Betrothed To The Mafia Lord novel Chapter 188

Luca’s POV

At this point, all I wanted to do was to kiss her so intensely, but I had a dinner reservation and I really do not want to be an asshole by denying her the chance to have dinner in here tonight, coupled with the fact that I still wanted to have dinner with her… which means any dirty thought I was having at the moment was going to have to wait until when we get back home tonight.

Sofia turned her head back around to stare at the little child rev after a few moments, and I had a feeling it was because she didn’t have an idea of what to say, which I perfectly understood because even I myself had been pretty surprised at the words that had escaped my lips moments ago. I hadn’t thought it through at all and had literally spoken as it had popped into my head, so I kind of understood her speechlessness at the moment.

The damn elevator was taking forever to come back to the first floor, I thought to myself as I turned my head around to stare at the little children once again. It seemed like they were arguing with their mother and I find it really endearing and cute. The first child turned around and I blinked once, my forehead feeling like it was folding in a little – it only did that whenever I was deep in thoughts. The little kid had seemed really familiar and I blinked once again, trying to figure out where it was that I had seen the kid in before. The second child turned around as well and I got taken aback a little, it wasn’t because of the fact that they looked extremely alike to the extent of it being impossible to be able to tell one from one.

I was still trying to figure out where it was that I had seen these sets of twins, when a man walked out from a door that seemed like a restroom to stop beside them, just as the mother of the children pushed herself to her feet. The man who had recently vacated the restroom was currently holding a child in his arm, a child who was as identical as the previous two children who were still standing beside themselves, and all three girls were all in the same kind of cloth and shoes. It didn’t hit me until the kid who was in a man’s arm turned her head around, to stare directly into where Sofia and I were standing, and as soon as our eyes had locked, it was at that exact moment that it dawned on me.

Recognition dawned on the face of the little girl as well, the same moment it dawned on me, because in the next second, she was tapping on the shoulder of the man who was currently carrying her and pointing towards me, as words started to leave her lips.

“Daddy, look.” She said to the man whom was apparently her father, with her hand pointed in my direction– and I watched as the eyes of everyone — the mother of the children, the remaining two children who were still standing and that of their father – all turned around to focus on me, and realization dawned on the Face of the remaining two children, as well as on the face of their mother.

They were the family I had met in an elevator, a couple of weeks ago, at the hospital, when I had visited the hospital to go see Sofia after she had fallen off the bed and sprained her shoulder. I could remember the three children had been arguing in the elevator car throughout the ride about a ribbon or something like that, and how their mother had tried to settle the argument throughout the ride. One of the kids there had waved at me with a toothy smile when I had been leaving the elevator and I had waved back at her, right before the elevator door slid closed and that was that… well, until this very moment. I shook my head a little and nodded my head at the mother of the children when she started to bow her head a little in greeting.

I had been hoping I wouldn’t be meeting with anyone who might know who I was really well, which was one of the reasons as to why I had chosen this particular restaurant. Too bad the elevator had to be taking forever to arrive down.

The father started to make his way towards us, as well as his family and I heard Sofia squeak a little… probably in excitement at meeting the children.

“Hello there.” Sofia whispered to the two children who were on the ground with a little wave and the children grinned up at her before waving a little. The one who was still in her father’s hand was still staring at me, with lips in a cute little pout, which reminded me of that particular day when she had reminded me so much of Sofia.

“Mr Ricci, good evening to you.” The man greeted me with a small bow of his head and nodded my head back at him almost immediately, my eyes returning back to the child after a fleeting moment.