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“So, it’s not cheat—”

“Look at it like a triple Venn diagram,” Ginevra said, not wanting to keep letting them assume what they wanted about her relationship with the men. It would be better if they understood what it was, and that was it. “We are all individual people, but there are parts of me that overlap with one, and then another part that overlaps with the other. And there are parts of them that only overlap with each other, too, but there is a piece of all of us that overlap together. That is how it works, for us. Not everyone is the same, and no, it is not about sleeping with anyone you want.”

Or she assumed she had made that clear to Corrado and Alessio.

Now, nothing was clear.

That’s what killed her.

“Okay, so I was kind of right,” Greta said.

Giulia made a noise under her breath. “Sounds complicated.”

“Funny,” Ginevra replied.

Siena gave her a look across the island. “What is?”

“It never seemed complicated at all. Easy, really.”

More like … it was where she was meant to be.

And now, she wasn’t there at all.

Where were they?

Siena whistled. “Props to you, though, because I have a hard enough time keeping up with one man let alone two.”

Ginevra grinned at that, her cheeks heating all over again. “They … made it worth it.”

Giggles echoed from the table behind her.

Damn.

Young ears, again.

Because even if she had been very careful to explain the relationship without making it seem tawdry with sexual innuendo and details, those girls were still fifteen, and seventeen. They were still teenage girls.

“What’s their names?” Greta asked.

“Are they cute?” Giulia put in right after.

To Siena, Ginevra mouthed, “Help me.”

Siena shook her head. “Nope—on your own here.”

Perfect.

“Thanks.”

“Well?” Greta demanded.

“I’m not sure it matters. I kind of left them high and dry, and—”

“That doesn’t tell me their names.”

“Or if they’re cute,” Giulia added.

Ginevra turned around to eye both her sisters with a curious eye. “Corrado and Alessio.”