Lost in Italy

Chapter 7

Peyton woke up with a terrible headache from all the crying she had done yesterday when she finally got home. She had no plans for the rest of the weekend and her life if her father and Paolo had their way. Her phone was off and she had no plans of turning it on and facing the world for the rest of the weekend.

After lying in bed for a whole two minutes Peyton heard the front door open and close. Her heart started to race. She didn’t know how far Paolo was willing to go to make his point.

She got even more suspicious when she heard frying “what the hell”. Getting up she slowly walked to her kitchen, there she saw a red head standing over the stove. “Eva?”  She turned and ran into the arms of her best friend “Hey snow long time no see” Peyton burst into tears then, the feeling of having no one in her corner forgotten. “Hey what’s wrong” sniffling Peyton sat on one of the kitchen chairs “everything”

Peyton went on explaining everything that happened since she saw Antonio up until yesterday with her father. Eva was silent throughout and Peyton was thankful for it. When she was done Eva still hadn’t said anything or made a comment. “Well?”  Eva stood and cleared the dishes. “Firstly I would like to state that your father is a creep- “Eva” “What it’s true who does that, I get that he wanted company but really this is bordering on psychoses and secondly I so told you that you would see him again”

Peyton laughed “It can only be you when I tell you that my world is falling apart and you tell me ‘I told you so’”.  Eva smiled. Michael Frost has been this way since Peyton decided to go varsity and study business he saw his daughter and anybody who encouraged her as the enemy putting Eva at the top of the list. That is why she was banned from their house because apparently she was a bad influence on Peyton.

“Look at me moaning and complaining about my sorry excuse of a life and totally forgetting about your honeymoon. Where did you go?” And just like the topic was changed and the focus was on Eva and her extravagant honey moon.

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Antonio was pacing the floor of his hotel room. “Sir I called her office, her assistant said that Ms Frost sent her home and that she was alone.” He nodded he had a weird feeling he couldn’t reach her and when he asked her brother where she was he said that she sometimes she forgets to charge her phone and that she will apologise on Monday for it. He still had a strange feeling that he was missing something and that he shouldn’t leave her alone for too long.

The harsh knock on the door broke him out of his deep thoughts. Opening the door Antonio watched as Paolo strolls into his room without so much as a hello. He watched as Paolo perched himself on his couch and spread his arms out on the back on it. Closing the door Antonio knew that Paolo was going to come to him to warn him off Peyton. He was ready. Sitting across from him Antonio stared at him, “Why are you here?” Antonio went straight to the point he had no time to play games with this man.

“Toni why so serious, I thought I would come and say hello seeing that we knew each other” Antonio raised an eyebrow. “I wasn’t aware that we knew each other on a personal level Caspari”. Antonio made sure that the look on his face was serious to show Paolo that he didn’t like the man nor did he want to be anywhere near him but for some reason Paolo just kept talking.

“Antonio look we are both invested in this company me more than you so you can understand if Im worried about why you are interested in my woman” Paolo had a smug smile on his face when he saw Antonio react lightly when he called Peyton his woman. He knew walked in on something.

Antonio inwardly scolded himself for reacting when Paolo had called Peyton his. He was getting bored and the man hadn’t even been there for a total of ten minutes. “Paolo whatever business I have with Ms Frost is none of your concern so if you don’t mind I am expecting company” The smile that covered Paolo’s face was of understanding “I see well now that I know that the business you have with Peyton is only business like I will rest easy” Antonio didn’t bother correcting him “I will make sure that you receive an invitation to the wedding” And with that Paolo was gone.

Antonio walked to his room. He had just realised that with the involvement of Paolo getting Peyton was going to be a little bit more difficult than he thought. He needed to get Peyton away from all of this for a while.

The ping that indicated that he had a message on his phone went off.

After reading the message he had a smile.

A/N I apologise for the crappy chapter. I had been staring at it for almost a week now. The next chapter will better.