Betrothed To The Mafia Lord novel Chapter 289

Luca’s POV

“Let’s head inside already.” I said to her just as I pushed myself off the wall that I had been previously leaning against, as I stepped into the sitting room after staring at the doorway with my brother beside me for long minutes.

It didn’t take long for Sofia to notice that she wasn’t alone in here anymore, and I noticed the moment she froze at first before slowly turning her head around until she was staring at me– and at my younger brother ego was currently standing beside me. I watched as she slowly pushed herself to her feet, a small breath falling past her lips as her mouth fell open a little.

She started to make her way towards me and I offered her a smile and beaconed for her to come straight towards me. She puffed out a small breath as she walked straight into my side, pressing into me and gripping my shirt with one of her hands and I wrapped my arm firmly around her waist and hummed a little, feeling that particular feeling of fulfillment come to settle over me in that particular moment.

Sofia peeked up at me after a couple of moments had passed, and after a fleeting moment, she was pulling out of my side and attempting to stand on her own. I knew that that small wave of security and safety that she had wanted to feel as soon as she as she had settled her eyes on me had been curbed, and now she was able to stand on her own and offer me a smile, which I returned instantly, not caring that I correctly had an audience with me.

Sofia was the first to break eye contact and I watched as she stared up at my brother who was stabbed beside me. A quick glance at my brother showed that he was still in a little bit of shock from the display of comfort and affection he had just seen some moments ago.

“Hello.” Sofia finally started to speak, almost bouncing on the balls of her feet as she waved up at Armani. Armani had a smile on his face almost immediately, and was returning the wave with an enthusiastic one, to my delight.

“You’re so beautiful.” Armani blurted out of the blue and I watched as Sofia bursted into a little fit of laughter, as she lifted one of her hands up to shield her mouth. I sneaked a glance at Armani to see him still staring down at Sofia, with a smile still spread out on his face.

“Uh, thank you.” Sofia finally responded, still smiling a little with a little bit of color staining her cheeks.

“I’m Sofia.” Sofia started to speak after a couple of moments, taking the lead once again, and I felt something that felt so much like pride start to tingle and expand in the middle of my chest as I watched as she offered her hand to Armani who had finally managed to shake himself a little to be able to get more words out or himself.

“Forgive my manners, My name’s Armani.” He finally started to speak as he accepted Sofia’s hand into his bigger one, and before I could blink, he was moving forward and closing the distance between them to take her into his arms. I watched as Sofia went into his embrace willingly, the slime still dancing around the corners of her lips as she leaned into him.

It pleased me so much as I watched the two people that meant the whole world to me hug each other this way, it was something I hadn’t known I needed to see until this very moment, which was why I couldn’t take my eyes off turn until they finally started to slowly pull out of the hug. I’d have leaned into them to envelop both people into my arms some moments ago, as soon as that thought popped into my head. But, I refrained from doing that and made sure to hold myself back because I know that they might both find it weird for me to suddenly be doing that when they least expected it. And so I hummed a little and moved my weight around my feet a little as I watched them place a little bit of space between each other as they began to talk to each other once again.

Armani was speaking more this time, which pleased me a whole lot. Armani has always been a really shy person, which was why it hasn’t really shocked me when he admitted to being scared of women– it has just caught me unexpectedly because when we had both been growing up together, we had never had that particular conversation for once. It was also why I had thought he was into the same gender when we had both talked on the phone, some days ago.

I clapped my hands against each other a little and watched as both heads turned around to stare at me at the same time. It looked like they had almost – if not completely, forgotten that I was right here, some feet away from where they were both currently standing. As if Sofia could now perfectly read my thoughts, a small bashful look crossed her face and she bit at the inside of her cheeks before starting to dudk her head, breaking eye contact with me. I breathed out a small laugh and turned around a little, right before I started to speak. “Let’s all sit down, shall we? It’s going to do your legs good… and I bet you’re still feeling jet lagged, Armani?”

I was moving towards the couches as I spoke, and I turned around to stare at my brother as I said those lose words.

“I am, a whole lot. I can’t wait to take a freaking bath and sleep for days.” Armani responded after a moment since he had chosen that same moment to sink into one chair, the one at the left side of where I was standing in, and where I had been about to sink into.

“Perhaps, after you have dinner, you’d be able to go do all what you want to do as fast as possible, so you can be able to fall asleep really fast.” I said to Armani after a moment, sinking into the chair which I had been standing right in front of for long minutes. I watched as Sofia glanced from where I was sitting in, to where Armani was sitting, clearly torn between what to choose and go for. I chuckled a little, remaining silent and just watching her and it took a few long moments for her to finally start to move towards where Armani was sitting.

I snorted a little when Armani instantly sat up and started to speak.