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.

G

BAN

which is a good

cousins takes what is probably my ninth plate

it’s the greatest disappointment of Gran’s life that she can’t fatten me up,” he 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 do.”

couch behind Luca in what is clearly his habitual spot, his tongue lolling happily out of his

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

son.”

by all of this. “I

family now too,” he murmurs, dropping his head a bit to press a kiss to my mouth. ” The girls are all really excited. They want me to leave you alone with them so

up, eager, and looking around. “I

towards the clock on the wall. “Little late

1/2

+15 BONUS

a sigh.

I gasp again, spinning back to Luca. “Oh

he

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