Chapter 79


    Sofia’s POV


    The car started to suddenly slow down and I blinked my eyes open a little and stared sideways, throw


    the car’s window, and then I noticed that we were almost approaching the mall and thst the car was


    about to pull into one of the empty spots in the parking lot. I sat up in my seat and smoothed my bed


    down with my fingers before reaching for my bag and picking it up to sling it over my arm while my


    phone was carefully clutched in my right hand. The car finally pulled into the parking spot and the


    engine finally stopped running after a few seconds.


    I watched as Ethan and Ryan stepped out of the car almost at the same time, and Ryan quickly walked


    to the back of the car to pull the door open for me.


    “Thank you.” I said in a quiet voice as I stepped out of the car and shifted to the side for the door of the


    car to be pushed close. I pulled on the length of my gown on noticing that it had ridden upwards,


    flushing in embarrassment a little, on realizing that Ryan’s eyes had dropped towards my thighs for a


    fleeting moment.


    It was like the world was suddenly against me when ites to anything involving Ryan, because I had


    no idea why Ryan was always the one to always witness all my embarrassing moments.


    I started making my way towards the front of the mall and by the faint footsteps which fell into steps


    behind me, I knew without any doubts that Ryan and Ethan had already fallen into steps behind me.


    Like I had expected after all.


    I paused at the entrance of the ss door and stared at myself in the ss walls around the front of the


    mall, Ryan and Ethan were like tall looking statues behind me. The door of the mall was pulled open by


    the gate keeper of the mall and I smiled at him a little as I walked through the doorway and stared


    around the whole surrounding of the hallway as soon as I stepped in.


    As weird as this might sound, this was like the first time I was stepping foot into a mall as big as this.


    And my gosh, it was really big.


    I continued to walk further into the mall before pushing on my tracks on realizing that I didn’t know


    where to go, where to look and where to start searching for things from. I slowly turned around until I


    was looking up at the two bodyguards who were standing a few feet behind me.


    “Is there a problem, ma’am?” Ryan asked first and I turned my head towards him and shook my head


    before starting to speak. “Um, do you know your way around here?”


    “Yes, I do ma’am. What do you need help with?” He asked almost immediately and I puffed out a


    breath and moved my weight from foot to foot before starting to say, “Well, I want to get all the


    necessary equipment for paintings and every other thing that I am going to need for it.”


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    “I don’t really know a lot about that, ma’am.” Ryan supplied an answer after waiting for a few seconds. I


    watched as he turned his head around until he was staring at Ethan.


    “You know your way around here, man?”


    Ethan shook his head once and that was that, perhaps I was going to have to meet one of the helpers


    here in the mall and ask them to show me around.


    “Where are the um, the helpers?” I asked the two men who were still staring down at me and continued


    almost immediately, “Like the assistants… or, they’re supposed to be some assistants here, right? The


    ones who are supposed to be around when…”


    I was still exining what I meant to the bodyguards when I felt a presence beside me and quickly tore


    my gaze away from Ryan and Ethan to look sideways, and my eyesnded on the body of a woman…


    and damn, she is tall.


    She had some height on me despite the fact that I had heels on and I had to stare up at her before I


    could be able to stare into her face. I figured out that since none of the guards were panicking, that she


    wasn’t harmful one bit.


    “Good day ma’am.” The woman started to speak before I could begin to question her foring to


    suddenly stand tha close beside me.


    “Hello,” I murmured in reply as I took a small step backwards, creating some space between us.


    That was when I noticed that she had on the same uniform that the man who had pulled the door of the


    mall open had as well.


    “I am Ama, and I am here to be of help to you.” She paused and smiled brightly at me, but I figured the


    smile was the same type she gives to everyone, for the sake of her job, and not because she genuinely


    meant it.


    “So if there’s any confusion you’re encountering, any questions you’d love to ask me, you can go


    ahead and we’d try our best to make your shopping moments here a memorable one.”


    I swallowed emptily and nodded my head a little at her, pushing my head back from the front of my face


    and trying mybbest not to feel insecure about the amount of height she had on me.


    “Thank you? Ama.” I started to say as I kept on slowly moving my weight from foot to foot, right before I


    continued. “I do need your help, for some guidance and some advice on some choices for some


    equipment which I am going to be shopping for today.” I started to say, hoping I was sounding as


    matured as possible and also making some sense at least.


