Leila's POV 

　　Later in the afternoon, I went for a walk around the garden, just to get some air in my head.

　　I saw Luca standing over by the first gigantic red oak that had presented itself in my line of vision, my heart leaped, and then it stopped in my chest, and I turned into stone. It was as if his face were doing this to distill one pathetic, pleading expression and compact it, brim-full of despair, at the absolute opposite of his usual stupid, vacant ...