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"Just think, if you'd brought up your concerns to me, you could have avoided masturbating into a cup."
Chapter 5
Las Vegas, Nevada
Mancini Mafia
GIULIA
The twist of my husband's lips lets me know just how distasteful he found coming into a sample collector cup.
Poor, beleaguered underboss. Not.
At least no one tried to knock him out and take the sample against his will.
"My father has been bringing up your lack of pregnancy at least weekly since Neri turned one," Raff points out.
"I am aware."
"You—"
"Do not pretend that if I'd told him about the IUD, that would have shut him up. Patrizio would have insisted I have it removed."
Raff inclines his head, making no attempt to deny it. "He is your don."
"That doesn't give him the right to dictate when I get pregnant. This isn't the 1950s, not even in the mafia."
"I am your husband."
"Yes. And ifyouhad brought it up to me, I would have told you about the birth control."
"Don't you think that as your husband, I should have been involved in the decision to use it in the first place?"
"No. Again, not the 1950s. But I would have told you about it, if I knew you were worried." No one had been worried about me though, just whether or not I could not conceive again.
"So, you are saying this is all my fault?"
"Has there been a single word out of my mouth since my arrival that would imply I think anything else?"
His face goes blank. I'm facing theunderbossand not my husband now. He's about to say something about duty and the mafia and it will lacerate my already sore heart.
"Don't," I say, trying to fight the hopeless pain leaking in at the edge of my fury.
"Do not what?"
"Don't gounderbosson me, right now, Raff."
"I am the underboss."
"You are also my husband."
"I have never denied it."
"If you are mad at me, just say so. But don't start yammering on about duty tola famiglia. Don’t shut me out." Though that last is more his default setting than not.
"Iampissed you are on birth control and didn't tell me." For just a second, the blank mask slips and I know that by pissed he means raging. "But according to you, that's my fault."
I shrug. If he's hoping I'll argue with him on that point, he'll be disappointed.
