Bound to My Mafia Stepuncle novel · Chapter 27 of 32
Chapter 27: Accountability
I looked down at her hand on my wrist.
The gold C had slid down over her knuckles.
"Help you how?" I said.
"He'll say it was me." Her voice was shaking. "The pills, the cabinet, all of it. He'll say I did it on my own."
"Did you?"
She opened her mouth to lie.
I watched her decide not to.
"No," Corrine said. "He told me which ones. He told me when."
"Then go tell her." I nodded at the detective in the front hall. "Yourself. Right now. Before he gets a lawyer and tells it first."
"Will you come?"
I thought about Domenic gripping the sheets at one in the morning, not making a sound.
I thought about her eyes in the bridal shop mirror, dry and on me.
"I'll stand there," I said. "That's all."
We walked into the front hall together.
The detective was writing in her notebook under the big chandelier.
Corrine let go of my wrist.
She unclasped Paulie's watch and set it on the hall table.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–16 of Bound to My Mafia Stepuncle are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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