Dimitri was in the kitchen. She could hear him moving around, the quiet sounds of him making food that she hadn't asked for and he wouldn't announce until it was ready. Another new thing. Another layer of the man she was still mapping.
She was thinking about Nonna's words.
There will be people who want to use you to get to him.
There will be enemies you cannot see coming.
There is no leaving the Valentino world cleanly once you are truly in it.
She'd meant every word she'd said in response. She wasn't running. She'd chosen this with open eyes and she'd choose it again tomorrow and the day after that.
But Nonna was right that choosing it and living it were different things. And Eve was still learning the distance between them.
The elevator chimed.
Eve looked up from pure reflex....the elevator didn't chime unless someone was coming up, and the only people with access to this floor were...
The doors opened.
Mike walked out.
For one suspended second, nobody moved.
