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Quincey
We walked in, and Matteo was hustled, literally hustled, into a back room.
A gorgeous brunette linked her arm with his, then saw Dierek and grabbed him, too.
I’d been heading to the bathroom when I noticed and swung around. I took one step to follow, but they were gone. After that, I wasn’t sure what to do, so I headed into the bathroom anyway.
I was nervous.
It was obvious something was happening.
After washing, I went back out to the front of the restaurant, and I couldn’t see anyone.
For a moment, just a moment, I wanted to leave. I wanted to go outside, call an Uber, and go home to be with Nova. But it was more than that. I wanted to put up those shields around me. It’d been the fortress that my father and his estate had surrounded me with. He had controlled me, but
