HAZELThe garden suddenly feels smaller. The air is thinner.I shake my head.“I didn’t ask for that,” I whisper. " I didn't.... I....."“No,” Luca agrees. “You sure didn’t.”"I.... I am so sorry, I didn't know. I..... I had nothing to do with it."His gaze sharpens, dark and venomous.“But I still paid for it.”He steps closer again, and this time I don’t even realise I’m retreating until my back brushes against the cold wood post of the gazebo.“And here's the thing...... I don’t like debts, Hazel.”I shake my head mumbling "No, no, no...." Pressing myself back on the gazebo post.Luca is smiling now. Not wide. Not openly. Just that thin, cruel curl of his mouth that says he is enjoying every second of this.“I didn’t do....that,” I whisper, my voice coming out hoarse and smaller than I want it to be. "I am not responsible for what happened to you.... I didn't do anything to you."Luca tilts his head, studying me like I’m something pinned under glass.“No,” he agrees slowly. “You d
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