“They’ll do the right thing,” Julian told me later, when we had gone to my makeshift office for a minute, to have a breather and be alone. “Family has always been most important to them. For Tony to betray that… He must have known he would lose them.” He shook his head. “He’s desperate.”
I looked down at the foot and a half of space between us. “It’s that desperation, along with Olivia’s involvement that makes me worry.”
“Hey,” he said gently. He closed the distance between us at once, then cupping my cheeks with his palms, softly coaxed my face upwards, my gaze meeting his once more.
“I beat Roman, remember?” he asked. “He was a fighter. There’s nothing I can’t do. At least, not with you there cheering me on.” He leaned in and kissed me softly. Some of my worries went away with the kis
