*Olivia*

A month passed, in all its jittering anxiety, and the day came to receive the results. A car full of Gio’s men drove behind us, as always, but Gio had seen my nerves and offered to drive the two of us so we could have some time alone on the way there and back. I ran my thumb over the buttery leather seat of the luxury silver sedan that had appeared out of nowhere and wondered absently where Gio got all these cars from.

“What are you thinking, carina?” ...