Betrothed To The Mafia Lord novel Chapter 276

Luca’s POV

“Aish, I’m not a kid anymore.” He literally whined out, and I found myself grinning a little at him. James only rolled his eyes before going to stand before Armani, and I noticed that they were almost the same height, although James was still a little bit taller. James reached up and to my disbelief, started to ruffle Armani’s curls the way I remember doing to him a whole lot when he was little, and then James started to speak.

“You might be as big as this, as you are right now, but you’re still a kid.” James continued to sowie as he kept on ruffling Armani’s a lot more before finally pulling his fungus away. I watched as Armani scrunched his face in the next moment as he reached up and started to try to restore some type or balance to his currently disheveled hair.

“I’m not.” Armani finally responded and James only chuckled a little before rolling his eyes.

“If you’re not, then I’m guessing you’d be ready to wrestle with me tomorrow morning? Winner ends up being right.” James informed him as he slowly shoved his hands into his pockets and I watched as Armani’s mouth fell open in the next moment. After a few more seconds, a small sheepish smile broke out or his face as he started to take a couple of steps back away from James, right before he started to speak with shrugged shoulders. “Uh, maybe I am a kid?”

I scoffed at that a little, a small laugh following suit as I closed the distance between us and sling an arm around his shoulder, right before I started to speak. “Of course you are. Although you’ve grown so much.”

“You’ve grown so much as well, the both of you. You weren’t looking this cool when last I remembered seeing the both of you in person, but now you both look so, sooooo cool” Armani started to echo out, an impressed and awed expression on his face as his words slip out of his lips, and in sync, my eyes found James and locked with his for a couple of seconds. James cracked a little smile before I started to avert my gaze.

“Oh, yeah?” James spoke up this time, with his hands still deep inside of his pockets.

“Yes. And you used to be shorter when I last saw you.” Armani continued, referring to James this time and I watched as James’ smug look slipped a little as he started to laugh a little.

“Why? You little fuck–”

“But you’re way taller now, way way taller, although not that talker that I am, but still taller.” Armani continued after a few more moments and I felt all the worries which had been growing inside of my head ever since I knew that Armani was going to be coming back home, because a part of me had felt like it wasn’t going to be the same between us and was going to be instead tense and awkward. But now, at this very moment, I could feel all my troubled thoughts about this particular topic start to slowly ebb away. Because it was obvious that things weren't just going to be easy between us, that it was going to be much easier than I had hoped, and also fun.

“Did you hear what he had just said, Luca?” James asked me after a couple of moments with a small laugh and I rolled my eyes a little, cracking a small smile as I started to speak. “Well, he was kind of right, you’re both almost the same height.” I said to him and watched as James scoffed at me unbelievably before starting to speak.

“Fuck you, man. You’re already picking him over me?” He accused me and I grinned a little, pulling Armani into my side even more, adding more emphasis before starting to speak. “It is what it is.”

“That’s so unfair, man.” James argued before staring at Armani exparatedly. “You should totally go back to where you came from.” James said to Armani after a few moments and I listened as Armani started to whine on the next moment.

“But James…”

“No buts, this was the same way he instantly deserted me when his wife got involved.” Jamea continued, shooting me an eye roll and a small scoff. I felt as Armani started to turn around in my grip around his shoulders until he was staring up at me in the next moment.