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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BAN

which is a good

one of his cousins takes what is probably my ninth plate away. Luca grins

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.

to the little fat dog that sits on the back of the couch behind Luca in what is clearly his habitual spot, his tongue lolling happily out of his mouth and his legs sticking out comfortably from his belly. “You mean like Valentino, over

nodding and tightening his arm around me, “just

son.”

all of this.

all really excited. They want me to

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

towards the clock on the wall. “Little late for

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with a sigh.

gaze. I shake my head, awed, because I can’t believe it’s that late. And then I gasp again, spinning back to Luca. “Oh no,

he

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