Massimo politely says goodbye and sends off Sloane and Noah with Elena. He can't even summon up any anger at Elena's promise to meet up with them later. He hadn't expected her to make a loophole in her promise, but that's on him.
He had forgotten that Elena had been playing the part of Mafia Queen for a while now—and had been a mafia doctor and daughter of a mafia family for even longer.
And when he was cautioning Elena to be careful, Massimo wasn't acting as Mafia King. He was acting like a concerned lover—constantly thinking about what a fragile woman Elena was. He had completely forgotten how stubborn she could be.
Which was what was really unexpected—that Massimo could forget something so important and therefore lower his guard. How many deals had Massimo made with hardened criminal
