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“Get real, Katherine. Our relationship was more or less a business arrangement. There was no love involved. Hell, I don’t even believe in the emotion, and I doubt you do either.”
“I think what we had is as close as I will get.”
“Who was on my phone?” I ask. “Did you answer it?” My gut is churning over that. I’ve done nothing wrong, but that won’t stop this from hurting Emilia.
“It wasn’t your phone,” she says, pulling out hers. It was Noah. I answered it and we fought until I hung up on him.”
“It was my ringtone.”
“It’s a factory ringtone. I have the same. Christ, Niko. Are you going to doubt every word I say? If you don’t believe me, check my phone. You’ll see the last call was just moments ago.” She holds out her phone, but I shake my head.
I head to the door and open it. My security guards are there as I knew they would be. “I’ll have Victorio take you downstairs and get you a room, or you can get him to drive you to your friend. The choice is yours, but this ends here. Hell, it should have ended when I gave you that check and said my goodbyes the first time around.”
“You’re making a mistake, Niko.”
“The only mistake I made was letting you in here tonight,” I exhale, fed up. “Victorio, see to it that Katherine is either escorted to her friend or in a room for the night.”
“Yes, sir.”
“And unless it’s Maxwell or DeLuca, I don’t wish to be bothered the rest of the night.”
“You got it.”
“Are we still having lunch Friday?” Katherine asks, and I frown. Having lunch with me should be the last thing she wants.
“Katherine, we don’t have anything else to discuss. I’ll be having lunch with my future father-in-law. If you show up, I doubt he’ll be any happier to see you than I will be. Out of respect for our past, I’m asking you to move on and find happiness elsewhere and leave me to do the same.”
“You’ll regret this, Niko. One day you will,” she huffs and for a moment her mask slips and I see her anger.”
“Let me know when you get back, Victorio.”
“Will do, sir,” he says, putting his hand on Katherine’s back to maneuver her away.
She jerks away from him and looks at me over her shoulder. “I don’t need your help. I can take care of myself.”
She stomps off, leaving me to shake my head. “Make sure she leaves and make note who she’s with,” I murmur.
Victorio nods and I go back inside. I go over and pick my phone up and scroll down to recent calls. I frown because there’s no incoming call tonight. I could have sworn that was my phone earlier. Hell, maybe Katherine was telling the truth. I click on Emilia’s name and wait for it to ring. It rings about six times before switching to her voicemail. I rub my temple. She’s probably fallen asleep.
I find it extremely annoying that she’s not as anxious to hear my voice as I am hers. I’m going to have to remind her of the magic the two of us create when I get back. I’m no longer willing to wait another year for our marriage to take place either. We will be married soon and damn it, when I go to Greece or anywhere else, she’ll be by my side. Having her here would make nights like tonight infinitely easier.
Not to mention the fact that I’d have her in my bed and be buried inside of her right now instead of thinking about slamming my cell against the wall…
CHAPTER28
Emilia
“How’s my princess.”
“I need to talk to you,” I murmur, my heart feels as if I have a knife sticking in it. A knife that Niko Petrova put there.
“Emilia?”, my father responds, sounding alarmed. I was hoping I was hiding my despair better. Apparently, I failed at that. “Are you okay?”
“I know you wanted me to marry Niko, but I can’t. You may like him, but if I married him, I think I would eventually wither and die. I just can’t do it, father.”
“This is a big transformation from yesterday. What in the world could have changed in the last twenty-four hours?”
“Niko doesn’t want to marry me, Dad.”
