Chapter 343

1/4

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.

Chapter 343

2/4

“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?”

the 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

he’s

Shit.

didn’t

eyelids them rather than staring at the long length of his leg that presses against me. “No, Alessi,” Kent sighs. “I’ve already told her marriage is not something

“But Natalia

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

cards.”

“It would make my father very happy,” he says slowly, “to renew the ties

Chapter 343

3/4

a tic?”

he is…not as involved in the business as wel would like. And if he continues to be unattached to the Lippert business, then it would be better for us to…renew the ties

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

a deep intake of breath. “I understand. But perhaps…we need to

lose his temper now. “Everything else that we’ve

not about the money,” Alessi snaps. “It is about the trust.”

done anything to defy your

The Novel will be updated daily. Come back and continue reading tomorrow, everyone!

Comments ()

0/255