Betrothed To The Mafia Lord novel Chapter 255

Luca’s POV

The rain might end up falling today and it was already very obvious by just staring at the clouds. It was currently some time during early noon, I had just finished having my first food for the day and was making my way into my office here at home. Sofia had said she was going to try to paint something today and I had wanted to check on a lot of things, and to also get to my best friend because we were supposed to attend to a lot of things today as well as making some plans today, and all I had done after I had woken up late today was to send him a quick text, but he deserved an actual call from me.

And so, I started to call him after a few minutes of me settling into my seat. The air in here was really cold. I loved just how it felt against my skin. I was in a very light shirt at the moment and I might end up ditching it after a while because I really wanted to feel the cold air against my skin.

James picked up the call on the first ring and the first thing he said into the phone was to curse at me. “You fucker,”

“I’m so sorry,” I started to say and I had zero doubts that he was nothing but rolling his eyes at me at the moment, even though we couldn’t see each other at the moment.

“You just decided to suddenly not show up, just like that?” He asked after a few more seconds and I puffed out a deep breath as I slowly made myself sit up in the chair I was once again leaning against really heavy.

“It wasn’t even on purpose.” I started to say and James snorted really loudly.

“Oh, yeah? Alright, it’s like how?”

“For one, I overslept, my stupid alarm didn’t manage to wake me up.”

I remained silent after that and after a few minutes, James was starting to speak. “Let me guess the second reason, it’s most definitely Sofia.”

I refused to say a thing to that and when the silence started to drag out, James let out a small scoff into the silence and I lifted my hand and started using it to massage the sides of my eyes.

“Like I said, that wasn’t on purpose at all.” I said to James after some time.

“Alright, fine.” He huffed out and I rolled my eyes a little before starting to massage the sides of my eyes onve again.

“I’d have just preferred it if you had told me you weren’t going to be coming today, back in the office yesterday.” He informed me and I felt a small sigh slipped past my lips.

“Believe me man, I’d have told you myself yesterday if I had an idea I wasn’t going to be able to make it, which is why I kept mentioning the fact that it was completely not on purpose.” I said to him slowly as I puffed out a slow breath.

“Yeah, I guess you’re right, I was just saying.” He echoed into the phone. We both fell silent after that until a few minutes had passed, before we’d finally started to speak about a particular meeting which I had completely forgotten about until the second James had mentioned it.

“Fuck, that meeting was today?” I asked slowly as I felt my hands start to inch into my hair. It was like a reflex instinct of mine at this point, if something wasn’t going on well with me or I was in distress, one of the things I unconsciously do is to start to dig my fingers into my curls to tug on the roots.

“Yeah, it was.” James informed me after a few moments and paused for a few seconds before continuing. “It’s today, it was supposed to happen this morning, why else did you think I was angry with you at first when you decided to call me at noon, it looked like you suddenly didn’t care about that particular meeting anymore.”

“What the fuck, no. Of course not, I had just completely forgotten, that’s all. Why would I just not care about something we’ve been trying to schedule and arrange for a while now.” I said into the phone, feelimg my fingers start to drag through my curls really slowly.

“Exactly! Now imagine how I had felt this morning when you didn’t show up, and all you did was to send a four word text to me late in the morning.” He continued to speak into the phone and a small sigh was falling out of my lips even before he was completely saying all what it was that he wanted to say.