Chapter 0301

At Luca’s house, the company is really the thing that shines. His cousins and family are just so funny – they’re also a little bit mean to each other, in a teasing, familial insult is lined with love and is so damn funny that I’m laughing until my sides ache.

way, but

every

And of course, my sides aching makes it difficult to get down all of the food that’s pressed in my hands. But considering how delicious it is, I definitely prevail in my quest to eat absolutely everything. God, I’m not sure I’ve ever eaten so much or so well. There’s plate after plate of pasta, and meat, and seafood and then the sweets! Cookies, and little slices. of coffee–soaked pastries, and gran’s coffee cake, served with coffee addition, considering how many tiny glasses of clear liquor I’ve been passed and drank. I’ve never had it before, but it’s delicious, and tastes like licorice.

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which is a good

leaning against Luca on the couch as one of his cousins takes what is probably my

murmurs, smiling around the room at the family he so clearly loves, who shout and joke and play with each other. “If it were up to her I’d be like…a little beachball, unable to get up off this couch, just hers to keep and pet and love and feed, as she likes to

clearly his habitual spot, his tongue lolling happily out of his mouth and his legs sticking out comfortably from his belly. “You mean

tightening his arm around me, “just like Valentino, her favorite

son.”

happiness, completely charmed by all of this. “I like your family,” I whisper. “They’re really great.”

girls are all really excited. They want me to leave you alone with

up, eager, and looking around. “I miss girlfriends. Where are they all? I’ll go now.”

just laughs and lifts his chin towards the clock

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+15 BONUS

with a sigh.

spinning back to Luca.

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