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“I can’t wait to buy her her first fairy princess dress,” Katherine teases again.
“This is so weird,” I mumble quietly to Jasper. “Is this what having friends is like?”
“Nah,” Luca answers, eavesdropping. “You won’t find a better friend group. And we're not even all here.”
“Ah!” Arianna yells excitedly. “Yes! You have to meet Jules, Angelo, and Marco!”
“Marco is Arianna’s favorite brother,” Katherine says, winking at Lorenzo.
“Caterina and Vito too,” Gio adds.
“I’ve had one friend like my whole life, and she was my boss,” I admit. “I’m a little unconvinced this is real life.”
“Ugh, I used to be the same way. Long depressing story, but it’s okay. You’re one of us now.”
I almost cry. Luckily the food arrives and I’m able to distract myself until the emotion backs off. We eat, laugh and sip our drinks for what feels like hours. Everything is going very smoothly until Jasper comes back from the bathroom scowling.
“Why the angry face?” Gio beats me to the question.
“Waitress can’t take a hint,” he says dismissively.
Katherine’s face turns scary. “She hit on you? Our waitress?”
Jasper nods. “She figured Dix was with Luca. I’m assuming she doesn’t see very many throuples. She thought I was trying to brush her off, given that Dixie“looks like she could be my daughter.”
“What?” Arianna demands.
“I’m gonna stab her,” Katherine hisses, looking around for the woman to return with the receipt. Lorenzo discretely moves her dinner knife out of her reach.
I’m honestly too stunned to speak. I mean, who does that? He’s not wearing a ring but no means no. And I donotlook like I could be his daughter. I don’t even notice that she’s returned to the table until Katherine starts tearing her apart.
“You think harassing a customer is okay, do you? Even if he were single, which he’s fucking not. You’re not even close to being on his level. Fucking $30 manicure, clip-in-extension-wearing-ass-bitch. No means no, you classless twat. I will–”
Lorenzo cuts off her threat with a cough, but she doesn’t stop. She simply continues to cuss her out in Spanish while Arianna nods after every sentence, muttering “uh huhs” and “that’s right.”
If someone yelled at me like Katherine is doing to this woman, I would probably cry. This girl, though, crosses her arms and grinds her molars like she’s being inconvenienced, when I’m pretty positive her life is being threatened.
Her manager fires her in front of us. Gio doesn’t let him apologize and brushes it off with a friendly handshake. The man seems utterly relieved as he walks us out.
Jasper and Luca are still laughing about it as we pile into an SUV. Apparently on our way to see Arianna’s new home. She says the remodels have been the only thing keeping her sane these days.
When Katherine takes her seat next to me, I ask her what she even said to the woman because I couldn’t pick up a single word, since she spoke far too quickly.
She shrugs. “I told her that homewreckers were scum and that if she were on fire I would push her into a pool, dry her off, and then set her aflame again. A few times.”
“You also cursed her future orgasms to be unfulfilling,” Lorenzo says, amused.
“‘Sandpaper tongued lovers’was in there somewhere,” Arianna giggles. “She’s used that one before.”
“You’re kinda awesome, you know that?”
She smirks. “Duh.”
The ride doesn’t take long, but it’s full of more out-of-pocket conversations and half-hearted arguments. The small city disappears, morphing into a countryside area. A few mansions sit on large plots of land every few miles. It’s like those gated home communities celebrities live in, only better. There’s space, little mountains and trees scattered about. It’s a heavenly sight to a girl like me.
When we pull into the driveway of our destination, I’m baffled. No one talks as we get out, each stepping onto the cobblestones. Looking around with wide eyes, I stagger backward, running into the hard chest of my lover.
“Jasper, it looks just like–”
