodded my head

at her and gestured for her to go take a seat, and it was as if that was all the push and reassurance she

needed because she was sinking into the spot beside Armani in the next moment, leaving a little bit of

space between their bodies.

Feeling so much like I needed to give them a little bit of privacy at least, I pushed myself to my feet and

sauced my hands into my pocket, and I noticed Sofia’s eyes widening almost instantly, as if she had

been suddenly shocked by something really unexpected.

I glanced at her face for a moment longer, recognizing a look of instant panic on her face – and that

emotion lasted for a few seconds, before it disappeared, leaving a slightly excited and curious one

behind.

“I’m going to go check to see if dinner is already, ok?” I said audibly, moving my eyes off my brother to

focus it on Sofia almost immediately. It was obvious that she was a little bit nervous about me leaving

her on her own, but then she didn’t really have a thing to be scared about. Armani would never be able

to hurt her– he was just like her when it comes to violence, he can’t be able to do a thing and neither

can she.

“Uh, okay.” Sofia finally responded after a few moments, and I watched as she shifted a little in her

seat, clearly unsettled and almost restless.

“Would you like to say something to me?” I asked after a couple of seconds and I watched as she

started to shake her head in response, teeth starting to worry her bottom lip.

She was definitely unsettled.

“Bunny?” I called out in a low voice after a fleeting second, completely forgetting about the fact that

Armani was right there beside her. Like my voice was directly connected to something in Sofia’s body

with a wire or something, she visibly jolted as soon as I had rumbled out her name and her bottom lip

which she had been previously worrying slip from her now slackened teeth grip.