Betrothed To The Mafia Lord

Chapter 85

Luca’s POV

“We haven’t met before, nor actually spoken before. Except that one time and I was sure she didn’t

even know who I was at that moment. Of course, I had looked deeper into her because she had striked

a spot in me which I had been thinking was purely sexual at first.” He paused at the last word and

puffed at a small laugh before glancing at me to nudge the side of my shoulder.

“No offense man, but your cousin is really hot.”

I breathed out a small chuckle and shrugged once, flexing my fingers around in my pants pockets a

little, knowing he obviously had a point by that last sentence which he had made– Aria was indeed hot.

“I mean, I never knew you guys were related from the very start, because I’ve never seen get around

you throughout our whole friendship days, but then I made my researches and discovered that you

were cousins.” He continued and then I glanced sideways at him, lifting my brow up at him. We’ve

completely stopped walking at this point and we’re just standing in a particular spot, a few feet away

from the entrance of tne hospital.

“Then?” I prompted when he remained quiet and kept staring at his feet. He shrugged his shoulders,

lifting his shoulders high up to graze against his ears a little before glancing up and turning his head

around to stare at me.

“Then I decided to not make any kind of move.” He finally said and I corked my head around to stare at

him pointedly, my lips thinning and moving from side to side as I watched his left foot start to slightly

move on the floor.

“That’s well…” I trailed off and huffed out a small breath before continuing, “That’s new. I honestly had

no idea you were once into her.” I started to say after a few moments and a small, dried chuckle slipped

out of his lips.

“I mean, I was… I think I still am, obviously.” He replied after a few moments and I nodded my head

once, absorbing his reply and trying to fully process the information that my best friend and right hand

man, was into my cousin– was so into my cousin, someone who I had no idea could ever be interested

in someone, outside of sex and anything involving the bedroom.

“Why?” I asked after a while, staring up into the early evening sky and breathing in the flowery scent

that was filling the whole atmosphere – courtesy of the amount of flowers that was planted in different

spots and areas here in the hospital.

“I honestly don’t know. There’s just something about her, I guess.” He replied and I nodded my head

once again, still trying to come to terms with the fact that my best friend was interested in my cousin.

“So, you haven’t ever spoken to her? Nothing?” I continued, pressing down on him for more details,

because I was still trying to completely absorb and understand everything.

“Of course I have.” He said while staring at me with an expression covering his face which screamed

‘really?’ right into my face, and I shrugged my shoulders once because that was what I had thought

before.

“We met at one particular night, in a nightclub, early this year.” He started to say after a few seconds

and I sharply glanced at him immediately, narrowing my eyes at him and taking a step away from his

side.

He barked out a small laugh as soon as he noticed before turning around and throwing his hands up in

expsrstion.

“What now, man.” He said with a shake of his head and inflated at him even more, my mouth thinning

even mire as I willed my mind to not start to pounder over what isn’t even fully clarified yet.

“Did you sleep with her?” I asked him after a few seconds and watched as the laugh on his face slowly

disappeared, which made the frown on my face get even deeper and more outlined. I lifted my right

hand up before he could start to speak, cutting him off automatically and I started to speak immediately.

“Please don’t tell me you slept with her.”

“I didn’t.” He replied immediately, even before I could completely finish what I was saying and I pursed

my lips even more, knowing exactly what he was playing at.

“What? You asked me not to tell you I’ve slept with her, you begged me not to and I did just that.” He

replied, lifting his hands and shoving them deep into his pockets.

“I swear to God... man, I am going to punch you in the throat.” I warned in a low voice and watched as

he breathed out a laugh before reaching up and flicking his hair out of his face with his hand before

closing the distance which I created between us by coming to stand beside me once again, lightly

brushing his shoulders against mine.

I glanced up into into sky and dragged in a deep breath, holding it captive in my lungs before puffing

the breath out of my nose and past my parted lips, ever so slowly, my chest expanding and tightening

up in the motion.

“I haven’t even kissed her, man.” James started to say and I rolled my eyes a little, feeling my heart

starting to release the right squeeze it was in, nevertheless.

“Oh yeah?” I asked after a few moments and he nodded his head once, glancing sideways at me to

stare at me with a slightly unreadable expression on his face.

“Yeah.” He echoed after me, dragging his eyes away from mine and staring back down at his feet, right

before he continued.

“You’ve got to chill the fuck out, man. Your protective instinct is fierce as hell.” He breathed out with a

small chuckle and I stared straight ahead, my eyes absentmindedly glancing around the whole scenery,

my eyes mindlessly trailing over the cars which were packed in different sides of the hospital, my eyes

slowly trailing off to pause at the sight of my car, and I noticed that my driver was standing outside the

car, along with the other guard. They were currently discussing something between themselves and

were currently leaning on both sides of the car.

I ignored them and continued to drag my eyes over every damn object in my sight, unconsciously C0ntent © 2024 (N/ô)velDrama.Org.

refusing to acknowledge the fact that what James had said last, moments ago, has been bugging me,

even before today.

Yes, he was completely right. There was no use nor point of me denying or trying to not acknowledge

it. It was obviously right, from the look of things, starting from my reactions which on most moments,

wouldn’t even be thought out and would just fly out from a certain part of my heart.

I was over protective over people I cared about, and that was that. I won’t try to fight, deny or charge

that detail about the person I was currently becoming, despite how honestly confusing the foreign

feelimg was.

I’ve always been protective towards Aria, right since we were young, when I was a teenager and she

was a really small baby. I had always felt this urge in my body to protect her, because I Knew just how

dangerous everything about the mafia was. And the feeling in my body has multiplied and increased

drastically, over the years as Aria started to grow into a cute little thing, and Aria had been obsessed

with me in return.

But then after our fathers had separated us, and my heart had mourned her loss and after a little while,

that protective and possessive feeling I’ve always felt for her– the only female I’ve ever felt that kind of

feeling over – started to slowly fade away. And as I grew into a young man, trying to become as

emotionless as possible, the whole feeling I had about her which still lingered in my heart completely

faded away until nothing remained in its place.

Perhaps, it has been there all these while. Perhaps, it was still there all this while – a tiny particle of that

particular feeling had hidden into some spot or corner where I wouldn’t be able to find or feel it again,

and it had fallen asleep, right until she came back into my life.

And as we started to get closer to each other once again, as we started to slowly care for each other

once again, that feelimg in the deepest part of my being started to bloom once again, and it germinated

and grew up ever so slowly… and until this moment after I had automatically assumed that my best

friend had slept with my cousin, I had no idea that particular feeling had grown to this level which it was

currently in.

And after all, until this very moment when I always saw death flash before my eyes, I didn’t know I had

started to care about her so much, until I had almost lost her to some set of dumb boys.

Until they had felt like trying to do one of the sick things they were good at, and they had been

unfortunate enough to pick my cousin to be the person which they were going to carry out their sick

deeds out on– a move which they had started to carry out on her, and it had affected her really badly

that her life got threatened really seriously.

Those set of dumb boys are going to be getting another visit from me, and this time; a very pissed off

James was going to be coming along with me.

Together, we were going to be teaching them a lesson.