Best Laid Plans

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little accident and counting sheep doesn’t work? No. His golden skin was an eyelash’s length from her face, he was holding her so closely. Frankie couldn’t help it; she wanted him to let go and start talking. “I haven’t been with a woman in over two years. I didn’t think it’d happen with you here.”
    “What’s the dream about?”
    He pressed his mouth to the join between her shoulder and her neck. “It wasn’t good.”
    Frankie nudged him away. “Let me get you some water.”
    The nudge was enough for him to release her. “It’s fine, I’ll get some. Do you want a glass?”
    After that shock? “Yeah, all right.”
    He eased out of the bed, and the light that played over the hard muscles of his nude body distracted her for about half a second. All right, half a minute. She scrambled around for his shirt, another fashion disaster, but it would be sufficient to cover any attempts to foil this interrogation. Luca came back with two frosting glasses of water. The perfectionist had added a slice of lemon in the one he handed to her. “Enough with the distractions. What happened? There is a story that needs to be told.”
    Luca blinked. “What do you mean?”
    “That!” She pointed to the scar on his hip. “And all of that.” She gestured in the vicinity of his whole body. “Needs to be explained.”
    Luca took a long, deep breath. “You’ll forgive my paranoia, but it’s courtesy of my ex-girlfriend. She handcuffed me, shaved me like a sheep and accused me of beating her up. Spent most of the night in a police cell waiting to be charged.”
    Rage, the likes of which Frankie hadn’t felt since Leon had the brass balls to punch her, flamed through her. “She’s dead already, right?”
    Luca burst out laughing, put his glass down and cupped her face. “That is the sweetest thing a girl has ever said to me.”
    “Talk.”
    He stretched to his full height and closed the bedroom door. “I’m Italian, right? Naturally it would have crossed your mind that I have certain connections.”
    “To the police?”
    “Other direction, sweetheart.”
    “Mafia?” she asked.
    “Yeah.”
    “Am I assuming, or it’s...” She trailed off. Luca closed one eye.
    “Pretty definite, yeah.”
    Of course he was too perfect and there was something fundamentally wrong with him. The irony of the situation was starting to press on her lungs. She’d nearly gone to prison for domestic violence and so had he. Her suffering under Leon had been genuine, and she had the injuries to prove it. Crying out loud, she should have taken the girls’ offer to do a search on him. Would it have put her off?
    She was still in the bed, ready to be more bendy again. Even though they really shouldn’t and their overindulgence had caused this in the first place. Stupid old fifth condom.
    “Right.” Frankie cleared her throat. “What was your girlfriend’s problem with that? Other than the obvious.”
    “I didn’t touch her,” he said with such sincerity, it stung at her eyes. “I swear, I’d never do that to a woman I shared my life with.”
    She reassured him instantly. “I know you wouldn’t. I mean what the fuck was her problem?”
    “I’m not in that life anymore. I’ve paid my dues. But Dafne, she sold me out.”
    “For money?”
    “It’s the easiest way to get caught,” he said with a sudden yawn. The bed dipped sharply as he settled his naked body beneath the sheets. “Showing off everything you have when everyone knows your cover job couldn’t buy you a thread, let alone the whole thing. Dafne thought I hadn’t been generous enough and decided to punish me for it. Make it look convincing that I was not only violent for money, but I got violent for kicks as well. She told me that the police would back off if I told her where my money was.” He yawned again. “I deserve all my scars. But there are times when I can feel it, where the razor cut into my skin, like it’s happening all over again. It’s a

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