Valeria's POV
I couldn't stop thinking about the kiss. No matter how hard I tried to push it from my mind, it kept coming back, replaying over and over until I wanted to scream. We'd been arguing on that balcony, both of us angry and saying things we probably shouldn't have, but then Luka had just grabbed me and kissed me like he had every right to.
The worst part wasn't even the kiss itself, it was how I'd responded to it. How I'd melted against him, how I'd kissed him back like I'd been waiting for it. I hated that about myself, hated that after everything he'd put me through, one kiss was all it took to make me forget why I was supposed to hate him.
And then to make it all worse, he walked away, like it never mattered.
I'd been working from home for the past few days, trying to sta
