“Baby, I love you so much,” he was saying.

“I’ll meet you at our usual place later.

I’ll come up with another excuse for her.

She always believes me.

She’s such a complete idiot.”

The floor seemed to disappear beneath me.

And then Luca turned and saw me standing in the doorway, and the thing that shocked me most, in a day full of shocks, was that he barely looked ashamed.

He did not deny it, did not scramble, did not fall to pieces.