She broke their contact and pointed to her shoes. “My feet need a break, remember? Plus, you’ve just reminded me I need to talk with Mario before he leaves the party.”
An alarm rang in his ears, flashed a neon warning in his mind’s sight. The daughter of criminals meeting with the son of criminals? Another non-coincidence. No way would he let her out of his sight. “You always all business?” he asked as he escorted her off the floor.
“Not at all. I want to thank him for making sure my parents are well-taken care of while my brother and I are in the States.” She stopped walking and leaned against a white pillar. “They’re staying at his resort in Tuscany. My father’s health isn’t good ever since his heart attack last year. Mario offered to have his staff look after them, discreetly. My parents are proud people, especially Papa.”
“Nice of him,” Colton said. But he doubted the bastard had a decent bone in his body.
“Mario’s a great guy. He helped me out of a few jams when I attended college. We look after each other.” She grabbed a glass of wine from a server’s tray and sipped. “Thanks again for wanting to get rid of that jerk for me. And for the dance.”
The adrenaline rushing through his veins charged into his extremities. Jams meant trouble. And he knew the kind of trouble Mario circumvented. Colton lowered his head to study her more closely, trying to read her dark brown eyes for anything else in them. “Maybe I’ll see you around the vineyard next week,” he said after discovering nothing suspicious other than a hint of pain glimmering in their depths.
“Perhaps,” she said. “Ciao, Colton.” Isabella kissed both his cheeks, then scooted around him.
Shit. She’d just given him a polite, cool friendly brush off. He turned on his heel to go trail her. His eyes locked on her sensually swaying hips and the bright red dress that flirted against her long legs. She’d be easy to find in that dress.
He’d come here to tail a monster and discover the drug lynch pin’s ringleader. Now he had a big wrinkle to smooth out. Things had gotten a lot more complicated. The woman he was attracted to could be the leader of the most dangerous drug cartels in the world.
And he’d stop at nothing to stop the cartel from gaining a foothold in this region.
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