Betrothed To The Mafia Lord novel Chapter 280

Luca’s POV

James: Why did you ignore what I was trying to say to you?

I typed in a response and sent it after a few moments.

Luca: Maybe because I don’t understand eyes language? I didn’t even know you were trying to tell me something.

He started to send in a response almost immediately, and a rest came in after a few seconds.

James: Well, I was.

I scoffed a little and was tempted to ignore him and just drop my phone into somewhere, but ignored that thought and continued to type in a response.

Luca: Well, what did you want to tell me? You still are not saying a thing

James: Relax

James: What I was trying to say to you was that, did you see your brother beside you?

I glanced beside my almost immediately, checking to see if there was something unusual, but finding nothing – because everything about him still feels unusual to me in a way, starting from how grown up he looks.

Luca: Yeah, I see him. What’s up with him?

James: You need to speak to him.

I blinked a little as I ghosted my gaze over the text before starting to type in a reply, thumbs tapping away on the phone really lightly.

Luca: I do? Why?

James: Because he’s currently facing a whole lot of guilt at this very moment.

Luca: Oh… he is?

I glanced at him a little for a fleeting second, watching as he was bent over himself a little, doing some things on his phone in that moment, right before I averted my gaze from him to focus it back on my phone, and I realized that James had sent in a response.

James: He’s facing a whole lot of guilt at the moment. Guilt about making you worry unnecessarily, and he’s sure as hell beating himself up at the moment.

I read all what he had written, slowly seeing the sense that was in all what he had typed. He kind of have a point, he did look guilty somehow when our eyes had locked.

Luca: Oh…

Luca: I see where you are coming from right now.

James started to type in a response after a few seconds.

James: You’re going to have to start a conversation with him, and talk it all out. I doubt if he’d know how to start a conversation with you, because he probably feels you’re angry with him at the moment. Do you get where I’m coming from?

I started to type in a response almost immediately.

“Yeah, I am.” He voiced out, and I watched as he glanced down at his phone before putting his phone awry inside his suit pocket.

“What happened to your phone? When you went missing and we were searching for you, I tried to reach you through it but the call didn’t even connect to begin with.”

I watched as he blinked at me confusingly at first, before it seemed like he understood what I meant. “Oh, that was because that number of mine wasn’t a number that could work here. You know it was a different country’s number.., as soon as I got here, it would automatically stop working. I got a new number already but I haven’t gotten the time to set it up yet, because I planned to do just that tonight.”

He paused and I watched as he sucked in a deep breath before slowly pushing it out.

“I’m sorry you were unable to reach me. I couldn’t even get to you because of my lack of a number, and it never crossed my mind to borrow someone’s cellphone to use in trying to get you you.” He continued the speak afterwards, voice easing out slowly as he spoke.

“No, no… it’s alright, it’s alright.”

I continued after a few pause. “Also, it’s a good thing you didn’t use someone’s phone to try to get to me, my phone number is a really private thing and I rarely give it out, for security reasons.”

“Ohh.” He whispered out after a few seconds and I started to nod my head.

“Yeah. I’m just glad you’re alright. I thought something had happened to you.”

I watched as the guilty look crossed his face in the next moment, right before he made to speak.

“Nothing happened to me, I didn’t even hit my leg against a wall. I’m so sorry I made you worry unnecessarily…” He trailed off after a few seconds and slumped into his seat, a small, dejected sigh slipping out his slightly parted lips, and after a few long seconds had passed, he started to speak once again.

“I haven’t even been here for long and I’m already making you worry so much to this extent, I feel so bad just thinking about it and I’m so sorry you’re going through all these stress because of me once again like you used to do back then…”