Chapter 115


    Sofia’s POV


    “Good afternoon, Mrs Ri.” They both echoed out at the same time and I nodded my head once


    before finally starting to speak. “Hello Ethan, and Ryan.” I breathed out and stared into the slight gap


    between both of their shoulders, refusing to meet their eyes as I continued.


    “Good afternoon, how have your been today?” I echoed out and watched as Ethan barely acted like he


    had heard what I had said, and Ryan had shrugged his right shoulder a little and that was it.


    “Anyways, I wanted to ask you guys if Luca left me a message with you guys.” I said to them and finally


    dragged my eyes upwards and settled my eyes on both of them at the same time, refusing to dwell too


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    much on Ryan’s face because it felt like he and I shared a certain secret which no one else knew about


    and the thought alone was making me feel so type of way, which was why I waspletely avoiding to


    stare into his face as much as I can.


    “Oh, a message?” Ethan breathed out and I nodded my head once, with my hands still sped around


    the middle of my body, and I watched as he turned his head around to stare at Ryan for a fleeting


    second before turning back around to stare down at me.


    “About that,” Ethan started to say and lifted his right hand and began to rub the back of his neck as he


    continued. “Yes ma’am, Mr Ri did leave you a message with us.” He finally replied, a bashed look


    suddenly gotten scolded.


    “We are so sorry to not havee to you to inform you about what Mr Ri had said, we had gotten


    carried away in what we were doing outside and hadpletely forgotten about it until Matilda had


    as soon as he was done speaking, noticing that he didn’t look emotionless and nk faced like he


    usually does, instead he looked almost frightened and really worried, at least that was the kind of


    emotion that was able to identify what was currently on his face.


    “Oh, it’s fine.” I started to say and watched as he shook his head before continuing immediately. “It


    isn’t, and I’d take full responsibility for not remembering to deliver the message to you, because the


    message was directly delivered to me, and not Ryan.” He said and nodded his head at Ryan at the end


    of his sentence and I blinked up at him, not understanding where all these wereing from.


    “Nothing’s going to happen, Ethan.” I finally said as soon as he was going to say and I watched as he


    only kept staring at me without saying a thing, and then I decided to continue immediately. “Everybody


    makes mistakes, what happened was obviously a mistake, you wouldn’t not want tthis not deliver the


    message left with you, to me on purpose.” I said to him while still staring up at him, my fingers starting


    to absentmindedly tap against my exposed waist.


    “You won’t tell Mr Ri about it?” I heard him say it in a really small voice, and it seemed like it was the


    smallest voice I’ve ever heard him used.


    I nodded my head firmly, starting to wonder if Luca punishes them really thoroughly, for him to get that


    kind of facial expression over his face some minutes ago.


    “Yeah, I won’t tell him about this. It wasn’t your fault and you didn’t do it on purpose, remember?” I said


    to him and watched as he hesitated before nodding his head at me, a relieved facial expression


    crossing his face almost immediately, and I also didn’t miss the small breath that slipped out his lips.


    Well, I really hope it isn’t the case that Luca punishes them too thoroughly, or even punishes them at


    all, because they’re all good, useful and deserve to not get punished unnecessarily, on something that


    obviously wasn’t their fault again.


    “Thank you, ma’am.” Ethan finally breathed out, while still staring down at me. As soon as I nodded my


    head at him in indicating that I had epted his appreciation of gratitude, I watched as he turned his


    head around, automatically cutting the eye contact between the both of us immediately.


    He returned his head back to my face after a moment and started to speak almost immediately. “So,


    Mrs Ri, Mr Ri asked Ryan and I to help you set up the room in which you’re going to be painting


    in, he said that you’re to just stand by if you want to, or that you found go rest while Ryan and I set the


    whole ce, if you could stand by and assign us where you’d want each things to be positioned in.”


    Ethan breathed out in a stronger voice and I swallowed as soon as his whole words sank into my head,


    wondering why the whole sentence which Ethan had said seemed to be making my head feel all fuzzy


    all of a sudden.


    “Oh?” I echoed out in a tiny voice and watched as Ethan nodded his head before continuing almost


    immediately. “Yeah, he also said we’re to ensure that everything is arranged and positioned in really


    good ces, because he wouldn’t like to ever receive a call from home whereby you’d have gotten


    injured with any of the things rting to your painting work.” Ethan continued and I moved my weight


    from foot to foot as I started to chew on the inside of my cheeks, while staring pointedly at my feet.


    Luca was probably thinking about what a clumsy girl I was, which was why he had automatically


    thought about me getting injured almost immediately. He was probably right to worry about that, I


    guess? Seeing as I had managed to sprain my hand from falling off the bed, if that wasn’t the most


    clumsy move anybody can ever perform.


    If I was going to be honest with myself, I was going to be saying right now, that him remembering that I


    could easily get injured if somethings were not positioned well, had warmed my heart in a really


    unexpected way, and it was probably because nobody would have been able to remember this


    particr thing about me, assuming I was still back at home, except for the househelp.


    “It’s all good then,” I started to say and breathed out a small sigh before continuing to speak, wetting


    my lips with a quick swipe of my tongue as I continued to speak almost immediately. “Let’s go then, I’d


    help in whatever way I can.” I started to say and watched Ryan who had remained quiet through the


    whole conversation which I had exchanged with Ethan for some minutes, right before he started to


    speak.


    “The boss said you are not allowed to help, but you can hang around if you’re worried about us not


    putting some things in where you’d want it to be positioned in, but you’re not allowed to help.” Ryan


    said slowly as if he wished to be sure I grasp all what he was saying without any mistake, and I


    absorbed his now familiar voice.


    The fact that Luca had taken his time to instruct the guards to make sure I don’t touch any of the things


    which they were going to be working with, left another kimd or fuzzy feeling in my mind.


    Does it mean that he was starting to care for me? Or it could mean that he was just worried about me


    injuring myself stupidly wll in the name or lending a henpimt hand to the bodyguards while settikt the


    whole thing up.


    Or he was just saying that because it was expected of him? I asked myself and was dismissing thst


    particr thought out of my head in the next second, as soon as that particr conversation which I


    had had with Sarah and Matilda right there in their kitchen, the evening after I had returned back home


    from the hospital, the particr day after I had managed to fall or the bed and get myself injured.


    She had said that Luca doesn’t do something because he wanted to, or because he was supposed to,


    and that he only does something because he wants to.


    Which means he genuinely doesn’t want me to get hurt? It had got to be it, out of all the other reasons


    that had popped into my head. I mean, it was pretty reasonably a probability, seeing the way he had


    acted after I had shamelessly stuttered without control before him right there in the home office,


    yesterday. And how he had handled the situation and ordered me to take in deep breath into my lungs,


    and how I had found myself doing immediately without any questions or hesitations. There was also the


    part about himmanding to look into his eyes, and how it had been extremely hard for me to do so,


    because it was Luca and his eyes was just so mesmerizing and hypnotizing, and at the end, I had


    ended his averting my gaze, and was super d that he hadn’t requested for me to bring my eyes back


    to rest on his eyes once again.