Luca’s POV I blinked once, and pushed through the bodies of the men who were standing before me, rushing forward to the person who was calling my name, which i had thought I had imagined at first, and as soon as I got to where he was standing in, beside three other people– I shoved the man closer to him to the side and pulled him into my arms, feeling the whole war that had been going on inside of my head start to ease off in that same moment, as I pulled him against me even more.I pulled out of the hug after a moment and held his shoulders, shaking him a little right before I started to speak. “Where the fuck have you been, Armani?” I asked after shaking him for a few moments, staring into his eyes and taking my gaze over every part of his face to ensure that there wasn’t any kind of scratch on his face, and then I started to look him up and down, patting his arm down.“Luca…?” I raised my head up after a few moments and pulled him into my arms, ignoring the man eco we’re still s
Luca’s POV James: Why did you ignore what I was trying to say to you?I typed in a response and sent it after a few moments.Luca: Maybe because I don’t understand eyes language? I didn’t even know you were trying to tell me something.He started to send in a response almost immediately, and a rest came in after a few seconds.James: Well, I was.I scoffed a little and was tempted to ignore him and just drop my phone into somewhere, but ignored that thought and continued to type in a response.Luca: Well, what did you want to tell me? You still are not saying a thing James: RelaxJames: What I was trying to say to you was that, did you see your brother beside you?I glanced beside my almost immediately, checking to see if there was something unusual, but finding nothing – because everything about him still feels unusual to me in a way, starting from how grown up he looks.Luca: Yeah, I see him. What’s up with him?James: You need to speak to him.I blinked a little as I ghosted my g
Luca’s POV “Whoa, whoa… slow down.” I said as soon as I pushed myself into a more straight sitting position, as soon as all what he was saying started to sink into my head. I stared at him pointedly, and our eyes only remained locked for a few more seconds before he was averting his gaze. The inside of the car wasn’t all that bright because the sky was already really dark at this very moment, but a little bit of light had managed to bleed through the windows from lit up companies and passing cars rear end lights. I puffed out a deep breath after a few moments before starting to speak.“Armani…” I started to say but he cut into what I was trying to say without me getting more than a word past my lips.“We both know it’s the truth, don’t try to…” He started to speak but I shushed him after a few seconds, making him trail off on a small sigh.“Relax, Armani. You’re so worked up at the moment, can you try to take in some deep breaths?” I said after a few moments, and although he didn’t a
Luca’s POV “Ohhh… I never thought of it that way.” He ended up admitting after some time and I gave a small nod of my head at him, because I kind of already figured that out. After some time had passed, I decided to continue to speak.“I don’t want you to still hold any guilt from back then, ok? It’s of no use. You were gaslighted a whole lot by father and I want you to let go of everywhere, ok?”I reached out and took his hand in mine, feeling his warm palm fit into mine– although it didn’t fit like the way it usually fit when we were both younger, but my hand was still able to envelop his hand and I closed my fingers around his and stared into his eyes before continuing.“And I know I’ve never told you this before, but I’m proud of you.”I watched as he averted his gaze at first and when he lifted his face back up, his eyes were somehow a little shade of red.“Stop, don’t say that…”“What shouldn’t I say? That I’m proud of you? I’m actually proud of you, like really proud of yo
Luca’s POV I stepped out from my side of the car as soon as the door got pulled open, and I noticed Armani going through the other side of the car as soon as he got the door open himself. The driver drove the car off to the spot where it was supposed to be parked, leaving me standing with James and Armani. The sky was completely dark at this point and a quick glance at my wrist watch showed that the time was always past nine at the moment, and as soon as I was lifting my head, I noticed James glancing at his wrist watch as well.I closed the distance between us a little until I was standing closer to the both of them. James was once again staring at me but Armani wasn’t, he was busy glancing around the whole place at once, a look of awe taking over his face as he kept on glancing at everywhere at once.“Will you be staying behind?”I asked James and watched as he breathed out a small laugh before shaking his head a little in response.“Nah, man. I won’t. I think I should get goi
Luca’s POV “Uh wow, you kept these all these while…” ArmanI started to speak really quietly, shock and awe tingling the edge of his voice and I allowed my eyes to slide close for a few seconds. “Yeah, I did.” I whispered in response after a few moments.“Why? They were not even that good, and I remember father wanting to throw them out one morning when he caught me drawing instead of working out my aiming skills– but you took them and hid them somewhere safe, and… and, I kind of forgot about it.” I watched as he lifted one of his hands to graze the painting of a dog who had a ball inside of his mouth, I could remember him telling me about how he wanted a dog so bad, but couldn’t get one because father hated dogs so much and felt like it was going to make Armani get more soft.“Because it reminded me of you so much, that was why I put them all up. You’ve always wanted to put them up while you were drawing and painting them, after all.” I said to him and breathed out a small laugh
Luca’s POV I climbed up the stairs and was in front of the bedroom door after a few minutes, and I paused before the door for a few seconds and used that time to drag in a deep breath into my lungs, and then I let it out really slowly. I repeated the motion a few times until I could feel the urgency that had gotten intense on my way upstairs start to slowly dwindle away. I puffed out a small breath and pushed my fingers into my hair, panting a little at the next moment. Once I was sure that I wasn’t feeling driven by an intense urgency, I lifted my hand and placed it on the door Knob, and then I turned it and pushed the door open. I made my way into the room and pushed the door close behind me instantly, noticing that the lights were turned on to the brightest ones in here, which was very rare. It was unusual because I didn’t see the use of those bright lights most times and tend to be quite contented with the dim and led ones… but I just know that Sofia had turned these ones on
Luca’s POV “I thought you were going to kiss me.” She finally admitted, huffing out a small breath that I find really endearing. I breathed out a small laugh after a moment, as I lifted my other hand off her butt to cup one side of her face, and she leaned into my touch instantly, blinking up at me.“I was. But you said you wanted to go meet my brother downstairs, and so I decided to stop…” She didn’t let me finish before she was cutting into what I was saying. “B-but, I didn’t mean it.” She admitted with a small pout and I grinned a little before starting to roll my eyes, of course when didn’t mean it, I knew that on my own just fine, but I had just felt like torturing her a little.“Can you jump up and wrap your legs around me?” I asked after a second, and I noticed as her eyes widened excitedly as she started to nod her head.“Uh-un, I can.”She made to do just that after some time and I wrapped my arms firmly around her hips, holding her firmly against me and staring up into he