Kneel, Mafia Boss, Your Wife Is Gone novel · Chapter 14 of 24

Chapter 14: What You Were Buying

My ears rang for ten minutes, and the whole time Dominic's hand stayed locked around my wrist.

Burning pieces of my car came down on the lot.

The driver sat against the club wall with his hands over his head, alive and sobbing.

Nico came through the back door at a dead run, with his gun out and his face white.

"Donna!"

"I'm here."

"Who?"

"Find out who touched this car last night," I said. "Not the driver, he's too scared to lie. Whoever was in this lot before he got here."

Dominic looked down at his shoulder, and so did I.

Blood had soaked through his shirt where the sling strap cut across.

"You tore it open," I said.

"I'm fine."

"You're bleeding on my shoes."

He laughed, and it sounded wrong.

I turned to Aurelio, who stood in the doorway with the locked case clamped under one arm.

"The book flies home at dawn. You and Nico go with it, and you don't set it down once."

"Donna, you will be alone."

"I won't be alone," I said. "I have a husband."

I heard how it sounded, and so did he.

Rosaria had gone to her sister's after the letters came, and the house on Dickinson Street was dark and quiet when we walked in.

I sat Dominic on the edge of the bathtub and took off his shirt.

Two of my stitches had pulled out and the skin around them was angry and red.

I cleaned it and pressed gauze to it, and my hands were steady until I realized they weren't.

"Ila."

"Hold still."

"You're shaking."

"I know I'm shaking." I put the tape down. "A bomb was under my seat. You said, don't touch anything, in the voice you use when you're scared, and I have never heard you scared."

He took my hand in his good one.

"Say it," he said. "Whatever you've been carrying since the cemetery. Say it all."

I looked at the white tile.

I looked at the mirror, where the two of us stood in the light.

"My father's coffin went into the ground," I said, "and you were buying Gemma dessert."

He didn't move.

"Then you drove to my father's gate with her in your car, and let her look at my house."

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