C24 Chapter Twenty Four

My father begins to sputter, his face going red.

Valentino watches with an amused expression, and I suspect I do, too.

Mother grabs Father’s elbow. “Let’s go, Leonard. Now.” She must sense the danger, the coiled adder that is Massimo Milani, because she doesn’t give Father a chance to be indignant. Instead, she half pulls him from the table, then leads him from the room. Not a word to me