“Me too,” I murmured, “But I really think this time will work out. Older and wiser and all that. I’ll be able to assess the situation better once I’m there. If I don’t like how it’s looking, I’ll step in.”
“Even if it breaks her heart?” Klaus called out softly.
“Especially then because I won’t let a motherfucker ever hurt her again,” I said, turning the volume back up on the TV. I’d let shit go already when Cole was ghosting her. It wouldn’t happen a second time; that much I knew.
47
ENZO
“What are you doing?” I demanded as I walked into my office to find Jade holding my phone.
“Oh, uh.” Her cheeks flushed pink. “I was just putting something into your calendar. A meeting with Alan Winkle.”
I grunted, grabbed my phone from her, and stuffed it into my pocket before settling behind my desk. I tossed a file onto it, but before I could even open the damn thing, Jade slid in front of me and sat her ass on it.
I stared up at her as she leaned in.
“You still haven’t talked to me,” she murmured, her eyes searching my face. She reached out and adjusted my tie.
“There’s nothing to talk about.” I pushed her hand away, and she jutted her bottom lip out.
“What about us? You said you wanted me.”
I said nothing as I stared back at her. I had the sudden morbid thought that she’d look damn good in a casket. Fuck me for that.
“There is no us,” I said firmly.
“Enzo—”
I sighed and rubbed my hand down my face. I’d reached the point where I knew I wanted back with Rosalie, but I had no fucking idea how to leave my life behind and join her and the guys. It wasn’t something I could just do. It would take many steps. I’d obviously keep my company since I suffered to have it, but the mafia life… Fuck. It meant giving up what my parents died for.
“I’m seeing someone,” I said.
Jade stared at me for a moment before speaking. “Is that who you were with the other day? In your bedroom?”
“Yes.”
She was quiet again. I wanted her to get off my desk so I could get back to work, but I knew she could be a little dramatic, and I wanted this matter to be dealt with swiftly.
“I-I’m OK being on the side. We see each other daily. I can give you everything you need, Enzo. Like right now…” She slid onto my lap and straddled me. “I bet I’m better than she is.”
“Jade, I am only going to tell you this one time,” I said, my voice soft.
“Yeah?”
“Don’t fucking touch me.”
She blinked at me.
“Get the fuck off my lap.”
When she didn’t move, I stood abruptly and put her on her feet.
“You may not know this about me, but allow me to give you a lesson. When I am with someone I love, I am with them. In all ways. I am not interested in side pieces. Only my girl. So whatever you think is going on here, it’s not. If I led you on at some point, that’s on me, and I’m sorry for doing so, but I am not interested.”
Tears filled her eyes as she stared at me.
“Is it that singer? Bishop? She was at your house with Cole… Does he know you’re fucking his girlfriend? Does her husband know?”
