Betrothed To The Mafia Lord novel Chapter 96

Luca’s POV

“C’mon. We’ve known for over twenty years, James.” I started to say before throwing my hand out a little before I continued. “Of course I can read most of your facial expressions.”

“But I still can’t read yours perfectly on most days, man.” He started to say in a low whine and I rolled my eyes at him as a small laugh left my lips at that.

“I guess I am way better at hiding my emotions, now isn’t that right?” I mumbled in a low voice and James agreed immediately, nodding his head along what he started to say almost immediately. “You have no idea, man. You’re as emotionless as a stone on most days and your emotions barely cross your face.”

“That’s one of tne reasons why you’re widely feared.” James continued to inform me and the whole explanation managed to warm my heart and make me feel more achieved as a mafia lord. It was good knowing that all the amount of time I had spent trying to get a hang of being in complete and total control of my own emotions, her obviously came to pass a few years ago, and it was even getting worse as the years went by.

“That’s a really good thing then, I want to get to a point where I’d have total control over the act of controlling my own emotions and choosing when they show up on my face and whatnot.” I said to him and he nodded his head immediately, agreeing with me instantly because he knew it always gave us an edge.

I watched as James stepped closer to me and paused right before me. He reached forward and placed his hands on my wrists, a few inches away from the particular spot which he had held, some minutes ago when he had grabbed my hands in order to stop me from throwing more accusations at him without waiting to hear his actual side of the story yet.

He started to speak after a few seconds, staring straight into my face. “Look man, you thought wrong, ok? I’d never be weirded out about the thought of coming go your house.” He explained and I nodded my head at him after a few seconds before starting to say. “That’s better then, because I had planned to deliver a good solid punch to your face, If you had actually meant that.” I Informed him and watched as he breathed out a small laugh before he continued to speak after a few seconds.

“How can I even ever get weirded out about the thought of coming over to your house?” He asked in a voice that sounded so far away and I shrugged my shoulders at him without saying a thing, he was the one that was going to have to tell me.

“I can never get tired of coming over here, ok? So get that uncertainty out of your head. I loved and would still want to come over here and gym with you, or when we trained in the room in the pool area… those cool days.” He paused and stared up into the sky and I did the same without thinking, staring at the sky and how the moon was so dim in the sky, just as those good old days which James had brought up about a minute ago, started to float around in my head. I dragged my eyes off the sky and returned it back to James’ face whose eyes were still staring straight ahead and I didn’t need to guess or try to rack my brains much, then figure out that he was obviously thinking about those good days as well.

Whereby we’d do a lot of stuff over here together, and it has been really long since we last did something like that together, now that I think about it.

“When was the last time we had a meal together?” James’ voice started to say and I stared up from my feet to settle my gaze on his face, and after racing my brains, I realized that it has been longer than a month since we last ate together, now that I was thinking about it.

It was really bad.

“Man, it has been really long, and it honestly shouldn’t be like that.” He started to say and I nodded my head at him in agreement because it was a hundred percent right. He continued almost immediately. “I totally get the fact that we are both so busy with a lot of things, which is obviously why it’s so hard for us to find time to do those fun stuff which we usually do before… but this one about eating together shouldn’t be like this.” He stated and I couldn’t agree more.

“I know, right? It was obviously another reason as to why I had suggested you come home with me to come get your hand cleaned and dressed up, because it has been really long since we’ve eaten together and I Lind of miss that.” I said to him and started to bite on the side of my lower lips, hating the way my heart was feeling all fluffy like a piece of bacon.

That’s a really weird feeling.

“Ah man, I had no idea you wanted that.” James started to say and I shook my head from side to side before commenting. “You’re dumb, James.”