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 smile at him. “Daniel and Kent drink more whiskey than anything

my father says, wrinkling his nose in distaste. “A betrayal but…forgivable. At least they, too,

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

brings you to me, daughter,” my father says,

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know it is not merely a visit to see your brother, though I’d be

not admitting or denying

taking on a bit of a warning. “I can. see that you…have more for Ivan, in your heart, than you do for the boy to whom

embarrassed that it’s been

the bench before I look up into his

match than passion,” he

blush again to think of my father thinking of me and Ivan in terms of passion.

he continues, “I have…other reasons for wishing you’d turn your head in a new direction.

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