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“I’m not looking to break her heart, Kat. I need to tell her…” I swallow the words. Mia should hear them first.
My tormented expression must give me away because she offers me a faint reassuring smile. “She’s in the presidential suite at the hotel.”
“Our hotel?”
“Of course.”
Thank fuck for that. She’s safe and easy to find. “Thank you, Kat.”
“If you hurt her again…” She scowls.
“I won’t.”
She continues to glower at me, and the icy look in her eyes actually makes me a little nervous. This woman knows her way around a scalpel.
“He said he won’t hurt her, kitten.” Dante pushes his wife against the sofa cushions and silences any further concerns she might have with a kiss. I’ll have to thank him for distracting her later. I’ve got more important things to do right now. Like begging the woman I love for her forgiveness.
ChapterFifty-Six
MIA
“So apartment hunting was a bust, huh?” Joey perches on the edge of the sofa in my hotel room. Well, it’s not a room so much as a huge suite that I’m sure costs more a night than I’ve ever made in a month. I saw four places today and none of them were suitable. Kat said I should come back “home” to the mansion, but when I told her I couldn’t bear to face him, she insisted I stay here instead.
“Yeah. There’s not a lot available for my budget.” I have money in savings from my time in Iowa, but it won’t get me far. “I’ll find somewhere soon though. I promise.”
Frowning, she shakes her head. “You can stay here as long as you need to.”
“I can’t. You must be losing what, like a thousand bucks a night letting me stay here? I’d be happy in any room.”
“Actually, this is one of the few available rooms tonight. We keep suites like these open for our exclusive celebrity clients and high rollers, and we don’t have any in town this week. Besides, you’re family. You only get the very best.” Her warmth and generosity nearly bring me to tears.
“Well, I’ll be out of here as soon as possible. I have a bunch of apartments lined up to see tomorrow too. I’m sure one of them will be a good fit…” How can anything compare to the life I thought was mine just a few days ago? The future I imagined with her brother. God, she looks so much like him.
“Lorenzo is a jackass.” She pushes to her feet and gives my shoulder a gentle squeeze. Is it so obvious that I was thinking about him? She regards me with curiosity. “But I saw the way he looked at you the other night. If you want him, Mia…”
“What?” I blink at her.
“If you want him, he’s yours. My brother doesn’t fall often but when he does, he falls hard. I’ve only ever seen him look at one other woman the way he looks at you.” She leans down and places a soft kiss on the top of my head. “I have to get home or Max will send out a search party. Ring the desk for anything you need.”
“Thanks, Joey.”
“My pleasure.”
* * *
At a lossfor what to do with myself, I pace around the spacious suite. I tried meditation earlier, but I couldn’t clear my mind. Every time I closed my eyes, all I saw was Lorenzo’s face. Asshole.
A knock at the door makes me jump. Kat called a little while ago and said someone was on their way over with my things.
Smiling, I open the door and his familiar face twists in a triumphant sneer.
My heart drops through my stomach. Oh god. How did he—
“Thought you could hide from me forever, Mia?”
Adrenaline thunders around my body. I can’t breathe. Can’t get my body to cooperate with the message screaming in my head—close the fucking door!He takes the opportunity to push his way inside my hotel room. I stagger back, but he catches my wrist, his brutish grip sending a sharp pain up my forearm. The memory of his touch makes my skin crawl, like a million scurrying ants have taken up residence.
I try to wrench from his grip. “G-get your h-hands off me.”
