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Chapter 140

Author: Sammy
last update Huling Na-update: 2025-06-20 21:01:56
Lila

The funeral was over, but it didn’t feel over.

It felt like the grief had only just begun to settle into my bones, like it was going to follow me home and curl itself around my ribs until I couldn’t remember what life felt like without it.

The driver opened the car door for me, and I hesitated at the curb, my hand pressed flat over my stomach.

I didn’t know if I had the strength to sit in a moving car with nothing to distract me from the fact that my mother was gone.

But Luca was waiting.

He was already inside, one hand braced on the leather seat, his eyes never leaving my face.

His expression was so open, so unguarded, that for a moment I forgot to breathe.

I’d spent so many months thinking of him as cold. Untouchable.

But there was nothing cold about the way he was looking at me now.

“Come here,” he said softly, like he could sense the walls crumbling inside me.

I climbed in beside him, the skirt of my black dress whispering across the seat.

The door closed, and suddenly we were
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