Luca’s POV Dressing in casual clothes was hard as hell for me, because being in a suit alone brings a particular kind of aura around you which a casual looking jeans and a flannel shirt wouldn’t be able to bring around you. Dressing in suits had always been like a super power for me, right from after I got ordained to be the new mafia lord after my father, and after I had to officially take over from my father after he had gotten killed.I wasn’t completely prepared to because a leader of a counter like this and to keep on walking in the footsteps of evil and greed which my father had laid out for me the way his father had did the same for him, but being left with no choice, I had to take the title and position and start leading the people forward from where my father had stopped. I knew a lot of people were not going to give me the due respect they were supposed to give me, because of my young age and because of how everyone in rankings back then were older than I was.And so I had
Luca’s POV “Oh, she’s upstairs, sitting on the balcony. Would you like me to get her for you?” Sarah replied immediately, her face somehow lightening up by that question which I had asked her.I shook my head instantly, already making my way out of the kitchen, “Nevermind, don’t think about it anymore.”I paused outside the kitchen’s doorway and contemplated asking Sarah how Sofia was doing and if her injured arm was still hurting badly, and how she was fairing but thought better against it and nudged the urge away, not wanting Sarah to start to suspect a thing concerning Sofia’s and I marriage. Because it was most definitely going to sound weird and suspicious to her that I was asking her how my wife was fairing instead of me asking Sofia directly like a normal husband was supposed to do.But then, I wasn’t a normal husband. Never felt like a normal husband for a second since the start of our marriage.For one, a husband wouldn’t have gotten married to his wife in a crowd of three
Luca’s POV I glanced at my wrist watch clinging on my right wrist and noted what the time says, it was almost four p.m in the afternoon. I made my way into the hospital building, walking past the security who bowed his head a little at me in respect the moment he recognized who I was. I walked into the elevator which wasn’t empty, to my disappointment and stood at the far end of the elevator, staying clear of the three identical children who were chattering the ears of their mother off.“Mummy, look at my bracelets in the mirror.” The one standing in the middle of her strikingly identity sisters said, smiling at her mother through the mirror— just as the one standing on the side which was only a few feet away from where I was standing at– lifted her hand up and looked up at her mother through the mirror with a small pout which made Sofia’s face pop into my head all of a sudden.“Mummy, mine is the prettiest, right?” She asked with a small pout just as the third one chose to tu
Sofia POV When Luca had suddenly broken eye contact with me and disappeared deeper into the house without saying a thing to me– not like I was expecting him to, in the first place, I had thought it was because he was angry with something that he had probably encountered with at work or wherever it was that he went to. I had no idea he was sick at that moment. I should have known, I guess? But when our eyes had connected, I was too busy focusing my whole willpower on not breaking eye contact with him ducking my head in embarrassment, which was probably why I hadn’t noticed how stressed out and tired he looked.When Sarah had suddenly come down from the stairs, straight into the kitchen where I was currently in– with Matilda stirring the food she was preparing and quietly humming a Christmas tune beneath her breath, despite the fact that Christmas was coming anything soon— to ask Matilda to increase the heat of the boiling rice and to start the preparation of the chicken soup
Sofia’s POV I scrolled through my phone, through the list of results that had come up after I had looked up ‘the things a married woman can do to pass time’ on safari. It had brought forth a bunch of things I had no thought of doing, and most of it contained taking care of babies– where would I find a baby to take care off? And that sounds really stressful, I wanted to do something I was going to really, really love doing.It would have been easier for me if I had been allowed to do any of my hobbies back when I was growing up at home, but my father disagreed the moment I had brought the topic up, even before I could finish speaking.And that had been the end of it for me. Until this morning when it occurred to me that I could be doing something I like, something I’d have passion and zeal to do… Well, that is it, Luca was going to agree and give me the permission to do it, instead of disagreeing like my father had done instantly, years ago.I wanted to start doing something. It oc
Sofia’s POV I closed the bedroom door the moment I got into the room and leaned against it as I dragged breaths into my lungs while blinking repeatedly. Once my breaths were starting to come out at a normal pace once again, I moved away from my spot against the door and walked deeper into the bedroom, heading straight for of the bean bags chairs in the room and the other side of the bedroom and sank into it, pulling my legs up and warping my arms around it. I dragged in another deep breath and puffed it out ever so slowly, my ribs rising and falling along with the slow intake and exhale I was performing in order to calm myself down and stop the tears that had been about to once again fall down since the moment I exited Ryan’s presence.I was going to blame these unusual overwhelming emotions that had suddenly come to visit me this afternoon on my period. Yeah, it had got to be it.My hormones are most definitely messed up at the moment, hence the urge to cry.I shifted a little and
Sofia’s POV The first thing I came to was low, unclear voices which were blending into each other, making it hard for me to figure out who was who. I blinked my eyes open and winced immediately as bright lights shown into my eyes really intensely that I had to close my eyes back for a few seconds before finally blinking my eyes open slowly once again.What happened? I asked myself as my eyes started trailing over every near you detail it could lay its gaze on. I turned my head around and stared straight down, the familiarity of the room I was currently in registered into my head slowly and I blinked once again in confusion.I was… in the sitting room?I stared down at the white couch I was currently lying on, recognizing the couch immediately as one of the ones in the sitting room. I pushed myself up to a sitting position and let out a sharp noise when that sudden movement made a sharp pain tug at the inside of my head and my stomach at the same time.I didn’t notice the set of he
Sofia’s POV The man crouched down, almost in the same spot Luca had crouched down in and I felt my body start to stiffen up a little. I watched as Luca stood right in the spot he had crouched down in, minutes ago, his hands deep in his pocket and his eyes staring down at me – making me notice once again, just how big and tall he was at the moment.I had no idea if I was going to be as tall as he was if I stood up on the couch– that was how small I was compared to him.“Hello, Mrs Luca.” The man who had crouched down before me started to speak and I focused my eyes on him once again, feeling a light color of embarrassment start to flood my cheeks at being referred to as ‘Mrs Luca’ in the presence of Luca himself.“Hello,” I whispered to the man in reply, sucking in a sharp, audible breath when something squeezed in the lower part of my abdomen painfully.“How are you feeling now?” The man asked and I stared at him quietly, wasn’t it obvious to him that I was hurting at the moment?“My