Chapter 976 – In The Courtyard

• “I’ve been really busy,” I say, wrinkling my nose at him, unable to help my wide smile. God, he’s just…so precisely the same, isn’t he? All tall and sexy and confident. “You know, since you left me naked and crying on the floor of your bedroom.”
• “Aw, come on, Ari,” Luca says with a sigh, the smile slipping from his mouth, his head hanging. “You have to start right in with that?”
• “Where would you prefer I start?” I ask quietly, not wanting to be cruel but also knowing that Luca has just got…such an easy way of turning things in his favor, of making it easy for me to forget that he’s ever done anything wrong, ever.