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“Isabelle Barbieri.”
All the colour drained from my face. The daughter of Diego Barbieri, Don of the largest Mafia family in Southern Italy. Fuck. They had an alliance. They were starting a war.
The silence spoke volumes. “Does Boss know?”
“Probably.”
I stood up and ran my hand through my hair. This shit just keeps getting better and better. Fuck. I turned abruptly and punched a hole into mamma’s wall.
“Giovanni! I just had that redecorated!” She scolded me.
“We need to work quickly if we are going to get you and Cami out of this marriage but still keep our alliance with Aiani. We are going to need him more than ever now,” Max said calmly. How was he so calm? Wait. Why was he here and calling her that?
“Cami?” I spat. Why was he so familiar with her? Panic flickered across his eyes, but he kept his face neutral. “Where is Camilla?”
“Upstairs.”
I froze when I heard Toni’s voice and then a feminine voice in the lobby. I turned and looked at mamma and then Max as his eyes widened slightly. Toni was talking to Camilla. And they were heading upstairs. Probably to my office. Fuck, Olivia. I raced out towards the lobby and up the stairs. I could see them entering my office and my heart pounded in my chest.
“What are you doing here, nanny?” Toni’s accusing, harsh tone made anger rise in me. I managed to get to the door and pushed past them both to see Liv standing behind my desk with a pale face and wide eyes. She was holding something in her hands. A file. My eyes flickered down at it and then back up to hers as they portrayed her pain. Her file. Fuck. No.
“You knew?” her voice was a broken whisper, and I froze.
“Who is this?” I heard Camilla’s sickly soft voice behind me, but I couldn't move. Liv’s eyes moved to Camilla and took her in, looking her up and down.
“Olivia. Who are you?”
“I’m Camilla.”
“Giovanni’s fiancé,” Toni added. My blood ran cold. Olivia’s tortured eyes darted at mine and something inside me broke at the hurt in them. She bent over slightly as all the air was knocked out of her lungs and she was struggling to breathe. I still didn’t move. I was frozen in time.
“You’re engaged?” She screamed breathlessly. I snapped out of my trance as she came hurtling towards the door, trying to escape. I grabbed her arm to pull her back.
“Liv! It is not what you think. Please. Hear me out.”
“Get your hands off me!” she snarled. The look of pure rage and hatred in her eyes had me release her. She stormed past us.
“I don’t understand…” Camilla whispered but Liv heard her. She turned on her heels and glared at my fake fiancé.
“Don’t worry. He is all yours. I am just the nanny he fucked,” she hissed with venom and raced out the room. Ignoring the smirk on Toni’s face and the shock on Camilla’s, I shoved passed them after her.
“Liv! Olivia! Wait!”
I was intercepted by Max, who grabbed my shoulders firmly and stopped me reaching her as she catapulted out the front door.
“Let her go!” He hissed but I tried to push him off. “You go after her, you fuck everything up! Toni just saw all of that!” Mamma came running through the lobby and gave me a concerned look. “Go after her, Cecilia!” Max growled.
She nodded and ran out the door, her heels clicking against the stone floor.
“Breathe Gio. Get yourself under control and go back up there and make it seem like you don’t care. That you were just fucking her. You must! For her safety and to not screw up this alliance!” Max growled and I closed my eyes, trying to get my erratic breathing under control. I had just got her back, only to lose her all over again.
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Olivia
My body was trembling uncontrollably from the shock and pure rage. I had to get out of there. Away from him. How could I have been so foolish? To believe that he wanted anything more with me than to be his little sidepiece. His distraction.
I was just getting my head around who he was and what it meant for us. I accepted it to be with him. To take a chance and see where this could go. I was willing to give up my life as I knew it... for him. And all the while, he was engaged to another woman?! The most perfect model of a woman with blonde hair that hung halfway down her fake tits and a figure that would stop men in their tracks. She was as pretty as she was sexy and the kind of woman I had always imagined Giovanni to be with.
