Jolie was shaking in her shoes. Literally and figuratively as she stood in the bedroom, she was sharing with Pia back in the hotel suite and waiting for Brix and Malik to tell her she and Pia could come out.
Elio had arrived to the hotel. His men were escorting him up. It was unclear to her if Chiara had travelled with him but if she had, Jolie wasn’t sure she could get through the meeting without a full-blown panic attack. Brix had said he’d told his father she wasn’t welcome and had given him the information she’d shared earlier in the day but he hadn’t heard back from the man since.
She’d been able to avoid the topic of Chiara with the whirlwind morning and afternoon, Brix and Malik had taken her and Pia on. Now though with Pia napping on the bed, Jolie was pacing back and forth trem
