Chapter 61


    Sofia’s POV


    The first thing I came to was low, unclear voices which were blending into each other, making it hard for


    me to figure out who was who. I blinked my eyes open and winced immediately as bright lights shown


    into my eyes really intensely that I had to close my eyes back for a few seconds before finally blinking


    my eyes open slowly once again.


    What happened? I asked myself as my eyes started trailing over every near you detail it couldy its


    gaze on. I turned my head around and stared straight down, the familiarity of the room I was currently


    in registered into my head slowly and I blinked once again in confusion.


    I was… in the sitting room?


    I stared down at the white couch I was currently lying on, recognizing the couch immediately as one of


    the ones in the sitting room. I pushed myself up to a sitting position and let out a sharp noise when that


    sudden movement made a sharp pain tug at the inside of my head and my stomach at the same time.


    I didn’t notice the set of heads that turned around sharply the second I let out a pained cry– one


    moment, I was clutching my forehead with my first hand while my other hand was around my stomach,


    and in the next moment, someone was crouching down before me and grabbing the hand wrapped


    around my forehead. I squeezed my eyes shut and swallowed down the second cry of pain that was


    starting to build up in my neck when another biting pain vibrated in the middle of my head.


    “Hey, hey… look at me.” Luca’s voice came out sounding calm and low as it drifted into my ear slowly


    and I felt the hand holding my right fingers captive tightened their grip a little. I slide my eyes open and


    stared at Luca– who was crouched down on the floor beside the couch I was currently on.


    Never in my life did I ever imagined that I’d be in this kind of position.


    Never did I ever imagine that The popr Mafia lord would one day be crouched down beside me,


    holding my hand in his and staring at me with an unreadable facial expression on his face.


    Or it could be that he was pissed at me for acting like a child and passing out embarrassingly like a


    child instead of me acting like a grown wife…


    I blinked once, feeling his grey eyes staring into mine deeply and I felt an embarrassed color rush into


    my cheeks after a few seconds, which made me duck my head and suck in an audible sharp breath as


    another stab of pain flowed into the lower abdomen of my stomach, a small scream dying at the back of


    my throat.


    “Sofia?” I heard him call out, his deep voice rumbling out of his chest as it crept over my body to slide


    into my head.


    I huffed out a deep breath and raised my head up to stare at him, our eyes locking once again – and I


    briefly noticed that the top buttons of the ck shirt he had on were hanging open to reveal the brown


    skin of his chest and a bit of the sharp cor bones around his shoulders which were glistening a little


    like they he was a little beat sweaty at the moment.


    I dragged my eyes away from his chest area with more color staining my cheeks redder when my eyes


    suddenly zeroed in on a coffee brown nipple which peaked out of one side of his unbuttoned shirt.


    “Did you overdose?” Luca asked, no emotion crossing his face and I felt my heartbeat start to slow


    down a little. I didn’t know what to make of the question at first and so I stared confusingly at him while


    blinking a little for a few seconds before the brief encounter I had with Ryan right before I passed out,


    glowed brightly in my head.


    “Overdosed? No I didn’t.” I started to say to Luca immediately with a small shake of my head while


    staring wildly at him.


    Of course I didn’t overdose.


    “Are you sure?” He asked and I felt his him release his hold on my fingers, leaving my fingers to rest


    against the couch and for some weird reason, I started to feel cold and chilly all of a sudden– making


    my mind start to drift towards the day at the hospital whereby the moment his touch had left my skin, I


    had started feeling cold immediately.


    “I am.” I whispered, wondering why it was so hard for him to believe me.


    I didn’t overdose, now did I?


    “Did you take something then? That made you start having some side effects which affected your


    stomach and ended up making you pass out.” Luca continued and I started to shake my head at him


    even before he could finish speaking.


    I started to slow down the shaking movement of my head after hisplete sentence started to sink


    into my head.


    I… I had taken something.


    “Um,” I started to say and noticed the way his eyes narrowed a little bit, his eyes getting a bit sharper


    as well as he pinned me with a hard gaze– harder than the one he makes use of while staring at me on


    a normal day.


    Not like any day here after I got married off to him had felt like a normal day to me.


    I ducked my head down and swallowed emptily, feeling the movement of my parched throat almost


    hurting like I had suddenly developed a soreness of the throat.


    I felt cold fingers grip the underside of my chin to tug my face upwards until I was staring back into


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    “You were saying?” His deep voice suddenly spoke up, his gaze never leaving my face for a second.


