"This changes everything Mia." he said again after hearing my answer which kind of irritated me.
I stood up from the bed.
"I know alright?," I said. "It changes everything but I am going back to my desk and we are going to pretend this afternoon didn't happen and—"
"Sit down."
"Luca—"
"Sit. Down."
The way he said it stopped me completely. Not loud. Not aggressive. Just two words dropped into the room like stones into still water and the stillness that followed them was the kind that made your body decide to listen before your mind finished arguing.
I sat.
He straightened his jacket and looked at me from across the room and the warm certain man I had come to know had stepped back entirely. What was standing in front of me now was something else. The version of Luca Carver that ran a
