My eyes fluttered open, not to the handsome face of Luca, but to a terrifying shock.
A face was staring back at me, a face I absolutely recognized, but one that instantly froze the blood in my veins.
My heart didn't just skip a beat; it dropped down to my feet as I tried to process the impossible.
As I laid there, absolutely frozen in a panic he smiled. But it wasn't a happy smile. It was a cold, satisfied, mocking twist of the lips. In that instant, I felt my beautiful, perfect world, the one I had just spent the last few days building come crashing down violently on me.
It was Gary.
He stood just inside the bedroom doorway, and the cold morning air seemed to follow him, biting at my skin. His grey eyes were burning into me, and his jaw was clenched so tight I thought I could
