Chapter 128

Keira drove as she did everything else, with supreme confidence. Sutton thought it might be because she was the youngest. She had been very young when their parents had died.

While Keira told her about what had happened at the party she attended with her boss last

night…

“So then this diplomat’s wife shows up,” Keira was saying, barely slowing for a yellow light that she could have stopped for, “wearing the exact same designer dress as the ambassador’s mistress… who wasn’t supposed to be there in the first place and I swear to God, Sutton, you could’ve cut the tension with a knife. It wasn’t that the wife didn’t know something was going on. But golden rule never have them in the room at the same time. I would say after that little stunt the mistress is on the way out. The wife’s family is the one with the money.”

Sutton gripped the door handle as Keira took a corner too fast. “Fascinating. Could you please focus on the road before you kill us both? I’d like my baby to actually make it to birth.”

“Relax,” Keira said, though she did ease up on the gas slightly. “I’ve never had an accident.”

“I’m sure that should fill me with reassurance, but it doesn’t,” Sutton muttered.

Her phone buzzed with an incoming text. Luca again.

Luca: Are you on your way?

Sutton: Yes. Keira is driving like she is in Formula 1. Pray for me.

Luca: Should I be praying for you or for myself when you arrive?

Sutton smiled despite herself.

Sutton: Both.

Luca: I’m not that far away myself.

“Stop texting him,” Keira said, not taking her eyes off the road. “You’re supposed to be helping me practice my intimidating facial expressions for when he shows up.”

“I thought we agreed on ‘civil.””

“I’m civil. Doesn’t mean I can’t also silently communicate that I know seventeen ways to make his death look like an accident.”

Sutton rolled her eyes. “You don’t know seventeen ways to make someone’s death look like an accident.”

“I work for a prince, remember,” Keira countered. “I’ve picked things up.”

she really

sister waved a dismissive hand. “I’ll play nice. Mostly.” They pulled

things that come out of your mouth are starting to worry me,” Sutton said

just say most of the time he rubs me the wrong way, but the pay is good for all my bitching. I’m good at keeping his secrets. The fact I signed an NDA and he could sue me might also

NDA, really. She might talk to Blair and Roman, maybe even Luca. They might know more about Keira’s boss than she did. Roman and Luca moved in the same business

the door before they could even knock, looking

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loose around her shoulders,

you are!” she exclaimed, pulling them both into a hug. “Roman’s

could see her sister was brimming with… well, something. She had

Then she realized that Sutton hadn’t made up her mind about Luca yet and wasn’t sure if she was going to be So, Blair squeezed Sutton’s hand

into the family room.

them warmly. “Perfect timing. Dinner’s

asked, a

“And when he arrives, you will behave yourself. Blair has filled

have no idea what

martini. “Drink this. It might help dull your homicidal instincts. He is trying, and you don’t know the whole story.” He handed Sutton her

take all the fun out of life.” Keira

would you want Blair and Sutton involving

her pulse quicken, annoyed at herself for the reaction. She was a grown woman, for God’s sake, not some teenager with a crush. She and Luca had a past. A past they needed to work through, regardless. If they

suit was gone, replaced by a beige pair of pants and a blue dress shirt. The top

was a large bouquet of flowers, and under

the flowers and wine. “I wasn’t sure what was for

the room, but Blair broke it by talking about their few days away. Roman handed Luca a scotch, clapping him on

her. He didn’t move toward her, maybe sensing

asked quietly when the others

herself. “Tired, actually. It’s been a full–on

soft with concern. “You should have left earlier. From work

make sure everything was secure and

pause, neither quite

called, saving them from

meal was beautiful–salmon with a crispy skin, asparagus, a creamy potato dish. Blair

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as they sat down to eat,

for subtlety, set down her fork and said, “So, Luca, Roman said there

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