“There are times when I don’t.”
“It seems like you work a lot.”
“After the tariffs are paid, it usually slows down.”
“When is that?”
“At the end of the month.”
“Like, now?” I asked.
He nodded as he chewed a bite of his steak. “I’m not working tonight.”
“You aren’t?” I asked, a little too enthusiastically.
He took another bite and nodded.
“So I have you all to myselfallnight?”
When he swallowed, the smirk started to come back.
This was the Luca that I liked. The one who dropped his guard. The one who wasn’t hostile or irritated for almost no reason at all.
“Looks that way.”
“Ooh…I’m a lucky girl.”
He continued to eat the rest of his dinner, his smirk fading when his hunger returned. He wiped up the rest of the juice from his steak with a piece of bread and ate that in a single bite like he was a bottomless pit. “Congratulations on the job. When do you start?”
“Tomorrow.”
“Good for you.”
I remembered the look the guys had given each other when we’d talked about my new position at Diamant. Definitely suspicious. “Did you have something to do with that?” I felt ridiculous asking the questions, but my instincts about things were almost always right. It was the reason I was still alive right now.
He took a drink of his scotch. “Why do you ask that?”
“You and Bastien shared this…look.”
Luca set down his glass and looked at me. Just stared.
I waited for him to say something.
I hadn’t actually believed he’d interfered, but the longer the silence went on, the more I suspected something. “Did you tell them to give me that job?”
The stare continued, focused and hard.
“Why aren’t you answering the question?”
“I don’t lie.”
“Okay…then answer the question.”
He stayed quiet.
“What is happening right now?”
“Some things are better left unsaid.”
