She looked uncomfortable. “I don’t know… start yelling, ‘Don’t you know who I am?’”
I chuckled. “That wouldn’t work. Nobody in Florence knows who I am.”
“Okay then – ‘Don’t you know who Iworkfor?’”
What the fuck?
First people dying in the car, now this –
She saw my expression and winced. “Sorry.”
“My jobreallybothers you, doesn’t it?” I asked.
She looked desperately unhappy. “…yeah. It does.”
I took a deep breath and exhaled. “Look… today, I’m just a guy on a date with the girl he’s crazy about. That’s it.”
Her expression softened. “…you’re crazy about me?”
I circled my arms around her waist. “Isn’t it obvious?”
She tilted her head coquettishly to the side. “Maybe you should show me.”
I leaned down and gave her a long, lingering kiss.
When I pulled away, her eyes stayed closed for a few seconds in a hypnotized trance.
When she finally opened her eyes and looked up at me, she smiled. “Okay. I’m convinced.”
“Good. Let’s just enjoy our date. Cool?”
“Cool,” she murmured, and stepped up on her tiptoes to kiss me again.
We kept kissing until the line began to move.
Luckily, once the line started moving, it moved pretty quickly.
As we passed the bald guy, I glared at him –
But Emilia tugged on my arm gently, and I didn’t say anything to him. Just gave him the stink-eye.
At least the tickets worked when we got to the window.
Didn’t exactly get to skip the line, though.
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Emilia
Iwas a little nervous when Giorgio started to lose his temper with the security guard.
He was always so happy and kind with me, that it startled me when I saw his dark side come out – even just a glimpse of it.
I reminded myself that his dark side was what had saved me from Maurizio –
But there was still a little voice in the back of my mind whispering,His entire JOB is on the dark side.
I cringed as I remembered my earlier questions – the stuff about the car andDon’t you know who I work for?
