VEDA

Luca had been gone all morning, leaving me to wander around the house.

I’d joined Lisa in the kitchen while I had a cup of coffee, but she had other things to do than entertain me, so I was once again on my own.

I didn’t like being on my own. It gave me too much time to think. Surprisingly, Luca had never come to bed last night. But instead of enjoying the time to myself, I found myself tossing and turning, unable to fall asleep until the early morning hours when I finally dozed off from pure exhaustion. I’d woken up a few hours later, bleary-eyed and more...