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
Luca’s POV “Do you think he’s going to like me?” Sofia asked in a small voice as soon as I glanced down at her. We were currently both making our way down the stairs and she had started to tug on my hand unt I had glanced down at her, and then she had asked me what question. It was almost funny to just think about it because I could remember Armani being worried about this same thing as well, hours ago. I breathed out a small breath and started to speak.“Of course, bunny. He’s going to like you a whole lot.” I said to her after a few moments had passed and I hummed a little. She finally stopped chewing at the insides of her cheeks as she made to speak.“Really? You think so?” She asked tentatively, her hand still gripping mine tightly. I knew without having to think about it that she was really nervous at this very moment. I’d have told her about the fact that Armani had also been nervous about this same thing, but then I didn’t want to do that because I wanted to two of them
Luca’s POV But now… it was feeling like I was fulfilled, like I was content and satisfied with this level of happiness, like it was filled up and I couldn’t want any more. I had a wife, a beautiful and loving one who was always making me happy without even trying, who was the best and most beautiful thing that had happened to me. And now, my younger brother is back home, healthy and alive, and I couldn’t be any happier and content as it is.“You’re smiling.” I turned my head around to glance at Armani with raised eyebrows after he had spoken those three words a fleeting moment ago.“I am?” I mused and watched as he rolled his eyes a little before nodding his head a little.“Yeah, you are.” He muttered in response. I huffed out a small breath and lifted up one of my hands to use to Pat the sides of my face.“Oh, I didn’t even realize.” I finally muttered.“It’s because of your wife, right? You’ve been looking more relaxed after you’ve gone to her for long hours to do only what G
Luca’s POV Armani blurted out of the blue and I watched as Sofia bursted into a little fit of laughter, as she lifted one of her hands up to shield her mouth. I sneaked a glance at Armani to see him still staring down at Sofia, with a smile still spread out on his face.“Uh, thank you.” Sofia finally responded, still smiling a little with a little bit of color staining her cheeks. “I’m Sofia.” Sofia started to speak after a couple of moments, taking the lead once again, and I felt something that felt so much like pride start to tingle and expand in the middle of my chest as I watched as she offered her hand to Armani who had finally managed to shake himself a little to be able to get more words out or himself.“Forgive my manners, My name’s Armani.” He finally started to speak as he accepted Sofia’s hand into his bigger one, and before I could blink, he was moving forward and closing the distance between them to take her into his arms. I watched as Sofia went into his embrace w
Luca’s POV “Uh, no. No, I don’t” She finally responded in a small voice, after a few more seconds had passed. She knew what exactly it was that I wanted, knew that I needed her to respond to me vocally, but had purposely refused to not do that – until I had called out her name the way I did, some moments ago.Someone’s definitely getting a settling spanking tonight, I thought silently to myself as I hummed a little, giving her a pointed look for a few seconds, right before I turned around and started to head towards the entrance of the sitting room, and not before I slipped a glance at Armani who was staring down at his thighs, obviously trying to make himself as small as possible, to make him become as invisible as ever– as soon as he had realized the whole thing that had been happening between the both of us.I made my way out of the sitting room, making my way through the hallway and around the part that led into the kitchen. I headed straight into the walk-in freezer, fishing
Luca’s POV “Thank you, Sarah.” Armani said to Sarah with a warm smile playing across his lips as soon as Sarah set his plate before him, a few moments ago. Sarah smoke back at him instantly and whispered something to him and after caffe more seconds, she was heading out of the dining room and closing the door behind her. Sofia was sitting at my right hand side and Armani was sitting directly before her, at the other side of the table, the exact spot where James had sat in, some days ago when he had come over to do something with me and had decided to stay back for dinner.We all started to eat after a few moments and my eyes kept straying back to Sofia every few minutes, but nothing seemed to be off around her, she seemed to be doing just fine and she was also eating her food just fine. There wasn’t a lot of conversation going around the three of us who were currently sitting around the table, which was pretty fine by me.The quiet was also very good, it made more room in my head