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Gabriel didn’t know it yet, but I was planning to use the first of the money to pay off Theo’s debt. I knew he would probably fight me on it when he found out, but I was determined.

From the very beginning, I told Gabriel that I was his best chance of solving his problem, and I meant to make good on that promise.

“What I don’t understand is how you can stand by and let a woman as good as Miss Olivia work so hard,” the housekeeper said.

“As if he could stop me,” I joked, picking up my pencil to poke around at the numbers.

“Oh, I could,” Gabriel said with all the confidence in the world. “But I won’t. Liv likes the work. It makes her happy, and I’d never take away her happiness.”

Never the overly romantic type, Mrs. Tarolli rolled her eyes. “It also doesn’t hurt that she’s so good at it that she’s turned around both Mr. Matteo’s nightclub and the new liquor business.”

“Since she’s that good, I say we give her the rest of the D’Angelo finances,” Matteo said, sounding like he was only half-joking. “God knows, I could use a break from them.”

“Absolutely not,” Gabriel boomed over the hiss of the cappuccino machine. “Liv is one of the best things that has happened to this family in a long time, and I won’t allow her hands to get dirty. Her skills and talents will stay firmly on the legitimate side of our businesses.”

“There really is no rest for the wicked, I guess,” Matteo complained with a groan.

“I don’t know,” Mrs. Tarolli said. “Give the woman a few more months, and she’ll be out earning all your shady businesses combined. She’ll show profits that will make you seriously consider turning your whole operation legitimate.”

“Is that your plan, Liv?” Gabriel asked, coming toward me, cup in hand, his brows arched high. “You want to turn me into an honest man?”

I shook my head.

Not hardly.

“I love you the way you are.”

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“Jane said you’ve done this before, so I assume you know the rules.”

The woman at my side waited until the elevator doors in front of us had completely shut before she spoke. We’d met in the lobby of this gorgeous Art Deco residential building on the west side of New York’s Central Park only minutes ago, and I could already tell from her crossed arms and deep frown that she didn’t like me.

That was fine.

I wasn’t here to make friends. I was here to do a job, get paid, and go home.