Chapter 29. I Need You.

Luca gently withdrew from her embrace and moved inches away. He weighed the thought in his mind. Sharing his past, his painful past was something he had never dreamed of doing. The whole scene pictured in his head was dreadful. He had locked it away for years. From everyone. Nobody knew about this side of him, apart from Rio of course.

"Luca," Elena called, her troubled expression catching his attention.

Luca regarded her for a while, while deliberately frantically how to tell her. “It’s fine if you don’t want to talk,” She said after a moment of silence. She could sense an hint of pain in his eyes. She hated seeing him like this.

Luca’s tensed face softened as he sighed and sat on the bed.

"My allergy," he began, his tone laced with pain as memories resurfaced. His heart twisted with every recollection. It was time to share, to let her in. Elena watched him intently, her eyes encouraging him to continue.

"It all started after I was kidnapped a few years ago," Luca finally revealed,