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She looks up at me, worry darkening her gaze. "Have you considered therapy? I think you might have anger management issues."
Orion turns his laugh into a cough, but Helios nearly falls off his own chair in hilarity.
Ignoring them, I take Lucia's hand in mine. "Been there. Done that. My mother made me go after my rescue."
The psychologist was connected to the life and even she couldn't know it all. I read once that for therapy to work, you have to be honest. Since there was more that I couldn't tell her than I could, the sessions were doomed to fail.
"This is as good as it gets."
I don't know what Lucia sees in my face, but hers goes all gooey and she caresses my cheek. "It's pretty darn wonderful from where I'm sitting."
"You'd better keep her, Atlas. She's the only woman with rose colored glasses tinted enough to see you as boyfriend material through them," Orion offers his two-cents.
Lucia turns a censorious glare on my brother. "I have twenty-twenty vision and you should be more affirming of your brother."
While she and Orion trade barbs, Zephyr joining in to back them both up, Zeus gives me a disapproving glare which I ignore.
My cousin knows better than to say shit about Lucia seeing his stamina. He had his warning in Zeus's office last week.
"What time do you need to get to the club?" I ask Lucia again, when I'm on my second cup of coffee.
She sighs. "I should be there already. I'll need to leave right after breakfast. I can get a rideshare though, if you have things to do."
"I will drive you." Like hell is she getting into a car with a stranger. "You work too much."
"Whereas you are not working enough," Zeus says.
When Lucia bites her lip and starts looking guilty, my hand itches to toss a throwing knife at him. I would hit him in the fleshy part of his arm. He is myanaxand brother, after all.
"I'm doing everything I'm supposed to," I remind him.
He tips his coffee cup to swallow the last sip and then sets the empty mug down. "Are you though?"
Enough of this shit. I stand up. "Let's go,ílios mou."
"It sounds like Zeus needs you. Let me get a cab back. It's not a big deal."
The look I give my brother should set his head on fire.
He doesn't see it because he's frowning at Lucia. "You aren't taking a damn cab back to your club."
Finally, he says something that makes sense.
"Don't worry about Zeus," Orion says to Lucia. "If he's not busting somebody's balls, he's not happy."
"For that, you can drive Lucia home. I need to meet with Atlas."
I'm about to tell him to shove his meeting right up his ass when I notice the expression on Lucia's beautiful face. She looks stressed. I don't like it.
"You okay,ílios mou?" I ask her.
"I don't want to cause trouble between you and your brothers."
"You're not causing any trouble," Zeus and I say at the same time.
Lucia smiles. "Have you thought about taking that act on the road?"
"I'm happy to drive you home," Orion says. "I want to see Nuovi Inizi. Atlas has talked it up and I want to see if it lives up to the hype of a man whose dick is addicted to the owner."
