LUCA'S POV.I was going to go crazy with want for Scarlett, I was certain of it. Even after the mindless hook up I'd had with that random woman, all I'd been able to think about was her and her scent, her dark long hair, her green eyes that held so many secrets I suddenly wanted to know, everything about her was driving me care at this point. When I'd gotten back to the hotel room after the encounter with Penelope Cruz, I'd been so pissed with myself as her, that I hadn't even given her a second glance or a word before I just went straight to bed. It was when I woke up the next morning and caught sight of her holding onto the blankets as she lay with her neck craned weirdly on the floor, that the guilt started to eat so deep into me that I felt disgusted and frustrated with myself.I couldn't mistake what I was feeling at that point for anything else, I'd been feeling guilty. Extremely guilty. Something I had eliminated from my life a long time ago since what had happened with my da
SCARLETT'S POV.After contemplating what Abby has said the other day about sleeping with Luca and getting over with it, I came to a conclusion to do exactly the opposite. Yes, I wasn't a fool. I knew how those things worked. The more you taste, the more you want to bite. I wasn't that stupid to set myself up for heartbreak like that, and frankly, Luca was never ever going to be interested in sleeping with me, so it was useless even entertaining the thought. Also, sleeping with Luca was going to prove that I was a slut, something I'd promised myself I wasn't, and felt bad when Kevin had been insinuating that I was. I could still remember the way I'd felt when he'd constantly kept asking if I'd done it, and if I did it now it just was going to prove that he'd been right about it all along. I couldn't do that, I couldn't live with it. Just as I was thinking about him, he called, shaking me to the bones when I heard the sound of my ringtone and saw the contact name. "Hello, Kevin," I
LUCA'S POV.I felt like the biggest fool on the planet after what I'd just witnessed. To think I'd been so busy worrying about how Scarlett would've reacted when she found out about all the horrible things people were saying about her father, while she'd been there in the hotel room having phone sex with her boyfriend. It had to be her boyfriend, Kendall or whatever. I knew I didn't know Scarlett all that well but I was sure that she wasn't souch of a slut to open her breasts up to some random guy.Shit, the sight of those breasts still haunted me. It was like that was the only thing I could think about, obviously asides the fact that I'd just been a big fool earlier and the woman had been technically cheating on me in the hotel room.Oh God. I was supposed to be so furious with her that I couldn't even think about what her body looked like, but that was far from the case with me. It was like that sight had just set the last bit of control I had on fire, and now all I could think abo
SCARLETT'S POV.The room had been awfully quiet for a week now after what had happened. The day Luca had walked in on what I'd been doing with Kevin, he'd gone into the bathroom without a saying a word and I'd done what anyone that had been terrified by the experience would have done. I quickly got dressed and walked out of the hotel room to get some fresh air just so that Lucs wouldn't have to walk out of the bathroom and see me. I'd honestly felt like the whore of Babylon that day and even the rest of the days that followed that. Luca hadn't been making it any better for me, instead it was like he was hell bent on getting on my nerves and treating me like a piece of garbage. Despite being the one who told me to make sure to act like we were a happy couple whenever we were at the conference, he was the one who was making it obvious to the rest of the couples that we weren't even close to being a happy couple. It was annoying. Actually it was pretty fucking frustrating what Luca wa
SCARLETT'S POV.I needed to speak with Luca immediately, like ASAP. I didn't want to believe all the crazy things that Penelope had been going on about earlier, but I couldn't help but wonder where the hell all that nonsense was coming from? How dare she call my dad all sorts of names? And then she'd said he was violent? What the hell? I'd only known my dad to be a saint since I'd been a child. He could never hurt a fly and he was the kindest man I knew so where the hell was she getting all that information from? And did that mean that that was what everyone was saying about him?Was everyone thinking the same thing about my dad? Heck, were we some kind of public enemies right now? And what the fuck did that bitch mean by telling me to ask Luca.Oh God, I was so furious. I had no idea what to think at the moment, with everything flying over my head and getting me pissed. What the hell did I actually know? Was everyone just lying to me and playing a sick joke with my life? I had no
SCARLETT'S POV.If anybody had told me that my dad would be accused of something in the past, I never would've expected it to be rape. Maybe fraud and embezzlement would've been more unsurprising, but rape? That was just on a whole different level that I couldn't take.My dad was no rapist and that was sure. I had a very good sense of judgement and if I'd never for once suspected him of it, then there was a very high chance that it was just plain bullshit coming out of Luca's mouth. But the only problem was, Penelope Cruz seemed to know it too.There was definitely something that I was clearly in the dark about, and today was the day I was going to find out every single thing. I just needed to drift the subject away from that day Luca had walked in on me taking my clothes off for Kevin. "Kevin is my boyfriend and I love him, that was just a moment of pure lust, I never would have done that if I knew you were going to come in," I defended. "Oh really?* Luca scoffed, for some reason
LUCA'S POV.I was so pissed with Scarlett and her stubbornness. I wanted to be mad at her for how she'd stood up to me earlier but for some twisted reason I wasn't all that pissed, in fact a tiny part of my mind had found her to be extremely hot at that moment.Oh God. I was screwed, totally screwed. I had a feeling that now that she knew about how her father actually was, things would be completely different. And I couldn't tell if that made me happier or not. But whatever, it didn't matter to me. I shouldn't even have been worried about how she was going to take the news anyways, because she didn't even believe it.I should have known that she would stand by her slimy father no matter what. Ughh. Why was I so mad about that Kendall guy back then?I'd planned to not say anything about it, to not act like I even gave a shit, but no. Of course my stupid possessive self just had to come out and screw things up. Now, all I ended up looking like was an insecure asshole who couldn't get
SCARLETT'S POV. My mind was a jumbled mess and it had been so for 48 hours now. I'd been confused, with several thoughts floating around my mind, particularly thoughts about what Luca had revealed to me about my father.My own father? My hero. The man who I believed couldn't even hurt a fly. No way, it had to be a rumour. It just had to be, because I couldn't even stomach the thought.How could my own father be involved in such despicable acts? How could he have done that under my nose, under my mother's nose too? No way, he couldn't be that sneaky could he? I lay in my makeshift bed on the floor all alone, still respecting LUCA'S warning about not coming close to his stuff which meant I couldn't be caught lying in his bed. He'd been almost a ghost in the room since we'd had that conversation and honestly, I didn't even mind at all. I couldn't stand him after all he'd said, after all I'd found out.One of the things that made me mad was the fact that he'd been cheating on me all thi