Natalia

I paced anxiously around the room, phone clutched in my hands.

“Natalia…,” Luca said my name with a sigh.

I shot a quick look at him, but he didn’t tell me to sit down. The guilty expression was still there on his face. I didn’t suddenly hate him, though. I was madder at myself than him, or I would have kicked him out of my room instead of letting him spend the night. Although it had been the first time we’d spent in bed together without anything sexual happening, I wasn’t in the right frame of mind to appreciate it.

“Why isn’t she here yet?” I muttered. “She said...