Italian Undercover Affair by Jayne Castel

Author:Jayne Castel [Castel, Jayne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: UNKNOWN
Published: 2016-11-25T08:00:00+00:00

Chapter Sixteen

Another busy evening at La Pasta D’Orata drew to a close, and Sabrina massaged an aching muscle in her lower back as she wiped down the last table.

“This heat is killing me,” Halina complained. The girl was moving around the restaurant, putting up the chairs onto the tables so that Roberto could sweep the floors. “Lying on the beach in forty degrees is one thing, waiting tables in a sauna is another.”

Sabrina gave a chuckle in agreement. She was drenched in sweat and couldn’t wait to stand under a cold shower and cool off. She cast a glance toward the kitchens with the last thought. It wasn’t just the sweltering temperatures she needed to cool off from though.

Adriano was driving her crazy.

They’d left Valentina’s just after four o’clock and come straight to work. She and Adriano had spoken little, although the tension between them had ramped up to the point where she’d felt like screaming. Since starting work, she’d caught him staring at her half a dozen times. It was hard not to look his way either, every time he emerged front of house. She was painfully aware of him; every nerve ending in her body was on alert. It had gotten so tense that she was beginning to wish Adriano was working at his other restaurant tonight.

A woman could take only so much denial.

There had been an awkward moment, halfway through the evening when they’d encountered each other in the hallway behind the kitchen. Sabrina was just returning from the bathroom, and Adriano was heading down to his office.

The hallway was narrow and they’d both stopped short a few feet apart. Sabrina had tried to duck left and skirt around him but he’d also moved in the same direction. An embarrassing dance had followed, where they both mirrored each other’s movements, before Adriano casually leaned back against the wall. He’d made an exaggerated gesture, as if clearing a path for her.

“Very funny,” she’d muttered, brushing past him.

“Do you see me laughing?” he’d murmured back, his voice low with sensual promise.

Sabrina had refused to meet his gaze, knowing that if she did so she’d throw herself at him. She felt his heated stare between her shoulder blades as she fled back to the restaurant.

A few hours later, and it was finally time to go home. Halina was the first to leave the restaurant. Her boyfriend was waiting outside for her, and they roared away on his motorbike. A few of the cooks left before Adriano followed them out into the night.

Sabrina lingered behind to help Roberto clean up. She needed time to pull herself together. It had been an intense day, and she felt both elated and wrung out. She also felt confused—she hadn’t ever obsessed about a guy like this. Without her realizing it, Adriano Bellini had gotten under her guard. She needed to regain a bit of control if she was going to continue on the path she’d set out on.

It was well after midnight, when she stepped outside.

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