#* valeria

It'd been a rather off handed idea. Asking Valeria to come with him tonight. They'd never discussed exactly what this was, or where it was going and something about stepping into the very public light with the district attorney felt like it should have come with some kind of conversation. Until now, it'd been late nights and early mornings at small hole in the wall establishments she'd wanted to show him. Scattered across the city in small patches of bloom that pieced together the kind of woman she was. The request had slipped from his mouth before he'd really thought about the implications - and how he'd have to play his hand when the questions began. But for now, Luca was deigned to pull her a little tighter against his side as she spoke about the pigheaded politician they'd just passed just quietly enough for him to hear - the splash of laughter that curled around her words breathing warmth into the coldest corners of a cavernous chest. "Shhh," he hummed, the corner of his own mouth betraying him all the same, "You're going to get yourself in trouble and I don't think I can save you from that one."