Betrothed To The Mafia Lord

Chapter 172

Sofia’s POV

A week has passed since the night Luca and I attended the wedding party together and the night it felt

like things officially changed between us. He always returned home on time to have dinner together

and ever since he had started to return home for dinner, I had stopped having dinner with Matilda and

Sarah. We usually talk whenever we were having dinner and when I think the conversation between us

couldn’t get any better, it became so much better and as each day went by, I was always finding myself

being drawn to him so damn intensely, and I hadn’t tried to fight the feeling from tne very start, because

he hasn’t given me any reason to.

He had been nothing but really good to me. He literally treats me with so much care and respect,

something I hadn’t even bothered to try using to deceive myself that I was going to get married, right

from the moment I got told that I was feeling to get married to him.

Now, look at me at the moment, I was living nothing but a nice life… I mean, it was really nice from

what I was expecting my life to be like before I got married off to him, and I wasn’t going to be

complaining about the other things I didn’t have or get access to, like the fact that I still haven’t been

able to exchange a word with my little brother ever since my wedding day.

It would be really hypocritical of me to try to say thst I hadn’t been thinking about him almost every day

ever since I got married. I had a feeling that Luca might be able to do something about it if I tell him

about me wanting to see him or even hear his voice at least, but I didn’t want to push my Luck or to

start making it seem like I was about to start misusing the fact that he was treating me really nice… and

so I had kept that part locked away, and had told no one but Ryan about the fact that I really wished I

can get to see him.

And surprisingly, a teasing part had managed to make its way into our relationship and I loved every

part of it, despite how much it made me flush red in embarrassment in the blink of an eye, it still made

my heart flutter and cease for a few fleeting seconds.

I shifted in my seat a little and turned my head around to stare out of the window. The car was moving

at a really steady pace and I lifted my hand to push my hair behind my ear.

I was currently being driven to the mafia official house for meetings. It was like a palace in the land

where kings and queens were still reigning till date, only that for some reasons which I had no idea

about, Luca wasn’t living in the same place where this said mafia’s meeting house was located.

Luca had told me about this yesterday night, when we were having dinner together. He told me about

how he wished he didn’t have to do something today, so he could be able to accompany me over to

where I was currently heading to, because he knew without having to ask, that I was really nervous.

I was currently attending a meeting. It was a meeting which was going to consist of the whole wives of

the high generals and men with ranks here in the mafia. Apparently it was high time they all get to meet

the wife of their mafia lord officially, and Luca had said that after today, they were all going to have to

look up to me in respect and see me as someone way out of their league and on a whole different level

compared to where they currently are at the moment… despite the fact that I was going to be the

youngest in the midst of the amount of women I was going to be meeting today.

Of course I had told Luca about it, about how I was really nervous about the fact that I was going to end

up making a fool of myself and that they were found to end up laughing at me and wouldn’t in a shy

way be able to show me any kind of respect. Luca had ordered to not ever say such words again and

that he believed in me and was sure I wouldn't end up making a fool of myself before those women.

He had continued to talk about the fact that the women wouldn’t dare laugh at me in any kind of

circumstances, and would show me nothing but respect. Of course, that hadn’t made me feel all that

better because I wasn’t in any way looking forward to those women who I was a lot sure were going to

be really older than I am– referring to me in such a respectful way.

I still wasn’t used to the fact that I’d be getting addressed with so much respect, maybe assuming I had

known about the fact that I was going to end up getting married to Luca ever since I was a child, then

maybe I’d have made myself get ready to be addressed with so much respect from people way older

than I am. Sarah and Matilda had agreed to refer to me by my actual name thankfully, Ethan didn’t

budge one bit but Ryan usually switch: he refers to my actual name each time we were alone and

without any kind of audience, and switches back to ‘ma’am’ each time there was some kind of audience

before the both of us on that particular moment, which I was really grateful for. I knew it would be

absurd of me to want some. I was going to be at meetings today, to refer to me as my actual name,

without any kind of added formalities which still manages to make me feel weirded out till today.

I turned my head around and started straight ahead to the driver's part of the car. The car was currently

being driven by Ethan while Ryan sat at the passenger side of the car, leaving the whole back seat to

me. I wish I could start to talk to Ryan at the moment, to take my mind off what I was going to face in a

little while, but I couldn’t at the moment, because of Ethan being in here as well. He wasn’t aware of the

fact that Ryan and I had gotten closer than we were supposed to, and even though we weren’t doing

anything bad and we’re only being friends, I didn’t think Luca was going to be cool about it if he finds it

about that, which was why the both of us always tries our possible best to be as disecret as ever.

“We’re almost there, ma’am.” Ethan voice called lot yo me and I nodded my head at him without

bothering to speak, because I knew he had seen the movement of my head from the rear view mirror.

I picked up my phone and checked the time, it was currently almost eleven a.m in the morning. I hadn’t

agreed to eat a thing this morning out of nerves and nervousness, because I had been scared of

puking right there in the middle of the meeting. Luca had said I was just being dramatic last night when

we had been cuddling, but of course he wasn’t me, neither was he in my head, to be able to tell that I

was dead ass serious about puking out of nervousness – it had happened to me once, back in middle

school… but of course I hadn’t told Luca about that.

The car slowly pulled to a stop and I alighted after the door got pulled open by Ethan. I waited for the

car to be locked, because they were supposed to accompany me to the exact spot where I was

supposed to have tne said meeting, and to wait directly outside the room, for my own utmost safety.

I was currently in a gown that stopped a few inches above my knees. I had wanted to appear like

someone that was confident and powerful… and what other way to pull off that kind of power, than to

dress in a powerful way at first. I wasn’t confident in the least bit, but I had gotten used to being in small

clothes, skirts and gowns after I had gotten married to Luca, which was why I had agreed within myself

that it wasn’t going to be all that hard for me to wear that kind of cloth. My hair was down my back and

a little curl was hanging down the sides of my face. I had on light makeup, and the smokey eye makeup

which Luca had one night told me had looked drop dead gorgeous when I had done it on the night

when we had both attended the wedding together.

I paused outside a tall looking door after about ten minutes. Ethan, Ryan and I had both ridden the

elevator after walking through the classy looking building and the more classy looking insides. I turned

around to stare up at them and I tried to force a smile on my face despite how my stomach was twisting

with nervousness.

“I guess this is it, I’ll be going in on my own at this point.”

“Mr Ricci said to excuse yourself from the meeting and come meet us right here if you don’t feel like

continuing the meeting after some time.” Ryan said smoothly after a moment and I moved my gaze to

lock with him, just as I felt the middle of heart start to squeeze tight. © 2024 Nôv/el/Dram/a.Org.

Luca was just so… so thoughtful, so caring and so, so… perfect.