Forever: The Companion (Renzo + Lucia Book 4) by Bethany-Kris

Author:Bethany-Kris [Bethany-Kris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Bethany-Kris
Published: 2019-06-09T23:00:00+00:00

NINE

There was something … entrancing about a place like Bali. Maybe it was the sights from every window. Lucia stood at them to stare outside, seeing lush green trees, clear streams of water that trailed from the waterfall behind the house, and beautiful skies overhead. It could have been whatever she was breathing in because all she wanted to do was keep every single window in the large house open. The distinct scent of island air.

Clean.

Fresh.

Enticing.

Bali was nothing like the city, and the thing was … Lucia hadn’t even left the house yet. Two days on the island and the only things she had seen so far were the house and the land it rested upon. Which honestly, were quite the sights in and of themselves.

The animals in the morning.

Palm trees swaying with that gentle breeze, bringing along a cooling wind that she enjoyed so very much to help with that heat. Oh, she certainly could have shut all the windows and appreciated the central air in the house, but what was the good in that?

She was here.

She just wanted to experience it.

Currently, however, she was trying to get as much information from her father as she could, but the man wasn’t helping her in the slightest.

“Daddy—”

“Lucia, you’re supposed to be on vacation.”

“And I would enjoy it far more if Aunt Kim would just pick up the phone.”

Because yeah … as much as she tried to just enjoy this vacation and the chance to have zero responsibilities and stress, her mind kept going back to New York and all the work she’d left behind there without any direction whatsoever. Not that her aunt couldn’t handle it. Kim certainly could because hell, that gallery had once been hers. And yes, while she knew all those things very well, it still bothered her more than she could explain.

Still, Lucia hated being out of the loop.

She needed all the info.

“Listen, if I can talk to Kim—”

“She’s not picking up the phone for you because she knows this is supposed to be time for you to get away from it all,” her father said, his tone brokering no room for argument. She knew right then and there that he would not be helping her out here. “And that’s what you’re going to do, Lucia. Let her handle the gallery for the whole week you’re going to be gone. This time away should be relaxing for you, dolcezza.”

Right.

The problem with that, though?

“I don’t know how to not think about work, Daddy.”

“Guess you better learn, hmm?”

God.

That didn’t help at all.

She was sure he knew it, too.

“Thanks for nothing.”

“Oh, stop, Lucia. Everything is fine here. If something were wrong, Kim wouldn’t hesitate to call you.”

Lucian chuckled and the sound of her father’s amusement made her smile, even as she tried to keep her voice down. She wasn’t entirely sure where Renzo currently was in the large house, but she had no doubt he wouldn’t appreciate the fact that she was hiding in the walk-in closet of the master bedroom to use the goddamn phone.

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