Bound to My Mafia Stepuncle novel · Chapter 22 of 32
Chapter 22: Sunday Gravy
I didn't say a word to her.
I got up off the white sofa and walked to the elevator and pressed the button until it came.
In the lobby, Angelo took one look at my face and stood up.
"What happened?"
"I told her," I said. "I told her Mom talked. She recorded all of it and sent it to Paulie."
He took my hand and walked me out to the truck, fast, scanning the street.
"Then your mother doesn't leave that apartment," he said. "Not for Christmas, not for the pharmacy, not for anything."
That night the fighters made a schedule on the whiteboard where the sparring times usually went.
Somebody sat at the bottom of the narrow stairs every hour of the day and night.
The big heavyweight took every night, in a folding chair, with a thermos and a paperback about dragons.
My mother found out on Saturday and stood at the top of the stairs in her robe, looking down at him.
"You don't have to do this," she said. "You don't even know me."
"You're Riley's mom," he said, as if that settled it.
She went back inside and didn't come out for an hour.
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