❝I would burn for all eternity to feel your touch once more.❞
Former mafia member now turned barista, Lorenzo Castello, is running away from his family to grieve a sudden loss when he meets a paramedic with no impulse control that turns his world up...
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A WEEK HAD passed since Ryan and Amalia left for Minnesota and Lorenzo would be lying if he would say that he hadn't noticed their absence. Most of his free time would be spent thinking of what he would be doing if they were actually there with him.
How Ryan would visit him after school hours would be over and how he would annoy him to no end. How Amalia would greet him with a big smile every time she came over for her shift at the café and how she would hum one specific song that could sometimes drive him crazy.
However, saying that he was alone and mopping again would be such a lie.
Lorenzo had another person that enjoyed annoying him and driving him crazy now and she went by the name Gia Martin. The little she-devil did whatever she could to frustrate him – in all ways. She would visit him every time she could, meaning after or before her shifts. She would come over almost every day, she would visit him at Josenda's ordering an iced Americano like she always did. She would bring tacos for lunch at his place or she would ask him out to her favourite taco place in San Francisco.
Sometimes she would even come over and have a sleepover with him (with him sleeping on his not-so-comfortable couch while she took his bed) and on the days, he worked at the bar, she would come with if she hadn't had a shift.
But she wasn't the only one making advances.
Lorenzo had been trying to be as sweet as her too. He would send flowers to the fire station and when he finally visited it and met her co-workers most of them would tell him that they already liked him for doing so. They would hug him, keep him company when she wouldn't be there on a call and overall, they were really nice people. Most of the time, he would give her coffee for free or even her drink.
Like he did at that moment.
The said girl sat in front of him laughing at him at the faces he was making towards Leon who instead of working was shoving his tongue down a random guy's throat which meant that everyone went to him for the drinks and he couldn't catch a break. Gia was sipping on her Sex on the Beach while wiggling her eyebrows to which he rolled his eyes and chuckled.
She looked absolutely magnificent that night – like she always did if he were completely honest.
She wore black ripped jeans to match his own (she had asked him what he would wear so that they could match, he had no idea why though) with black boots and a see-through shirt which showcased her black bra to everyone and he didn't like all the looks both males and females were giving her. However, she didn't seem to notice as she sipped her drink, her whole attention on him.
Lorenzo had been serving twelve vodka shots when something he had been dreading all night happened.
Just as he filled six of the glasses and the people who ordered them were hollering around him, he heard Gia let out a surprised yelp and he quickly stopped what he was doing to check if she was fine. Anger rushed through his veins when he noticed that a male had grabbed her by her hand and was touching her without her permission.
