Chapter 44

MIA

‘THE INVENTORY’S UP TO DATE, all that’s left is contacting Gavin Villanueva, the designer I told you about?”

I gazed at my phone one last time with a goofy smile before I faced the brunette who had been stressing since she invited me over for coffee.

“The one in Paris”, I affirmed, she cut her croissant throwing a piece in her mouth.

“Yeah, that one, the only problem is I can’t leave the country without ‘you know who’”

Oh, I knew.

Lucy had been breathing down my neck with Blaze’s name over and over again, if it wasn’t for the fact that I liked Blaze, I would have deemed him the most pig headed human to walk the face of the earth from Lucy’s description of him.

“Does your dad still think Edward Townsend might try to approach you?”

Pushing her hair away from her face, swallowing the piece of croissant before leaping for another pinch, she sighed,

“Eddie, the Spiros, not that I mean to diss my brother but since he arrived, my old man has been on edge and Blaze is like the son he neve