Leonardo's POV
The contract had been sitting open on my desk for two hours and I had read the same paragraph five times without understanding a single word of it.
I closed the laptop and looked around the quiet office, my gaze drifted to the ceiling, as I heaved a sigh.
Her face kept coming back. Not the way she looked when she was angry or when she was trying, but the way she looked calm at the gala when I said those words. "Thank you for the reminder of my place, Mr. Monte."
I pressed my palm against my eyes and stayed like that for a long moment.
I told Marcus I was leaving early, and he looked at me the way he always does when he suspects something is wrong but has learned not to ask.
The driver took me to a bar downtown where the lights were low, the music was slow and nobody
