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Chapter 171: What Juliette wants, Juliette gets

[Juliette’s POV]

I should be happy. But I can’t smile. Even his knitted brows of concern couldn’t take my mind off what happened after lunch.

It was going so well. What happened? Why was he hostile again? It was like the discussion we had this morning never happened—like I had been in a different dimension, or time zone, and I just got back from it.

Something rough but warm covered my hand on the restaurant table and I looked down at it. The large hand securing over mine, shielding me from harm, from everything.

‘Do you need details about the emergency? Will that make you feel better?’ Ralph asked in his deep, calm voice of masculine sexiness. A voice that makes me want to crawl into him and wrap him around me and complain and whine.

But if I did, he’d remember about the deal we had and take over. I don’t want the Virtus family members to accept me out of the Don’s orders; I want them to accept me for me, and because they want to.

I turned to my left and gazed into those handsome
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