My Father Sold Me at Eighteen, but the Mafia Lord Was the One in Debt to Me novel · Chapter 7 of 24
Chapter 7: Her Side of the Door
That night I locked my door from my side and sat on the floor with my back against it.
The Quarter House was quiet.
The fountain ran in the courtyard, and a ceiling fan turned over my bed.
My mother's ruined dress hung in a bag in the corner, and I did not look at it.
I could still feel his mouth.
I had never kissed anyone before.
I had known boys at school, and one of them had tried at a bus stop and I had laughed at him.
Nobody had ever kissed me back so hard that I forgot where my feet were.
I took the folder out of the drawer and opened it on my knees.
It was the only way I knew to calm myself.
"Promissory note," I read aloud to the empty room.
The sound steadied me, the way a rosary steadies other women.
"Creditor, Graciela Rosalia Montalvo.
"Debtor, Luca Vincenzo Ricci."
I read my own name in my own mouth.
On the other side of the wall, something shifted.
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