Chapter 54

- Wait a moment. Marco frowned at something that only occurred to him at that moment. 'Where are my parents?' They should be here.

Nicole let out a laugh that drew a little more attention than she would have liked, but she couldn't contain herself.

"Marco, you've been here for almost three days and you've only just realized that your parents aren't in California?"

Marco half-smiled. He was so absorbed in everything that happened to Charlotte, Roman and Luciana, Nicole and that prince, that he didn't even find it strange his father's audacious absence and his mother's exaggerated affection. Let her never hear or know about it, for she would be sad. Camila Cavalcanti had gotten a little soft over the years.

— Your mother managed to convince Uncle Edu to return to New York. He would have knocked out all of my brother's teeth if he'd spent one more minute at the hotel.

"He just agreed to leave Luciana behind with Roman?" Marco looked incredulous.

“I don't think he had much o