Luca's POV

She shifted her head slowly to the door as I walked in. The bland look in her eyes highlighted her nonchalance, just as her expression does.

The live-in doctor stood by her bedside, holding her arm and checking her vitals. He trembled at the sight of me, and I could swear he broke a sweat on his forehead. He hid it as he looked away from me. I grinned at him to assuage his fear, but I might as well have knocked more into him. He jittered so bad, his stethoscope dropped from his ...