Betrothed To The Mafia Lord novel Chapter 279

Luca’s POV

“I’m so sorry this happened, Mr Ricci.” The supposed head of the air forces working here in the airport stepped forward to start to speak and I stared at him quietly at first, not knowing what I actually wanted to say to him at that moment.

I parted my mouth to say something, but a really familiar but faint voice echoed around in my head at first, making me slowly trail off as I blinked confusingly at the officer, right before I slowly started to turn my head around to stare at the large building behind the officers.

“Luca?”

I blinked once, and pushed through the bodies of the men who were standing before me, rushing forward to the person who was calling my name, which i had thought I had imagined at first, and as soon as I got to where he was standing in, beside three other people– I shoved the man closer to him to the side and pulled him into my arms, feeling the whole war that had been going on inside of my head start to ease off in that same moment, as I pulled him against me even more.

I pulled out of the hug after a moment and held his shoulders, shaking him a little right before I started to speak.

“Where the fuck have you been, Armani?” I asked after shaking him for a few moments, staring into his eyes and taking my gaze over every part of his face to ensure that there wasn’t any kind of scratch on his face, and then I started to look him up and down, patting his arm down.

“Luca…?” I raised my head up after a few moments and pulled him into my arms, ignoring the man eco we’re still standing around us, and the rest of the five men who I was sure were standing behind me at the moment, as I felt oh so relieved in that particular moment. I pulled out of the hug after a little while and was back to shaking him with my hands on his shoulders.

“Where the hell were you?” I asked, glaring at him angrily and that was when I noticed a look which I still remember him showing me sometimes while we grew up together.

“Uh, I didn’t know I was going to be gone that long, I swear it,” He started to say, and I felt the scowl on my face get more outlined and intense in the next moment as I stared at him unbelievably at first.

“Where did you go?” I asked after some time, and I watched as he averted his gaze from my face at first and started to move his weight from foot to foot before finally starting to speak.

“Uh, first of all… I got lost.” He confessed and blinked at him, defending not expecting that. I shook him a little after a few moments, still feeling like my chest was still squeezed tight against my ribs. My heart was still beating really fast and I just knew that it was going to take a while for my heartbeat to calm down, and for my brain to accept the fact that he was indeed fine and alive and not in any kind of danger, like I had thought before.

I let go of him after a few moments, the whole explanation could wait, I said to myself as I turned around and like I had known, all eight men were all staring at me, and after a few seconds, James came forward and decided to start to speak before I could even start to think of something to say.

I could still recollect the whole feeling which I had felt back there, how intense the fear had been, and how it almost felt unreal to begin with. Perhaps, I wouldn’t have been that affected on a normal day to the extent of how I had been affected today, if I hadn’t first of all had this same fear when his plane hadn’t even landed yet. Perhaps, that was why it had affected me to the extent that it has, because it still felt almost crazy and unbelievable for all that had happened to have occurred in such a short amount of time.

I puffed out a deep breath and dragged it into my lungs, and after a few seconds, I started to slightly turn my head to the side, setting my eyes on Armani’s for the first time since we made our way into the car. His side profile was exactly like mine– sharply outlined jaw, same lip shapes and eyebrows patterns, we looked so alike like that. I puffed out a deep breath, letting it slowly ease out of my lungs as I raked my eyes over him, taking in that fact that he was grown up, and he was also fine, and doesn’t even have any sort of scratch on his body at this very moment.

It all happened really slowly, one moment I was sterimg at him and silently expressing how happy and relieved I was that nothing was wrong with him and that he was doing very fine as it seems, and in the next moment, he was turning his head around and it only took a fleeting moment more until our eyes were locking against each other’s.

He blinked once, and I watched as he swallowed emptily before averting his gaze, and I caught a wave of guilt cross his face as he completely averted his gaze

I averted my gaze as well and started to move my fingers through my hair after a couple or seconds had passed. I caught James’ gaze in the rear view mirror after some time, and I stared at him confusingly at first when he started to make weird eyes at me. I wasn’t in the mood for any of his games because I was still feeling really shaken up as it is, and so I averted my gaze from the mirror and lowered my gaze to stare at my hands. After a few moments had passed, I decided to take out my phone from my pocket, and I definitely wasn’t expecting James to start to text me almost immediately.

I clicked on his inbox and rolled my eyes a little as iI ghosted my eyes over his text.