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I can’t help but frown. “New bride?”
Emilia holds up her hand, showing off the gold band on her ring finger and touching mine. “You’re the one that wanted that stupid contract. One day we’ll need to talk about self-fulfilling prophecies.”
I stare at her ring as I roll mine around my finger with my thumb. Until this moment, I honestly hadn’t noticed it. Truthfully, the feeling in my hands is just now starting to feel slightly normal.
“We’re getting married again. I’m going to be the one to put a ring on your finger. Not Callan. Besides, my woman deserves diamonds.”
“Oh no! Callan! I need to call him and tell him you’re awake,” Emilia squeaks. “Can you give me thirty minutes to get ready and make that call before you take me to Katherine?”
“You aren’t talking to Katherine,” I tell her flatly.
“The hell I’m not!” she huffs.
“You’re not alone now, Em. Besides I know how to get Katherine to talk where you won’t,” I tell her pointedly.
“You’re wrong. I’ll get her to talk if I must pull out her teeth one by one,” she mutters.
Antonio barks out a laugh as I try to hide mine. “Pull her teeth?”
“I’ve also been reading up on torture techniques,” she says shrugging making Antonio laugh harder.
I lean in kissing her forehead. “I’ll talk with her. You can watch.” That doesn’t satisfy her as she exhales in frustration. “You won’t know what questions to ask.”
“I’ll be there too,” Antonio adds. “We’ll ask the right questions.”
Emilia’s forehead creases as she scowls at us. “No, you won’t.”
“What your wife isn’t saying is she’s afraid you won’t find out my worthless nephew is behind it all.”
Emilia gasps. “You know?”
Antonio smirks. “We’ve had Dante under suspicion for a while. Even before Gio’s death. Now thanks to you bringing up Katherine, we finally have a connection.”
“If you knew all this time, why didn’t you already interrogate her? Why wait?”
“Because Maxwell was a great man, and he was your father. You deserved to have whatever you asked for.”
Emilia wipes away a tear that rolls down her cheek. “He was a great man. The best. But he loved Niko like a son and Niko deserves to avenge him.”
“We will get them together,” I assure her. She looks at me nodding as a tear escapes from her eye. I gently stop it with my thumb and we share a moment of understanding.
“I’m going to clean up. We can call Callan after the thing with Katherine and a doctor examines you a little more,” she says as she slides off the bed, practically skipping out of the room.
“Our little Emilia has become quite the piccolo soldato,” Antonio says shaking his head.
I can’t help but laugh as I agree. “Little soldier,” I translate. “That seems fitting.”
“Are you up to interrogating Katherine?” he asks, searching my face for any sign of hesitation.
“I’ll fake it.”
“I’ll have her brought here.”
I hate being weak. I hate my friends thinking I might be. I’ll get through this somehow. There’s no choice in the matter. I’ll do this for Maxwell and my wife….
My wife.
CHAPTER43
