Chapter Fifteen
Valentina
I walk into my parents’ store still in my heels and pantsuit, and I blink to make sure I’m seeing things correctly.
“Valentina!” Ma coos, rushing toward me with a huge smile.
My dad is refilling the shelves, and my eyes catch on Dom in the corner of the store, his dress shirt rolled up to his forearms and his tie gone. His hair isn’t gelled back like it usually is, but instead, it’s messy like after we’ve had s*x all day. He glances at me then back at the man he’s speaking with.
“It looks good,” I say, watching a man on a ladder mudding and taping the new ceiling.
“Dominic, he took charge.”
“I thought it wasn’t anything big?” I don’t look at Ma because I’m too busy scouring what has happened in such a short amount of time. My meeting went well and since I w
