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"A-n-d, you’re not fooling me, missy. You can’t get away with changing the subject that easily."
"What?" I widen my gaze. "What did I do?"
"It’s what you didn’t do. You still haven’t told me what happened with Massimo. I assume you’re not staying with him anymore?"
"How did you guess?"
"You’ve been texting me nonstop and have time to take my calls, which means, you have time to think of me, which means, you’re not with him because if you were, no way would he not have monopolized all your time."
I scowl at her. "You make me sound like a bad friend."
"And you’re guzzling that wine like it’s going out fashion."
I glance down at my wine glass to find I’ve drained it completely. "Shit."
"Yep." She presses a finger to her cheek. "So, what happened? Did you two guys fight or something?"
I slump into the sofa. "Or something," I grouse.
"Did you move out of his home?"
I remain silent.
"Holy shit, you did move out of his house. What, you guys broke up already?"
"We’re, uh, taking a short break, is all."
"A short break?" Her frown deepens.
"It was my idea."
"Your idea?" She gapes. "What the—? What do you mean, it was your idea?"
"Just that. I told him I needed a little bit of time to get my head around everything that happened."
"And what happened? What are you not telling me, Olivia?"
I blow out a breath. "I need more wine for this conversation." I take the phone with me and walk back to the kitchen, where I pour myself more wine, then balance the phone against the wine bottle.
"Don’t freak out, but remember my brother promised me to be married to some other Mafia guy?"
"I do recall you mentioning that," she replies slowly.
"Well, apparently, my brother not being on the scene didn’t matter. He made a deal and the other guy wanted to collect."
"W-h-a-t?" she exclaims.
"Yep. Alvaro—that was his name—decided to come to London and he may have, uh, briefly kidnapped me."
"Excuse me? He kidnapped you? Do you mean he took you, like that Freddie character did with Jeanne?"
I nod.
"What the—!" The phone shakes a little, then she disappears from the screen.
"Hey, Penny, you okay? Are you okay?"
"Yes, of course I am," she says crossly. "Just thought I should be sitting down while you tell me the rest of this story.”
