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Perhaps I’m just going crazy.
The door unlocking doesn’t even make me lift my head now. I’m too tired.
The housekeeper shuffles into the room and places another tray of food beside my bed.
“Mr. Moretti says you need to eat,” she says quietly.
So, she has a voice after all.
“Mr. Moretti can go fuck himself.”
“It’s not good for the baby if you don’t eat.”
“Pretty sure it’s not good for the baby’s mother to be driven completely insane either, but no one gives a flying duck fart about that, do they?”
I keep my head turned away from her and hear her collecting the old trays of food, but she doesn’t speak again.
Chapter24
Dante
Iwait at the bottom of the stairs for Maria to come from Kat’s room. She carries a tray full of uneaten food with her.
“Is she still refusing to eat?” I snap.
“Yes, sir,” she whispers.
“Fuck!” I shake my head in annoyance. “Did you tell her I said she had to eat?”
“Yes.”
“And?”
She looks down at the tray of food rather than answer me.
“Maria?”
“She said you could go fuck yourself, sir,” she says, her voice barely even a whisper this time.
I scrub a hand over my jaw. Starving herself so I’ll pay her some attention is so fucking reckless. Maria fidgets as she stands in front of me, waiting to be dismissed.
“Maria?”
She looks up at me and her eyes are shining with tears.
“Why are you crying?” I snap at her.
“She’s so sick, sir,” she sniffs. “She keeps throwing up throughout the day. Even when she only drinks a little water, she’s sick. I wait outside her room like you asked and she doesn’t even sing or shout for you anymore.”
“She’s playing you. You cannot trust her. You hear me?”
She nods.
“Go,” I tell her, and she scurries off down the hallway. I rest my head against the wooden banister, wondering what the hell I’m going to do about Kat and her hunger strike.
“You are certainly living up to your reputation as the most ruthless man in Chicago lately, big brother,” Joey say as she walks up beside me.
I’m not in the mood for her games either today. I’m still pissed at her for the stunt she pulled. “Leave it, Joey.”
