I shake my head. As shocking as her message is, I’ve never been prouder of my sister. “Well, she was definitely fed up with all the crap they kept giving her. Especially Brio. What was the reaction after the bomb she dropped? Specifically, about you ruling from the shadows?”
“My phone started going off at six o’clock this morning. It’s hardly stopped since.”
“Oh, that’s what it must have been. I think I heard it. Were you passing by my bedroom door when they called?”
Massimo’s eyes dart away, and he peers intently at something that caught his attention out in the hall. “Yeah. I was… checking the interior access points.”
“Are you still having trouble sleeping?”
He looks at me then, his eyes boring into mine. “Nope. Not anymore.”
Chapter 16
Massimo
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