Take Me Home_A Billionaire Protector Romance by Summer Brooks

Author:Summer Brooks [Brooks, Summer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2018-08-04T16:00:00+00:00

10

Vincent

I would have been a lie if I’d said I wasn’t nervous. There were a lot of ways that the whole thing could go wrong. But Gina was handling it well.

Maria had Gabriele’s number. Or the number of one of his guys, rather. All the business owners in the neighborhood needed to be able to contact their new bosses in case something went wrong, like if a rent payment would be late.

Yeah, like anybody wanted to be the one to make that phone call.

It took less convincing than we’d thought to get Gabriele to agree to a different restaurant than the one he’d suggested to Gina earlier. Although, actually, that was probably just the force of Gina’s personality. She called him while I was with her. She held my hand the whole time, although I don’t think she even realized that she was doing it.

“You’re the one basically threatening me into dating you,” she told him. “The least you can do is let me pick the damn restaurant. I’ve been wanting to go there for months but couldn’t afford it. Besides, nobody’s Italian is as good as my Nona’s, so why would I even bother trying it?”

Gabriele spluttered, but Gina stood firm. She didn’t let her voice waver, and she didn’t let it seem like it was the restaurant itself that mattered to her. She acted like it was the principle of the thing, like she just wanted to have some say in how the date played out.

In reality, it was because that was the restaurant that Anthony and I had picked out. But Gina played it off beautifully. I almost wanted to tease her, ask if she’d been an undercover cop before or something. But I didn’t want to accidentally make her more nervous, so I kept my mouth shut.

The way that she unconsciously leaned on me the entire time made a possessive thrill shoot up my spine. She was going out on a limb because I had asked her to, and I didn’t want to do anything to ruin that.

She had me drop her off at the restaurant, telling Gabriele that she would meet him there and that he wasn’t allowed to pick her up from her apartment. Gabriele had objected to that at first, but he’d backed off as soon as he’d gotten another earful from Gina.

Honestly, I wondered if the guy just wanted her because she was fiery and curvy, the makings of a stereotypical Italian mafia wife. It made my blood boil that he didn’t even know Gina—might not even care about knowing her—not as a true individual.

After dropping Gina off, I circled around and parked my motorcycle down the street. Anthony and his men waited for my signal. We had to wait for Gabriele to take Gina inside and sit down. It was a restaurant with plenty of wide glass windows in the front. One snipe would take him down.

This was neutral territory, so no other gang could easily be blamed. Mario would, of

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