SCARLETT'S POV."First thing I want to say is that you'll be sleeping on the floor."Just like that Luca had ruined my mood. Just like that I'd started to question if I was even going to be able to go halfway with the plan without killing him or worse myself out of frustration. "Sleep on the floor?" I questioned, my voice going high pitched. "Why would I have to sleep on the floor?"Luca remained cool and calm. "Obviously you can see that there's just one bed. And I'm not about to have that movie type of shitty argument about who gets to sleep there or not, so I'm making it easier for both of us."I gaped at him like a freaking fish, not knowing what to say, because what the hell? The guy couldn't be more of an asshole if he tried.I couldn't hold back my feelings. "Most guys would offer to sleep on the floor you know? In fact no guy would ever want the girl to sleep on the floor."His eyes narrowed at me in frustration, but he still looked relaxed. He looked like he really had no ti
SCARLETT'S POV.Last night had gone pretty well. Better than I expected even, despite me sleeping on the floor. After the talk we'd had concerning rules, Luca had gone out after getting a call from Mr Richardson, and from the bits of the conversation I'd gotten, I could tell that it was concerning setting up for the conference and some other business they had. So after Luca had gone, I'd gotten the hotel room to myself and put it to good use. By good use I mean, calling up Abby to give her a full detailed explanation of everything that had transpired between Luca and I. And then I'd gone back to rewatch some of the seduction videos I'd watched before just to brush up my skills. I'd been on that till Luca had come back and then we took our respectful positions in the room.Sleeping on the floor wasn't even as bad as I'd thought it was going to be. Once I'd gotten enough blankets and pillows which the room had thankfully, I'd been able to get comfortable. And I couldn't even lie, that
SCARLETT'S POV. The next morning I made sure to get out of bed before Luca so as to avoid a repeat of the embarassing morning incident between us yesterday. But that had not gone really well because just when I'd been in the process of detangling my hair in front of the mirror, Luca had walked in and then mindlessly just started peeing in the toilet."Arrrrrrrgh, get that thing away from here," I squealed actually feeling threatened with the large amount of pee just was being showcased in from of me. Don't worry, my eyes didn't even dare to go to the source where it was coming from. I promise. "What the fuck?" Luca cursed, now fully waking up and seeing me standing at the corner of the bathroom, trying to disappear inside the wall. "What the hell," he gaped. "I thought I saw you on the floor or something.""Well obviously I wasn't there, you saw wrongly," I shrieked. "Now get that thing away from me," I swatted my hand in front of me, refusing to look."Shit," I heard Luca mumble
SCARLETT'S POV. When we were all settled in the hall and Luca and I had found a booth at the centre of the room to sit, the chatter in the room died down slowly and the stage in front of us came to life. The words, "welcome to the first edition of the couples tech conference 2023," lighted up the screen and applause and excitement erupted from behind us, making me to go along with them."You can stop clapping now," Luca leaned down and whispered into my ear when it turned out that I was the only one left in the room who was still clapping.Shit, I hated when that happened. I shot him a sheepish smile before bowing my head in embarassment as a man dressed in a smart coffee brown suit mounted the stage. The man shot everyone a bright tooth grin before he typed on a tablet in his hands which projected a bright image of a collage of couples smiling in a photo."Welcome everyone to the first edition of this beautiful programme," he said into the microphone. "We're so excited to finally
SCARLETT'S POV. There was a moment of silence as Mr Richardson stepped onto the stage again. Immediately the huge screens behind him lit up and the lights somehow dimmed to a neon green. I sat with anticipation swimming in my chest, occasionally glancing towards Luca to see how he was feeling, but of course I got nothing. The man was as blank as a board.When he'd finally let me get to know what he had been doing on the computer, and I'd gotten at least a little bit of it, then I would say I'd become useful. By useful I meant, emotional support. I'd been cheering him on and motivating him as he typed on the keyboard like a maniac and did things I didn't even know were possible in that amount of time. And in the end, I'd say he'd finished up pretty good, fantastic in fact. The game he'd made was working pretty fine and compared to how boring and grumpy Luca was, the game was pretty lively and fun. I was proud of him. Yes, I'd just admitted that. It wasn't everyday that I got to see
LUCA'S POV.I was being a fucking idiot. A big fucking idiot. Scarlett Damien had been messing with my mind for days now, making me burn with want for her while she innocently acted like she had no idea what she was doing to me. Where the hell was all this coming from? I had no freaking idea. For some reason my fucked up mind had decided to forget that she was literally the daughter of my enemy and I had no reason in this world to be attracted to her. I hated myself. I'd hated myself for a long time now, but Scarlett had only started to make me hate myself even more. What were Mum and Dad going to think about me if they could see me right now? What was Isabella going to think?That I was fantasising about the daughter of the man who ruined her life. Oh God, I was such a fool.And that was why I had to stop myself. Especially since the short conversation we'd had about law had reminded me so much about Isabella. The exact words she'd said had been so familiar and painful because I
SCARLETT'S POV. I woke up the next morning with an aching back and freezing limbs. I know I'd said sleeping on the floor wasn't that bad earlier, but I was starting to really change my mind. It sucked to sleep on the floor especially when I could look up and see Luca's annoyingly calm and peaceful face as he slept in the king sized bed. When I got up, I looked to the bed and Luca wasn't there, so I decided to take a seat and wait for him incase he was in the bathroom. I didn't want a repeat of the horrible day he'd walked in to pee while I'd been brushing my hair. And I can assure you I wasn't looking at him while he did it. I could never.When I sat for a while and started to get tired when he wasn't coming, I realised that I hadn't even been hearing any sounds coming from the bathroom, so I got up and got to the bathroom door. I placed my ear to the door to detect any sounds but got none, then I did the smart thing and knocked, but still no answer.I then realised that Luca wasn't
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