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“Antonio.” I could hear Alessandro’s voice before I saw his face as he entered the office. Obviously, he knew something was up.
“I’m here,” I said, standing up from behind the dark mahogany wooden desk and headed over to him. I was glad for the distraction. Every time I thought of Callie’s parting words, I felt more and more pissed off.
“What’s going on?” he said, shaking his head as he looked around the trashed room. I may or may not have thrown a stack of folders against the wall, and there was paperwork everywhere.
“We got a little bit of a problem,” I said, sighing.
“Fuck. What now?” He headed over to the side of the room and then looked out the window. “What’s going on?”
“Dad saw Callie last night.”
“Okay, and?”
“He said her mother’s name.”
“Shit. He recognized her?”
“I guess they look the same.” I shrugged. “I don’t know.”
“But how does he even know what she looked like?”
“I’m sure he’s got a dossier on Paul Rowney and his family as well,” I said, turning toward him. “Anyway, I’ve had to pivot. There’s a new plan.”
“So, what’s the new plan?” Antonio raised an eyebrow and leaned back against the wall.
“I told her part of the truth.”
“Fuck. What did you tell her, Antonio?” Alessandro sat at the corner of the desk, shaking his head. He looked at his phone, and I could feel myself growing angry at his loss of attention.
“Something important?”
“I messaged Gia,” he said. “I was looking to see if she responded to me.”
I nodded slowly. “So you guys are talking again?”
“I guess not,” he said, looking frustrated as he put his phone back in his pocket.
“What went on there, Alessandro?”
“I think we’ve got other things to deal with right now. So what the fuck did you tell her?”
“I told her that her father slept with Mom.”
“Okay.”
“I told her that her father killed Mom.” Alessandro’s face darkened.
“He deserves to die for what he did.” He looked murderous.
“I told her I wanted revenge. I wanted her father to suffer and that by her dating me, he’d suffer.”
“Okay. That’s all you told her?”
“Just some bread crumbs,” I said with a cruel smile. “I wanted her to see that I’m not such a bad man. Sure, I did a bad thing, but it was for a reason. I didn’t want to hurt her. I just wanted to get her father angry.”
Alessandro chuckled. “And she bought it?”
“She left angry. She’s pissed at me. She hates me. Jimmy texted and said that she said she never wants to see me again.”
