Free The Moretti Arrangement by Katherine Garbera Page A

stay with you?” Angelina asked.
    “She’ll be coming with me from London, and I’ve got a new job now,” he said, referring to the job that Dominic had gotten him in the Moretti Motors plant. “And if she stays with me I will not go to work. I’ll stay home and play with her. I don’t want to let you down, Ang.”
    How was she supposed to say no to that? “Oh—”
    “What does your brother want?” Dominic asked, putting his hand over the mouthpiece of the phone.
    “To let his ex-girlfriend stay at my place next month.”
    “Why?”
    “So she can save money,” Angelina said.
    “Are you going to do it?” Dominic asked.
    “Probably. Renni doesn’t want to take a chance on messing up at his new job. I think he took your warning to heart.”
    “I’m glad to hear it. If you let her stay there, will your stuff be safe?” Dominic asked.
    “I don’t know.”
    Dominic looked at her for a minute. “We’ll move your stuff here before she comes. That way you know she won’t go through anything.”
    “I…okay.”
    “Finish up so we can go and check out the king-size bed.”
    He removed his hand from the mouthpiece and she told Renni that his friend could use her place. Dominic had gone into the living room and she stood in the doorway of the kitchen area watching him. And thinking that there was a lot more to him than he wanted the world to see.

    Dominic wanted Angelina all to himself, which had been one of the reasons he’d offered her brother a job. Now she’d have freedom from having to worry over the boy. And despite the fact that Renni was only two years younger than Angelina, he was still a boy.
    “I’m sorry about that.”
    “It’s nothing. I’m glad that he is taking his job seriously,” Dominic said.
    “Me, too. I was afraid that he’d do something to jeopardize this and you’d be forced to terminate him.”
    Dominic had the same fear. Angelina was the only authority the boy had known for many years and he was used to answering to no one, not even the law.
    But that had changed when Dominic had talked to Renni. Dominic had made it very clear that if Renni wanted to stay out of jail, he had to support himself and not involve his sister in any more nefarious activities.
    And so far…for two weeks, Renni had kept his word. And for Angelina’s sake, Dominic hoped that would continue. He’d learned that Angelina had a very soft heart where her brother was concerned.
    And a jealous part of him wanted her to care and worry over him the same way. And he knew she’d never be able to do that if he sent her brother to jail.
    He had found that he liked spending as much time with Angelina as he could. Living in two separate places had been difficult and he’d moved as quickly as he could to get them under one roof. This place was very upscale and sophisticated, befitting a man of his stature. But to be honest he didn’t care about that. He had just wanted to give something to Angelina that she couldn’t have gotten for herself.
    “I understand about brothers,” Dominic said. He’d tried to keep things light between the two of them, but he was a bit on edge waiting to see if Ian could find another connection to Barty Eastburn. Barty hadn’t shown up for the meeting with Angelina, so that meant they had to find evidence against Eastburn another way. They suspected Barty knew Angelina had given herself up to Dominic.
    “What are you thinking?”
    “About work.”
    “What about it? I finished sending the final plans for the new Vallerio motor to the design group today. I know everyone is ecstatic over the fact that you are now officially going forward with the revamped Vallerio Roadster.”
    “Yes, they are,” he said. The one nice thing about having an affair with Angelina was the freedom to talk about his work with her. But there were times, like now, when he wanted to remind her that the information she was discussing was still meant to be kept under wraps. “You know that this needs