Mike showed up at the Leone Estate again two weeks later.
He wore a cashmere coat and carried a heavy canvas bag in one hand. Then he stopped a short distance away, simply watching me without getting closer. "I'm not here to talk business today. I won't interrupt your time. I'm only here to apologize."
I paused what I was doing and raised my eyes to him. "Apologize for what?"
"For what I said last time." He placed the canvas bag on the round table and pulled out the items one by one. Every single thing was something I had casually mentioned wanting before. "I went back and thought about it carefully. I was wrong that day. I overstepped."
Mike sounded completely sincere. But I noticed how carefully he phrased his words. He didn't deny that his real concern was Niels. He simply chose not
