What if I say

"What if I say you can be cured?"

Her eyes widened, disbelief flashing across her face before it twisted into something far sharper. Her hands clenched into trembling fists, her nails digging into her palms as anger surged like wildfire through her chest.

"What did you just say?" she hissed, her voice low and trembling with barely restrained fury.

Luca raised a brow, seemingly unfazed by the sudden shift in her demeanor. "I said—"

"I heard what you said!" she snapped, her voice rising. Her amber eyes blazed with a mix of fury and pain as she glared at him, her body trembling. "How dare you say something like that?"

He opened his mouth, but she cut him off, her voice trembling as years of bitterness and heartbreak poured out.

"Do you have any idea what you're saying?!" she shouted. "Do you know how many people have come to me with promises like that? How many liars have claimed they could cure me?"