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I cover my mouth with my hand, my fingers brushing against Kent’s bare knee pressed against my face, desperate to hush the sound of my panting breath.

A string of obscenities flics through my head as I press my eyes shut, praying frantically that Alessi didn’t see me – that he doesn’t peek around the side of Kent’s desk and see him sitting in his desk chair with no pants on.

Next to me, Kent’s leg begins to shake and tremble. And I know he has precisely the same fear.

“Not so late, Alessi,” Kent sighs, and I’m shocked to hear how composed he sounds, especially as I’m almost gasping with fear down here.

“Eh, perhaps I just remember you from our youth in Italy,” Alessi says fondly, “always carly to bed for Kent. But yes.” A pause here, and I imagine him giving a casual shrug, “perhaps things have changed.”

“What can I help you with, Alessi?” Kent says, snapping a little. I go even more still now, hoping that he doesn’t piss Alessi off. He needs to get him out of here – as fast as he can not to start a fight.

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“Just coming to speak with my brother–in–law,” Alessi murmurs, his voice a bit more sly than I’m used to. “Natalia is very…cager. To have things settled with you. Have you considered her offer?”

line of light that comes in between the floor and barrier of the desk against which I am currently pressed. I see a shadow darken the line and

he’s staying awhile.

Shit.

he didn’t move around

that presses against me. “No, Alessi,” Kent sighs. “I’ve already told her marriage is not something I’m thinking about anytime in the near future. It’s just not on the table for

“But Natalia

I assume, giving Alessi a dark glare. “But even if she was the

cards.”

happy,” he says slowly,

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enough of a tic?” Kent asks, his voice sharp.

would like. And if he continues to be unattached to the Lippert business, then it would be better for us to…renew the

going to marry her,” Kent says, his voice quiet and blunt. “So, if we need to make a tie, then we have

breath. “I understand. But perhaps…we need to make some

not enough?” Kent asks, and I can tell that he’s starting to lose his temper now. “Everything else that we’ve done? The money flows into Italy – I know how much we’ve brought

not about the money,” Alessi

never done anything to defy

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