Chapter 29

Adira

I walked into the kitchen laughing at Charlie who was trying to lick Gio in greeting. He had just pulled the lasagna out of the oven.

I leaned over Charlie to give Gio a one armed hug, my other hand holding the wine I'd brought. "It smells delicious like always. Charlie agrees," I said laughing again.

"Thank you bella. If you want to take it to the table I'll be right behind you with the dinner," He replied smiling and nodding his head towards the dinning room. I was bursting at the seams to talk to him about my decision to include Petra in the show, plus we had another charity event for his company for July 4th that we needed to talk about.

"So I decided to... oh" I started as I entered the dinning room where Valentine was currently standing, looking a little ... I don't know upset maybe? "Hi. I didn't realize you were joining us tonight Valentine. I didn't see your car out front. How have you been?" I asked setting down the wine on the table.

Valentine started to a