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I then take the absolute pleasure of pulling her into my arms and holding her close to my heart.
She runs her fingers over my corded muscles and lingers on the Roman numeral ten I have tattooed on my left pec..
“What does the number represent?” she asks.
Poor doll, I’m about to add more things that’s changed in our lives. “It’s the tenth month on the tenth day. It’s …the day Frankie was killed.”
Instantly she bolts upright and stares at me wide eyed. “What, no? Gabe… no.”
I nod slowly and press my lips together. “Seven years now. It’s been seven years. Happened at the worst time ever. He’d met a girl he was sweet on and then he was killed right in front of me.”
“Oh God… Gabe. That’s awful. I can’t believe that happened. Frankie…” A tear runs down her cheek and I appreciate her sympathy.
I wipe away the tear and bring her back to my chest.
“Thanks Doll. He would appreciate the way you care.”
“What happened to him Gabe?”
“He got a hit on him baby and there was fuck all we could do about it.”
Her hands still on my chest and she sniffles.
“I’m so sorry.”
“Thanks.”
Frankie was the first of my brothers to meet Charlotte. He was the first of my brothers to give me the warning that she was young and I had to be careful. While it wasn’t uncommon for men in our world to have wives who were ten years younger than them or even more, her family was not like that. Neither was mine.
Frankie was also the guy to tell me to screw Donny’s warning to stay away from his daughter. The man was just pissed as fuck for finding me with my dick out of my pants with his daughter half naked. Of course he fucking would tell me to stay the fuck away.
That was a given but it was Frankie who told me that if it was real between me and Charlotte it would always be real and it didn’t matter what anyone said or did.
It’s Frankie’s words I remember now as I think about us.
Of my brothers he was the wildest and most ruthless. He liked walking the wild side and dancing with devils.
A little like me.
The flutter of fingers move over my chest and then her hand stills.
Her breathing too and I know she’s asleep.
Seconds later sleep takes me too.
I never even felt when I drifted off. It was my mistake because when I opened my eyes again she was gone.
Chapter Fourteen
Gabe
I must have saton the edge of my bed for a whole hour just staring at the patterns the grooves made in the wood of the floorboards.
I’ve been sitting here thinking what to do. I don’t even know when she left.
I know though what her leaving suggests and I hate venturing down the path of gloom and fucking doom.
Last night wasn’t some casual fuck where we were supposed to have a one nighter and call it quits.
