Sofia’s pov
I held my breath as the car pulled into the compound, and I sigh before glancing down at my fingers which I hadn’t realized were trembling until right now.
The car had been feeling extremely stifling because of one of the guys who was kept in the passenger seat. He had attempted to plead his way out of it just as we pulled out of the mall, but a wave of Ryan’s gun in his face made me swallow his words and get himself together, and he had remained completely silent throughout the rest of the ride. But, that didn’t stop me from still feeling suffocated, knowing that he was in the car with us was, along with the other two in the booth of the car, was enough to make it feel like there wasn’t enough space for my heart in the middle of my chest.
As soon as the car drew to a stop, I hastily reached for the handle of the door, but Ryan who hastily alighted from the driver’s spot, got to it from the outside before me, thanks to my hands which were still trembling.
I whispered a note of thanks to him as I stepped out of the car, sucking in a deep breath into my lungs at once and flinching a little when the sound of a door getting slammed close echoed around, and that was when I realized that another car had drive into the compound along with ours.
It was Luca’s car.
The lump in my throat which had mellowed down throughout the rest of the car ride was now throbbing once again as I watched the car door get thrown open by Luca who stalked towards me at once to tug me into his arms. My entire body shook and I squeezed my eyes tightly to stop myself from crying right now, while squeezing him tight. The feeling of his large arms around my body, cocccining me into all of his at once, made me feel extremely safe in an instant. The erratic beating of my heart finally began to reduce on feeling his fingers sieve through my hair.
When I pulled my head out of his chest was when I realized that he had been whispering little comforting words as he held me against him, completely uncaring of the fact that all his guards are definitely staring at us right now.
I swallowed emptily and blinked a couple of times to force the tears away, while pondering on how it began to dawn on me that indeed, Luca had dropped everything to come to me at once after getting informed of what had happened with me. That was enough to make me want to sob right now, but I forced that to the back of my mind as well as I felt one of Luca’s hands settle on my cheeks.
He looked like he wanted to say more to me, and I knew he most certainly wanted to do more to me right now, but he ended up brushing his thumb lightly over my cheeks before tugging me into his side.
And that was when I realized that the three dudes which had been brought back home with my guards, were all made to kneel a few feet away from us.
They all looked extremely horrified and I averted my gaze from them at once, especially as soon as one of them began to shriek in panic.
A sigh from Luca was enough to shut him up at once.
Luca’s hand was settled on my shoulders and it still felt like I was being blanketed by him, and that was the only thing still keeping me sane right now.
Luca looked at all of them one by one before shaking his head a little while a small unamused chuckle danced around his lips. From the side of my eyes, I noticed a few of his guards shifting their weight around in clear unease.
“Do you know who I am?” Luca finally asked and I watched as the guys all nodded their heads at once. The one who had touched me was the one situated at the middle and I almost rolled my eyes at the rigorousness he used in nodding his head.
“Then, how didn’t you know this was my woman?” Luca continued and I bit on my bottom lip as the words sank into my stomach, leaving a pleased feeling behind.
“W- we didn’t, we didn’t know, I- I swear to you, sir.” The one who had touched me was the first to speak, hands on the ground before him as he explained earnestly.
One of his friends spoke up, an accusatory look on his face. “I told you it looked like her!”
“But you laughed when it happened, a- and, you were u- unsure too!” The actual culprit defended himself vehemently and their third friend spoke up right after them.
“P- please sir, we… we had no idea s- she was your w- woman, if not, we w- wouldn’t ha-”
Luca tsked for a moment, causing the guy to train off at once.
“If you, you wouldn’t have what? So, if she wasn’t my wife, would that make what you all did acceptable?”
They all shook their heads at once while hastily retracting at once.
Luca glanced down at me for a few seconds, his hand tightened on my shoulders for a moment before he spoke.
“Who laid his hands on you?”
I stiffened for a fleeting moment before closing the sympathetic part of my heart before pointing the culprit out.
“He also said some things to me.” I informed him and at once, the said culprit began to sob, but a look from Luca to one of his guards who walked to the culprit and slapped him hard, made him stop crying at once. Although now, he looked way more scared.
And I couldn’t bring myself to care.
“Crawl forward.” Luca said to the culprit who hesitated for a few seconds before doing as told at once.
“Care to repeat what you said to her after having the guts to lay your filthy hand on her.” His voice was low as he spoke, never increasing in octavos but the look in his eyes was as icy as winter.
“You’d kill me if I do, sir.” He rushed out in a tearful voice.
“What makes you think I wouldn’t be taking your life either way?” Luca asked and my eyes widened at once, spine going ramrod straight at once while the culprit, a dude with brown hair, almost fainted at that moment.