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They got back to the hotel pretty late and Iris was dead tired yet the only thing she could think about was how Luca kept acting the entire night. After the episode with his partner he had not left her side but that wasn’t what lingered in her mind as she stood in the room, trying to undress.

It was the little touches, the whispers and the caresses from Luca that made her unstable. She couldn’t get the gentle way he held her around her waist even though they were sitting close to each other out of her head.

“Are you having difficulties with that?” Luca’s voice came from the door and she turned around, startled to see Luca leaning against her door, watching her with hooded eyes that made her shiver involuntarily.

She had been lost in thoughts about the night that she didn’t hear when her door opened and since her hand was laying idle on her small button on her neck to take off her clothes, he must have assumed it was because she was having difficulties.

“No. It’s just a button…” She st