Never Cross the Mafia Don's Hidden Lover novel · Chapter 19 of 32
Chapter 19: Bad Karaoke
Tino slept on the back step.
At three, when I went down to check on a diabetic cat, he was still sitting there with his arms folded.
At six Nonna went down and handed him coffee and a slice of Biscuit's ear.
He thanked her.
At seven I came down in my scrubs and found him sweeping glass off the sidewalk out front.
"You don't work for me," I said.
"No."
"I can't pay you."
"I didn't ask."
"Does he know where you are?"
"He knows." Tino leaned the broom on the wall. "He called four times. I told him the cat says hello."
I didn't ask what Elio had said.
Tino didn't tell me.
That was the morning I decided the sign came first.
The fire department had taken the burned board away, and my father's brackets were bare.
Dina found a sheet of plywood in the alley.
We laid it across two sawhorses in the parking lot and painted it ourselves, in red barn paint from the hardware store.
ERRATO ANIMAL HOSPITAL.
Then I took the burned C off my father's desk and nailed it on the front.
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