CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN.
Melissa decided to try her luck a week after her and Luca's big argument. She had heard Luca get ready and drive off with some of the men and now she was sneaking out of her room. It wasn't that she was placed under house arrest, she had just thought to show Luca how unrelenting she was in her request for a single phone call and judging by his absence or lack of empathy throughout her room-cation, she knew that she had lost the battle.
She walked quickly to his study, praying desperately that she'd get a phone to call Marcus, hopefully her phone be she'd be able to call Laura if Marcus didn't pick up. She glued herself to a door when she saw a maid come out of one of the rooms and head down the stairs. She sighed in relief that she hadn't been found out and proceede
