The Famous Mafioso Hired Me to Hear Him, and the Man in the Cell Is Not Who They Convicted novel · Chapter 8 of 24
Chapter 8: Nineteen Years
Teo's POV
I had not slept properly in nineteen years.
In the cell, at three in the morning, I lay on my back and counted what I owned.
A bunk, a book, a window the width of two fingers, and a ledger that existed only in my head.
I had kept the family's books from the age of twenty-two.
I knew where every dollar of the bakery supply house and the trucking line had gone.
In the dark I went on keeping them, line by line, because it was the only work they could not take from me.
Now I lay in a narrow bed on the second floor of my brother's house on Hertel Avenue with a woman's head on my shoulder.
I could feel her breath on my collarbone.
It was warm and slow, and I felt it.
I did not hear it.
I had not heard a breath in nineteen years that was not my own.
I looked at her hand where it lay on my chest.
It was short-nailed and strong, with a small white scar on the thumb.
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