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“I don’t know how he did it, but he managed to get out of the cuffs and he made a mess. Broke the windows. Ripped everything off the bed. Destroyed one of the cabinets we didn’t move because it was too heavy and we figured we’d try later. He even managed to punch one of the guards. We subdued him, but what do we do with him now?”

“Send him to medical. We don’t know what’s in his system or if it’s out yet. And tell the doc to make sure everything’s okay with him.” Giovanni might’ve provided me with Luca’s medical files, but that didn’t mean he’d told me everything.

“Okay,” Rafael said. “But are you sure you want to keep him here? We can put him downstairs. It would be easier to confine him.”

I was quiet for a few moments.

Taking my husband to the dungeon in the basement? Yeah, it would be easier to keep him in a cell, but he wasn’t my prisoner.

Well, he wasn’t my usual prisoner, at least.

“Not yet. I need to speak with him first.” I wasn’t going to let Luca mess everything up and cause too much trouble.

Chapter 3

“WHAT DID THE DOC SAY?” I asked as soon as I saw Rafael.

A few hours had passed by, and even if Luca had still had some leftovers of a drug in his system before, he should be clean by now.

“Luca is fine,” Rafael said. “Whatever was in his system, it wore off. Doc couldn’t even tell what it was. But everything else is okay. He’s in perfect health.”

“Okay. Then I guess it’s time to talk to him.” A strange feeling formed in my stomach.

It wasn’t that I was nervous to go see him, or that I thought something was going to go wrong.

I just...

I didn’t even know.

I opened the door to Luca’s room before any of my men could make a move to do so. What I didn’t want was to wait.

I supposed one part of me was excited to actually meet Luca. It would be the first time I’d get a chance to speak to him.

Right now, he was a mystery to me, and maybe I found him a little bit too intriguing.

But it could as well turn out that he was boring, and that I’d totally agree to ship him off somewhere so I didn’t have to even think about him.