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"Are you cooking?" I asked, brows pinching

Luca's head lifted, gazea similar reaction in my core

"No," he said, clearing his throat aardly, if aMy Aunt Adrian—Lucky'soff frozen ured youfor you"

"I' my head

"Don't be sorry for trying to survive," he countered

"What are we having?"

"Lasagna," he toldoff a couple of layers of plastic wrap "But I need to get this garlic bread out first," he said, revealing a loaf wrapped in aluminum foil

"Itcloser, sitting down on the chair on the other side of the island from him

"It is," he agreed "Do you miss your family? In Venezuela," he clarified

"Yes I roith them I didn't meet them until I was an adult, so the dynamic was different, I think But, yes It was nice to always have someone around, someone who cared about you"

"You've been alone a lot"

It wasn't a question, but I answered anyway "Yes But that was my choice"

"You don't have friends? A man?"

"I have colleagues and neighbors It is harder than they tell you to make friends as an adult I mean, what are you supposed to do, walk up to soether? You'd get pepper sprayed"

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