Her Mafia Prince ✔️

Chapter 34 - Anyone But Him

~ Gabriella's POV ~

"You went to Starbucks?" He nodded his head as he scratched the back of his neck awkwardly.

"They didn't have anything non-alcoholic here apart from orange juice but I know you don't really like that."

"You didn't have to do that Matteo, I could have just asked for some water."

Matteo shook his head before he took a sip of his champagne. "I would never let you do that. Just because you're pregnant that doesn't mean you can't drink something nice."

The whole time he spoke he avoided my gaze and instead his eyes landed on Adrian and Jordan who were both watching him. Jordan had a huge smile on her face and Adrian was just smirking.

"What?"

They both shook their heads causing Matteo to roll his eyes. It must have looked weird with me drinking a Starbucks iced tea at such a formal event, but the fact he didn't even care about that was so cute.

"Matteo you're so cute." I turned to look at Jordan who was still smiling at the two of us before she looked at Adrian. "You need to start doing romantic things like that for me."

Adrian rolled his eyes at her as he took her hand.

"Let's go and dance then." Before she could respond he dragged her to the dance floor causing me to let out a laugh as I took a sip of my iced tea. Turning back to Matteo, I gave him a small smile when I found him looking at me already.

"Thank you Matteo." He nodded his head before he put his empty champagne glass down. "Do you like it?"

I nodded my head as I took another sip before I smiled. "It's good, here try it."

Without thinking I held the drink out to him like I would usually do if we went to Starbucks, but when I saw his frown, my smile faltered. Just as I went to pull my hand back, he took the drink out of my hand and took a sip, tasting the drink before he nodded in agreement.

It fell silent for a moment before I turned to face him again. "Dance with me?"

"Gabriella..." Letting out a sigh, I took his hand in mine, tilting my head to the side. "Please?"

Eventually he nodded before he reached out to take my drink most likely so that he could put it down but I quickly shook my head. "I'll take it with me, it's too good to put it down."

My words caused him to smile a little before he nodded and guided me to the dance floor. He placed his hands on my waist while I placed one hand on his shoulder and held my Starbucks in my right hand.

We danced slowly to the music and I occasionally sipped on my drink but other than that it was silent for the first few minutes. I didn't mind though because it was the first time I was so close to him in days, so I was enjoying the moment.

"I know I haven't told you yet but you look really beautiful tonight. You look Perfect."

"Thank you." I gave him a small smile before I stepped a little closer to him, resting my head on his chest as we danced to the music. Thankfully he didn't seem to mind.

"I know you're sorry Gabriella and I'm sorry for dragging this out for so long it's just that...I don't want to force myself to move on now and then bring it up again in another argument because I'm not actually truly over it. That'll just hurt you more and make things even worse."