Chapter 95


    Luca’s POV


    I got down from the car as soon as the the door got pulled open by the guard and I stood at the side of


    the door as I watched as James also alighted the car as well, his tie and suit jacket slung over his


    shoulder as he started to make his way around the car immediately, walking towards where I was


    standing at and pausing beside me. I stared at him up and down, my gaze lingering on his face as I


    tried to check it. I''d be able to read him, but it was almost impossible at the moment seeing as the facial


    expression on his face was next to a t and nk one.


    “How are you feeling, man?” I asked him quietly as I nudged the side of his shoulder lightly with mine,


    and watched as he shrugged before staring at me and nodding his head towards his arm.


    “Thanks for allowing me toe over to get my injury cleaned up and wrapped in a bandage.” He


    started to say in the next second and I snorted and reached out to push the side of his shoulder slightly.


    “Fuck you mean, man? Why are you suddenly speaking to me like we’re strangers?” I demanded and


    stared at him pointedly, folding my hands on my chest when he started to take his fingers through his


    hair instead of supplying me with a much needed reply.


    “I don’t even know man. I just honestly feel really weird.” He finally replied and I took a quick step back,


    not believing what I had just heard with my own ears.


    “What do you mean by that? Weird how?” I started to speak immediately, demanding an exnation


    instantly, a disbelieving expression pasted over the eyes I was pointing intently at him.


    “I just feel really weird, that’s all.” He started to exin, turning his head to stare at me and shrug his


    shoulders a little, right before he continued. “I don’t even know how to exin or describe this weird


    feeling…”


    “Soing over to my house feels weird? That’s it?” I asked in a low voice, not wanting the guards


    who could be hanging off anywhere or my housepound, as I started to say to James. He was


    about to say something for a second but I cut him off before he could start to speak with another train


    of my own words.


    “Was that why you acted the way you did after I suggested youe over? Becauseing over feels


    weird now?” I continued, turning my head towards the dark sky and raising one of my previously folded


    hands to run my fingers through the strands of my hair as I felt what would be only identified as hurt,


    start to slide through my veins and settle in a part of my heart almost instantly. I moved away from the


    current spot which I was currently standing in and took a step back, not believing what was happening


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    at this very moment.


    “So that was why you acted weird about the idea of me asking one if the guards to drive your car while


    you ride with me, because you looked really out or it and I didn’t want you getting into an ident on


    the way back home.” I paused and dragged in a deep and slow breath, willing the anger and hurt thst


    was staring to boil through my blood as I took a step towards him after a few seconds.


    I was about to angrily demand he say something but paused what I was about to say in the back of my


    throat when he reached forward and ced his hands on my arms, using his hold on my biceps to jerk


    me forward as he started to speak almost immediately.


    “Will you calm the fuck down?” He demanded and I stared at him in disbelief, he had the right to be


    asking me this after all what I had just used him off, because they were obviously true.


    The urge to punch him in the face had never felt stronger than it did at this very moment.


    “I swear to God, James…” I started to say to him but he shook my with his hold on my arms and I


    decided to stopped speaking before I go ahead and say continuing I might end up regretting immithey


    were out of my mouth.


    “Would you even let me speak at least?” He demanded again, his voice sounding just as low as mine


    has been sounding throughout the start of the whole conversation. I narrowed my eyes at him, ring


    at him and staring at him in silence without saying a thing to him in reply.


    “Honestly man? I feel hurt that you’d think I might ever feel weird abouting over here or all what


    you had said, if I am going to bepletely honest with you.” He started to say after a second, and


    once the words were out of his mouth, he started to pluck his hands off my biceps and was taking a


    step backwards away from me, creating a little bit of space between us.


    “That was what you meant, right?” I demanded instead, only this time, the bite, hurt and usation thst


    had been in all my precious questions and statements were missing in this particr and most recent


    one, instead, the only emotion evident in the question was a ck one, a nk and unidentifiable one.


    “That wasn’t what I had meant, and you didn’t even bother to give me any benefit of doubt and had


    instead jumped right into conclusions before I could drag in a deep breath.” He used, hurt


    scratching the edge of his sentence, towards the ending part, and I might have started to feel a little


    bad for how I had went at him without giving him a chance to speak.


    “Well, the way you put it felt so much like all what I had said was right.” I started to say, the side of my


    lips pulling into a thin line as I continued almost immediately. “I mean, what else was I supposed to


    think?” I demanded.


    “You didn’t need to think at all, all you’d have needed to have done was to ask me exactly what I had


    meant and to exin further, that’s all.” James continued as he reached for the top button of his shirt


    and started to undo the first few buttons.


    “Well, that’s the fucking thing. I did asked and you gave me the same reply, which was all obviously


    pointing towards the same thing. And it made me almost started to feel l was being all over you when I


    obviously only wanted to do all those things because I was worried about you and wanted you to be


    fine.” I paused and inserted my hands into my pants pockets and allowed my shoulders to float up in a


    small shrug before I continued in an even softer voice.


    “I wanted to be sure you wouldn’t drive yourself into an ident with how lost you looked as we exited


    the hoise of Ivan and that of his cousin’s, which was why I had asked you to ride with me, for your own


    safety. I also invited you over, not because there wasn’t any thing for taking care of your wound there in


    the car, but because I had a feeling you’re get home and in my drink until you fall asleep, and didn''t


    want that for you after watching you get lost in and out of thoughts for a long time in the tbe car on our


    way back together.”


    “Oh.” James echoed in a soft voice, a few seconds after I had stopped talking and I shrugged my


    shoulders once again before tugging my right hand out from my pocket and dragging my fingers


    through my curls for a few seconds before I pulled my fingers out of my hair and inserted my hand into


    my pocket once again. I moved forward towards him and stood a few feet away from him, staring him


    straight into the eyes without saying a thing, and he started to speak after a few seconds like I had


    expected.


    “I had no idea you watched me in that kind of way…” James started to say and I rolled my eyes before


    allowing a small and quiet chuckle to slip oh my barely parted lips.


    “I don’t.” I snorted out but he obviously didn’t buy it because he didn’t even linger on it and instead


    started to speak once again. “I honestly didn’t know I had been that obvious this evening.”


    He breathed out augh and I watched as he ran his fingers through his hair before he decided to


    continue, while still staring me in the eye. “Man, I thought I was beingpletely desecret with my


    emotions this evening, I didn’t know I was being that obvious.” He said and I nodded my head and


    breathed out another chuckle.


    “You’re not as cool as you used to think you are, I can read your emotions most of the time.” I informed


    him and thoroughly enjoyed the way he had stared at me unbelievably and awed in the very next


    second. I shook my head at his facial expression and threw my head back, dragging in the cool breeze


    or the night into my lungs as I moved my weight from foot to foot before I dragged my eyes back down,


    to settle it on the face of my best friend of over twenty years.