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“Me?” I say and he nods, perching himself on the edge of the desk closest to me.
“You did come up with the idea. You’re brilliant, I hope you know rhat.”
I’m too stunned to say anything, my mouth hangs open and my body instantly reacts to his proximity. I feel my nipples turn to hard buds and I unconsciously squeeze my thighs together.
His gaze drops to my lips and they stay there for a while.
“Evelyn”
Just that one word from his mouth and rivers of want flow through my body I squeeze my hands in my lap and lick my lips and I see his eyes follow the movement.
He opens his mouth to say something but a knock on the door stops him. He closes his eyes for a second and I see his jaws flex like he is grinding his teeth. He stands and walks back to his chair. I let out a shaky breath and tuck a strand of hair behind my ears.
“Come in.”
The door opens and Stella walks in in all her beautiful red headed glory. I hate her because now I’ll never know what he was going to say.
She smiles at the two of us.
“I hope I’m not interrupting anything” she says in a tone that sounds like she hopes she was and I roll my eyes.
“No,there’s nothing to interrupt. What can I do for you?” Luca says and I turn to look at him.
“I’ll leave you two to talk.” I say and leave the office.
It doesn’t make any sense that I’m hurt, maybe it’s the flippant way he said there’s nothing to interrupt, like the whole moment back there was just my imagination. But it’s okay, it’s just the reminder I needed of who Luca really was and why thoughts of him, of any kind were prohibited.
I am in love with Holden and he cares about me. It doesn’t matter how many times I have to repeat this to myself.
ChapterThirteen
Ican’t help staring into Luca’s office from the open window, they seemed to be deep in conversation and from the looks of things, Luca was not liking whatever it was that she was saying. He was doing that thing he did where he rubbed circles on his jaw, a telltale sign that he was irritated. From where k sat I could see his jaws clench and unclench, the muscles in his arms flexing, another sure sign that he was annoyed, or tense. I was still learning to read him. Stella was still talking, her arms flaying animatedly, she reminded of a little girl or children really and how excited they always were when they talked. That would’ve been cute except this is Stella, she wasn’t cute. Something about her rubbed me the wrong way, I just did not like her which was really weird because I am normally very open with people and Stella had definitely not done anything to warrant these feelings I had towards her. But they were there, very strongly. It didn’t change the fact that she was beautiful though, her attention provoking red hair that was just so, in your face and those eyes. I would kill to have eyes as green as hers, they made me think of Sirens, hypnotic, alluring, deceiving.
I did not trust her eyes.
My gaze travelled back to Luca, I couldn’t help it, I was like a moth drawn to a flame with him. I watched him run his hands through his hair and that sight alone did things to my body, inappropriate things, things I should not even allow myself to feel. I hated that now I probably won’t get to hear what he would’ve said, did he want to mention our near kiss the other night? I’ve been wondering when it would come up, damn it Stella, why do you have to ruin everything?
. He looked up like he could feel me watching and our eyes connected.
Crap.
He had just caught me looking at him and yet I could not look away. It was like I’d been hypnotized, it didn’t help that he wasn’t looking away either. I dropped my gaze eventually I did not have to look in any mirror to know that my face was as red as a tomatoe:I went back to my work but I was already thoroughly distracted, that was the Luca Silvestri effect.
I looked up again and I see him stand, Stella is on her feet too and they’re shaking hands. He opens the door and guides her out of his office. Stella turns to look at me and she smiles .
“It waslovely seeing you again Evelyn, we should catch up some time.”
I would rather scratch my eyes out with the bluntest, most rusty pen knife than have any form of catching up with her but I smile and nod.
“It wasnice seeing you too. Have a good day.”
She turns back to Luca and she smiles at him.
“Don’t forget what I said Luca, if you need my help in anyway, if there’s anything I can do for you, just reach out to me and I will be happy to help.” She said holding his hand with her siren claws, did sirens have claws? Whatever I don’t care. I will call her goergously manicured hands claws and nobody would stop me. Granted, it was just in my head.
“Thank you Stella, I appreciate the offer and I’ll be sure to make optimum use of this offer. Have a lovely evening.” Luca? Stella? What the hell? Since when we’re they on a first name basis? I Shake the irrational thought out of my head and
We both stand and watch her leave through the glass doors.
