Forging Caine: A Thrilling Romantic Suspense Mystery (Caine & Ferraro Book 5) by Janet Oppedisano

Author:Janet Oppedisano [Oppedisano, Janet]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2023-01-25T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

Antonio

I monitored the security feed from my phone, watching as Samantha exited the elevator. Her conversation with Papa must have taken longer than expected. Perfetto. It had been just enough time to finish my surprise. “She’s almost here.”

“Perfect timing.” Claude, one of the security contractors my family dealt with regularly, closed the door to the library behind him. “It’ll only take a few minutes to initialize the system and she’ll be as secure as the safe upstairs.”

Marcus had let him in while Samantha and I were away to install a special lock on the library door. It should meet Elliot’s requirements, allowing her to spread her crop circles all over the floor and not have to worry about hiding them away every time she left.

I hurried to meet her at the door, opening it with a flourish.

“Are you going to keep doing that all day?” she chuckled.

“If it keeps you smiling.”

“Sorry it took so long. Your father likes to talk.” She slid out of her shoes, dropping two inches. “And Sofia cornered me with wedding venue ideas.”

“Sounds like her.” I grimaced for Samantha’s benefit, but it was for the best that someone else was nudging her along the decision path. “Good thing you escaped. I have a surprise for you.”

Her shoulders drooped. “Please tell me it’s a good one.”

“You’ll love it.” I grabbed her hand and hauled her behind me.

Her grip tensed when we arrived in the hallway. “Claude?”

The last time she’d seen him was the day of the shooting at Ferraro’s. Claude had been our detail that day, and Parker nearly ran him over.

“How are you do—” Samantha’s gaze fell to the panel next to the door, and she cut short.

“I was thinking.” I pulled her closer, so the three of us huddled in the hallway around the closed door. “You need a space to call your own, which you don’t have to tidy whenever you’re distracted.”

Claude tapped something into the tablet he carried and a yellow light at the side of the panel began flashing. “Whoever wants to start can press their finger on the panel.”

Samantha didn’t budge, just blinked in a rhythm which almost matched the security panel light.

“Bella, this is your office now. We can limit access to you, if that’s what you need, or—”

She ripped her hand from mine and flung her arms around my neck. “You’re kidding? You’re giving me an office?”

Claude, no doubt accustomed in his role as a security consultant to being in the background of people’s lives, averted his eyes.

“Bella.” I laughed, hugging her back. “I can only give it to you if you set up your fingerprint.”

She leaned back, took my face in her hands, and planted a tight-lipped kiss against my mouth. Something Samantha Caine did not do in public. “This is seriously the best present anyone’s ever given me.”

Claude was fighting back a smile. “If you can apply your finger to the panel?”

Samantha released me, nodding her head rapidly. “Of course.”

“I didn’t know if you needed biometric or key or what, so I had him install the best system he had.

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