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“This is not e budgeted And you went over our budget for the drapes by nearly thirty percent!”

“It was a great price for a her quality fabric Gina found it and…”

“Gina?” Mari stopped fidgeting and put down her pen Fighting Luca was difficult enough But now she had two Fioris to keep up with Gina had delivered a sculpture, but she also didto keep Gina froround was yet another tick on her to-do list She couldn’t take them both on She took a deep breath

“I told you she was persistent”

Then she caught a hint of a smile at the corners of his mouth

And she remembered that mouth on hers

And his hands on her skin

And how everything else had vacated herthose moments

He tried to charnored the plans they’d already set out for the Cascade He’d done it more than once already This was one ti to work

They had set out a plan A plan to enhance the hotel while looking after her staff It was up to her to keep it, especially if he kept looking at her in that way

She ran a hand over her hair, though not a strand had dared to escape her precisely arranged knot “Luca, we can’t possibly afford the draperies, let alone the spa The plans alreadyother space into this expanded spa vision Need I re to be? But this…this is beyond exorbitant It’s criminal”