Betrothed To The Mafia Lord novel Chapter 126

Sofia’s POV

“Well then, can you tell me something about your childhood? What it felt like for you, what it was like growing up and finally coming of age, and all those kinds of stuff.” I said to him after a minute and watched as he stared at me blankly for a fleeting moment, right before the sides of his lips started to stretch out a little into a small smile.

“Why? You’re curious?” He demanded in a light voice and I find myself nodding my head in reply befute I could think and I watched as the tiny smile at the corner of his lips started to stretch into a small chuckle.

“I am.” I mumbled out in a small voice and watched as he chuckled a little before starting to lean forward until he was leaning into my side of the couch, right before he started to speak.

“You still haven’t gotten around to telling me about yourself, Mrs Ricci, you know that?” He started to say after a moment, the sides of his lips still stretched out a little.

“I would, like I said I was going to some time ago, I’ll tell you about myself like I said I would.” I replied after a moment.

“How about you start right now then? After all, you were supposed to start the whole speech about one’s self first, but I had started it along with you, and now, you do know about the fact that I have no siblings and have been alone growing up.” He started to speak and I gave a small snort before I could help myself.

“You didn’t get to tell me about your childhood.” I pointed out almost immediately, slightly staring at him from the sides of my eyes.

“That was because you haven’t gotten to telling me about yourself, remember, after all, I asked first.” He started to say after a few seconds and I rolled my eyes a little before moving forward a little on the couch and huffing out a little puff of breath.

“Fine.” I muttered and lifted my finger to use in moving my hair to the back of my ears when it had gotten into my face way too much that I’d prefer at the very moment.

“I’m all ears.” He said in reply and I rolled my eyes a little before moving my hair away from my face towards the back of my ear once again.

“But then you’d also tell me about you, right?” I demanded, because knowing who Ryan was, I didn’t want a situation whereby I’d tell him about myself finish and then once I was done, he’d suddenly disappear on me.

“You wouldn’t run away after I am done with speaking about myself and letting you know about me, right?” I demanded while giving him a pointed look. He carded his fingers through his hair and waited before finally starting to reply.

“No, I wouldn’t. What makes you say that ?” He replied aafter and then proceeded to question.

“Well because I know you. And I guess I know what you can do in a moment like this.” I paused and gave him a pointed side look and decided to wait until a few seconds had passed before finally continuing.

“And I don’t want a moment or situation whereby I’d finish speaking to you about myself and tel you all that you needed to know about me, and then when it gets to the time for you to finally start to speak about yourself, whereby you’d then start replying questions hair heartedly which would leave little to no space and strength to be able to hold a conversation together l, or whereby you’d start answering questions with a few mumbled words, and then you’d want to get out of my sight before I can even decide to blink, which was how you acted throughout the week when I had tried to start up a conversation between us, more than once.” I said to him and watched as he kept on staring at me after I was done, as I’d he hadn’t been expecting me to say all what I had just said, moments ago.

But that was the truth.

Knowing just how it was for me to be able to start up a conversation with him before, it could even be more hard to get him to open up to me once I’d be done with my own side of the deal, and of course he could choose to not speak to me about himself, but I didn’t want any of that, which was one of the reasons as to why I was speaking up at this moment, because I didn’t want any of these.

Because, obviously I couldn’t order him to open up if he refused to, and I was dying to know something’s about him, after being unable to go out and interrract with people the way I used to do when I was still back at home, this was all new for me because I had been stuck with seeing the same faces over and over throughout my first week of marriage, and I wanted to know some things about those people so bad, to enable me start to feel some kind of connection between us, that was one of the reasons as to why I had tried to start talking to them and trying to get them to open up to me– to no avail.

Of course as expected, talking to Matilda and Sarah had been really easy and even though I had danced around the whole topic about my childhood or how it was back at home, all because I had still felt unsure around them and still didn’t know their true intent about me.

But then, after the incident which had happened on that particularly evening when I had ended up fainting, and Matilda had taken me into her arms and held unto me as I had shed tears unto her shoulders, after that particular day, I was starting to reconsider being completely open with them when it comes to things about my family or not.

Also, I wasn’t going to be completely opening until mouth Ryan as well, of course I wasn’t, I never planned to in the first place, I wasn’t that dumb.

I had rather planned to fill the whole space with things about my school and my friends, and also my brother, leaving stuffs about my parents and the way the house was, completely out. It was the way I hadn’t tried to ever deceive myself that Ryan was going to ever tell me the truth about himself, or the whole truth.

Like I had said before, I wasn’t that dumb.

Ryan breathed out a small laugh and I glanced at him from the side of my eyes, hoping he hadn’t been speaking before, because I hadn’t gotten a thing whifh he had said — that is, if he had actually been speaking some moments ago, because I had been totally lost in thoughts.