Chapter Thirty-Seven: Heiress

“Aren't you going to introduce yourself to them?"

The former prime minister says as he looks directly at me.

There wasn't a long pause; there was barely a pause; he just wanted my attention.

"I'll trust my partner to do it better.”

The former prime minister frowns at my response; I am not falling for his goading.

Matteo narrows his eyes as if placing two and two together before I feel his hand on my lower back.

"I'm Matteo D'Amico, and this is my woman, Olivia Lawson, the new head of Lawson &. I."

The former prime minister's wife widens her eyes as if something stirred her. Her hands dig into the shoulders of her children, but they don't even flinch. Almost as if they were used to absorbing her emotions.

"I expected more from you."

The former prime minister mutters under his breath with a cold sneer, but I hear him. The cold emotion flickers away from his face when he clears his throat.

"I expected you to introduce yourself...like I taught you, Bethany."

My skin crawls at the sound o