Betrothed To The Mafia Lord novel Chapter 21

Sofia’s POV

“I’ll be on my way now,” Luca suddenly said beside me and I glanced up at him immediately and nodded my head, not knowing if the feelings suddenly floating through my veins were that of relief or something close to disappointment.

It has got to be disappointment, because for some unexpected reason, I was kinda enjoying his presence here with me.

It’s probably because we’ve barely exchanged words since we got married, until today.

“I’ll see you later.” He murmured quietly as he stared down at me and I nodded my head slowly, my teeth tugging on one side of my lower lips one sidedly.

I watched as Luca turned around and faced the doctor who was staring at Luca and I from the top of the sheets he was obviously pretending to be going through.

“How much is everything?” Luca asked without taking his eyes off me and my lips moved in protest immediately. “But um, I can pay myself. I have my card with me.” I mumbled quietly in disagreement and flushed in embarrassment a moment later as the words I said a second ago registered in my head.

But it was his money that was in the black card… which means it was still the same thing.

Luca ignored my feebly protest without batting an eye and my mouth dropped open the moment the doctor called out the amount of my hospital bills in total.

“You’ve got a checkbook on you at the moment?” He demanded of the doctor almost immediately and the doctor nodded his head immediately and whipped out what resembled a receipt book from one of the pockets of his white coat before handing it to Luca.

Luca stared at the doctor's face silently for a fleeting second before accepting the checkbook and writing something on it before returning it back to the doctor who pocketed it without glancing at it.

Luca pocketed one of his hands in his pants pocket and was out of the hospital a few seconds later… and he didn’t give me another look before finally leaving and shutting the door behind him.

Making me start to question myself almost immediately.

What was I expecting in the first place? For him to suddenly start being all nice and mushy?

It sounds stupid even in my own head.

The doctor rubbed his hands together and stared down at me with a small grin which made him appear almost creepy and I shuddered in irritation and pulled the suit jacket more tightly around me just as the doctor murmured beneath his breath.

“Where were we?”

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Sitting on the chilled tiles on the balcony overlook the busy streets of Venice, I dragged in a slow, deep breath and burrowed into Luca’s jacket which I currently had around me.

I had left the hospital hours ago with my bodyguards and I had a little thing to eat some hours after I got back home, then I had tried to sleep because the doctors had been reminding me to make sure I get enough sleep seeing as it would apparently hasten my recovery. I managed to get an hour of sleep and that was it, I gave up trying after that.

It was currently some minutes after seven a.m and I had decided to come out to the balcony and sit by myself and the cold evening air for a while. At the very last moment, I had decided to come out here with Luca’s suit jacket because it was still so warm— surprisingly and still smelt so much like him.

I had planned to put the jacket away once I got back from the hospital and return the jacket to him whenever I get to exchange some words with him, because I had a feeling I’d have been fast asleep before he return home tonight… and I was going to try my possible best to drink a little water as possible so as not to have any reason to get up in the middle of the night to empty my bladder.

But me using it one more time, right now, before returning it to him wouldn’t hurt.

It wasn’t like he had to know.

I shifted a little on the floor and moved my sling up my arm a little, as expected, it didn’t budge on me a bit— which I was really grateful for. Assuming it had still been able to move despite the fact that it was in a sling, I’d have just been hurting throughout.

But I thankfully didn’t feel any pain now — I haven’t actually felt any pain in that arm since I returned home, I knew it was because of something that got injected into me and I knew that that arm was going to hurt really badly tomorrow morning.

I picked up my phone and it automatically got unlocked once my face got scanned. I couldn’t still properly operate it despite the fact that the guys who had sold the phone to me showed me so many ways in which I could use in operating the phone, they also made it seem like it wasn’t going to be complicated when trying to figure your way around it— but they had lied because it was really complicated to use, which was why I still haven’t been able to do a lot on the phone.

I didn’t know who I could ask to assist me a little. I could ask one of the guards but I didn’t know if that was a part of their jobs… after all, their job was to watch over me and accompany me wherever I wanted to go.

My mind wandered around for some time and settled on my brother after a few seconds. I breathed out a slow, deep sigh and leaned more freely against the balcony.

Without the beautiful protective bars around the balcony, I’d have found myself on the ground in a second if I had tried coming out here and sitting out here. But thanks to the supportive banister, it almost gave me no choice to attempt anything stupid.

Like to jump over the balcony and see what was going to happen.