Page 12 of My Perfect Villain

I can’t wait to find out…

“But for now…we have business to take of.”

Harmony

Harmony left his office with a plan in place. She felt like an entirely different person, the way she acted in there. And it feltgood.She was finally letting her real self-shine thanks to Darius. He brought out something in her that had long been dormant and now she was blossoming. Padding back to her room, she grabbed her cell phone off the bed. It had been since before dinner yesterday that she had checked it, and of course she had a million missed calls and texts from Sofia.

I’m sorry, Harm…

I didn’t mean to ruin our birthday. I just wanted to have a good time.

I don’t understand why you’re so upset. I didn’t do anything wrong.

Please call me back?

Why aren’t you answering me?

Will you call me? Alessandro wants to take us to dinner because he didn’t get to celebrate our birthday.

Bingo. This was the “in” she needed, and she didn’t even have to do any of the work.

She tapped her phone, and it began to ring.

“Harm…?”

“What do you want Sofia?” Her tone was laced with acid.

“Harm! Where have you been? I’ve been so worried about you!”

“Around. Running errands.”

“For 2 days?”

“Well, if you actually stopped by my apartment instead of askingmammaandpapa,you would know.”

Harmony knew damn well her sister didn’t bother to come check on her after their fight at the bar. She probably nursed a hangover all day and then decided to call her today to play nice and act like nothing happened.

“Harm, please. Alessandro wants to take us out for our birthday. A real nice place.”

“And whatplacewould that be?” Harmony scoffed. “We live in bumfuck Egypt in the middle of the mountains where Bigfoot and skinwalkers come out at night. Guys work for steel mill factories and the town looks like it’s still in 1975. Where could he possibly take us that’ssonice?”

“Altius in Pittsburgh.”

Harmony almost dropped her phone. “Altius? The place with the $160 caviar?”

“Yeah! He said he’d treat the both of us.”

And just where the hell did he get the money? As far as Harmony knew, her last tab on him said his own family wasn’t paying his way after they found out what he did. No matter, whatdidmatter was getting Darius near him to do the job. This was his ticket in.

“Alright. But I’ll meet you there. It’s almost an hour drive from here and I have to do a few things before I go.”

“Okay. How about 8pm?”

“That’s fine.”

Harmony hung up the phone. This was going to be perfect.

Chapter 7

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