“Who are you talking to?” Cassius asked coming into her room.
“Just my Shadow.”
“All right.” Her youngest brother looked at her like she was crazy. “There’s some hot girl for you.”
What did he just say? “Huh?”
“Some hot girl showed up at our door to see you. I think she’s a Caruso ’cause she showed up with a suit. Better hurry though. Matthias won’t stop staring at her, and it seems like Dominic hates her.”
“Oh God.” Kat dropped whatever was in her hands knowing exactly who it was. Flying out her door, she went into the living room to see the tall-legged blonde. “Maria?”
* * *
Five minutes earlier…
Knocking on the Luciano front door gave her pleasure. She loved ruining someone’s day.
When the door flew open, she was greeted with Angel’s other half. They might have looked like the same person, but they couldn’t have been more opposite. Whereas she was beginning to like Angel, this one, however….
“Hey, princess.” The head-to-toe inked brother smiled as his eyes traveled down her body.
I did not. That mask he put on the second he opened the door and saw it was her, she couldn’t miss. Matthias put on a façade fooling those around him, but he didn’t fool her for a second. She could see right through that mask for what he was… broken.
Todd, her bodyguard, barreled through the door pushing the twin out of the way to check the house before she went in.
“Who the fuck are you?” Dominic stood when he entered.
Maria steeped into the house before Todd got killed. “He’s with me.”
This time, it was Dominic whose eyes went down the length of her tall body, taking in her high heels, short dress, and fur coat. “Why the hell are you here?”
It’d had been a long time since she had seen the oldest Luciano brother. At the time, she hadn’t been a woman, so she hadn’t taken a good look at him. Now, as she took in his appearance, he looked much different than the twins and Kat. Whereas they were pale with gray eyes that were almost black, Dominic had tanned skin that matched his chocolate hair and set off the brown in his hazel eyes, but it was the beautiful green in them that made them sparkle.
“I, um—” She had to think a minute what it was exactly she came for. “To see Kat.”
“And what do you want with her?” He crossed his strong arms over his chest.
“Well, I thought she needed a wedding dress.” Maria raised a perfectly manicured brow. “Doesn’t she?”
“Cassius.”
She turned her head when a young boy stood up from the couch. He looked as if he was Dominic’s Mini-Me. Both brothers baring no resemblance to their father.
“Go get Kat,” Dominic ordered without looking away from the blonde.
Staring at the little Luciano for a moment longer, she tilted her head to the side, seeing something different in the boy that was… almost reminiscent… but then he walked away.
“Can I take your coat?” Matthias asked, clearly wanting to see her without the long thing as he reached to help her out of it.
“Touch me, and I’ll kill you,” she threatened with the sweetest smile.
Matthias didn’t take a step closer, somehow knowing that smile was an act.
The oldest brother, however, took a step toward her, unafraid of her or the bodyguard she’d come with. “Does Lucca know the princess is out of her castle?”
That smile didn’t disappear from her face. “Do you think I would be here if he did?”
“Certainly not.” He looked at the suit that came with her. “If this is the one who brought you.”
It took a minute before Todd realized he’d been insulted.
His hazel eyes moved back to her. “I hope the poor sucker knows whatever you promised him won’t be worth it by the time Lucca gets done with him.”
“What he doesn’t know won’t hurt him.” Placing a tall heel in front of the other, she made the distance between them that much smaller. “It can be our little secret.”
Most men on this earth weren’t worth a second glance, but this time, she finally let her eyes glance down his body. For some reason he was different than she expected. She thought he’d be weak since agreeing to all the Caruso terms, but now she could see that might not be the case at all…
Out of all the Luciano brothers, this one, she liked. A lot.
* * *
“What are you doing here?” Kat asked when the Caruso girl didn’t stop the stare-off she was having with her oldest brother.
Finally, after another moment, she broke their eye contact. “I thought you might want a wedding dress for when you walk down the aisle.”
“I have a white dress, but it’s shor—”
“Absolutely not.” Maria stopped her right there before she could finish the word. She looked flat-out offended. “I am taking you shopping right now.”