Betrothed To The Mafia Lord novel Chapter 57

Luca’s POV

I glanced at my wrist watch clinging on my right wrist and noted what the time says, it was almost four p.m in the afternoon. I made my way into the hospital building, walking past the security who bowed his head a little at me in respect the moment he recognized who I was. I walked into the elevator which wasn’t empty, to my disappointment and stood at the far end of the elevator, staying clear of the three identical children who were chattering the ears of their mother off.

“Mummy, look at my bracelets in the mirror.” The one standing in the middle of her strikingly identity sisters said, smiling at her mother through the mirror— just as the one standing on the side which was only a few feet away from where I was standing at– lifted her hand up and looked up at her mother through the mirror with a small pout which made Sofia’s face pop into my head all of a sudden.

“Mummy, mine is the prettiest, right?” She asked with a small pout just as the third one chose to turn around to tug at the edge of her mother’s skirt while waving her second hand in the air to show her mother her bracelet – a bracelet which was practically the same type that was on her two sisters wrists, just in different colors.

“Oh, blueberries, I love all your bracelets, they’re all the prettiest.” The mother finally gushed out with a fond look in her eyes as she stared down at her children. A knowing smile spread out on her face as the girl who had a pout like that of Sofia’s, scowled in such a way that was just too cute to be mean before she shook her head immediately, disagreeing with her mother immediately.

“But Mummy, Daddy said mine was the prettiest this morning!” She muttered out, a cute scowl still painted across her face and I watched as the girl standing in the middle of the two girls– who had first started the whole disagreement about who had the prettiest bracelets— gasped dramatically the moment her sister’s words sank into her small, cute head.

“Daddy said mine was the prettiest this morning, which means mine is the prettiest!” She exclaimed to her sister, sounding outraged by her sister’s claims of their father telling her she has the prettiest bracelet.

“No, he said mine was the most prettiest this morning, while helping me with my shoes, which means mine is the prettiest.” The third girl who had turned around to tug at the edge of her mother’s skirt said to her two sisters almost immediately, sounding way too smug for someone who had been really desperate for the validation of her mother, moments ago.

“Daddy said everyone’s bracelets are the prettiest, and you know daddy is always right, hm?” The mother started to say to her kids and I watched as they all absorbed her words before finally nodding their small heads slowly.

“Which means the three of you have the prettiest bracelets each! Everybody wins.” The mother continued with a small smile tingling the edge of her voice, sounding like it was a normal thing for her already, for her to settle silly fights like this on a normal day.

I wouldn’t be able to survive… This looks like so much to handle and a whole lot of work.

Do I even want kids yet?

The elevator stopped moving and dinged, signaling my stop before the doors started to slowly slide open. I started to make my way out of the elevator car but paused when I heard a startled gasp which made me turn back around to peep back into the elevator.

The mother of the cute triplets was staring at me with wide eyes and a little bit of fear in her eyes as she quickly ducked her head a little before starting to say, “Oh my god, I’m so sorry, Mr Ricci, I didn’t know it was you all along.”

I nodded my head and waved my hand a little at her, hating the way her knowing who exactly I was had brought her this amount of fear immediately.

I stepped out the elevator and was surprised when the girl who had a pout almost similar to that of Sofia’s waved at me just as the elevator started to slide back close, a smile missing a lot of teeth displayed across her face.

I cracked a small grin and threw her a small wave just as the elevator doors slide close, genuinely delighted by that little gesture of hers. If only people could be as trusting as that little girl was around me, a few moments ago– then they have nothing to be scared of, because if they didn’t do a thing to me, then I most definitely wouldn’t ever dream of hurting them.

I made my way down the hallway, finally exiting the entrance of the elevator to walk deeper through the hallway, contemplating on if I should see the doctor first or just go ahead and check up on Aria. I decided to head to the doctor’s office first, just to catch up on all what had gone down with her since last night, to this very moment.

James had agreed to show up here before an hour time, and then I’ll let him in on all that took place between Aria and Ivan because most importantly, he was going to pay me a visit to them for me, to teach them an actual lesson.

Since Aria was going through so much pain now, they deserve to go through some pain as well, since they had been the one to bring the pain on her.

I knocked against the doctor’s office and made my way in after hearing a quiet ‘come in’ from the other side of the door.

The doctor welcomed me and offered his hand to me again today— which I accepted, because I wasn’t an asshole, but had been extremely worked up, stressed out and also worried, yesterday– which was why I had ignored his offered handshakes.

He looked genuinely surprised when I accepted the handshake before settling behind the table and moving a few files around the table, before the actual discussion started to take place between us.

I remained silent, my whole mood slowly spiraling into a flat zero as he went on and on, pointing out the lists of damages each injected drug had caused to her body and how it was going to have an effect on her later if something is not carried out on her now.

I breathed out a deep sigh, feeling useless because there was just nothing I could do at the moment to help ease a little of the amount of pain she was currently going through.