CHAPTER FORTY-FIVE – WHO CARES?

NOVA POV

In most novels I read, when there’s a “one bed” scenario, the guy usually offers the couch while the woman takes the bed.

But with Luca, the rules are reversed. He’s sprawled across the king-sized bed like he owns it—and maybe he actually does—and I’m stuck on the couch, wondering how I got myself trapped in this gilded cage of a hotel.

I glance around the room, trying to reconcile opulence with hostility. Crystal chandeliers, ...