Vincenzo (Mafia Heat Book 1) by Ella Jade

Author:Ella Jade [Jade, Ella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: ella jade, contemporary, mafia romance, organized crime, family saga, steamy, drama, deception, mob, romance
Publisher: Ella Jade
Published: 2018-10-29T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Fifteen

NADIA

He’s A Mafia Prince

I’d never been so happy to see a Monday. Getting back into my routine was exactly what I’d needed. Not that I didn’t enjoy some parts of my adventure but I was glad to be back at the office and running my company. Now if my assistant would stop asking me questions about my whereabouts over the last few days, life would be much easier.

“I know you weren’t away on business.” Adele placed two papers for my signature in front of me.

“I told you it was personal.” I signed off on the forms. “Can we leave it at that?”

“Like a guy personal?”

Apparently she couldn’t leave it alone.

Adele had been with me since the start of my business venture. She’d become a very good friend over the years and we shared everything but I couldn’t tell her what had happened to me that night on the docks. Not without explaining why I was there. Not without putting her at risk. I wanted to put it all behind me. As far as I was concerned, I would never tell anyone what I had suspected. It was too dangerous.

“Maybe.” I sipped my iced tea as I played with a web design layout I’d been developing for an old client.

“What does that mean?”

“It means I don’t really want to talk about it now.” I looked up from my computer screen. “I have some catching up to do.”

“That’s what happens when you jump ship for five days. Work piles up.”

“I appreciate everything you and the others did while I was away. I couldn’t have managed without such an effective team.”

“But you don’t appreciate me enough to tell me where you were?” The hurt in her voice riddled me with guilt. “I get it.” She turned to exit my office. “I’ll email you the contract for the Lawson account.”

“I’m seeing someone,” I blurted out before she could leave.

“What?” She appeared shocked. “Who?”

“It’s a new thing and we’re getting to know one another. He asked me to go away with him for a few days and I accepted. It was very spontaneous.”

“You don’t do spontaneous, well, at least not with a guy.” She sat down on the chair across from my desk. “Where did you go?”

“A cabin in the woods.”

“With a stranger? Nadia? What if he was a serial killer?”

“He wasn’t.” I shifted in my seat because she had no idea he’d saved me from a killer. “He’s an attorney with a prominent practice in the city.”

“Where did you meet him?” she asked. “On one of those dating sites? You’re far too uptight for one of those.”

“I am not.”

“You met him online?”

“No, we met at a restaurant.” I wanted to stick as close to the truth as possible, and she was right, I’d be too afraid to date a guy I met online. He could be a serial killer. I watch Criminal Minds. “There was an instant attraction. I took a chance and it’s paying off.”

“This is so unlike you but really cool.”

“Yeah?”

“You needed a change of pace.

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