Chapter 12: The One Who Got There First

Renato POV:

I'd started timing my mornings, choosing exactly when to leave my apartment based on his schedule.

It was ridiculous, really, how much thought I put into two minutes of hallway small talk with a man who clearly wanted nothing to do with me.

It didn’t bother me, and somehow, that bothered me more.

I'd expected him to knock eventually. That was the part that actually irritated me. I knew curiosity when I saw it, I'd seen it plainly enough in the elevator, in the way his eyes kept sli