Chapter 279

“What’s this?” I ask, taking one off the tray and smiling at the

servant.

My father tsks as he takes his own drink, waving a hand for the servant to leave. “A sin,” he says, smiling and shaking his head at me. “For my daughter to not know Aperol when she sees it.”

Curious, I take a sip from the little straw poking out of the glass and my eyes go wide when I realize how good it is. “Oh my god,” I say, looking down at it. “Oh wow, it’s delicious.”

“Of course it is,” my father laughs, patting me on the knee. “Aperol, prosecco, and tonic. A shame your Daniel has not taught you this.”

and Kent drink more whiskey than anything else,” I

says, wrinkling his nose in distaste.

that matters, but…whatever. I put the phrase in my back

brings you to me, daughter,” my

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visit to see your brother, though I’d be happy if it was.

shrug, not admitting or

pushes. “To convince me, again, that your engagement to him is real? I am not fooled, Fay,” he continues, his voice taking on a bit of a warning. “I can. see that you…have

little, embarrassed that it’s been

of the bench before I look up into his

than passion,”

thinking of me and Ivan

“I have…other reasons for wishing you’d turn your head in a new

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