#Chapter 476 – In the Courtyard

“I’ve been really busy,” I say, wrinkling my nose at him, unable to help my wide smile. God, he’s just…so precisely the same, isn’t he? All tall and sexy and confident. “You know, since you left me naked and crying on the floor of your bedroom.” “Aw, come on, Ari,” Luca says with a sigh, the smile slipping from his mouth, his head hanging. “You have to start right in with that?” “Where would you prefer I start?” I ask quietly, not wanting to be cruel but also knowing that Luca has just got…such an easy way of turning things in his favor, of making it easy for me to forget that he’s ever done anything wrong, ever. And it usually starts with that pretty smile. “How about we start with me apologizing?” he murmurs, lifting his soulful brown eyes to mine. I quirk an eyebrow, letting him know that might be wise. “That’s the only thing that’s been ringing in my head for weeks, after all,” he says on a sigh. “It killed me, Ariel – after I left, and had like…eight seconds to thin