The Moretti Arrangement by Katherine Garbera

his. “I don’t know what to tell you, bro. Nathalie added something to my life that I didn’t realize was missing until she was there. Is that how you feel about Angelina?”
    Dominic shrugged. He shouldn’t have started this conversation. Whenever he discussed anything but Moretti Motors he felt as though he was out of his league. He loved his family, but women had always been a bit of a mystery to him. “I don’t know. I only feel that I want her by my side.”
    “Then go for it. You know we focus a lot on being Nono’ s grandsons, but we are also Papa’s sons. And that man is a romantic. A man who knows that passion for a woman is the greatest joy one can find.”
    “ Grazie, Tony.”
    Antonio wraggled his eyebrows at Dominic, a goofy thing his brother had done since they were boys. “Don’t mention it. Everyone knows I’m the smooth lover in the family.”
    Dominic punched his brother in the shoulder. “Everyone knows you are the goof-off.”
    “Very true,” Antonio said. “It’s because I’m happy. Everything with Moretti Motors is going as we planned. I have a woman I love in my life…Who could ask for anything more?”
    Dominic walked out of the building with his brother, realizing for the first time that he wanted what Antonio and Marco had found with their women. And that life was finally within his grasp with Angelina.

    Angelina loved driving with Dominic. It was easy to tell he was the grandson of a legendary F1 driver and the brother of another. His skills behind the wheel were superb and he put her at ease as he wove through the evening traffic in Milan as they headed out of the city.
    “Where are we going?” she asked as he fiddled with the radio, putting on a CD of her favorite artist. Angelina rested her head against the back of the seat trying not to read more into this moment, this night, than she should.
    Because of the nature of their relationship they’d spent a lot of time going to private places for dates or just staying at the penthouse apartment.
    “Lake Como. Is that okay?”
    She nodded. “I love it there. When I was a child we used to go for holidays.”
    “My family had a house there, as well. When we were boys we spent a lot of time on the lake.”
    “What was it like growing up with two brothers?” Angelina asked. “I love Renni, but I would have liked a sister.”
    “My brothers are the best friends that I have. From the time I was very young I was aware of our family’s legacy from Grandfather—”
    “The curse?”
    “ Sì. And as I got older I realized that I didn’t want to take a chance on letting Moretti Motors slip further away from our family. It was important to me that Tony and Marco both realized what a gift our grandfather had left us,” Dominic said.
    “I can see that. You did a good job of rebuilding the company. That was one of the things that drew me to Moretti Motors when I was job hunting.”
    “It was?”
    “ Sì. I wanted to work for a company with corporate integrity and wasn’t just about money. Your organization has a sense of pride in everything that Moretti Motors does be it the retail luxury car market or your F1 team.”
    Dominic glanced over at her. “Reputation is really all we have that we can call our own. Fortunes can be won or lost.”
    She reached over and squeezed his thigh.
    “What was that for?”
    She rubbed her finger in a little circle pattern on his leg. “I’m sorry I almost ruined your reputation by stealing information.”
    He put his hand over hers. His big fingers engulfed her smaller ones and he lifted her hand to his lips, brushing them against the center of her palm.
    “We are past that now, aren’t we?” Dominic asked.
    “I still feel…shame, I guess, about what I did.” It was more than that. She hated that the reason he’d noticed her as a woman and not just his assistant was tied to that act of betrayal. And no matter how much she tried to tell herself that it didn’t matter, a big part of