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.”

really hoped Keira

hand. “I’ll play nice. Mostly.” They pulled up at

the things that come out of your mouth are starting to

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 have something to

didn’t hear that.” 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 world

door before they could even knock, looking

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loose around her shoulders,

are!” she exclaimed, pulling them both into a hug. “Roman’s made cocktails… virgin for

was brimming with… well, something. She had seemed content with Dan, But with Roman,

about

led them into the family room. Roman stood at the bar,

them warmly.

asked,

look. “And when he arrives, you will behave yourself. Blair has filled me in on your revenge

her eyelashes. “I have no idea

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

fun out of

have yours, and would you want Blair and Sutton involving themselves in your love life?” It was a

answer it. Sutton felt 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.

He must have gone home and changed. His suit was gone, replaced by a beige pair of pants and a blue dress shirt. The top buttons of his shirt

of flowers, and under his other arm

handed over the flowers and wine. “I wasn’t sure what was for dinner, so

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

feel Luca’s eyes on her. He didn’t move toward her, maybe sensing she needed space

he asked quietly when the others had moved

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

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

wanted to make sure everything was secure and

pause, neither quite sure how to act around

Blair called, saving them from the

with a crispy skin, asparagus, a creamy potato dish. Blair really was the best cook out of the three

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as they sat down to eat, Roman and Blair sharing stories from their

never one for subtlety, set down her fork and said, “So, Luca, Roman said there

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