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I was done hurting his feelings.
“I’m not lonely. I was when you didn’t talk to me, but I don’t need anyone as long as I have you.” Some spark returned to the green of his eye. “I just wanted to have a girl’s chat, that’s all, and you don’t have to worry. Pina has no loyalties to Father, or anyone in my family. Bernoulli is an associate and Ariana is… whatever she is, but Pina doesn’t care about those things.”
Mrs. Bernoulli has plead, and begged, and cried, trying to get Pina to act like a young girl in her position, but it never worked. She preferred sneakers to high heels, jeans to dresses, and hated to be dragged along when her family had to show face. Ariana was the embodiment of a mafia heiress, but her sister was just a girl who happened to have a father that liked to play dirty.
The only mafia thing that held Pina’s interest more than five minutes was my brother Garon.
Salvatore picked me up and made me sit on his chest.
“Enlighten me, Grazi. What do girls chat about?”
“The terrible men in their life.”
“Really? You think I’m terrible?”
He laughed and I did too. Playful Sasa was my favorite.
“I think I’d love you even if you’d be.” I stretched down and kissed him.
“Call your friend,Tesoro.”
“Really?”
“Anything to make you happy.”
“You make me happy.”
“You make me happy too, Grazi. Just you.”
On the nightstand, his cellphone started buzzing, demanding attention.
“You have to go?”
“I do. Pietro is waiting for me with the lawyers.”
A coldness crossed through my body.
“Lawyers? Are you in trouble?”
There was always a shadow lurking, an ever-present fear that everything could change in a day. Salvatore was powerful, hisfamigliawas powerful too, but sometimes, the law takes down themostpowerful.
“Commercial lawyers, Grazi. Just boring bureaucracy stuff, don’t worry.”
“Oh, ok.”
“You’ve lost your smile. Give it back to me.”
“I’m sorry. My mind just went to a dark place for a moment.” The worry came with the job – you marry theDon, you fear for him for the rest of your days. I knew that since I was in diapers.
“I’ll never leave you.”
“That’s what Father used to say and then he spent four years in a prison in Genova.” Those were some of the worst years for my mother.
“I am not your father.Tesoro, everything is fine.”
“I know.”
His lips found my forehead and lingered there for a few moments before he got out of bed and got dressed in a sharp suit that looked phenomenal on his sculpted body. I glanced at him and I stopped breathing. God really took his time creating this gorgeous man and even if I hated every woman that looked at him, I couldn’t blame them.
