Sweet Temptation novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: The Table
I stood up.
Cesare did not touch my arm.
That was the plan, and it cost him something to keep to it.
"She has no standing," Aurelio said, mildly, from the end of the table.
"She is a married woman of this family," said the silver-haired woman, "and you just called her a liar in front of five heads. She will answer."
The oldest head lifted two fingers from the cloth.
"Speak, girl."
I had written a speech on the drive and thrown it away at the first stoplight.
"On a Sunday my father put his hand across my face," I said, "in front of three of his men, because I wouldn't rob my husband."
"A family quarrel," said Aurelio.
"I've never had a quarrel with you, Papa. I've only ever had orders."
A dry sound came from the old man in the center.
It might have been a laugh.
I took the brown glass vial out of my coat, taken back from the locked desk, and set it on the green cloth.
"The next morning his man handed me this outside a school. My father called it a sleeping draught."
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