Luca’s POV The realization that Sofia was still in my arms, even before I had completely woken up, made me unconsciously tighten my arms around her as I dug my nose into her hair and finally came to reality, the sleep slowly leaving my head and mind. I blinked my eyes open and stared up at the roof for a moment, and I moved my fingers a little through the thick and soft hair which it had been buried in throughout the night, before turning my head around until I was staring at Sofia.Her face looked peaceful, and the traces of tears which could quickly and easily be identified on her cheeks and the trail from the corner of her eyes, down to her ear, made my blood start to boil almost immediately. I wanted to hurt whoever it was that was behind this, and I was definitely going to.I just needed to find out who it was, that was behind it. It's a pity that I have to go to work today, and that I have to arrive at the office early as well, if not… I’d want nothing more than to stay in and
Luca’s POV I arrived at the office and alighted the car as soon as the door got pulled open, and I started to make my way towards the office as soon as possible, a quick glance at my wrist watch showed that the time was some minutes past eight p.m in the morning, and I knew even without getting up to my office yet, that James had already gotten to the office before me, like he had said he was going to do yesterday. It wasn’t like I had planned to arrive here at the office late, it was only because of the whole thing with Sofia that had made me use more than my usual time in bed, coupled with the fact that I had to take a new car here to the office this morning, seeing as my car which I usually take along with me to almost everywhere I go, got really shot at, last night on my way home.I alighted the elevator car and started to make my way towards my office, letting myself into it and as usual, nodding my head at my secretaries who were already there at the office, before making my
Luca’s POV Well, I had after all only brought up the topic about it to him in the first place, because I couldn’t find it in me to touch her, immediately after I had gotten married to her and the whole thing had still kind of overwhelming, coupled with the fact that she had bursted into tears as soon as I had been about to touch her, like I was supposed to in the first place. But then I had only brought it up, because I was still thinking of canceling the whole wedding thing back then. Assuming I had known that I was going to end up finding her adorable and cute and oh so freaking beautiful, I wouldn’t have brought the topic up with him in the first place. “What do you mean it’s none of my business?” I heard James start to ask but I didn’t bother to turn around and glance at him before replying to him once again.“It meant whst it meant.” I replied in a low voice, my lips going into a thin line almost immediately.“You definitely finally had sex with you, you fucker, so that’s wh
Luca’s POV “Nothing, never mind about that, just ignore that.” I breathed out with another lift of my shoulders, right before I turned my head around to stare at James, and I got greeted with a scowl on his face which he aimed at me.“What?” I demanded with an eye roll.“You can’t just leave me hanging, the fuck?” He demanded and I scoffed absent mindedly.“It’s not important, just let it go.” I said to him with a small chuckle and I watched as he looked me up and down before also starting to speak. “If it wasn’t, you sure as hell wouldn’t have brought it up.”“Well, I’m saying it isn’t important anymore, so it’s either you let it go, or you deal with it and try to figure it out yourself.” I said to him in a calm voice and watched as he stared at me unbelievably for a few seconds before finally letting out a small sigh.“You fucker.” He breathed out and I breathed out a short laugh.“So, you going to tell me what made you arrive late to the office?” I heard James start to ask once a
Luca’s POV I pushed the door closed behind me as soon as I had made my way into the house and I pulled the door shut, as I pushed my way away from the door and started to make my way deeper into the house. I paused at the middle of the hallway and toed off my shoes, before moving the shoes to the side of the hallway, and continuing my walk down the hallway. I paused outside the entrance of the sitting room and stared into it, and my eyes landed on Sofia almost immediately.I felt my mouth dry up slowly, and my throat bobbed on an empty swallow motion, and I stared into the back of her head intently, wondering why I had been so eager to see her tonight.Granted, she had managed to crawl her way into my head, and coupled with what had happened between us last night, which had led to her falling asleep in my arms.One of those reasons was most definitely worry, which was completely and totally understandable… the other reason, wasn’t really understandable to me.It was almost
Sofia’s POV I had no idea when the song which had been playing before got played finished, and another one started to play out immediately after that.“Dinner’s ready Sofia, and I made it super fluffy like you requested.” A voice started to echo from the entrance of the sitting room, and I turned my head around to stare at the entrance, where the familiar voice of Matilda had rang out from. She stopped dead in her tracks as soon as she landed on my face, and she breathed out a deep breath, with her hand clutching at her heart dramatically. “Oh, sir… I had no idea you were here all along, pardon me.” She started to speak after a few seconds, pausing a little before continuing. “Good evening sir, uh? What would you like for dinner?”I turned my head back around to stare at Sofia who was staring at Matilda with wide eyes, her teeth moving over her lower lip. “What are you having tonight?” I asked Sofia and watched as she turned her head around to stare up at me, and she freed her l
Luca’s POV “Dinner’s ready, sir.” Matilda’s voice echoed from the entrance of the sitting room once again, and I glanced behind the couch to stare at her. “Thank you, Matilda.” I murmured with a nod of my head and waited until she had turned back around and made her way out of the sitting room, before returning back to the position I was sitting in moments ago.“Let’s go have dinner,” I said softly to her as I turned my head around to stare at her and she nodded her head a couple of times with a whispered ‘alright’. We’ve been in here after Matilda had gone back to the kitchen in order to prepare my own dinner, and we’ve been mostly left in a couple of stretched out blanket of silence, the rest of the time that had passed by, has been with the both of us lightly discussing about music, and she had been shy although, and would start blushing and wouldn’t be able to stare at the television well, whenever a music video comes up and the video had explicit content in it. Albeit he
Luca’s POV I picked up the syrup bottle and poured some over the rest of the waffles on her plate, I didn’t miss the way an expression had come over her face as soon as I had started to pour the syrup over the waffles, and I had probably ended up pouring way more that was necessary, all because I still wanted to stare at the brightened up expression on her face for a moment more. She didn’t seem to mind that I had ended up pouring the amount of syrup that I had poured and so I sat back in my seat after returning the bottle of syrup where I had picked it up from.She started to eat once again and after eating three more bites, dark colored syrup was staining the lower part of her lip, as well as the side of her lips, and I had to force my eyes away from her face as soon as she swiped her tongue out to lick up those stains, cleaning them up properly and neatly.My mind quickly went to a bunch of other things which she could clean up nearly with her tongue and I buried my face into my h
Sofia’s pov The kids had been bursting with excitement, which only meant one thing. It meant more headaches for Luca and I.“Baby, we talked about this, didn’t we? You can’t check the presents until it’s Christmas.” I murmured to Aria while holding her against my chest. She was clearly unhappy about this tiny rule because her frown deepened at once.“But it’s so far awayyyyy! No one is gonna know if I take a peek.”I chuckled as I let her slid down. “Daddy is gonna know.” I reminded her and that seemed to make her have a change of heart.“Oh.” She hesitated a little. “I guess I can wait a bit more.”“More like one more day, honey cause it’s tomorrow!” I gushed out and a grin split out on her face.“Really?!” She demanded and after getting another confirmation, she went off to find her brother, leaving me to myself. I sighed as I watched her leave with a fond smile on my face while massaging my forehead. I called out to her to be careful before I got back to what I was doing before.
