My Stepsister Ran From the Wedding, So My Stepmother Sold Me to the Man Who Hates Her Mother novel · Chapter 13 of 24
Chapter 13: What He Did
Agata did not answer her.
She put one hand flat over the red-haired woman's face in the frame.
With the other she lifted the badge off the cloth and held it against her chest.
"It was in a drawer," Agata said. "Drawers are where old women keep things, Carmela."
"A photograph of the Voss girl."
Carmela stepped into the room in her cream suit with her handbag on her arm.
"Whose picture is it, I wonder, if not hers?"
"You tell me," said Agata.
Carmela laughed, a small silvery sound.
Fourteen men sat with their hats on their knees and watched her cross the floor to my chair.
"Darling," she said. "You're pale. Ignazio is asking for you again, and I've sent the car."
"My father is asking for me," I said.
"He is."
"He can't ask for anyone, Carmela. You told the priest he asked with his eyes."
Her face did not change.
It had not changed in the bride's room either, and I knew now what that meant.
It meant she had practiced it.
"Come home," she said. "Whatever this old woman has been telling you, it can wait for a family table."
"This is a family table," I said.
Marcello moved.
He stepped around my chair and put himself between her and me.
He did not touch her or raise his voice.
"Mrs. Scalise," he said. "My wife is staying where the contract says she resides. The driver will see you out."
"Is that a threat?"
"It's a door."
She looked up at him for a long moment.
I saw her weigh it: the fourteen captains, the old woman, the badge on Agata's chest.
Then the smile came back, bright and smooth.
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