Betrothed To The Mafia Lord novel Chapter 15

Luca’s POV

I didn’t have to look any harder to see the slight tremor that went through her body the second after our eyes locked.

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She hesitated and fidgeted in the same spot for a few more seconds before stiffly making her way past my sight and towards her side of the bed, I didn’t want to overwhelm her any further than she already was, which was why I refused to turn around and keep on staring at her the way my mind was trying to coerce me into doing. I faintly felt her pull the blankets upwards and slid beneath it. The bed barely moved as her weight was nothing compared to mine and also because she had most definitely remained in a stiffened spot out of nervousness.

The dim lights were quite distracting seeing as I was used to sleeping in the dark, but I hadn’t bothered switching it off for some unknown reasons. When I had walked into the room last night and saw Sofia’s curled up body with the dim lights illuminating her face, I had figured that she had left it on in order to feel a little bit safe… not like I was going to do a thing to her, which was why I also hadn’t bothered to turn it off tonight.

I had an early start in the morning which was only but in a few hours and I was supposed to be fast asleep already, but my curious mind wanted nothing more than to take one last look at Sofia’s face before anything else. I shifted on my side and pushed the blankets off my bare shoulder until it was bunched up around my waist.

My mind started to wander only to end up returning to the girl on the other side of my bed. I slowly turned around on the bed until I was lying on the side of my body, giving me a much needed view of Sofia’s side of the bed.

To say I was surprised that she was still awake would be an understatement, it’s been over an hour since she came back from the bathroom and I was already expecting her to be fast asleep… only for my eyes to focus on her face, and for her eyes to flutter open and lock with mine almost immediately.

Her eyes fluttered again and she lowered her head in the next second, shielding those blue eyes of her away from me and shifting in her stiffened spot. I noticed the way she curled into herself even more, if that was even possible with how tightly she was curled up before. She pulled the sheets tightly around her even more and laid still beneath the wrappers.

I didn’t need a soothsayer to point out the fact that she was still very much awake to me, her body was barely moving beneath the blankets which means she was only taking in a little amount of breath into her lungs.

A part of me wanted to demand her reason for being so scared and jumpish but I ignored that part of my mind and instead focused on her face, the only part of her body which was visible to me. Her eyes suddenly squeezed tight like she was curious to peak her eyes open but was too scared to encounter whatever it is that was out here in the open… not like anything was out here that could be so frightening.

I puffed out a long breath and finally tore my eyes off her face before turning around and facing my side of the bed once again. I might just be seeing too much into it but it felt like she exhaled a deep breath almost immediately.

I settled into my pillow and didn’t bother with the blankets anymore as I finally got some much needed sleep.

It was probably some minutes after three a.m.

Which meant I had about three hours to sleep, and wake up without an alarm.

With that, I drifted off into a dreamless sleep.

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I blinked my eyes open and sat up on the bed, my eyes felt clammy and I massaged the sides with my fingers as I kicked the blankets off and pushed out of the bed. I picked up my phone and the phone automatically unlocked due to the Face ID application installed into the phone. I winced and pull the phone out of my face the moment the brightness of my phone hit my sore eyes with so much intensity, I felt my eyes get more sore in an instant.

I squinted and lowered the brightness completely before bringing the phone back up and checking the time. It was some minutes to six a.m in the morning, leaving me with enough time to work out and get coffee before leaving for work. With that in mind, I headed into the bathroom and did my business. Once I was done, I brushed my teeth and cleaned my face before making my way out of the bathroom, towards the doorway leading outside the bedroom.

I paused in my tracks as my eyes landed on the bed, and the human huddled on the far end of the bed. She was on the very edge of the bed and would automatically roll off the bed if she tried moving in that particular spot. Her face was nowhere to be seen, meaning it was also beneath the sheets, like the rest of her body.