Mafia Boss & His White Rose novel · Chapter 23 of 24
Chapter 23: The Ring
"It ended yesterday on its own terms," Domenico said.
The two halves of the page lay in front of him.
"I didn't want you to owe me one more morning on paper."
"You tore it up without asking me."
"I asked the paper. It said yes."
I stood in the kitchen doorway in his sweater, and for a second I wanted to throw the coffee pot.
Then I laughed instead, because he had said it with such a perfectly straight face.
"That was the last thing you decide without me," I said.
"Yes."
"Say it again."
"The last."
He poured me a cup.
He did not ask me to marry him in that kitchen, and he did not ask on the garden bench or in the hall.
He asked on a Friday, in daylight, in my own shop.
It was a small shop on East Passyunk Avenue with a cooler, a counter and a bell on the door.
I had opened it at eight, because the world doesn't stop for a Table vote.
Pippa sat on a stool behind the counter in a blanket and slippers.
She was supposed to be at home, and she had told the cardiologist she'd be at the shop.
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