The Mob Boss Said My Father Owed Him a Life, So He Took Mine to Keep novel · Chapter 19 of 24

Chapter 19: Friday Night

On Friday night, two nights before the table, I woke him with my mouth.

It was past two.

The house on Federal Hill was black and silent.

The radiator under the window knocked once and was still.

My father slept in the room across the hall under three blankets.

The man on the gate was Rosaria's now, not Vincent's.

Rocco lay on his back in the big bed in the master room, with one arm flung over his head and the sheet at his waist.

I had slipped in and he hadn't stirred.

Rosaria had said he never slept.

But he slept now, deeply, with his split knuckles curled on the pillow and the lines gone from his face.

I stood over him in the dark, wanting him, and I had never watched a man sleep for that reason in my life.

I got on the bed at the foot, on my knees, and drew the sheet down.

He was already half hard in his sleep.

I took him in my hand, gently, and he made a sound in his throat.

I lowered my head and put my mouth around him.

He woke the way a man wakes in a house where someone has died, all at once, with a whole-body jolt.

His hand shot down and caught my hair.

He saw me.

His grip eased at once.

"Grace," he said, hoarse.

"God."

"Lie still," I said, with my lips against him.

"I'm busy."

He groaned and let his head fall back.

I took him deep and slow, and slid my tongue up the underside, and felt his whole body strain on the sheets.

His hand stayed in my hair, not guiding, only holding, and his hips rose a half inch and stopped.

"I'm going to ask you something," I said.

I lifted my head.

His chest was heaving.

"Anything," he said.

"Give me your tie," I said.

"My tie?" he said.

"The gray silk," I said.

"It's on the chair."

He looked at me in the dark, and I watched him understand.

I watched the thought arrive and the heat come up behind his eyes.

The old careful wariness fought it for a moment and lost.

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