The Seven-Year Itch: Erasing the Donna
Lucian's mocking laughter vibrated through my chest, sending a chill down my spine.
He replied, also in Italian:
"Like an unripe peach. Fresh and tender."
His hand was still caressing my waist, but his gaze was distant.
"Just keep this between us. If my Donna finds out, I'm a dead man."
His men chuckled knowingly, raising their glasses and swearing their silence.
The warmth in my blood turned to ice, inch by inch.
The one thing they didn’t know was that my grandmother was from Sicily, so I understood every word.
I forced myself to remain calm, keeping the perfect smile of a Donna fixed in place, but the hand holding my champagne flute trembled.