Seducing the enemy

Angelica

What the hell was I doing? I wasn’t supposed to be doing this. I should be downstairs, serving drinks and finding out who was close to Curtis and who could be useful. I could pour drinks and sashay down the aisles with practiced perfection if my high heels were of a normal height but I couldn’t reveal that. I needed to pretend to learn how to do it if I didn’t want Heston to sniff around me for actions that didn’t match my background. Yes, I knew they would look me up if they hadn’t done so already.

But when he suddenly revealed his intention to fire me even before I started ‘learning’, my brain misfired. If I left tonight, I could never show up before the Arciero family without being suspicious. They would be wary of me if they ever knew I had met Curtis and even if I created a chance to bump into him, so would he.

This was my only chance. I was not beyond begging at this point. Forget begging. I would even put Siren’s magical lipstick to good use if it bought me some tim