Page 151 of Alessio

“And,” Giulia said, eyes wide.

“They’re both … very handsome.”

That was putting it mildly.

Giggles lit up the table again.

Ginevra figured, this would be a long night.

“Not that it matters,” Ginevra said, “because I am here, and they’re not.”

“But is that how you want it to be?” Siena asked behind her.

That question was easy to answer.

No.

She wanted both with her. That didn’t mean she would get what she wanted, though. As far as she understood, neither of the men had tried to contact her, and she didn’t have a way to get ahold of them, either.

It was what it was.

Even if she hated it.

“Okay, but like how does it work, does one get mad when you don’t spend enough time with them, or—”

“Could you save some of your questions for another day?” Ginevra grumbled as her sisters followed behind her in the hallway of their apartment building. “Because that would be great, Greta.”

“I’m just curious.”

“You have asked me a lot of questions in the last three hours.”

Too many questions.

Their dinner with Siena turned into a game of twenty-one questions with Ginevra. All focused around things she didn’t want to explain to her younger sisters, but also a topic that made her heart ache.

She couldn’t win.

“And,” Ginevra said, coming to a stop in front of their apartment door to pull the keys from her bag before sticking it in the lock, “while I get you want to understand how it works, it’s also none of your business. Some things are private unless I offer the information to you, Greta. Respect that.”

Greta leaned against the wall and rolled her eyes. “Fine.”

“Thank you.”

“Still think it’s complicated,” Giulia muttered next to Greta.

Well …

“I guess that means it’s probably not for you, huh?”

Greta considered that for a second before she nodded. “That’s fair.”

Ginevra waited just long enough to decide that the girls had finished with their questions for the evening—thank God—before she twisted the key in the lock and opened their apartment door. The first thing she noticed was the lights. They were on when she had shut them off before leaving.

The second thing she noticed? A leather jacket hanging over the arm of the couch just beyond the hallway.

The third?

His scent.