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“Oh my fucking goodness. Stella.” That wasn’t me. Bianca had appeared from nowhere. Apparently, she had been listening.
I rubbed Matteo's head, ruffling his thick, black hair. “You’re a genius, boy. I would ask you where you get your videos from, but I know you’d want to keep those a secret.”
He winked at me. “Right. A detective never divulges his strategies.” Then, he raced upstairs, elated. What a smart, crazy young man. I’d think he would actually make a great detective when he’s older, because he literally just did right now, what none of these cops had been able to do. And, as I was thinking, Bianca scooted over to me.
“Hi, what’s up?”What’s up?It seemed like an ambush if you asked me. I didn’t say anything because how was I going to say, really. What was I going to tell this eighteen year old girl who probably, or rather, definitely knew I was fucking her dad? “Well, he’d never felt this free with any of my dad’s girlfriends before.”
Woah! Girlfriends?No, I guess I didn’t need to react. Well, not yet, actually. So, I let her continue talking.
“Yeah, my dad’s a player, big shocker. So, I was pretty much concerned about you, and annoyed. But, I think you’re okay. For one, you actually care about this dainty town. And two, you love mysteries.”
I wanted to hug her, but I didn’t know if I would be pushing my boundaries so I smiled. “Thank you.” And thanks to Luca's smart ass children, Stella was going down. I knew she sabotaged the fundraiser, the restaurant, the fires, and her father was in charge of the cover up of the mishap twenty years ago. Truly, she was the missing piece to everything.
ChapterTwenty-Four
There was just an unusual glow on Ryan’s face this morning and I could only attribute that to two things: He was having incredible sex with that police officer, or he knew I had some gossip and he wanted to hear it fully from the horse’s mouth. Gosh, Ryan loved horses. If he was just going to pry I knew what to say instantly. I would bring up the cop and ask if he had a master dick like a horse. I bet that was guaranteed to make Ryan squeal.
“Hey, how are you doing?” He asked me, his face beaming. I really wanted to point out the glow on his face but I figured I’d just do that later.
“I'm cool. But you know who is definitely cooler?” I knew what he was about to say. “You. I saw you and dear Mr. Silvestri at you know what? On you know where? Doing you know what?”
“oh, please, you’re such a blabbermouth. Nothing happened.”
“sure you can tell that to the vegetation that heard your screams.”
“please Holden is still in the hospital. I need to go visit him.”
I picked up my bag and left him there, grinning. But, then, he called me back.
“what?”
“haven’t you heard?”
“Holden’s still not woken up yet"
“How did you know that?”
“I just do. Now you need to get me up to speed with the happenings at work.” He snapped his fingers. “what’s the dish girl?”
Ryan never ceased to amaze me. How quickly he could turn a glum situation into something very exciting. He was that interesting like that. He was not going to ask me about what had been going on in the office but I was going to tell him. I needed him then and he needed to know how much I missed him when everything was going on. I filled him in on the happenings at work. How things had been weird having only me and Luca at work, alone. The sparks that flew in the air, the tension that erupted simultaneously. And just the glares between us that we kept exchanging.
I asked him if he remembers when Luca tried to turn me against Holden and he said yes and I started to explain from there. He was shocked.
“So, you guys had sex right here? In this office?”
“Well, almost. The first time I just bailed.”
“And when was the second time?”
“The second time was just before Stella came in.”
“so you just went to third base?”
“Nah, first base.”
“So you went beyond kissing?”
“Oh my god boy, I shouldn’t be telling you these. You’re such a gossip.” I laughed and he chattered away. And it was at that moment that Luca entered. He looked so elated I didn’t know what was going on with him. He probably had good news from the mayor that he was going to share with us. I couldn’t wait to hear. He looked at me so charmingly I felt the temperature drip a few degrees. I think I sensed him surge forward to me, or maybe it was in my head. It also seemed as though he got darker during the trip. Honestly, I couldn’t believe it had been three days already. Oh, how time flew. Who was I kidding? I spent everyday thinking about him, how he would laugh at my jokes and hear me speak. How he would listen and run his fingers through my hair, how he would smile at me and make me feel like I was the only one in the room with him. Like, how he was doing now. Someone would think Ryan wasn’t there with us, but oh, niy he was. And he was definitely feeling the heat, because you know, I was.
