“I tried. I really did. But in the end, she knew I wasn’t in love with her. Not the way I should have been. So, she left me.”
Mia shook her head. “Why didn’t you tell me the truth?”
“I didn’t lie. She did turn around within a week and go out with the investment banker, so I’m not entirely sure she hadn’t been looking before she ended things.” Luca jerked his shoulders. “The fact that I wasn’t more upset about it was a pretty clear sign. As for the rest, I wasn’t going to dump that on you. Certainly not over the phone or in a text. Then you invited me to come out here, and I thought, maybe, you’d finally reached a place where you wanted to move on with your life.”
She thought back over all their interactions. Had she misled him somehow? Done something to give him false hope? Or had he ju
