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֍5: The Trigger֍ 📋

**(This chapter will contain graphic mental, physical and psychological abuse)**

~LUCA~

Luca had her right where he wanted her. He forced himself to remain calm and not smile as he walked in her direction. His main concern was to torture the little tart as much as possible.

Torren had a reckless way of speaking being the inconsiderate individual that she was. It was her disregard for other people's feelings and the way she demonstrated such hatefulness to him that made it imperative that he should teach her a lesson.

After he revealed his reason for his obvious dislike of her, she seemed to wither in his presence. Luca would be lying if he denied the fact that he was enjoying the way she squirmed.

When his friend had initially invited him to the company dinner, he originally said no. Sharing his time with people he didn't know and with whom he shared absolutely nothing wasn't really his cup of tea.

Everything changed when Martin stated that his entire management team and a few members of their support staff were invited to the company party. It was then he recalled that Torren was one of those managers in his friend's office. He was pretty sure she would be in attendance since it was an expectation that all managers participate in the event.

Visions of her cowering in his presence changed his mind and made it easier for him to accept the offer. Luca reminisced over the moment he realized this was the perfect time to implement his plan to bring the disrespectful little bitch down as he zeroed in on her from the other side of the lounge.

In a matter of seconds, he was by her side. Luca was determined to assure control over everything that made Torren the person she believed herself to be.

The first time he heard her voice, he realized she wasn't from the Dallas area which was the reason he even wasted his time to make the acquaintance of someone who was obviously from a smaller town. Luca simply tried to make himself available to her since she lived in his building.

Originally, his intentions were pure. She wasn't even his type, but this silly woman went so far as to bash him to others as if he was some depraved perve.

If she had bothered to get to know him before judging him, she would've understood that he had no desire to do more than just help her. Because she was a single-minded, insolent, rural little turnip, he changed his mind and made every effort to show her exactly how he felt about ignorant individuals such as herself.

The young woman would pay for being a rude high-handed wench, especially when he was only trying to be kind to her.

No longer interested in being nice, the only thing he cared about was punishing her for being a disgusting backbiting human being.

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~HIS PAST~

At times in his life when he felt it was necessary to teach a woman a lesson concerning who he was and what he found unforgivable, a small defenseless part of him was hurled back into his past. No matter how many years he'd wrestled with his inner most painful memories, hoping to forget the trauma she'd inflicted on him, Luca's love for one woman tore at his whole heart.  After all, she was the only person he could never banish from the darkest recesses of his mind.

Because of her hateful actions, though he'd lived with an awful mean streak in his soul, Luca adored the very presence of women. The biggest problem with his early experiences with the lady who should have nurtured him with her entire being was that he suffered the exact opposite causing the wounded part of him to despise vicious female harpies.