Olivia’s POV....
His eyes still on mine, it must be a dream, he can not be here, is he here to drag me back to the house?
"Can you see him too?" I whispered so low when a tear slipped out of my eyes, I have no idea if I am crying because I have missed him or because I don’t want to see him.
For a month all I have done is think about him, it didn’t matter how long, I would think about how he would love being here, how he would be grumpy yet he would be there for me.
"What is going on Liv?" Sebastian asked, and I turned to look at me before I glanced at Luca again. "Who is that?" He asked.
Luca could tear his throat out for saying that, yet he didn’t, oddly he is only staring at me not having a care what anyone else is doing. And I stared at him too.
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Should I tell him to leave, I can’t find the words even if I wanted to, believe me I have tried to.
I glanced at him again, unable to utter any words when Sebastian placed his hand on mine and my breath hitches, worried about what Luca could do to him, Luca stared at the hand that was on mine and he didn’t speak.
Who is this man and what did he do to the real Luca?.
"Can I, I just need to talk to him." I breathed out.
"You don’t have to," Sebastian said.
"Take your hands off her and let her speak," Luca said calmly, his eyes already on him, and Sebastian didn’t even seem to care, I don’t think he knows who he is.
I recognized him because of his eyes and his scent, and how my wolf felt when she realized that he was close to me, maybe even more than I had always imagined.
"Sebastian, I just need some space." I finally said a little loudly. "Can you and Natalie please wait for me?" I breathed out. He stared at me again, and I knew he was just worried when I gave him a nod.
"Touch her inappropriately or even- the only reason you are still standing here alive or even speaking to me is because of her, make no mistake, I can snap your neck whenever I want," Luca said cutting him off, his eyes flashed his wolf for a second before Sebastian pulled away.
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"Why are you here Luca?"
"Worried I have come to ruin your perfect life with your friend and your boyfriend".
"He is not- it doesn’t matter Luca." I breathed out, I looked away from him this time, I didn’t want to look at him, because I have a feeling he is going to break me if I did, I will come home with him because a part of my heart wants that.
I wanted to fight.
Luca inched closer to me.
"Do not come any closer Luca." I threatened and he didn’t care when he placed his hand on my jaw and he forced me to stare at him.
"Are you scared I would force you away, force you to come home with me?" He asked, his tone a bit calmer, not even caring about Sebastian.
"Don’t kill him." I finally said, ignoring the question that he had asked me and Luca smirked.
He leaned in and his lips brushed against my ears, I could feel my heart racing against my rib cage, my mind filled with thoughts and my wolf itching to come out, yet I didn’t let her.
"If I wanted to, you and I both know that, he would not even be alive to watch you from far and stare at me like he could do something, I would not kill him, not until you tell me to." He breathed out, he placed a kiss against my ear and a shiver ran down my spine.
When he pulled away and my eyes were still on him.
"I am not leaving, if this is your new life, then I will be here to make sure it’s perfect for you, if this is what it takes for you to forgive me, I will stay."
"You, Luca would stay in this town," I asked, and a chuckle escaped his lips.
"You have no idea the length I would go for you, I would stay, for as long as I want, because no matter how hard you want to pretend, you are still drawn to me and I can see it in your eyes, I can feel it when I come close to you, and I know you Olivia, you would not forgive me and I am willing to make an effort."
"You can not force me to come with you."
"I would never, if this is what you would want for the rest of your life then so be it, but believe me I am sticking around for a long time, your secret lover is glaring at me, what I will give to have his head for dinner."
"He is not in love with me." I breathed out, we have been friends and that is it, I can’t go further with anyone else.
"We will see about that, make no mistake, if he touches you, as much as place his lips on your cheek, you can stay mad at me for all life but I will kill him, because he touched what is mine, I will make him bleed, I will make him cry and pay, his life is in your hands, whatever he does. It will reflect on how his future would be."
"You don’t have to always ruin everything."
"I won’t, I didn’t come here to threaten, I came here for you, not to take you away because you are happy, I see it in your eyes but something is missing me, until you figure that out I am not leaving."
He is the one missing yet I can’t say that.
"I don’t want to come with you, I have the perfect life, my friends, my family they are here, people that don’t know my past, don’t feel pity for me, and care for me for who I am."
"I don’t feel pity for you either." Luca breathed out.
"You do, you feel I am weak and that’s why you lied to me because you don’t think that I can handle it."
"Did it ever occur to you that?" Luca was about to say something when he looked away from me, and in a second, his eyes were on mine again. "Did you ever think that maybe I didn’t tell you because I wanted you to love me for who I am, I could have caged you, mated you against your will and make you mine, and that will still fix my curse yet I didn’t, force you accepted by fear, acceptance is acceptance, I could have made you fear so much that you will make yourself accept me and your full self will be mine."
"Yes Luca you didn’t, you did worse, you made me think you are the most merciful and greatest person I have ever met, you slept with me, made me you gave me all of me, when all you have done is lie to me, so thank you Luca for not torturing me and forcing me and thank you for treating me like the person I am meant to be treated." I breathed out before I walked away.
To my surprise, he didn’t pull me close to him, he didn’t beg me to speak to him.
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"Are you going to tell us who that is, is he the guy you told me all about?" Natalie asked the moment I headed toward him, I had turned even when I didn’t want to and he was not there.
He left too soon and I should not feel horrible about it and yet I did.
"Yes, he is Natalie."
"What do you think he wants?" Sebastian asked and I didn’t speak, I didn’t know her, he wanted me back, yet he didn’t drag me back with him, he didn’t tell me the car was out and I was coming whether I liked it or not
"I have no idea Sebastian" I breathed out
This is not how I thought it will happen, I always thought he will come with his me and everyone else, he will tell me I didn’t have a choice, maybe he will even threaten to kill Aria, just so that I will come with him, tell me that if I didn’t, many will die and I would not want that.
I pictured him dragging me, I pictured us in his room and I didn’t speak to him while he begged me and he didn’t do any of that, he left without a word, I don’t know if I should feel better or scared when this happens, because I know nothing is perfect when my comes to Luca and it scared me that, he may have something in mind.
The whole ride home, I stayed paranoid for no reason because there was no car following us, did he really leave me after he found me?