#Chapter 325 – True Self

Jesse grabs another taco off the table, clearly not having as much of a problem with appetite as I am having. “All right, Tones, spill.” Tony sighs, and begins again. “I spent hours in that club cleaning up after Luca, collecting his shitty tips. So, imagine my surprise a few weeks ago when he shows up next to you outside my meeting with your parents and introduces himself for the first time. As if we’ve never met. Although it’s not like I should be surprised – he never said a word to me or spared me a second glance.” “But you…” I frown, trying to remember that moment when Tony and Luca met. “You didn’t say you knew him – you said something about it being a big morning for meeting celebrities. Or something like that. And then said it was nice to meet him.” “Yeah,” Tony says with a shrug. “What was I supposed to do, be like, ‘Remember me? I served you a thousand gin-and-tonics and watched you use the same lines on about a thousand different girls all summer?’ Plus, his mate’s pare