Luca's POV
Sunday was the first day I had Maya alone in the house.
Aria was at Elena's. Sunday was their standing day. It had been since before me, and Maya had looked at me on Saturday night and said come over tomorrow and bring coffee. And I had shown up at nine with coffee and found her already inside with the key I'd given her two weeks ago.
She was in the window seat room.
Of course, she was.
I stood in the doorway and watched her before she heard me. She was sitting on the window seat with her knees pulled up and her coffee and she was looking at the garden below where the brick edging was now fully visible since yesterday's clearing.
She looked like she belonged there.
She did belong there.
She heard me and turned.
"You found the key," I said.
"I wanted to sit in here befo
