CHAPTER 26: Bed conversations

Two missed voice calls.

Four rejected video call attempts.

Six read but unanswered messages..

I would have kept ignoring him till the next message entered.

Luka: Ignore my call one more time and whatever deal we have is off the table.

I pressed my face into the pillow to muffle a scream.

I picked the next call but left the phone on the bed so that the camera angle was failing the ceiling instead of my face.

"Isabella," his deep baritone voice drawled into my ears courtesy of airpods.

"Luka," I countered.

"Pick up the phone," it was issued as a command, which shouldn't surprise me but I obeyed. I raised the phone to my eye level so that my face was filling up the camera.

"From this angle, I can see the insides of your nostrils," he chuckled.

I moved the phone back and lay on my side so that I could rest my hands. When he saw the disgusted face I made he burst into laughter.

I waited for him to try to control himself before I said, "oh don't stop. Keep going. "

"That's what sh