Sofia’s POV He didn’t, to my disappointment, and just nudged me forward a little, just as his grip around my waist slowly loosened until I was standing on my own and not leaning against a thing.I turned my head around and glanced back at him, and he smiled at me encouragingly before nodding his head towards the piano and pointing towards it eith his fingers as well.I moved my lips around to the side a little as I made my way towards the piano and I finally paused before it. I placed my hand on the top of the piano and felt the surface up, it was firm and cold to the touch. I had no idea if the piano was strong enough to hold my weight up and the thought of falling along with the piano wasn’t appealing one bit. I turned my head around and stared at Luca before starting to slowly speak.“Um, would it hold me up?” I asked in a small voice, and my cheeks tinged with color when he breathed out a small laugh in response before starting to close the small distance between us. He pau
Sofia’s POV Luca’s hand was outstretched in invitation and I slipped my hand into his, allowing him to help me out of the car. Paparazis started to take thousands of pictures of the both of us at once and tried to shove mics and cameras into our faces, and I felt like I was getting close in the midst of all of them with the way the noise went up a high notch. I squeezed hard on Luca's hand and pressed myself into his side, trying not to fall on my birthday due to how my legs were wobbling a little in the heels I had on at the moment.A few seconds kayer, the guards came out of nowhere and started to shove the paparazzi out of the way in an instant. I watched as one of the female paparazzi he’ll down as she got pushed, and I felt a pang of pity for hrt, and that feeling only started for a few seconds before I turned my head back around and shoved her out of my thoughts, after all, she had just recently disrespected my privacy and shoved some mic into my face rudely, not caring I’d be
Sofia’s POV “You have a little cousin?” I asked him after a few moments had passed and the elevator had started to move slowly.Luca nodded his head once. “Yeah, I do. James would never ever admit it but he’s so much in love with her.” Luca breathed out and I knew that he had a connection with this said cousin as soon as I gasped the soft tune he was using in talking about her.“Oh, who is she? I had no idea you had a cousin.” I started to say after a few moments and Luca’s laugh wasn’t a funny one, it sounded dry and unfunny to my ears, right before he started to reply.“I have a lot of cousins, we’re all just not on good terms at the moment, for a really long while, and some, ever since we were born.” I blinked a little as his words sank into my head and I started to wonder just how many other details of Luca are out there that I was yet to know about.“Oh.” I said in response, because I honestly had no idea of what to say in reply to that. If I choose to start to ask him mor
Sofia’s POV “Oh.” I breathed out as I blinked up at him, as I started to wonder what it was that made him start to see me in a way like this, I mean, yes, our marriage was an arranged one, but if he hadn’t liked me for myself, then there was no way he’d have been able to be treating me this way only him had been able to treat me in my whole life.I could feel goosebumps start to bloom on my skin when Luca’s rubbed his palm over my bare arm, as he tugged me towards him into a hug, as he pillowed his head on my hair and kept on stroking my arm, at this moment, the urge to cry had completely deserted me, and in its place, laid lots of overflowing affection and gratitude. I started to wonder how my life would have been if I hadn’t enter out getting married to Luca, I started to wonder just how I’d have been living me life if I had been married off to another older person that wasn’t Luca, I wonder just how I’d have survived being treated in a way that wasn’t this particular way tha
Sofia’s POV The elevator doors slid open and Luca and I exited the insides of the elevator instantly, walking straight on a particular lane on the rooftop. I stared up into the sky instantly, feeling my stomach start to flutter once again, coupled with the fact that my heart sss hammering heavily agdinst my chest as well. Like it wasn’t enough that my stomach felt like I had swallowed a bunch of alive butterflies, and now they were all hosting a parti down there, making me feel countless flapping sounds against different parts of my stomach, my chest just have to also be hammering due to the fact that I was indeed in love with him.“Bunny?” Luca called out and I stared up at him, before following his gaze to the down part of where I climbed to see the faint image of a table and some people sitting around it.“That’s them?” I asked as I stared back at his face in the next second. He nodded his head in response and reached up to rub at a spot beside my left part of my lips, making
Sofia’s POV Kayla called out instantly as soon as our eyes locked and I beamed at her and felt Luca’s hand release mine, indicating that I could go over to her if I wanted to. Kayla was already on her feet when I made my way over to her side and we exchanged a deep hug instantly, and I held her against me tightly, loving how she didn’t find thst weird and instead tightened her hold around my body as well. We broke the embrace after a few minutes and stared into each other's faces. The lights from the walls around this particular side of the roof were so bright that it felt like we weren’t on the roof of a building at all.I pulled her hands in mine and smiled at her and she returned the smile immediately, mirroring the excited expression on my face, I had a feeling she was trying really hard to keep her over enthusiasm on a lowkey tonight, which I find really cute and endearing because I know without even thinking, that she was going to crack before we’d be done with dinner t
Sofia’s POV “Oh my gosh, I understand you completely now and I’m really sorry. I could unfollow him if you want me to.” She proposed and I rolled my a little, huffing a little for extra drama.“You don’t have to, that’s unnecessary. I don’t have a problem with you following him, I also do not have a problem with you finding him attractive there… but it’s pretty harmless since you’re just basically just admiring him and nothing more.”“Yup.” Kayla replied before muttering something along the line of ‘lord, this is so embarrassing’ which made me let out a small chuckle.“Then we’re cool, right?” I asked her and squeezed on her hand for emphasis, and I watched as she started to nod her head in the next second, as she also tightened her hold on my palm.“Yes, we most definitely are.” She gushed out in the enthusiastic kind of way she’s always able to effortlessly pull off.“There's really no need for this to still linger between us, right? It’s going right into the past and it’s goi
Sofia’s POV I sat down beside Luca because I wanted to be close to him and I was glad he wanted that as well, seeing as he was the one that pulled the seat out for me before sliding in the one exactly beside me. Kayla chose to sit beside me with her husband sitting beside her on her other side, and James, the only one who didn’t come here with a date, chose to sit opposite us. We ordered wine and I was pleased when Luca ordered a particular brand which I had just discovered that I like, as expected there was little to no alcohol in it but I was alright with it, because I wasn’t ever looking forward to getting drunk just because I wanted to drink some wine.Kayla got curious and decided to share the bottle of wine with me, and she surprisingly fell in love with it. I wasn’t expecting her to love it because I used to feel like she was someone who’d be more into drinks with lots of alcohol in it, and not this particular wine which was more fruit than alcohol. The men all ordered