15.

Luca was distracted and it made him grumpier than he usually was on a regular day. He sat at the head of the large conference table with his eyes on his employee who was giving a summary of their new project which he was not satisfied with.

His eyes were on the screen but his thoughts were on his wife and they had been straying towards her for some days now far more than he would’ve liked. Even when he tried to push the thoughts of her to the back of his head, there was always something that reminded him of her just like the flowers on the book cover on the screen right now.

It forced him to think of Iris, surrounded by sunflowers and lilies. He could picture the smile on her face as she swirled in excitement because the only time he ever saw her truly smile was whenever she was in the garden.

“Mr Luca? Mr Luca!” He was snapped out of his thoughts to see everyone staring at him with hopeful expressions and his eyes went to the screen to see it was blank. The presentation had ended and