Chapter 342


    Luca’s POV


    When Sofia had informed me about her having a brother, it had honestly taken me by surprise, and


    when she had went ahead to tell me about him, I realized just how much she loved it. The bond she


    shared with him before they had been separated by marriage had sounded so damn intense that I felt a


    quite bad for her and this brother of hers.


    “Why didn’t you ever talk about him?” I had asked some minutes after she had finished speaking.


    “That’s because I thought you were not going to be alright with it, I thought –”


    I shushed her by pressing a kiss against her lips. “Why would you ever think that?”


    She shook her head a little. “I didn’t exactly think about it, it was just something that had been in my


    mind before I had gotten married, so it had just been there since.”


    She had finally responded.


    And because of how much I saw how she genuinely loved her brother, me being the biggest simp of


    Sofia right now, went ahead to ask my men to run a tab on her and to try finding out who her brother


    was. When the results came in, I noticed that there was even some resemnce between them. I


    wasn’t sure if I had ever seen him before, but I was very sure he must have attended her wedding.


    Later that day, I arranged for a message to be sent to her father, that I was going to be needing his son


    for some hours and that my men were going toe pick him up. I knew he wasn’t ever going to ask


    me any questions because it wasn’t news that he was quite afraid of me.


    Who wasn’t even afraid of me?


    It was a Friday evening, exactly a day after we had returned from New York. Because I refused to


    resume at the office until theing Monday, I had more than enough time on my hand right now, and


    so I caught up a little with my two friends, James and Travis.


    When Travis had suggested wee hang out at his ce the next following day’s evening, James


    was quick to decline it, because he apparently have some ns.


    “Does this particr ns involve getting wasted at a club and getting really fucked out with some


    random chick?” Travis snorted out and I onlyughed. James was very much single and was still into


    the usual ways of getting wasted on a Saturday evening.


    James only rolled his eyes but refused to say a thing, which wasn’t unusual of him in any way.


    ———


    It was exactly a day after Luca had returned from New York, and I had decided to not yet resume bsck


    to painting for now, until theing Monday.


    But some day before I had traveled out of the country with Luca, Ka had suggested I create some


    ounts on social media and post some of my arts there, in hopes of getting engagements and some


    exposure.


    I had been a little bit hesitant at first because I still wasn’t used to the thought of people seeing my


    works, but Ka had managed to convince me to do that after reassuring me that my painting was very


    good.


    And I had did as had adviced. But because of my anxiety, I had refused to check the ounts out


    throughout my stay in New York. But now that I was back home, I knew I couldn’t put it off any longer,


    and so here I am.


    My mouth fell open soundlessly as I stared into the screen of my phone which had the front page of my


    iplete set up Instagram page, and I blinked a couple of times to confirm if I was seeing the


    numbers of my followers count right.


    I had over thirty thousand followers.


    How is that possible? I wondered as I finally clicked on the piece of art which I had posted, and got


    more shocked on realizing that it had generated over five hundred thousand likes and over five


    thousandments.


    My heart was racing really fast and even though I was hastily scrolling through thements, while


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    catching glimpse of peopleplimenting me and asking me where and how they could buy my


    paintings, I was still silencing asking myself if I wasn’t halicunsting right now.


    Before I realized it, tears began to slide down my cheeks as a wide smile spread out on my face, they


    were definitely tears of joy.


    Never have I ever felt this seen and actually appreciated in my life like I was feeling right now.


    The next thing I did was to face time Ka and break the news to her, and she kept on going about


    how she was always right since she had been very sure everyone was going to fall in love with my arts.


    She had went ahead to suggest how I should think about expanding my painting work into something


    bigger than an indoor studio.


    “Think about it, you hosting an art exhibitunch, and knowing how influential your husband is, you’re


    going to earn so much from it, so much exposure, and of course, your own hard earned money.” Ka


    had said, and even after we had ended the call with warm similes, her words had kept on echoing


    around in my head.


    ——-


    When Luca had informed me that night that Angelo was going toe see me in a few days, my joy


    had knew no bounds and I had threw myself against him while sobbing happily and he had held my


    close and kissed me until my toes curled. I wasn’t sure I’d ever be able to actually thank him for what


    he was about to grant me this way.


    A chance to meet with my brother once again, to think I had never thought this was ever going to be


    possible when I had been getting married off to Luca.


    Oh, how wrong I had been.