Luca's POV
I had managed to sign a deal on my own apartment the evening after I saw Amelia on the beach. I was so glad to be able to give my dad and Mary the space they deserved. Having my own space also helped me feel like I was really headed in the right direction.
The place I had settled on was small, but homely. It only took me the morning to move all my stuff from my dad's. I had always preferred to live minimally, less stuff to clean and feel stressed about. The army drills rules of cleanliness into your system. I found myself longing to clean the dust off of the inside of the lights and polish my boots till I could see my face in them. It's only now, through therapy and my charity work, that I realized that this was a coping mechanism for many of us veterans. We felt solace in mak
