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.”

him. “Daniel and Kent drink more

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

getting why that matters, but…whatever. I put the phrase in my back pocket to use on Natalia later.

me, daughter,” my

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see your

not admitting or denying

not fooled, Fay,” he continues, his voice taking on a bit of a warning. “I can. see that you…have more

blush a little, embarrassed that it’s been that

the wood of the bench before I look

better match than passion,” he says, considering.

father thinking

he continues, “I have…other reasons for wishing you’d turn your head in a new direction. Not to Ivan, if that’s not what

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