*Evangeline's POV*
"Had you knocked–"Vicenzo begins walking to them.
My fingers curl around his arm before he approaches them and the tension in his shoulders relax slightly.
Deena's eyebrows jump and she goes to put the tray down with an unbothered air.
"Excuse me."
"Now you know manners?"Vincenzo asks but she gives a tight smile and hurries out the room.
After an uncomfortable stir of silence,Marlene coughs and gives me a look,I put down the shard mirror and turn to Vincenzo,my eyes pleading.
"Can we please be left alone?"
His jaw ticks,and Marlene receives a death threat in the form of a look and she shifts uneasily on her legs.
He eventually leaves and I begin to wish I didn't send him away. Marlene's suffocating judgemental gaze almost took the little air I had left in my lungs from being so close to Vincenzo.
"Do you want to explain yourself or do I jump to conclusions?"
"It was nothing inappropriate–"
"Right-"
"I know it looks bad but–"
