Luca POV
She's gone.
I knew before I checked.
That was the thing I couldn't explain to anyone, not that I would try. I just knew. The way you know when a room you have been in many times has been emptied. Not from seeing it. From feeling the absence of something that had been present long enough to leave a shape behind.
I had been in a meeting at four o'clock when it happened. Sitting at the head of a conference table with six people talking about numbers that I could not tell you now because somewhere around four fifteen something shifted in the quality of the air and I looked at my phone and there was nothing from her and the nothing felt different from other nothings.
I ended the meeting early.
My assistant, the temporary one covering Mia's desk, looked up when I walked past and s
