Chapter 72: ARIANNA

I pretended an interest in the buttons on his shirt when I felt his glare. "Arianna."

"Yes."

"We've been all through this until I'm blue in the face. Since you refuse to listen, why don't you tell me what all you have planned?"

I'm not sure I trusted his easy capitulation but I allowed him to drag me over to the bed where he sat with me on his lap.

"Well, according to Poppy he knew there was going to be trouble from certain factions. He's been covering you even when you thought he was gone. He didn't interfere, but he kept an eye on things so you didn't get in over your head. When dad showed up and Poppy came back on the scene they wanted to help as you may recall, but you wanted nothing to do with them for whatever reason."

I ignored the look he gave me and carried on. "The long and short of it is, you're focused on going legit, my dad's already done that for the most part so it stands to reason that he might have some ideas on how to achieve that. From seeing w