Chapter 28

Mia's POV

The man looked utterly embarrassed as if he had expected Lorenzo to laugh along with him and honestly I had expected the same as well since he never seems to abandon an opportunity to put me down most of the time.

But now it was almost as if he was defending me and I felt my heart flutter a little bit because it felt like the first time in my entire life that anyone was truly doing that, my twin and mother aside.

The man apologized and then crept into the crowd and buried himself with them with utter shame.

Without thinking about it too much, I turned around and thanked Lorenzo for doing that for me.

"What makes you think that I did that for you?" He asked me with a dismissive voice and instantly, the smile on my face evaporated.

Will it have been so difficult for him to simply say the normal reply instead of being rude?

His eyes were always darting around as if he was looking for something and then finally, they seem to go when a waiter was passing us by, but then the wai