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“I thought so” His grin widens as he turns the Porsche onto the next street

“So what does that get me?”

“Pizza”

He’s not joking He pulls up to a pizza shop in don Providence The place is busy for a small shop It screams classic Italian pizza with red-checkered tablecloths, asreasy pizza

“Gio!” a reet us within seconds of entering

“Sal” The two men do a quick one-armed embrace “Sal, this is Annie”

“Ah, you brought a lady” Sal takes ht kiss on my knuckles “Piacere di conoscerti caro”

“I uh, don’t speak Italian,” I tell him confused I have no idea what the man just said to me

“He says nice to meet you” Gio interprets

“You’ll have to learn then” Sal’s face is amused “Gio here is fluent”

“Really?” I turn to look at him There is still so much I don’t know about this man

“Si, bella ragazza”

“What does that mean?”

Gio leans in close, , “Yes, beautiful girl”

I can feel the pink heat rising to my cheeks