| 106 | Love Is Not Always Patient

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“I heard Rosalind’s about to be charged.”

“With what?” I reply to the last person I want to deal with today. I'm sitting across from him with my glass of wine still untouched beside my plate.

Suited up and clean-shaven, Pierre D'Ambrosi looks every bit the polished attorney his yuppie parents boast about, but there's a wariness in his eyes as he looks at me across the table.

Unlike the last time we were in a dining establishment, I don't feel like bashing his face in with my bare fists tonight. But I didn't waste time on pleasantries, either. And I'm almost relieved that he's already dropping the small talk we’ve barely begun.

I don't have the patience or the time. I can't waste another hour doing jack shit. Waste the rest of my night out here. And with this guy, of all people.

Pierre lifts his wine glass. “Same charges as your father's—money laundering, racketeering. Heard anything about that?”

“Just speculations.”

“Ah.” He takes a sip of his dr