Di Sione's Innocent Conquest (The Billionaire's Legacy 1)

‘I need more though.’ Abby told her truth. ‘I’ve waited a long time. Or rather I’ve been so messed up that I’ve missed out on an awful lot and I just want, well, when I do sleep with someone, it has to mean something.’

‘I understand.’

‘So thanks for the offer of a sex lesson but I shan’t be taking you up on it.’

Matteo let out a breath of both relief and regret.

Relief that they were finished with.

Regret that they would never be.

‘Are we good?’ Abby checked and he took her hand and gave it a squeeze.

‘All good.’

* * *

And so they stood, side by side, but not holding hands, as the stars of the show took their places.

It was the deciding race tomorrow and Evan, Hunter and Pedro were all a chance.

The winner would take all.

But though the desire to win burnt bright, it was no longer driven by revenge. There was next year, Abby thought.

It didn’t all have to be now.

She wanted next year. More than that, she wanted the team she had built to all be together, but then a journalist asked Pedro the question that was on everyone’s lips.

‘Are the rumours true about you signing with the Lachance team next year?’

Pedro looked over to Abby and she gave him a smile and a very slight nod, letting Pedro know that he could answer with the truth—they had made a deal after all.

‘I’ve been approached.’ Pedro shrugged.

‘And?’

‘In fact, they asked to speak with me yesterday,’ Pedro continued, ‘but as I said to them—their cars are as dated as their drivers.’

There was a small stunned silence at the obvious provocation and then the cameras started flashing and Hunter got up and walked out.

‘Game on,’ Matteo said.

The practice race went well and then Matteo disappeared to get ready for his night on the town. Abby had a lot of work to do on the car and so it was Perpetual Pedro who hung around.

‘Go!’ she said to Pedro when it was close to seven. ‘I don’t need a babysitter and you need to sleep.’

‘Abby...’

‘Pedro,’ she warned. ‘I have every right not to walk in fear and I’m exercising it. Go.’

Reluctantly, Pedro did and Abby worked till after ten, fine-tuning the engine till she was as happy as she could be with it and then she took a cab back to the hotel.

She was ready simply to go to bed and to do her best not to think of what Matteo was up to now that she had let him off the hook.

Abby climbed out of the cab, wondering if she could be bothered to get room service. The moment she walked into the foyer though, there was Matteo walking with Kedah, both looking like the two playboys they intended to be tonight.

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