    Knowing and seeing how Tall she was at the moment, she might have already unconsciously started


    looking down at me.


    “Oh alright ma’am. Is there anything like a particr subject or subjects in particr that you’d like us


    to start from, like the main reason or reasons for the whole things you want to purchase today.” Ama


    asked and I nodded my head once before replying, “Yeah, there is. Painting. I want to get equipment


    which I can use to start painting.”


    “Alright ma’am, I’d get someone who’s going to apany you to the spot where you’re going to use


    to get the whole painting stuff which you’re going to need.” Ama exined with her hands sped


    before her and hesitated for a few moments before continuing after a few seconds.


    “Is there anything else you want to purchase?” She asked and I shook my head immediately.


    “No, there isn’t. That’s the only thing I’d like to get.” I replied to her before adding after a fleeting


    second, “Thank you.”


    “You’re wee. I’d get someone toe over here in a few minutes, if you can patiently wait right


    here for me.” She started to say again and I shrugged a little.


    “I don’t mind.” I replied to her and we exchanged a few more words before she was turning around and


    heading towards a part of the mall which looked like the parts where only people who walked in the


    mall are allowed to go through, because the whole people in that part of the building were in the sand


    uniform although some were in different colors.


    I turned my head around and took in the whole scenery, watching the way little children were running


    around and having fun with themselves. I noticed that they were a bunch of children and a woman, but


    some guards were apanying them so I figured that they were probably from the mafia too, it could


    be Luca’s mafia or one of the neighboring ones.


    The atmosphere around the inside of the mall here was quiet and somehow cool, but there were some


    people who were speaking with each other and their voices were echoing around a little. Some children


    were running around and their squeaky footsteps were echoing around the mall. I wondered if it was


    safe for those kids to be running around without any guidance, and if there isn’t any kind of threat


    hanging over the head of their fathers which they could unknowingly get to suffer for.


    A bunch of poor children.


    But then, that was the thing about the whole mafia thing. If you’re in a mafia and you give birth to a


    child, you’re undoubtedly birthing that particr child or set of children into a world of danger and it is


    yourplete right to protect that child or children at all cost — because you weren’t forced to birth the


    kids, you chose to birth the child probably because you needed to birth an heir for your whole


    possessions and inheritances, and to also take over your position in the mafia.


    The woman named Ama finally came back and I turned my head back around to stare up at her, and


    noticed the person standing beside her side almost immediately.


    “I am so sorry for the dy ma’am.” Ama started to say and I shook my head instantly, “It’s alright.” I


    replied and watched as she pointed at the guy standing beside her. He was around the same height as


    she was and he was also in the same uniform which she was in, but whereas hers was in a ck and


    white color, his was in a red and ck color.


    “This is Micah, he’s going to be the one to help you with everything you’re going to be needing today. If


    you have any other questions, just refer it to him, he’s going to help you out with it.” She continued and


    i bedded my head at her before ncing towards the saud Micah.


    He had a slender build and I could tell that he was still in his teenage years, or was just in his early


    twenties.


    He smiled a little at me the moment he noticed me watching and he reminded me so much of my


    brother at that very moment.


    I felt my heart start to sink and clog up at that very moment and I moved my bag off my left hand to


    right arm, puffing out a deep breath and taking an unconscious step backwards.


    “Thank you for your help, Ama.” I remembered to say to Ama and we exchanged a few more words


    before she turned back around and returned back to the direction in which she hade from, leaving


    Micah behind. I watched as he lifted his hands and rubbed it together against each other before


    bunching up his shoulders and I had a hunch that thie was his first or second time doing something like


    this, and that he was a little bit nervous.


    “If you don’t mind ma’am, I’m going to be leading the way right now.” He started to say, his words


    “Please.” I said to him in reply and he started walking straight ahead. I waisted for a few moments


    before falling into step behind him, knowing that Ethan and Ryan had already fallen into steps behind


    me almost immediately.


    We headed deeper into the mall and started to pass rows and rows of different kinds of things which


    were either filling outrge cartons andrge stic boxes. I watched in fascination as some people


    who looked like young teenagers were standing around a type of game which I hadn’t seen before, and


    they were all ying together. There was a guard which I noticed standing a few feet away from them,


    watching their every moves and it reminded me so much of my childhood whenever I’d be out with


    Angelo– my younger brother, the two guards were always going to be hanging around a couple or feet


    away, monitoring us and watching our every moves, for our own safety, that is.