Chapter 39

Luca’s POV

And that was the last I saw of her. Father said they were no longer family and had dissuaded me from daring to go to them first.

I had listened to him, despite the way a part of me suspected that my father might have been the one at fault and the cause of the fight between the two of them.

Aria had reached out to me first, she had texted me when I least expected it, a few days after my father got killed and I was still finding it hard to grasp everything that has happened. We had agreed to meet up here at home and I almost didn’t recognize her when she walked through the doors.

She was already a grown woman– something my mind and head found extremely hard to adapt to because I have only been imagining four years old Aria in my head throughout the years, only to be met with a very matured looking replica of the little girl I had grown to adore, years ago.

We had talked a little that particular evening, the air had been tense as hell and I was little to no help towards lighte