    I blinked once swallowed emptily, my throat hurting a little once again. I tried to unconsciously duck my


    head when his unnerving gaze felt like it was almost stripping me naked, right there on the couch in the


    sitting room.


    “Um,” I whispered out again, allowing my tongue which felt very dry to slide out my mouth to swipe over


    my lower lips and moisture it a little. My fingers which had been trapped in the insides of Luca’s hot


    palm moved on the couch, trying to bury itself by inserting the soft, hairy silk of the couch’s material.


    “Go on.” He urged, his grip still sure and strong against my chin and I blinked again, trying to focus my


    gaze on anywhere on his face but his eyes – but for unknown reasons, my eyes were only ghosting the


    other features of his face to return back to eyes, like a maic pull I couldn’t fight nor resist.


    “I had taken the regr drugs for my arm this evening.” I started to say in a small voice, feeling very


    little and powerless at the moment as I sat there with Luca’s fingers having a firm grip on my chin which


    prevented me from moving my head around as he waited almost impatiently for me to start speaking


    up.


    “Did you take the drugs on an empty stomach?” A voice echoed out from the other side of the room


    and I moved my eyes straight forward until my eyesnded on a man who was currently standing, and


    writing something down in a book.


    He nced up from whatever it was that he was writing to stare at me, silently prompting me to provide


    him with an answer already. I dragged my eyes away from the stranger and swallowed emptily once


    again, feeling a hot wave of shame start to wash over me slowly.


    “Did you take the drugs on an empty stomach?” Luca started to ask and I couldn’t help but blink a few


    times before nodding my head once at him in reply to his question– the same question the stranger had


    asked me, a few moments ago.


    “That was what made her pass out and brought around the headache and stomach pains.” The man


    started to say loudly to Luca as he started writing on the books he was writing in before. I felt Luca’s


    grip exit the underside of my chin right before his eyes finally left my eyes to drift thoroughly over my


    face and I felt hot color wash into my face— right before he pushed himself to his feet, a small sound


    sliding out of his lips as he turned around and made his way towards the stranger who was still


    standing on the other side of the sitting room.


    “Are you sure?” I heard Luca’s voice echo loud and clear in the sitting room, which made me stare up


    from my thighs which I had been staring at the moment after Luca’s fingers released their hold on the


    underside of my chin.


    “Yeah.” The man replied to Luca before ncing up from the book he had been writing in to focus his


    gaze on Luca’s face.


    “The pills she took were a really strong set of pills, and she was supposed to take them after meals, not


    the other way round.” The man whom I was starting to suspect worked in the medical line said to Luca


    and I felt realization started to dawn in my head and mind almost immediately.


    Oh.


    So… that was why?


    But I take some drugs on an empty stomach on some days and nothing always ends up happening…


    I winced a little when a sharp jolt vibrated at the left side of my head, making me life up my left hand


    and start to caress my fingers against my forehead in order to ease the headache I was currently


    feeling flow into my head in strong wave after wave.


    “Is she going to be alright?” I watched as Luca asked the man I couldn’t help the slow tug I felt in the


    middle of my stomach the moment his next few words drifted into my head– which was most definitely


    not a bite or stab of pain, because this sudden feeling in my stomach hadn’t hurt one bit, it had only left


    a weird heat in my stomach.


    “Oh, she is. She will be.” The man started to say before pointing a hand at me and continuing almost


    immediately. “She wasn’t even supposed to pass out because of those drugs she took, but she did


    because of some other things— and everythingbined together just made her body system gave up


    on her.


    I stared at the man who was still speaking to Luca, blinking a few times as his words slowly sank into


    my head.


    Yes! I just knew that the set of drugs I took wasn’t supposed to make me pass out.


    It wasn’t something to be proud of, but that wasn’t the first time I’d be making use of some tablets on an


    empty stomach.


    I used to take a ton of paracetamols while growing up on an empty stomach – a whole lot.


    Depression sucks. I thought to myself right before my eyes widened the moment I noticed both men’s


    eyes turn around to focus on me, and in the next second, they were both making their way towards the


    couch were I was sitting.


    The man crouched down, almost in the same spot Luca had crouched down in and I felt my body start


    to stiffen up a little. I watched as Luca stood right in the spot he had crouched down in, minutes ago,


    his hands deep in his pocket and his eyes staring down at me – making me notice once again, just how


    big and tall he was at the moment.


    I had no idea if I was going to be as tall as he was if I stood up on the couch– that was how small I was


    <ppared to him.