Luca entered into the house and found Veronica coming down the stairs.
"Hey. I was just about to call you." She said. Veronica looked… normal.
Okay…he was expecting laughter, ridicule. Maybe Val didn't say anything. Lord, small mercies. Please, small mercies.
He latched onto that hope. "The guards told me you had arrived." Luca said. He kept his hands in his pockets to avoid fidgeting, because if Veronica looked too closely, she would see it.
"Keeping tabs on me uhn?"
"Always. So…you're here."
She descended the last few steps. Every movement felt slower. Time was stretching out just to make him suffer. His brain was still trying to calculate what Valentina had told her—if anything at all—and what version of him was currently living in Veronica's head.
"Yeah, Val told me what you did. You think sucking up to my sis will get you in my good graces?" Vee asked finally standing in front of him.
