Betrothed To The Mafia Lord novel Chapter 99

Luca’s POV

“Because I am always so damn busy, it’s so hard and stressful having to work every damn day, only to unlock your phone and get flooded with thousands of messages and notifications all at once, from different apps.” I informed him with the scowl still intact on my face and watched as the perplexed facial expression on his face started to melt away in the next second.

“Oh.” James murmured after a few seconds and I shrugged my shoulders while still staring at him. He finally threw one of his hands up and started to speak again. “Well, notwithstanding that,” He breathed out but I ignored him and started to make my way deeper into the house, fully aware that he had fallen into steps behind me after a fleeting moment.

We passed the sitting room and I peaked my head into it, and not finding anyone in it. I continued to make my way deeper into the house and stopped at the entrance of the kitchen and peaked my head into it through the door.

Sarah and Matilda were currently the only occupants of the kitchen at the moment and I watched as Matilda was currently pressing a folded cloth against Sarah’s head, while Sarah was standing with her back against the counter beside the washing sink, looking paler than usual.

Once they noticed my presence, they both jolted apart like they had been doing something extremely bad before I had gotten noticed. I stepped into the kitchen and stared pointedly at Sarah who although was still looking pale, her eyes had gotten more sharpness in it, and she had started to make her way towards me as soon as she had been able to regain some kind of composure.

“Good evening, Luca.” She said in a quiet voice as she stood before me, staring up at me into my face. My eyes narrowed as I stared at her pointedly, silently reminding that I had seen what had been going on between herself and Matilda, and that there was no use for her to bother hiding it anymore, because it was pretty obvious now.

She was sick, and hiding it.

I had no idea if she had already informed Sofia about the whole sickness thing because it was pretty obvious that Matilda was in on the details of the sickness… come to think of it, they seem to have gotten really closer to Sofia that I had ever expected, when I had taken off the veil off her face and come face to face with a face so stunningly flawless, it made a certain spot in my heart aches, each time I think about it.

It made me start to think that she was the kind of person to not want to assciosate herself with people like the house help, cook, body guards and the rest – because it seemed like she’d be the one to feel way above people, and the likes… but then, after spending a night with her, the very next morning, I had started to have a whole different view of her.

By the looks of things as the days went by, and from the little things I had been able to pick out, and how Sarah and Matilda both refer to her by her name, on her own request, and how they all seemed to have gotten really closer, I was sure Sarah would have already let Sofia in on the whole secrecy of her sickness.

“Hi Sarah.” I breathed out and dragged my eyes over her eyes and noticed how puffy the lids of her eyes looked– I mean, her eyelids were puffy on a normal day, but that was expected since she wasn’t a young woman anymore… but right now, it looked really puffy, like she had been crying or something.

“How are you?” I continued and watched as a tiny shade of shade or color flooded ever lightly over the top of her cheeks, and how she glanced down away from me before she whispered out her reply to me. “Fine, I am fine.”

“Of course.” I replied to her and liked the way she looked guilty and couldn’t for the life of hers, hold my gaze anymore.

I leaned down until I was a little bit closer to her height before I started to say to her in a low voice. “This isn’t over between us, you’ve got some explaining to do.”