Betrothed To The Mafia Lord novel Chapter 294

Luca’s POV

“Oh, they’re around, they’re all safe. I just didn’t add any of your old stuff here because I didn’t know if you are still attached to those things the way you used to be back then.” I started to speak with a small sigh slipping out of my mouth.

“Oh, really? Wow, that’s so cool.” He breathed out in the next moment.

“Yup, it’s still here.” I said once again.

“Can I go through them tomorrow?” Ge asked as he started to make his way towards me and I nodded my head with a small chuckle.

“Of course, of course you can. They’re your stuff after all.” I said to him in the next moment.

“You’re the best, Luca.” Armani said softly as soon as he was standing before me, with a little bit of space between us and I nodded my head at him with a small lift of my shoulders.

“I really am?” I asked after a few seconds and watched as he huffed out a small breath.

“Yeah, you are. You’re the very best and I’m so glad I have you as a brother.” He finally continued.

I felt a small smile start to tug at the sides of my lips as I closed the distance between us and placed both my hands at his shoulders, and then I slowly slide my hands down to rest on his biceps.

“I’m glad I have you as a brother as well.” I started to speak, tightening my hold on his biceps in the next moment. He shrugged a little and breathed out a small chuckle.

“I don’t know what I did to deserve you but, it’s all so..,” He continued to speak after a couple of moments and I leaned towards and pulled him into my arms, wrapping my arms firmly around him in the next moment.

“You’re ok, you’re ok. I feel this exact way too. I’m so glad I can finally be able to hold you against me this way. It feels so unreal, you know? It feels unreal. Like, I had almost completely lost hope of ever being able to hold you in my arms again when I didn’t get to hear from you over the years.” I paused and breathed out a slow sigh, tightening my hold against him and feeling him do the same in the next moment.

“It wasn’t like I didn’t want to call you or something, but you warned me not to give you a call unless it was really urgent… and so, and so…” He started to speak after a couple of moments, but he ended up being unable to complete his sentence. I pulled out of the embrace after a few seconds, and then I returned back to holding him with my hands at his biceps, as I stared down at him. He wasn’t all that short than I am, but he was definitely not as tall as I am, and I still have to stare down at him the way I was doing recently. Although I don’t have to look really lower the way I do each time I was talking to Sofia, I was still looking down at him regardless.

“What is it? What were you about to say?” I asked in a slow voice as I stared down at him, narrowing my gaze at him after a fleeting moment when he obviously started to hesitate.

“Armani, you were saying something.” I pointed out and watched as he huffed out a small breath and nodded his head at me in the next moment.

“Yeah, I was.” He echoed out after a couple of moments had passed.

“Go on then, complete your sentence.” I urged when he still hesitated.

He puffed out a small sigh after a couple of moments, and also tried to get out of my grip, but I tightened my hold on his biceps instantly, knowingly as I narrowed my eyes at him.

“Armani…” I began to call our once again.

“What did you mean by that back then?” He asked in the next moment and I breathed out a small sigh before starting to speak.

“I mean, what I had meant back then was that I didn’t want you to put a call through to me like every day, or like months, or even years… and it was all for your own good. I didn’t want a situation whereby your call might mistakenly get traced back to you, that was all I was concerned about back then, which was why I had said that to you.” I paused after a few moments and dropped my hands from Armani’s sides to turn away from him a little and shove my fingers into my hair.

“You remember whereby those times before I had decided that it was going to be for the best it I sent you away from here?” I asked him after a few moments without glancing back at him.

“It was really ugly back then, everyone literally wanted us dead, and I was a burden back then because I couldn’t defend myself back then… not like i can still do that now anyways.” His voice was soft as fw finally responded and my mouth fell open a little as I instantly turned around to stare at him, moving towards him and gripping his shoulders.

“Armani? What the fuck? Was this all what was in your head all these while?” I asked almost immediately, shaking him a little for emphasis and I watched as he finally shrugged his shoulders a little after I was done shaking him a little.

“That wasn’t the reason why I sent you away, the fuck?” I breathed out, allowing my eyes to slide close for a few moments.

“That wasn’t the reason as to why I sent you away at all, I sent you away because you’ve never really been made for this whole mafia lifestyle, and also because I wanted you to finally be free of everything relating to this life which you hated so much since you were little. I wanted you to finally live a normal life, that was why you got sent away.” I paused after a few minutes.

“And I feel bad, I felt so bad about not having your phone number or any means in which I could use to get to you all these while…” I trailed off and dragged in a deep breath into my lungs, feeling my chest expand a little.

“I felt so shitty each time it was my birthday, because the person I loved the most in the world was in a faraway country and I was unable to speak to you and I didn’t know how you were going to react to me suddenly caking you for someone as irrelevant as a birthday, and I always feel equally bad each time it was your birthday aw well, it was like a cycle that always repeats itself each year, and each time it hits, I’d get really low and sad.” He paused and puffed out a shaky breath and I squeezed my eyes close in the next moment, feeling a stab of pain slide straight into the middle of my chest as his words slowly sank into my head.