Page 42 of Unraveled

He knew what her answer would be—yes, Cara liked the choker. It wasn’t the choker itself that she probably struggled with, but the idea of accepting a gift from him. After all, it had been a whole day since Chris delivered the choker, and Gian got nothing but radio silence in return. He hadn’t been particularly surprised about that, either.

When Cara didn’t immediately reply, Gian hit dial on his phone’s screen, and put it up to his ear as he headed into the restaurant. A business he owned, liked to use as an office of sorts, and had a meeting at later with Constantino and the asshole, Stephan.

They wanted to talk about what had happened with Edmond.

Gian wanted to placate the younger Capos for a bit.

“I was replying,” Cara said as soon as she picked up Gian’s call.

“You were taking too long. Probably overthinking. As I suspect you’ve been doing for the last day, bella. It’s a necklace, one that suits your style, and I wanted to see you wear it, nothing more.”

“Gian.”

“Hmm?”

“You’re being …”

“What, charming, again?” he suggested.

Cara sighed. “I’m agreeable to casual here with you—”

Yes, because apparently casual did not mean dating to Cara Rossi.

Gian didn’t give a shit.

“And that means if I want to buy you something, I can and will. You should expect it,” Gian interrupted before Cara could say more.

He swore she muttered, “You’re fucking impossible.”

“Drop the casual bit, and you’ll see how impossible I can get,” Gian urged with a smirk.

“That doesn’t exactly make me want to jump in with both feet, Gian.”

“Liar. You know it does.”

Cara didn’t reply.

Gian didn’t need her to.

She’d already told him once …

You make it hard to say no.

“I do like the choker … a lot,” Cara finally said, softly.

“Send me a picture with it on, show me.”

“You’re serious?”

“Would you like to see some of the pictures I already have of you, Cara?”

He didn’t even need to see her face to know it was red, like her hair.

Gian laughed darkly, weaving through the restaurant and ignoring the patrons as he headed to his back office. “They’re beautiful, by the way.”

Cara made a noise under her breath. “Pretty sure that was videos.”

“I took some stills of them. I have an app.”