“Are you denying it?”
“Whatever she told you is a lie.”
“Okay, then answer me this: Why did you say Matteo was vicious?”
Another pause, but this one is long and cavernous. I sense he’s carefully choosing his words. “He wouldn’t allow me to attend the wedding. I tried to go, but he blocked me at the door. He threatened to rip off my head. He’s an animal.”
An animal who goes into beast mode when someone he cares about is disrespected. I wonder what Dominic said about the marchesa to make Matteo threaten him.
I bet it wasn’t nice.
“At the hospital, you told me you weren’t invited to the wedding. That no one attended. That it was done in secret. This sounds like a much different story.”
Dominic decides he’s had enough of my interrogation and launches into a full-blown rant.
“Your fathe
