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“I’m serious, Salvatore.”
His sigh sounded heavy, almost like something exhausted him.
“No, Grazia, I don’t want to fuck Pina.”
“Then why the hell would you go to her?”
“Why?” He barked and I knew that if we’d be standing face to face, he’d punch a wall. I could read him like an open book. “You rejected my calls for days,Tesoro. I gave you space because capricious women sometimes just need to cool down, but you never came back. How long did you think I’d wait?”
Wait? That’s why he stopped pushing in the past week; he waited for me to go to him willingly.
“Oh, Salvatore.”
“Explain yourself, Grazia Paulina.” Why was everybody using my middle name?
“Sasa, when you took me to our spot, it was…”
“An amazing night.”
Yes!
“That too, but it was eye opening.” Raising from the bed, I walked on my tiptoes to the large windows and opened them, hoping that the fresh morning air would help keep my mind clear. “We can’t keep doing this.”
“Not again, woman. I’m done listening to that bullshit. Get dressed and come to the bistro. I’ll order you some pasta.”
“You’re not listening to me.”
“Come and say it to my face.”
“I can’t, Salvatore. I’m not in Palermo. Rebecca and I left for a weekend getaway.”
“Ripetilo.[15]”
“We’re at her parents’ house. I don’t know when I’ll be back.” I was going to be in Como only for one more day, but he didn’t need to know that.
“You left town without telling me? You left! Without saying a fucking word?” I could feel his anger even if I couldn’t see it in his eyes.
“I don’t report to you.”
“You’re mine. You don’t get to put space between us without talking to me first.”
“I am not yours!” I yelled to the phone, not giving a damn that I was so loud, the whole damn house might have heard me. “This is what I keep telling you Salvatore. You and I? We are caught in a lie and it’s time to burst the bubble. We’re never going to have peace. There’s no future, no promise, and there won’t be anything more between us.”
“Shut. Up.”
“Don’t talk to me like that.”
“I don’t want to,Tesoro, you know I don’t, but you’re forcing my hand. There’s only so much impertinence that I can take from you.”
Prepare yourself, Salvatore Fiori, because there’s more where that came from.
“It’s time to face the music, Sasa. Fiori and Caputo will never make peace, they are too stubborn for that. And the future? You forget that I know you better than I know my own heart. When our fathers won’t be anymore, you’re not going to come and ask forgiveness from Giovani, not even for my sake. You are too proud.”
“I have no reason to ask for forgiveness from your brother or any Caputo man…”
“See! That’s our reality. Just listen to me for once. I didn’t go silent in the past days because I needed space, I did it because it’s too painful to see you when we both know our story is ending. It’s easier to just let go.”
“No, it’s time for you to listen. I would rather let you put a dagger in my heart than give you up.” Well, his words were a dagger inmyheart.
