Talia’s POV
The room fell silent as everyone exchanged glances, too stunned to utter a word probably out of fear for Lorenzo or out of shock for what they had just heard him say.
I gritted my teeth as Lorenzo stared hard at everyone seated in this room. He was poking the bear after everything he’d been through and the situation we presently found ourselves in. But I wasn’t going to give him the satisfaction of seeing me lose my composure.
If I let my mask slip, I was as good as dead and I had no plans of dying.
“What was that all about?” Maya asked, her eyes darting from her cousin’s to mine.
She opened her mouth to speak again but a glare from Matteo forced her to shut up.
I let out a groan as I massaged my temple. As satisfying as seeing the embarrassment on Maya’s face was,
