LUCA WAS NOT CONTACTING his family. Because that would be the sensible thing to do, and his whole chivalric knight routine actively prevented him from being sensible.
No, we found out from Pradip, who found out from Cristian, that he’d called in the sniper for backup while heading out to Piazza Euclide. To confront the Hercules. By himself. Inside the House of Anna’s territory.
What the actual f**k, Luca?
And, of course, it was my fault. One second when I let the stress of the situation get to me, when my paranoia took over. One misspoken sentence. One mistake. And he’d gone careening off into danger to prove himself when I didn’t need him to prove anything.
So I had to try and intercept him before anything went terribly wrong, right?
That was what I told myself, over and over again l
