Betrothed To The Mafia Lord novel Chapter 151

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 were really glassy, with some drops sliding down her cheeks, and then she started to speak instantly. “Um, I didn’t mean to eavesdrop at first, I swear, I was just so worried about her, and so I heard something which was related to her health, Ayo decided to stay behind and listen to all their conversation, and…” She was full on crying at this point and I pulled her into my arms at one point, cutting into all that she was saying because it felt like she was going to completely break down at a point, and also because I could feel my heart breaking at each word.

“Shh,” I whispered as I pulled her into my arms even more, turning sideways a little so I could take more of her body into my arms, since we were both sitting down side by side on the couch, and I carded my fingers through her hair soothingly, dragging my jaw over her soothingly and trying to console myself as well.

Sarah had been here for a long time and I had no idea how I was going to adapt to another unknown stranger working for me here, and the thought of seeing Sarah working here anymore, left a really sad feeling behind.

Come to think of it, I’ve been seeing her face every damn day in over five years and I couldn’t even deny the fact that I cared for her so much at this point. I could remember how she doted on my brother so much as soon as she had started working here.

My brother, who wasn’t as hard hearted as I was, had fallen in love almost instantly, almost the way James was in love with her, only that the love my brother had had for her, and her for him, had been so deep and pleasing to watch. I was also grateful to her those times even though I never said those words out loud. Because I know how it was for my brother to grow up without a mother, and I loved how she had made him feel something close to motherly love for some time… before everything had gone downhill.