Luca’s POV “Man, what was that comeback which Sofia made at me last night? I totally didn’t see that coming.” James breathed out after a few moments and I glanced up at him and placed my pen on the desk before leaning backwards against my chair, and I breathed out a snort after a few seconds.“I mean, I had been expecting her to be a little bit shy about saying something like that, I didn’t expect her to just come at me like that.” James continued and I felt my eyes roll into the back of my head in the next second.“She didn’t come at you, she literally just gave you your size, that’s all.” I started to say just as James started to shake his head.“I mean, that doesn’t happen to me a lot, I got dumbstruck for a moment back then.” He continued to speak and I nodded my head in the next second, agreeing with him instantly as I started to speak.“It was for more than a moment though, and you’re right, it doesn’t happen to you, which was honestly what made it all better.” I breat
Luca’s POV I was in a zoom call with multiple owners of some huge companies outside of Italy and the meeting was starting to get tiring since I’ve been sitting in a spot and talking about one topic for almost an hour at this point. I started to massage my forehead with my forehead as I made sure to listen to all what one of the people here in the zoom call had started to say. I darted my gaze sideways and picked up a bottle of water in order to dry my parched throat. Before I could completely lift the bottle of water up to my lips, my phone started to ring to my annoyance.I started to ask myself why I forgot to silence my phone before this zoom meeting had started as I reached towards the spot where I had picked up the bottle of water from, and the first thing I did was to click on the side of the phone to instantly silence the phone, and as I was about to cancel the call, I stopped at the last moment and hovered my thumb over the red button which would end the call as soon a
Luca’s POV “So, I take it you’re done?” I said to him on the phone as I shifted a little on my seat, feeling my heartbeat slowly return back to its usual steady pace.“Yeah, I finished some months ago. I’ll be coming back in two days.” He informed me and I absorbed his piece of information as I started to rack my brains to see if there was something currently ongoing which could be really dangerous for him to come home to.Armani was my little brother and I was really older than he was, it was why I was able to send him out of the country into a different country that was really far from Rome, for his own safety. At the time when our father had passed away and I had taken over him, it was as if a lot of people had been waiting for that day to come just so they could attack my brother and myself. My brother was still a lot younger than I was back then, and he wasn’t exactly cut out for the whole risky lifestyle of the mafia world. It was one of the main reasons why my father an
Luca’s POV “No, no child yet, not anytime soon.” I said to him on a low voice and I heard a little sound coming from his side of his phone that lasted for a couple of seconds before finally dying into his background, right as he started to speak. “Oh… why then did you get married?”“That’s just to make everybody shut the fuck up.” I said to him and paused for a couple of moments before continuing. “Not like I cared about what people thought or say, but because the people that called the shots along with me were starting to get worried so I had to go indulge them, that’s all.” I informed him, not knowing how I was going to tell him about the fact that it was one of the best decisions that I have ever made in my entire life, and how I’ve never regretted taking Sofia as a wife. “Hm, that’s a lot more understandable, I guess.” He informed me and I chuckled a little without saying a thing in response to him. “So, what about you?” I asked in the next moment.“There’s nothing going on
Luca’s POV I started to absorb what he had just said, knowing that he was very right to worry but those same thoughts had crossed my mind almost as soon as he had told me he’d be coming back here.“Well, I’ll start to search around to make sure everywhere is safe before he’d be able to come back here, starting from tonight, because I honestly don’t think it’s completely safe for him to just come in like this.” I said to him after a few moments and watched as he started to nod his head at me slowly in the next second.“That’s the best thing that we’re supposed to do, I’ll start to check around as well.” James said in the next second and paused then seemed to be like he was deep in thoughts, but then after a few moments, he started to speak once again. “You know, I think a lot of people think he’s already dead, don’t you think so?” James started to say and I huffed out a small laugh at his words in the next second.“Of course they had, that was the kind of thing I was going for
Luca’s POV “Why should I?” I demanded with a small shrug of my shoulders a fleeting second after a and I watched him pick up his phone which I hadn’t noticed when he had placed it on my table, and he placed the phone into his pants pocket before lifting his head back up to stare at me once again. “You know what? You’re completely hopeless and I think we should really start going, seeing as we’ve spent a good time doing nothing in particular when we were supposed to be in a freaking meeting.” James started to say and I rolled my eyes once he was done speaking and I watched as he started to pick up some more files from my table.“You know, I was saying the same thing for a while now, but you were only interested in what goes on between my wife and I.” I reminded him slowly and watched as he rolled his eyes in the next second before starting to speak. “Well, that was actually just because I was curious and nothing more.” He admitted in the next moment as he started to shove his ha
Sofia’s POV Today has been a long day and I had been really bored at a certain point around noon. It got to a point whereby I didn’t feel like painting anymore and just resulted in reading one of my new books right there in the middle of our bedroom upstairs. I managed to convinced Ryan into taking me to the garden at the back of the house and this time, he had tried to refuse adamantly but I didn’t back down one bit because I knew there was no way he was going to be able to call Luca and inform him about the new development, seeing as there was some things which I sometimes kept from Luca for him, and vise versa. I also knew there wasn’t any way that he’d be able to force me into following his order or trying to physically restrain me, which was why I was able to ignore him and kept on walking to the corner that led around the house until as expected, he had come forward to fall into step beside me after a couple of seconds.We managed to talk together this time at the garden un
Sofia’s POV Well, today had been pretty cool at the garden, it wasn’t hot when we had made our way over there and I also wasn’t with any teddy bear to weigh me down as well, coupled with the fact that the sun wasn’t shining really harshly like it had done on that day.“I painted some flowers.” I managed to say after long minutes, feeling my cheeks start to heat up in the next moment because he had probably or most definitely been expecting me to say a lot of things since I waited a long time before starting to speak, only for me to finally breathe out three words.“Are you nervous?” He asked in the next moment and I started to shake my head after a little while.Was I nervous at the moment? It would seem so… and why? Well, I’d say it was because he made me feel lots of things without even trying, to begin with.“No, I’m not.” I responded with a small lift of my shoulders. I watched as his eyes dropped from my face to rest on my chest, my shoulders movements had probably made my