The Don's Animal-Talking Little Girl novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: The Study
"I was looking for the bathroom," I said.
"It's the door before this one."
"Big house."
Ignazio came in and closed the study door behind him.
The lock clicked.
From the kitchen, Dilly had stopped singing.
He walked past me to the desk, slow, an old man with a bad hip, and tried the bottom drawer.
It opened.
He looked down into it at the cigar box.
He didn't open the box.
The handkerchief was hanging out of the lid where I'd shut it crooked.
He closed the drawer with his knee.
"Sit down, Etta."
"I'll stand."
"You always stand." He lowered himself into the green chair and crossed his legs. "Teo told me that. He said, Zio, she won't sit in my restaurant, she won't sit in my office. He was smiling when he said it. He likes you very much."
"He's a good judge of character. Mostly."
He smiled at that.
"Give me back what you took."
"I didn't take anything."
"Turn out your pockets."
"Put your hands on me," I said, "and I'll tell a family court judge that the man with weekend visitation locked the supervisor in a room and searched her. Then you can explain the drawer."
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