Chapter 136

• Chapter 136: The Girl Who Disarms Me
• Luca cannot believe what he is looking at right now. His brain is short-circuiting, completely failing to process how this stunningly, absurdly, impossibly beautiful young girl has somehow appeared in his world, all loud laughter and manic energy, making him begin to feel things he never thought he'd feel again. Emotions he’d locked behind metaphorical steel doors, bolted and forgotten.
• He finds himself standing at a distance, caught between wanting to look away and not being able to. His gaze remains fixed, helplessly, hungrily drawn to her. Admiration flutters in his chest, uninvited but stubbornly persistent. She’s over there, entirely in her own world, fighting with the gaming machine like it’s a living beast. Radiating joy, pure and unfiltered, as she battles through the levels with all the childlike excitement bubbling across her face.