#Chapter 176 – An Important Phone Call

But somehow, I manage to simply laugh at Natalia’s suspicion that Daniel might like men – as if it’s the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heared? “Really, Natalia?” I ask, scoffing pleasantly. “I mean, I know we’re not a very handsy couple or anything, but I didn’t think we’d pushed you that far along into the realm of the ridiculous.” “Ah well,” she says, wrinkling her nose at me a little bit. “I suppose that it is just that you are Americans. In Italy, when the young are in love, they cannot keep their hands off of each other. You know?” I laugh and nod along with her, giving a little shrug as if I can believe it. “Well of course you do,” she says, chuckling a little as she fingers her martini glass, “you saw it with Kent and I, at the house.” Again, I tuck my true emotions deep, deep inside myself. “Yes,” I say, smiling at her. “I could tell that you two…really had something.” She nods, looking out at the ocean wistfully. “Perhaps, in another life…” she sighs. I murmur someth