Page 27 of Mafia Billionaire's Surprise Baby

He nods. “That was my fourth one last year.”

I nearly spit out my vodka. “Fourth one? Jesus Christ Sal, how many estates do you have just lying around?”

“At least four in France,” he says, a smile teasing the corners of his lips.

I snort. “Smartass,” I lob at him before sipping my drink. “So. Are you going to tell me where the rest of your holdings are, oh great real estate magnate?”

“No.”

The word hits me harder than I expected. I resist the urge to rub my chest, my heart feeling more than a little wounded.

It shouldn’t feel that way.

Sal and I aren’t a couple. I told him that after he offered to be one.

So why does it bother me that he won’t share the rest of his success with me?

“Okay. Keep your secrets then,” I grumble. I turn in my seat, reaching for the vodka, when something in my side twinges.

Hard.

“Ah,” I hiss, trying to breathe through it.

In an instant, Sal is at my side. “Gia. Where are you hurt?”

“I’m not. It’s just… something down my side.”

“Let me see.”

“Sal, seriously. I’m fine. I don’t need…”

“Let me see, damn it.”

I freeze. Sal is looming over me.

From where I’m sitting on the bar stool, he seems impossibly tall. His strong arms are gripping the marble countertop behind me, and his tobacco and leather smell fills my nose.

How does he smell like that? I thought it was some kind of cologne, but since there’s no way he keeps a spare bottle of that in his house that he’s literally never in, I think he just smells that damn good.

That is unfair.

I make a note to search through all his bathroom cabinets for some cologne, but in that time, he’s even closer to me.

I hold in a gasp as his lips are perilously close to my ear. “Let me see, Gia,” he whispers.

I gulp. “It’s not like you’re a doctor or anything. You wouldn’t be able to help.”

“Gia,” he growls. “Take off your robe.”

Okay.

Okay.

Okay.

I’m not really sure what’s going on. Because I’m not exactly the type of girl who responds well to being bossed around. In fact, I’ve built pretty much my whole career off of not doing that at all.

But when Sal tells me to take off my robe.