"Hm. Is he a friend of yours?"
"Yes."
Costa nodded, reaching his hand up to move a stray piece of hair from my face. "If you ever let another man touch you again, there will be consequences. Do you understand?"
He spoke so softly yet so ominously...
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"Is that the twins?" I asked Costa, licking the ice cream clean off my little plastic spoon.
"Sì. You want to-"
"Give me that." I snatched the phone off him, ignoring his velvety smooth chuckle. "Hey!"
"Millie?" I recognised Giovanni's voice.
"Where's your idiot brother?" I seethed, taking another bite of my chocolate ice cream.
"Why am I an idiot?" The object of my fury laughed.
Laughed.
"You gave me the fucking flu, that's why." I ground out, picturing his smug little face in my head. "Just you wait, Aidan. When I get back to Sicily, I'll be practicing my knife skills on you."
"What? You got the flu? But...I didn't do it on purpose. Fuck, I feel so guilty." He sounded sad now. "I'm so sorry, Millie."
Now what?
"Oh...um...okay. That's fine, I guess. Don't be sad."
"Are you sure? Are you okay? I really didn't mean to make you sick."
Now I feel like a bitch.
"I'm okay." I sniffled. "It's fine, don't worry."
"Okay, good. That's good." His voice was peppier once that was all cleared up. "So, how's Dubai?"
I heard Giovanni choke on a laugh while Costa did exactly the same next to me.
"I wouldn't fucking know, I just got out the fucking bedroom." I growled. I can't believe I fell for his act.
This time the twins didn't bother to control their laughter and neither did my husband.
"I hate you all." I handed the phone back to Costa, giving my ice cream my full attention like it deserved.
My ice cream would never laugh at me.
Costa quickly wrapped up his conversation with the twins, just checking in to see how they were doing.
"You told him I was sick, didn't you?"
"He's my cousin. Of course I was going to warn him you were planning his murder." He chuckled.
"Costa, that's the only thing that got me through the last four days. You took that away from me." I shook my head, taking another bite of my ice cream. "I'll never forgive you for this."
