Sin With Me, Sunshine
He opened his mouth to speak, to call me over, to claim me.
Then, the phone in his hand rang.
The heat in his eyes vanished, and he brought the phone to his ear. "Speak," he commanded.
I stood frozen, my arms instinctively coming up to cross over my chest, covering my breasts. The sudden rejection stung. I had come here to be ruined, to be worshipped, to be taken apart. Instead, I was being put on hold.
"I don't care what the manifest says," Luca snapped into the phone, his free hand gripping the whiskey glass so hard his knuckles turned white. "If the crate was light, it means someone at the dock is dipping their hands where they don't belong."