Page 119 of Valentino

Click. I hang up.

“What’s going on?” Romeo asks.

“We got a bug in the new commissioner’s car.” I type into my computer to search up the software details. “I’ll email them to you now.”

“Okay. What am I looking for?”

“Any intel on Lombardi.”

“Yep.”

“I want to know where Carlo is in real time.”

He nods. “How are we going with that, I thought he would have showed. Any bite on Anna yet?”

I smirk before realizing, then quickly drop my face.

“Fuck off,” he snaps. “You did not.”

“Sshh.” I frown. “Keep your voice down.”

“You fucked Anna?” His eyes are wide.

“No.” I widen my eyes back.

“You know I won’t say anything,” he whispers. “You can tell me.”

My eyes hold his, and I do know I can trust him with my life. “I didn’t fuck Anna.” I twist my lips. “I may have spent some time…” I tilt my head, “…naked with her.”

He smirks. “Was it what you imagined?”

“A million times better.”

He breaks into a broad smile. “Good for you, man.”

“Don’t tell anybody.”

“Why not?”

“It probably won’t amount to anything.”

“Okay I won’t.” He thinks for a moment. “Carlo is going to go fucking batshit crazy when he finds out.”

I smile as I imagine that day.

“Oh that reminds me, the boys grabbed a few boxes of paperwork from Carlo’s office last night. You’ll need to look through it today to see if you need anything before it’s destroyed. We can’t keep it here, obviously, in case our beloved commissioner decides to search the office.”

“Fuck that commissioner,” I fume. “He needs to be sorted.”

“We’re working on it.”

“Yeah well, hurry the fuck up about it. I’m not tiptoeing around town waiting for him to come on the payroll.”

“Just….” He shrugs. “Don’t do anything rash.”

“If he stays out of my way . . .” my eyes hold his, “I’ll stay out of his.”

“You can’t kill a cop,” he murmurs.