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“Good morning ladies,” he smiled at us both, but his eyes lingered on me a little longer. “Sleep well?” he asked with a smirk.
“Yes, thank you, you?” I replied, not able to hold his heated gaze. I think I was about to combust.
“Very.”
Cecilia looked between us with curiosity, and I swear I saw a secret smile teasing at the edges of her lips. “Shall we go mamma? Get this over with?” He asked and she hopped off her stool and said goodbye to Sani and Raya. Taking the few seconds we had without prying eyes, Giovanni leaned into me, his lips against my ear and whispered, “I haven’t been able to get you or the taste of those sweet lips off my mind all night. Later bambola.”
My heart pounded, blood rushed to my ears and my core pulsed in anticipation. Holy shit. He had already walked away with that arrogant swagger as Cecilia waved goodbye to me, which I barely registered, and then they were gone.
“Right munchkins, let's get wrapped up warm and out in the snow!” I shouted over to the kids and they both cheered. Head in the game Liv. Children first. Sex later. My priorities are skewed. I laughed at myself.
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Giovanni
“Good night last night?” Mamma prodded as the car zoomed down the mountains towards the nearest city.
“Hmmhm,” I hummed as I tapped away replies to texts that were coming through thick and fast. We never had any signal up at the lodge and now suddenly the world has woken up and apparently no one can do a fucking thing without me while I am out of the country.
“Did you and Olivia talk?” I vaguely heard her ask as I frowned deeply, reading Niccola’s message about seeing Riccardo Leone in Verona at one of our fucking restaurants. That was taking the piss. It is an unwritten law that we stay out of each other’s territories unless someone wants to get a bullet in their head. But to have dinner in a restaurant I owned was disrespectful. He was sending me a message. A warning.
“Hmm,” I muttered back as I told Niccola to keep surveillance footage of the restaurant and send it to me.
“Did you finally tell her how you feel about her?”
“Hmmhm,” I replied, until I registered what she said, and my head shot up. Glancing over at her, her face was plastered with a knowing smile, and I froze. “What?”
“Did you finally tell her how much you like her? Did anything happen between you?” she leaned against the car door so she could stare directly into my eyes.
“What are you talking about mamma?” I glanced back at my phone, but I could no longer focus on the messages. Does she know?
“Oh, don’t give me that, Giovanni. I have known from the moment she walked into the interview weeks ago.”
I stared wide-eyed at her as a manipulative grin lit up her face. “What are you- “
“Why do you think I wanted to hire a girl with no qualifications and limited experience so badly? You may not have known it then, but I sure as hell did,” she chuckled.
I felt my eyebrows pull in and a deep frown set on my face. What the hell was she going on about? “Mamma, what are you talking about? Know what? You are not making any sense.”
She groaned and raised her hand to her head. “You men are all the same! You think with your cocks before you think with your heads. It was only a matter of time before you realised that you wanted more than just to sleep with her.”
I scoffed and shook my head. “What makes you so sure that isn’t just what I want?”
“Because I have seen it. What is between you two, is deeper than just a physical connection. Even if you try to deny it, you are falling for the girl Giovanni.”
I burst out laughing. That tickled me. “Mamma, I do not fall for women no matter how beautiful or amazing they are.”
“So, what are you doing then?” She fixed a stern gaze on me, and I felt her challenging me to try and lie to her. I sighed.
“I don’t know. I like her. I will admit that. She is different from anyone I have ever met and I...”
“And you...” she pressed.
“I care about her.”
“Did you sleep with her? Last night?”
I groaned. Oh, why on Earth was I having this conversation with my mother of all people and right now?
