CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE. Melissa stood beside her door, her ears pressed to the wood as she listened to the voices behind the door. Clarissa had come earlier to deliver her food and after knocking for a while with Melissa ignoring her calls, she had left. Only now returning with Luca who spoke to Clarissa in a questioning manner. Melissa couldn't hear the words they were saying and was a little pissed by that. She'd not seen or heard from Luca for over a week and although she knew that it was al her doing - locking herself away from everyone including him, she didn't expect him to not check up on her at all. Infact, when Clarissa had come in with a handwritten note from Luca, she'd been too incensed to look at Clarissa or even to take the note from here. Now? She regretted not knowing what the

