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This conversation.
Couldn’t they take care of him and be done with it?
Bianchi’s head faced down, but I could feel the tension in his body. It permeated the room until the air was so thick, it suffocated me almost as much as my duty to this family.
A line of sweat trickled down Bianchi’s nose and dripped onto the wood, soiling the Macassar ebony milled onto the floor.
Another second passed.
Another drop of sweat on my hundred-thousand-dollar floor.
Another irritant.
Another reason to leave.
I could walk out the door right now.
Gio and Uncle Vince didn’t need me for this. But I didn’t want another lecture about the importance of joining the family business from Gio, and I didn’t want to disappoint Uncle Vince.
Decisions, decisions.
“Too bad?” Bianchi’s voice was a squeak.
Fitting for a pest.
He played the arrogant playboy well until he came face to face with the real wolves.
Us.
His tail tucked between his legs suited him, I supposed. The same way white paint suited a clown.
“I’d forgotten what she looked like. Oh, wait.” Vince turned to me. “Didn’t you see her the other day, Bastian?”
I smothered a smirk.
I made fun of Asher for being dramatic, but the truth was, he had learned that from Uncle Vince. He was mostly straight forward, but he was still a Romano.
And everything with the Romanos was a production.
If Vince set up a meeting with me, it couldn’t just be at his or my place at a regular hour. It had to be pitch dark and in the middle of nowhere.
The more fog the better.
“Hmm…” I paused, drawing out Bianchi’s suffering. “I don’t remember.”
The corner of my lips tilted upward at the shudder of Bianchi’s shoulders.
Pathetic.
Gio cleared his throat and walked around to where I sat behind my desk. “Why don’t we look at the security footage?”
I pressed a button at the bottom corner of my desk, and the wood slid back before the screens glided up and out of my desk’s false top. An image of Ariana on the phone filled one of the screens.
Gio nodded his head toward the door, a gesture for me to see what was up with her. I stood, relieved to be out of here.
Maybe I could salvage this night. Deal with Ariana, then head to Rogue to find an easy lay.
I strolled past my desk, ignoring the pathetic waste of oxygen on the floor. Turning the knob, I pushed the door open, and my eyes landed on Ariana’s ass.
