Chapter 266

“I’m sorry about that,” Ivan murmurs, shaking me out of my stupor a little bit. He keeps his eyes on the road. “I didn’t expect her to be….that cold.” “Seriously, Ivan,” I breathe, shaking my head at him, holding the little puppy on my lap, close to my belly. “What the f**k was that?”

“Do you have any room to talk?” he asks dryly, glancing at me. “Sending that knockoff Lippert to the coffee shop to lure me away -”

“That was business,” I snap, rolling my eyes, sick of it. “This was…” I shake my head.

“Well, it was personal to me,” he throws back at me, but then he sighs. “But. Yeah. I guess springing your dead mother on you is…next level.”

“How did you even meet her -” and then I go a little still as I realize something. “Ivan, have you known this whole time that she’s ali-”

“No,” he says, abrupt, turning to frown at me. “I wouldn’t have done that to you, Fay. Not when I thought that we meant something to each other. I would have told you immediately.”