Forbidden Never Felt This Good
At the photographs I had arranged in chronological order, Luca outside the estate, Luca at the building, Luca with his hand on the small of her back on a pavement while the morning light made everything look innocent.
"A woman," I said. "Her name is Aria Santoro."
Silence on the line.
"Céline."
"I know that name," she said slowly. "Joan, that's a mafia name. That family is—"
Of course she does, her boyfriend is a bit affiliated.
"I know what the family is."
"Then you know that poking around in their Princess records is not—"
"She has something that belongs to me," I said. My voice came out quieter than I intended, which happened sometimes when I was being most honest about a thing. "She has