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Is he being deliberately obtuse.
“Because you’re fucking her daughter..”
For a brief moment, Adriano looks alarmed. “You’re not going to tell her that are you?”
“I might,” I say just to fuck with him. Then I let him off the hook. “Of course I won’t tell her that. I’ll tell her you’re my boyfriend.”
He screws up his nose at that. “What will you say I do?”
”I'll tell her you're in business.” It’s true. He owns many businesses. It’s just some of them are less legal than others. "She's a lawyer's wife. She'll understand that business covers a multitude."
Something in his expression does the thing. “Ok. What else will she want to know about me?”
"Your intentions.” I look at him. “She’ll want to know what they are.”
“I think she can probably work those out for herself."
“And she’ll want to know if you’re good to me.”
“And you’ll tell her yes, of course.”
‘Maybe. Depends on whether you are good to me.”
He looks at me for a long moment. Then he moves closer until I feel his erection pressing against my side. I roll over ontomy back, making space for him between my legs. What follows is the sort of slow, gentle lovemaking I’ve become accustomed to waking up to in the mornings.
Afterwards we lie tangled in the morning light and his hand moves slowly up and down my arm and I stare at the ceiling and think about nothing in particular.
"Paolo wants us to come to his daughter's christening," Adriano says out of the blue.
I turn my head to look at him. "He has a daughter?"
"She was born before the beach holiday he hated so much."
"Is he asking you to be godfather?"
"Yes."
"Are you?"
"Apparently I don't have a choice." He says it in the tone of a man who was informed rather than asked. "Paolo presented it as a fait accompli."
"That's very Paolo."
"Yes."
"What's the baby's name?"
A pause. "Adriana."
I stare at him. "He named her after you?"
"His wife named her. Paolo claims he had nothing to do with it."
"Do you believe him?"
"No."
I laugh so hard it hurts at the thought of Paolo looking at a precious baby girl and deciding to name it after the arrogant prick lying in bed next to me.
