“You are formally evicted,” I said.

“From the house.

And from the office.

Everything you built, Luca, every piece of the impressive life you’ve been performing, was sitting on land that belonged to my family.

You just never knew it, because no one ever made you look.

I have thought about that phrase since, no one ever made you look, because it captures something true not only about Luca but about a certain kind of person who moves confidently through the world on foundations they never examine.

Luca genuinely believed he had built his life.