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I watched him out of the sides of my eyes as he drove. “Are you giving me the tour?”
“Not sure what you’re talking about, Ginevra. My orders are to follow Alexi.”
“I was promised a tour of the neighborhood and a rundown of the family businesses.”
It was his turn to look at me out of the sides of his eyes. “All of them?”
My laugh rang out sharp and bitter in the confines of the luxury SUV. “Did you forget why I’m here?”
Lorenzo sighed. “No, ma’am, I guess not.”
He didn’t say a word though, just drove in silence through the city, following the first car.
Rian: Having fun yet?
Ginevra: *middle finger emoji*
Rian: What’s it worth to you for me to ask Luca to change places with you?
Liam: Did she get stuck in the follow car?
I swiped into my chat with my brother.
Ginevra: Luca, swap places with me after the first stop.
A cleansing wave of white hot rage washed through me when my brother left me on read. This was ridiculous. “Lorenzo, I’d like to drop by the port first, do you mind?”
“I don’t think that’s a good idea, ma’am.”
“I’d like to do it anyway.”
Sighing like I’d just told him I was about to murder an entire litter of puppies, he pulled the car over and called Alexi. Alexi didn’t pick up because Alexi was driving.
“No can do, Ginevra.”
“When my father gives you an order, do you have to check with Alexi first?”
Lorenzo turned, his face furious, knowing exactly where I was going with this. “No, Ginevra, I don’t.”
“And did my father make me acapoor not?”
He shrugged. “Maybe on paper. But none of the guys are ever going to follow a chick. That’s why you were never going to be the heir.”
Lorenzo was right, of course. I was never going to be the heir—however progressive my father might have been, the other families would never accept it—but his sharp business sense had prepared me to move out to California and survive on my own. That wasn’t the fucking point, though.
“A penis wouldn’t have been able to snare the Irish into paying ten million dollars to pay off my father’s debt to the Bratva, either.”
Sofia choked back startled laughter.
“Forget it, Lorenzo,” I said, sighing deeply. “Let’s go follow Alexi and the rest of the penises.”
I slumped back in my seat.
Ginevra: Fuck you, Rian.
Rian: That’s what I’m angling for, to be honest.
Ginevra: What do you want?
