Confessions Of An Italian Marriage (Mills & Boon Modern) by Dani Collins

Author:Dani Collins [Collins, Dani]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mills & Boon Modern
Published: 2020-08-20T14:16:16+00:00

CHAPTER FIVE

“HAVE YOU LOST your mind?” was Everett’s casual greeting when Giovanni let himself into the private salon with the card that had been propped against the bottle of scotch in his suite. “Why is she still with you? You’re working.”

Giovanni met the ice-blue eyes of his colleague. His boss, if one wanted to get technical. His friend, since there was no one else on earth who knew about this sideline job of his except the man who’d recruited him.

“The chancellor was there with his wife. His mistress was not, but he kept the napkin when his drink was delivered. The server was a brunette, midtwenties, five-eight or -nine with a mole on the left side of her throat. When she brought a scotch to the admiral, he tipped her very generously.”

Everett sipped his drink, considering that in silence.

Everett had been born to a Swiss father who was a captain of automotive engineering and a French mother who translated at Interpol. He’d been at boarding school with Giovanni’s brother and had come to the hospital often in that first year after the crash, as lost without his friend as Giovanni had been without his brother.

They had taken different paths for several years, but when Giovanni had uncovered a letter from a foreign government official attempting to blackmail his father into making certain concessions, he had realized it was evidence that his family had been murdered, not killed in a random crash as he’d always believed.

He hadn’t known where to turn or who to trust, but given Everett’s mother’s connections, Giovanni had reached out to him.

That’s when Everett had revealed he was more than the spoiled playboy he portrayed himself to be. He was employed by the American government and soon persuaded Giovanni to help him gather information and evidence for various ongoing investigations.

Giovanni had the ability to travel freely and infiltrate the highest industrial and political circles. It was amazing how nonthreatening a man in a wheelchair seemed to most people, or how quickly they opened up if they thought they could earn a favor from a wealthy man.

Giovanni had latched on to the challenge and inherent danger—Freja had read him correctly. There was an indescribable thrill in undercover work, avoiding detection while subversively righting wrongs and cleaning house at the highest level.

That side of his nature had made her uncomfortable, though, which left him questioning how badly he wanted to keep doing it.

“What of the waitress in your life?” Everett asked idly.

“You tell me,” Giovanni challenged, hackles instantly rising. “Have you found anything?”

“No.” Everett’s mouth twisted with dismay. “All her income streams are legit. The monitoring of her tutoring hasn’t turned up anything except one young man who is faking bad grades so he can keep paying her to talk to him. You have competition for her affections.”

Giovanni didn’t find that funny. At all.

“I told you she was harmless.”

“Harmless?” Everett scoffed. “In less than twenty-four hours after approaching one of my most valued and highly placed operatives, she was in your bed.

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