Luca’s POV “We should probably head out right now? What do you think?” James asked me as soon as I pushed myself into my feet and I nodded my head at him. “Yeah, we really should.”“When we get back, there’s like a two hour break before our next appointment. I say we go through your personal inboxes and get back to some of the people we’d like to work with, and decline the rest.” James started to say and I turned my head around to stare at him from where I was standing, sgdinst the bookshelf in my office.“Is that really necessary?” I demanded and watched as James stated at me with a really experated facial expression before starting to speak. “Are you kidding me, Luca? Didn’t you see your messages requests on Instagram, as well as your mail box.”“You do have a point.” I murmured as I started to make my way back to the table.“So, did you end up giving your emsil to your secretaries like you said you were going to. You’ve created a new email as well, right?” James asked as I star
I got out of my car and paused outside the door, already sighting James’ car which pulled into the compound some seconds after the one I was riding in did. After leaving the hospital where Aria was at, I made my way straight home, and alerted James that I was already heading home. It was already our arrangement, that we were to go home together and then he was going to come with me to come question those people who had tried to attack me on the road in the night, two days ago. I had also invited some other of my workers, they worked with james in the area which specialized in questioning caught people and torturing them until they’d end up speaking.The two guys were already here waiting for me, and as soon as james car had been parked, and he had alighted, he started making his way towards me instantly. It was almost eight o'clock in the evening, only a few minutes left before it clocks eight. “How are we doing this?” He asked after stopping beside me and placing a hand on my
Luca’s POV I finally turned around and started to make my way towards the house, my suit jacket was unbuttoned and I couldn’t wait to take it off at this point, I felt like taking a long ass shower as well, at this very moment. As expected, Ethan and Ryan were standing outside the door which led into the main house, and they both bowed their heads instantly, as soon as I had started to climb the small amount of stairs which would lead me up to the place they were currently standing on.“Ryan. Ethan.” I murmured before pausing a few feet before them, and then I started to speak. “Did you notice anything strange around the house?” I asked and both men started to shake their heads negatively at the same time.“Good. But keep an eye out for anything, alright?”As soon as both men had acknowledged what I had said moments ago, I decided to continue instantly. “Don’t overlook anything, alright? If you notice anything sketchy or suspicious, go check it out instantly and confirm that it’
Luca’s POV It felt like I got hit with a bag of something which emitted a lot of dust floating around my whole insides and clouding up my head all at once, it felt like I couldn’t process what she had said at first, but I knew I had heard what Sofia had said right, it wasn’t a trick of the light or a play on my ears.“Are you sure?” I heard myself faintly ask, because I was still finding it hard to process that piece of information.Cancer? It doesn’t freaking have a cure.Now, it was all starting to make sense, I guess?“Um, yeah.” She replied after a moment, her voice breaking a little as she sniffed once again, and I felt another drop of tear land on my hand, and that broke my heart even more.“How do you know that? She told you about it?” Sofia started to shake her head immediately, and she sniffed once again before replying. “I overheard her speaking to someone on the phone, and Matilda was with her at that moment.”And then she glanced up at me, and I noticed the way her eyes
Luca’s POV “You seem like a mama’s girl…” I found myself saying to Sofia at the table and I watched as her eyes widened instantly, and she placed her cup of water down on the table and started to speak.“What does that mean?” She asked, blinking at me curiously and I grinned a little before shaking my head a little, and I watched as she smiled embarrassingly but didn’t avert her gaze this time, like she usually does.“It means someone who’s obsessed with her mother, the way her mother is obsessed with her… that’s the kind of aura you have around you.” I explained, and before I could even finish speaking, her facial expression had suddenly morphed from embarrassed and sweet into a really unrecognizable one, and I blinked once at her before continuing, even though she wasn’t even staring at me anymore and was staring down at her plate of food.“Or I could be wrong.” I murmured bit she made no move like she had heard what I had just said, as oni waited for a couple of minutes, before ca
Luca’s POV “Can I kiss you?” I slowly whispered out, as soon as our little breath was separating our faces from touching. Her big eyes blinked up at me and watched as her eyes fluttered a little, and then she gave a tiny nod of her head, color dusting her cheeks at the same time. I closed the distance between us, leaning down even more until the length and height of our faces were almost on the same line, and then I moved my face towards hers, as I watched as a thousand emotions ran over her face all at once, in that particular moment.I leaned towards her and slowly pressed my lips against hers, her lips feeling super soft and smaller than the size or my own lips. It made me remember just how we’ve kissed on our wedding, and how it had been chast as fuck. I pulled away and was surprised that her eyes remained open throughout. She didn’t strike me as the kind of person who’d be able to hold eye contact when being kissed since she couldn’t even hold my gaze strongly on a normal day,
Luca’s POV We didn’t exchange words as we both prepared for bed but I didn’t it was needed because I didn’t think I actually know what I was going to start saying with her, seeing as we still felt like strangers to each other, but I was grateful for the past few days, that was making us bridge the expanse or space between each other… which was a really good thing. I showered really fast, my mind as expecting, returning back to the kiss which I had shared with Sofia back in the bedroom, at the front of the door, some time ago, and everything was still bright in my head, every damn detail was still fresh in my head, every sound she had let out was still fresh in my head as well, and just thinking about those fucking whimpers or hers, was making me start to get hard, right there in the shower.I threw my head back in the cold shower of water pouring over me, as I started to stroke my hands over my hardening length almost immediately. Pleasure washed over me intensely and I groaned a
Luca’s POV “You wouldn’t be attending any kind of gathering relating to stuff where you’re supposed to have a date, without your wife coming with you, she’s now your wife, which automatically makes her your date for this kind of thing, remember?” James started to speak again and I felt my back press into the back of my chair even more, as I allowed his words to slowly sink into my head.Ok but i honestly never thought about it this way. I mean, I did, but it still didn’t register fully in my mind that it was going to start happening like this after I got married.I shook my head a little in order to push the hair which had fallen into my face, out of the way as I stared up at James once again.“Remember, this is your first official outing after you guys got married, and of course, the social media should have been waiting for this day ever since the second day after you got married. So I’m like a hundred percent sure that every one of those paparazzi are going to want to attend t
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.