Luca’s pov My head was still reeling from disbelief as I entered the house and shut the door behind me. James had felt as flabbergasted as myself the moment I relayed the most important of the dinner to him. I pulled off my time as soon as I entered the room, and then I splashed some water on my face. The past few days has felt like pure torture to me. When Sofia had left the house from anger, at least I had known where she had been throughout those moments. This time felt complete, it kept feeling like I was gonna stop breathing after a few moments due to how restless I was. After the drink I chugged in at dinner, I didn’t feel like drinking any more tonight any longer.After changing, I alighted the stairs and was heading towards my office when Armani arrived from the kitchen with a drink in his hand. It didn’t look like he had been getting enough sleep from how swollen his eyes looked. We stared at each other silently till he closed the distance between us and tugged me into a hu
Sofia’s povT/W Noncon • Violence • Proceed With Caution As each sob rattled out of my body, every inch of me trembled from fear and pain. I tightened my arms around myself even though I know it wouldn’t make any difference.“Why are you making this hard for yourself for no reason?” Ryan asked, voice softened and ladened with so much concern, if I hadn’t known better, I’d have fallen for it.“I’m so sorry.” I whispered for the hundredth time, head throbbing from how much I had been screaming and crying.After Ryan had caught me trying to escape, he hadn’t done a thing to me, which had shocked me to the core. He had laid me in the bed and kissed me Goodnight before existing the room, and I had stayed wide awake from fear until the next morning. He treated me with so much care, never bringing up the fact that I attempted to excspe from him for a moment, and that left me tense throughout the day, because I’ve witnessed just how bad he could get. Unexpectedly, that night, he h
Sofia’s pov I could barely drag in a deep breath without my chest rattling from pain. It must have been over three days with me not getting a wink of sleep. Somehow, I still found myself wondering how tears are still able to slide out of my eyes. It felt like I had cried out every damn teardrop in me, but still, the tears still kept on falling.My wrist hurt from the amount of hours it spent being tied up, and every inch of my body felt like it was on fire from too much pain. “Luca is such a bastard, such an undeserving one which I can’t wait to put a bullet into.” Ryan had muttered with so much venom while littering kissed the bruises over my arms.As he kept going on and on, I wondered how he had managed to hide the fact that he hated Luca for over a year while diligently following all his orders.“Did you know that at first, I wanted to take your life?” He asked one night out of nowhere, jolting me out of the sleep I had begun to fall into. It felt like he had brought that topic
Sofia’s pov Ryan drove at an extremely high speed, like he had more than one life. The car almost got involved in more than one accident from how fast the car was racing. Throughout the ride, Ryan never ceased snickering about how he was finally getting revenge on Luca and is finally gonna be ending him tonight. As he kept guffawing, my stomach got in tighter knots and I could barely stop myself from crying at the thought of Luca dying tonight all because he wanted to rescue me.“Why the fuck are you crying?” He demanded after catching a glance of my face in the rearview mirror. “Isn’t it your dream for us to live happily ever after with Luca completely out of the picture?!” I shook my head, pain radiating into my insides from that little moment. “I don’t, I just wanna be with Luca, that’s all I want.”That was clearly a wrong answer seeing as he almost drove into the mouth of a large trailer in the next moment. His hands shook around the steering wheel, and it was obviou
Luca’s pov The first thing I wanted to do as soon as our car pulled up in the location Ryan’s own partner had given us, and I had seen Ryan holding Sofia who was on the ground, immense anger had engulfed me that I wanted to do nothing but to step out and put a bullet into the bastard, but James reminded me about not ducking anything up, which was enough to get me into thinking rationally once again.One tiny move and we’d have driven right into the trap which the bastard had set for us, all thanks to Angelo.I had wanted to leave Angelo out of this because I know Sofia wouldn’t ever want to burden him with something like this, even though I was sure he’d have definitely gotten wind of her disappearance. Angelo had been the one to come to me, informing that he wanted to help me find his sister. There hasn’t been any room for me to reject his offer, not that I’d have even dreamt of doing that because I had needed all the assistance I could get. Letting Angelo into the team helped us o
Sofia’s pov The scream that left my mouth this time was completely silent as I watched as the kneeling man who was apparently working with Ryan, fell to the ground face first after being shot by Ryan. That sent a more terrified feeling down my spine, because not only was Ryan crazy, he was clearly also heartless as hell. Seeing how he could effortless kill off his own partner made it more obvious that it wouldn’t be hard for him to kill me if he wants to, and that he wasn’t just bluffing by threatening to shoot me.“Fuck, man, you really are a freak. Your own partner?” Angelo mused with an unimpressed look on his face. Luca snorted and leveled Ryan with a look. “That’s not something a Ricci would do, you know?”“Well it’s a good thing I’m not a fucking one, okay? And now that I’ve killed my partner myself, you clearly don’t have anything to threaten me with, I have nothing to lose in this situation unlike the rest of you.” Ryan responded haughtily, sneering as he tugged on my hair.
Sofia’s pov ‘Was this how it feels to float?’I asked myself over and over again, the more time I spent in that same unending loophole. It felt like I was stuck in a fluffy space, but instead of sinking, I remained afloat.Muffled voice could be heard coming from multiple sides at once but I couldn’t make any word out, neither could I tell each voice apart from the other.I limbs literally felt nonexistent because I couldn’t wait use of them no matter how much I tried. It’s almost weird how it’s pitch dark in this fluffy space, preventing me from making anything out.Or perhaps, I was the one who had my eyes closed throughout, I realized when I discovered that I could feel my eyelids twitch a little. I tried to get my eyes open after that, but ended up giving up after trying over and over again to no avail. I drifted straight into an unconscious state after that.When I came to once again, I felt warm fingers around mine. The fingers felt familiar in a way, and with everyth
Sofia’s pov The weeks flew by faster than i could keep up with.Healing was slower than I anticipated, and I hated almost every second of it, if I was being honest, but that doesn’t mean I wouldn’t willingly take another bullet for Luca if I could, because I will. Luca had gotten extremely displeased when I offhandedly said those same words to him, and he made me promise to never, ever do that again.I stayed in the hospital for months, because Luca wanted me to be completely healed before getting discharged. The flowers that got sent to me by every well wishers had gotten thrown out more than three times because at a point, they all began to rot.A little gathering was thrown in celebration of my release from the hospital. Everybody was there waiting in the house as entered the house, from Kayla and her husband, Travis, to Armani and his girlfriend, Nala, to James and his fiancée, Blair, to Angelo. It was relieving to finally be home and be surrounded by so much love right now ma