round his desk and taking a seat on the couch instead, watching as his father approached him, raising an eyebrow at him in question. His father was a proud man, sensitive at times, but n

ha

eyes to his tablet and scanned through his emails, "Should I be jealous of the fact that my father prefers the coffee from some lit

nd taking a sip, "It's good. You can tell the woman puts a lot of effort i

, "That coffee is made

lerio scoffed, "Have I no

up from his tablet, "But you have visited that pla

g in the portrait Nero had put up behind his desk, it was their family portrait and

anding why his father was

me. I just can't place her." He narrowed his eyes at his son, "You should visit that place and l

so frustrated over it mad

point, Nero." His f

his desk and taking a seat behind it, "I have some free time tom

er off, " Vale

woman off before, I'm no

find it amusing seeing you jump from one woman's bed to another? You're thirty-two, Nero. You're not getting any yo

, not leaving a trail. He didn't want to resort to unconventional methods to find her, so he left things as they were. He didn't forget about her though. It pissed him off whenever he thou

ad

w why that girl ran off. You can't judge her for it, maybe so

she stop to think I'd be worried about her, that it would d

s to find out, "

ny money on that b

er

ad

ional girl, intelligent and funny. She wouldn't run off without a reason, especially like the way she did. But the betrayal he felt made it hard for him to let go his anger. He wasn't ready yet, w

in fifteen minutes

u're kicki

his feet and tossed his colorful cu

then pointed at his son, "Don'

ah, I'll pay your beloved coffe

ind t

and laughed, "I'll be k

"Just saying a woman can be dangerous when she is pissed

still managed to make him laugh, "Dad, I

minute you leave

I have a meeting

, I'm alrea

happen to him, not wanting to lose another family member. He was always up in his space, trying to spend as much time together as possible. Nero tried to be reasonable about it, but sometimes it was suffocating him. He wouldn't tell

*

dmit that going after her was purely based on his attraction toward her. He saw her and knew he had to have h

zip me up

o the imagination and when he laid eyes on her he pictured what she'd look like without that dress on. Now he didn't have to imagine it, he knew and he def

e pulled out of the sweet

om him and walked past him t

ver for you when

, "Let me know if you want to repeat that." Her chocolate colored eyes told him

uss when he told her she couldn't stay the night because he had an early morning. She understood since she ran her own business as well. An agency which planned events for businesses, it was up and comi

He tol

ed, "Nig

t, Au

e feeling of messing up never faded. If his father found out about her he'd preach to him about morals. Never mixing business and pleasure because it caused problems, always. Seeing he took the business over from his fathe

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ay since he got no sleep whatsoever. To get his mind of Audrey and his father he buried himself in his work, going at it till four i

ad

me over for di

had a business dinn

th that par

She is organizing our annua

ead good things about her agency

his father was going with this, "Dad, we'

go there,

no denying that. How else did Valerio find out about him sleeping with Audrey? It was the one thing he didn't want his

't push it, da

at out saying no. You heading

e window, "Yeah, I'm curious to meet her. And

n't forget about reporting back

" Nero pro

you lat

completed his task for his father he'd have a conversation with Valerio about boundaries. He knew his father had a need to keep him safe at a

iver announced, snapping

r the handle and opened the door

y, s

average kind of coffee shop from the outside. The colorful flowerpots did remind him of that cup Valerio always carried around in