“Hey, baby.” I kissed Uriel on the lips as my arms circled around her waist. We were in the underground parking lot of the company’s building. She broke the kiss with a playful smile on her face, but she still held both my forearms as I held both her hips. “You’re late, Mr. De Angelo. I would have thought that you'd be at least on time.” I chuckled at her scolding, but she only raised her right eyebrow in response to my laughter. “I’m sorry, my dear, but I overslept. I guess I really overdid myself last night, and I couldn’t help but sleep throughout the day.” “I knew it.” The two of us went inside the car, and I instructed the driver to go directly to the private airport. We were in Florence, Italy, and the Volkov mansion is in Venice. “Michael, you said that the Volkov mansion was

