Luca spread his fingers on his desk, staring at the space between them as he faded out of the discussion that his men were having with him. They'd brought chairs from the storage and the dinning and were now taking every ounce of space in his study. Well, it was necessary - the meeting, not the deprivation of oxygen. He set his mind back on the last few days and all that had happened. What troubled him the most was how Melissa had escaped from Gale's holdings and also that Gale had not made any move to find her, not even sending out any of his men to scour her apartment or even Luca's apartment. He'd acted unperturbed, like her escape hadn't destroyed any plan of his - and Luca knew he had a plan somewhere, that was all Gale knew how to do. Scheming and plots were all part of who he was an
