Chapter 40

Clara

I’d agreed to dinner with Dario at the estate simply because I was home and I had to eat. Might as well let someone else cook for me for once, right? If the payoff meant including Dario in the family meal … I could live with that for a night.

It wasn’t like Dario’s personal chef wouldn’t be whipping up a meal anyway. Right?

What I hadn’t counted on was the backdrop of soft candlelight that t