*Elio*
‘Why is Alessandro calling me?’ I asked myself.
I was so happy Cat had agreed to spend the day out with me. Having driven through L.A. nearly on a daily basis and seeing all the incredible artwork on display, I just knew that it would be right up her alley.
There were multiple points throughout yesterday’s disaster that truly had me thinking that things were over between us.
That conversation I’d been having with Matilde was not meant to be heard beyond those four walls. And the look that Caterina gave us haunted me for hours. It was a mixture of pure disbelief laced with shattered betrayal.
When her eyes filled with tears and her brows knitted together in anguished confusion, I knew right then and there that there was no way of getting out of the truth. I’d spent so many years strategically keeping Cat hidden from the unsightly business that had clouded my family history, including that of her father’s.