FOUR YEARS LATER Sofia’s pov “Be careful, honey!” I called out at once, but I doubt she heard me as she hurriedly raced forward till she was standing before James, a glass of milk carefully clutched in her hand.“Here it is, Uncle James!” She called out enthusiastically and a familiar feeling of fondness swelled in my heart as I watched as an exaggerated look of awe got plastered on James’ face as he accepted the glass of milk.“Thank you, Aria! You’re so hardworking.” He complimented as he took a few gulps of the milk because a tiny sip wasn’t gonna be accepted by Aria who’s clearly still waiting for more compliments.“It tastes so nice and fresh, wow.” James gushed and I listened as Aria’s pleased giggles filled up the room. She began to bounce on her toes when she began to speak. “If you noticed, uncle James, the glass wasn’t totally filled up this time because mommy said that’s how it’s supposed to be to avoid it spilling from the top, and I listened to mommy because she’s alwa
Luca’s POV The bouquet of flowers I had gotten on the way home was a mixture of lilies and tulips, and I paired it with a bunch of balloons and a wrapped gift on the side. It’s a little past six and I couldn’t wait to be home already. I couldn’t wait to get home to my wife and our babies.Work has been quite stressful for the past month, the mafia aspect, to be specific. After news of my wife giving birth circulated around, I already knew that the amount of enemies I have was automatically gonna triple, and in order to keep my family safe, I was gonna have to be more at alert. The mafia clan had thrown a party in celebration after the birth of our babies, and I had purposely attended it alone, keeping my wife and kids far away from a gathering like that because it was filled with dangerous people from top to bottom.“Your enemies are gonna start attacking you even more now that you have a successor. People who have hoped to replace you if you ended up dying without an h
Sofia’s pov TWO YEARS LATER “I look ugly and bloated.” I blurted out while eying my reflection in the floor length mirror in the walk-in closet. Luca, who had been running a comb through his hair, paused for a moment before throwing me a glance, and then a smile bloomed on his face.“Of course you don’t! How can you even think that when you look like a goddess right now.” He murmured, discarding his comb and heading in my direction. I pouted at my reflection, not at all impressed by what I was looking at.“Now you’re just lying cause I’m sure goddesses don’t look this bad. My face is swollen and I literally feel like I’m gonna die.” Luca who had now eased up behind me let out a chuckle into my hair as his hand slid around my waist to carefully cradle my large stomach from the sides.“You still look very gorgeous to me. I don’t think your face is ugly, neither do I think you’re no longer sexy, because you still are. Did last night not explain that enough?” He chuckled at the end of
Luca’s pov It was clear as day that this particular topic has been troubling Sofia for a while now. I could tell from how she was wringing her fingers. I lifted her fingers and brushed my lips across it, and then I let out a long sigh.“If I’m gonna be honest, I haven’t actually thought about it. I just assumed you don’t want them and I was cool with that.” Her eyes widened comically as she whispered. “But… I want children.”I hummed. “I see that now.” “You don’t want children?” Sofia asked after a few moments and I slowly shook my head.“I don’t think I do, cause I don’t actually like the thought of bringing a child into a lifestyle as dangerous as my current one, and leaving the mafia is completely out of the question cause the past would end up catching up with me no matter what.”“Oh.” She whispered while chewing at the inside of her mouth.“Yes, love. But, that aside, I love babies. They’re always so cute and clueless of all the evils in the world.” Sofia laughed at th
Sofia’s pov TWO YEARS LATER*** The sounds of soft laughter filtered through the screen of the television I was currently staring at and a small smile tugged at the side of my lips as I averted my gaze and took a glance at the wall clock situated at the top of the wall here in the room. It was past eight in the evening, which indicated that Luca was almost home, and an excited feeling coursed down my spine. It doesn’t matter that Luca has almost returned home to me every damn day, that giddy feeling still engulfs me every day.Which is the best thing ever, said my therapist when we stumbled on that topic. It’s been over two years and till date, I’m still yet to stop seeing my therapist. She, a Middle aged woman, has made me feel so much love and comfort than my mother has done for me throughout the past two decades that I’ve been alive. The sounds of cute giggles emitting from the television screen grabbed my attention and once again, I focused on it. This time, my bre
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
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 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.