Betrothed To The Mafia Lord novel Chapter 31

Luca’s POV

I alighted the car the moment one of the guards who had ridden in the other car pulled open the door for me on noticing that I was about to leave the car. James got down from the vehicle as well and we both stood at the side of the car while quickly scanning our eyes over the whole premises.

I beckoned the three guards forward and they stood around James and I in the next second.

“You’re going in there with us.” I pointed to the guard in the middle and watched as he nodded briskly, his hands folded behind his back.

“The rest of you are to stand beside the two cars the way every other guard is doing, huh?” I continued and they both nodded their heads in understanding.

“Be alert and do not leave your various spots for any reason.” I paused and stared pointedly at the two guards I was referring to. “If you notice anything strange and weird going on here during the auction, give me a text, and a call if I don’t reply to the text immediately. Got it?” I brushed my hair backwards that was falling into my face as I waited for their reply which came a second later.

“Got it, boss.”

“Noted, boss.”

James and I started walking side by side as we slowly made our way towards the large hall where the auction was supposed to take place at. The invitation card was deep in my pockets, along with my phone and the hand kerchief I had collected from James this morning. The fucker surprisingly had another new piece of hand kerchief in his bag, which he had brought along with him to the auction.

“Hope it won’t be extremely rowdy, because it sounds like it’s really noisy in there.” I grumbled beneath my breath to James as we neared the entrance of the hall with every slow step we both took in sync.

“I hope so too. But I do have a feeling that it would be filled but still arranged neatly and accordingly, nevertheless. An event as classy as this cannot afford to be tagged as rowdy.” James murmured back to me and whistled lowly as I finally stepped into the hall which was guided by a bunch of security guards.

“Damn.” I said beneath my breath as my eyes traveled over the whole crowd who were seated in rows and rows of chairs and tables. What took my breath away was the front of the hall. It was a huge space with a stage put away in the middle of it, but at the full length wall at the front of the wall, displayed different kinds of diamonds in different shapes and sizes, through the aid of a bright and sharp projector.

“That’s some really hot pieces of diamonds, damn.” I said to James without taking my eyes off the display which kept changing to reveal a different kind and style, every two seconds.

“I know, right? It’s somehow sexy…” James trailed off with a small laugh and I glanced at him immediately. “I never knew diamonds could be classified as hot until this very moment.” I said to him as I turned back to the pictures being displayed on the wall.

James nudged my side with his shoulder and I looked at him questioningly, but he only wiggled his brow without saying a thing while a grin tugged at the side of his lips. I ignored him and was about to turn back to what I was watching before until I felt a very light tap on my back.

I turned around and stared at the man dressed in security attire that had tapped me, moments ago.

“If I may show you to your seats, sir.” He said after a few seconds and I glanced at James without saying a thing, silently asking him if this was how it was done. He only shrugged at me before focusing his gaze on the security man once again.

I followed the lead of the security, ignoring the way a few people couldn’t help but follow my footsteps with their whole faces, while the rest only trailed my footsteps with the movement of their eyes… until the security finally stopped in a spot on the right side of the room, a few steps away from the front of the hall.

I grimaced for a few moments before sinking down into the seat that was apparently mine… because it even had my name on it, with James’s name on the seat beside mine. I breathed out a long sigh and glanced around the people sitting around where I was currently sitting and fortunately didn’t recognize any of the men sitting around here. They were either too far for my mafia to know about or I might have heard their names before without knowing what they looked like.

“Well, this event seems really collected and organized, don’t you think?” James leaned into my side and whispered a few feet directly away from my ear.

“They haven’t even started yet, James, so I wouldn’t know.” I said to him and noticed the way he rolled his eyes immediately before I continued, “Also why did we get assigned to the row almost at the very front of the room? Everyone is going to be watching us without us knowing who it was.” I demanded and watched as he shrugged his shoulders right before he quickly scrubbed his hand over his face.

“I think it’s out of respect for you.” James murmured to me in reply after a while and I turned his words around in my head as I glanced from feces to faces more carefully this time, which was when I noticed that I had met some of these people at other social gatherings without mingling or getting to know each other, and that I had most definitely seen a few of those faces on television, one way or the other.

Maybe they weren’t as unknown as I thought they were at first. I lifted my hands up and ran it through my curls, stifling a yawn with my fingers almost instantly.

The tables and chairs were arranged in a way that nobody would be able to obstruct another one’s view of the whole event that was going to go down. The floor of the hall itself was in stairs, going all the way, from the very top of the hall.