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“True, and in so many ways, she is so innocent; it would never have crossed her mind before now.”
“You’ve fallen hard for her in a short space of time.”
“Like you didn’t?”
He shrugs. “I adore her. She is everything I need in my life, and I’m not losing her, Dante,” he says softly, seriously, and I hear the threat behind his words.
“I’m not going to hurt her. I told her we would go at her pace if she decided she wanted to explore something with me.”
He nods slowly. “I hope you mean that.”
“I do with everything that I have. I’m stunned by how much she has affected me. The thought of waking up back at home tomorrow in my empty bed, my empty apartment, to do the same thing over and over on repeat, just going through the motions, is a bleak and frightening prospect.”
“That’s exactly how I feel. I don’t know why or how Sophia arranged this, but I know she didn’t just randomly pick Isla out to housekeep this old place.”
“She was looking for a wife for you. I see that. But where do I fit in? She left a trail, and that’s how I found you.”
“Maybe in her meddling ways, she wanted us to make up.”
“Sounds like Sophia.”
He smiles fondly, but then clears his throat. “Do you think we can trust Sebastian?”
“He’s always been a straight shooter, pardon the pun. He is renowned for hating liars, so I guess we have to accept he is telling the truth and take it one day at a time.”
“Like every other day here, then.”
“Damn, you really isolated yourself, didn’t you?” I sit back, feeling happier than I have in a while. I’m well fed, I have a crush on an angel, and I’ve made up with the man I thought I would kill one day for betraying me. Life is full of surprises right now.
“Had to. You know I have to move now, though, right?” He sounds pissed off as all fuck about that.
“Fuck that. I’m not going to tell anyone, and I don’t think Sebastian will. It will hurt Isla, and his infatuation with her has him on his best behaviour.”
“Like all of us then,” he snickers.
“Who’d have thought?”
He agrees silently, and we sit back, contemplating this change in our relationship and where the fuck we are supposed to go from here.
46
ISLA
Stifling my squeal of surprise when I see Sebastian loitering in the hallway, I turn the vacuum off and glare at him.
“Hey,” he says casually. “I washed up my dishes.”
“There’s a dishwasher.”
“I know, but I figured I might as well.”
“Did you do the other’s dishes too?”
“No, I finished before them.”
“Oh.”
“Thank you, it was glorious.”
