Early the next morning, Luca called Erin again. She still didn't answer. He could sense something was wrong, but instinctively reached for a familiar explanation. She was angry.
It had happened before. Once, Sophia had borrowed Erin's mother's plates for a birthday party without permission. The last plate had broken. Erin had stood in the kitchen holding the pieces and hadn't spoken to him all evening.
He'd had a jeweler rush a pendant and found an antiques restorer who'd spent a long time piecing the plate together. Erin had cried when she received it. He'd held her and promised it would never happen again. At last, she'd looked up at him.
Yet now, Luca couldn't remember whether he'd made Sophia apologize in person. He remembered only that he'd fixed the object, and Erin had stayed.
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