Luca’s POV A new day has come and the location of the phone call had ended yo being a dead end, like the clove on the phone had said it was going to be, which was why I wasn’t all that disappointed. But I was really angry, angrier than I had been the night before.The voices of the voice on the phone, had been narrowed down to three, which all looked too young to be in the mafia. I had a hunch that the person who I had spoken to last night might be one of them, which meat only one thing; I hadn’t spoken to the boss last night like I had suspected, but had spoken to a kid that had probably been paid fo do that, or had been blackmailed into doing that. My guess was right because when I had called the number again, the voice had been completely different from how it had sounded last night.When I had called the unknown voice out on his bullshit and that I had been able to figure out who had been on the call last night and that it wasn’t one of them, the voice had only laughed and a
Luca’s POV Armani was alive now and that was all that matters. After capturing the man behind all of this, who wan also shot in the arm and leg, he got taken hostage, because he still gave a lot of answering to do to me.I cradled Armani in my arms and made sure he was breathing, before he got carefully lifted and placed in his car. To say I wasn’t blaming myself for all what had happened, would be an understatement. But then James’ words keep resounding in my head, that I wasn’t to blame myself for any of these.After clearing out the now messy as hell scene, we headed straight for one of my condos here in italy, there was just no way I’d be taking him home this way, and taking him to an actual hospital was out of the question. From the look of his wound and how badly he had been bleeding before James had stopped the bleeding by tying a cloth to stop the flow of blood, it seems like he was going to be needing more than a few stitches, and so he was going to have to get tended to
Luca’s POV I found Sofia in her painting room.After observing her for a while, I’ve come to notice that she took that room as a place where she found solace, it was why I had headed there straight.She wasn’t painting, as expected. Instead, she was huddled on the far end of the room, on the ground, against the wall, with her legs pulled against her chest. She wasn’t asleep though, even though it was already half past eleven. Her eyes snapped up as soon as I had pushed the door open, and she was on her feet in an instant, as soon as she had noticed my presence.She was dressed in a shirt, a white big shirt which I noticed was mine, and it was like a dress on her small body, as expected. Her hair was let down and they framed her face and sides, making her look so damn ethereal. Her eyes were what pulled me in, they were wide and sad and glassy, like she had been crying or had been about to start crying right now, and I felt my heart clench painfully in my chest.I moved away from
Luca’s POV “I’m so sorry though, if I hadn’t agreed to showing him around, none of this would have happened.” She supplied after a few moments and I shook my head at her as I stroked her hair.“It’s not your fault, bunny. You had no idea it was going to happen. I didn’t mean to make it seem like I was blaming you, so stop feeling bad, okay?” I murmured to her and she slowly nodded her head, even though I was sure she was definitely going to still keep feeling bad about it.“I hope nothing happens to him.” She whispered after a few moments, and that was when I remembered that I still haven’t informed her that Armani have already been found.“He’s fine, bunny. We found him some hours ago.” Tears sprang to her eyes instantly and she was in my arms once again, sobbing tears of relief, that were still tugging at my chest. I hated seeing her cry, no matter the kind of tears.“Is he okay?” She finally asked when she pulled away. “Is he here now?” I shook my head and breathed out a s
Sofia’s pov For the first morning in three days, I woke up without feeling like I was going to burst into frustrated tears. I could still feel Luca’s firm arms around me as he held me against him. Even in his sleep, he was always holding onto me like he’d never let me go. I glanced up at his face and took in the stress lines that were now marking the top of his, it was very obvious that he was very much stressed and needed to get as much rest as possible, but I was sure he was going to be out of bed in an instant if I needed him.Damn my stupid body for reacting to him the way I had did that day when I had thought he had been about to hit me. What had I even been thinking? I mean, it wasn’t like Luca had ever made me feel like he was ever got to ever lay a finger on me. The only time he has ever laid a finger on me was whenever he was spanking my ass, which also doesn’t frequently, unfortunately.Well at least he had said we were going to talk about it some other time, I reall
Luca’s POV It was a little bit after noon when I finally left the house, Sofia hadn’t been happy that I was leaving tne house when it was obvious that I still needed more rest, and had pouted at me as I got ready for work, although I wasn’t going to be reaching the office at all for the whole of today. I had cooed at her and pressed a small kiss to the side of her lips when she had stood on the bed to give me a hug. I had embraced her and held her against me for long moments, as I remembered ehst I said last night in bed, right before I had fallen asleep. I had meant everywhere word, I really wasn’t sure of how I was going to act or react if she got kidnapped, all I was sure was that s lot of blood was most definitely going to flow it that ever happens.My driver was already here and he drove me straight to the condo where Armani was at. I had gotten alerted when he had finally awoken, but had decided against calling him because I wanted him to get enough rest as possible.On
Sofia’s pov It was my first time leaving the country I was born in, and was I stupidly excited about it? Absolutely yes. I had been grinning since I had woken up, in Luca arm’s of course, my excitement had knew no bounds.Luca had kept on commenting on how cute my excitement was but I had paid him no heed. When I had time Kayla about it, she had been excited for me as well and had wished me the very best while reminding me to be sure to take thousand of picture. I decided to not bring any painting supplies with me, if I see anything inspiring, I was going to just take s picture of it and paint it once I return home.I had accompanied Luca to go see Armani yesterday’s evening, and tears had sprang to my eyes as soon as I had settled my eyes on him. His eyes had lit up as soon as he had noticed my presence as well, and he had even welcomed me for a hug. To my embarrassment, he had went ahead to tell Luca how I had attempted to go to him when he was getting abducted, right before I
Sofia’s pov The more I thought of it, the more the plan sounded really crazy and exciting in my head, and the more I regarded him through half open eyes from my spot at the other side of the room, the more I could feel my blood boil brighter inside of me.I knew I had no idea of how I was going to go about it, because for one, it involves taking charge and making the decision here, and it wasn’t something I liked doing all that much– but that didn’t me less interested in carrying out the plan.I went over the plan in my head once again, making sure I had mapped out how I was going to carry it out, and then I slowly pushed myself to my feet and puffed out a slow breath. Luca hasn’t even noticed me at all, which made a small pout settle on my face.I love it when he gives me so much attention, loves when I was all he could focus on, it makes me feel really alive and adored all at once– and I know he wasn’t focusing on me right now because of the meeting he was currently having. The