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"I needed it to look authentic."
"To whom? The only people there were you, me and…"
He nods.
"Oh," I blink rapidly. "OH! You mean Larissa… She…"
"Is enough of a gossip that, by now, all of Palermo knows that my wife has left me."
I think for a minute. “But if you were pretending, she knows that too.”
“As far as she knows, I just wanted her to pretend so that you would leave. I implied there might be room for her after you were gone, but...” he shrugs.
"Hmmm. Do they know that you’ve come after me?"
He shoots me a glance and I raise my hands. "Hey, I’m only asking. I mean, you took the plane—"
"A private plane."
"Landed in London, and now you are driving around in this Maserati—"
"I cleared immigration through a private channel, whose agents are sworn to secrecy, and do you know how many Maseratis are in London?"
I shake my head.
"Let’s just say that, while it’s not my favorite city, god knows the Brits are too uptight for me, still, one advantage of being here is that it’s difficult to track anyone."
"Yeah, but you with your bodyguard and your brothers… You guys draw attention wherever you go…" my voice trails off. "So, you ditched your bodyguard?"
He nods.
“Do your brothers know where you are?”
He doesn’t answer.
"So, they don’t know you are here, either?"
He continues to focus on the road and I turn on him, "Michael, is that wise? You here on your own, without any security?"
"You worried about me?"
I snort, "Not that you can’t take care of yourself, but I am told that you are an international fugitive, so…"
He shoots me a glance, "How did you find out about that?"
When I stay quiet, he frowns, "Who have you been talking to?"
"No one."
"You’re not a good liar." He scowls as he navigates the road, "Was it one of the women? Cassandra? Did she tell you?"
"You leave her out of this, okay?"
He glances at me again, "I am not going to hurt her. You know that, right?"
"I don’t know much about you at all, Michael."
He smirks, and my cheeks heat. "I mean, I know you inthatway… But as for how your mind works or what motivates you… Well, I am only slowly coming to grips with that."
