~CAKE~
“—and then he had the audacity to say I wasn’t focused,” I said, laughing as I shook my head. “Like I wasn’t the one carrying his entire training session.”
Luca snorted, leaning back against the low concrete ledge by the river. “You? Carrying someone? Never.”
“Shut up,” I shot back, tossing a fry at him.
He caught it mid-air and popped it into his mouth like that had been the plan all along. “Still got good aim.”
“I always had good aim.”
“Yeah, at people’s faces.”
“Exactly.”
He laughed, and for a moment, everything felt normal. Just me, him, and the quiet rush of water a few feet away.
I opened the paper bag and pushed it toward him. “Eat before I change my mind.”
He glanced inside, then looked at me like I’d just proven a point. “You actually brought food. I thought you w
