This Time I Choose Mr. Mafia novel · Chapter 17 of 32
Chapter 17: The Slip
I came out of the bathroom an hour later with my face washed and my mind made up.
I couldn't tell him.
Not yet.
Rhett had spent ten days telling Chicago I believed I'd died.
If I told my husband I'd lived three years already, and gotten him killed in one of them, I'd be proving Rhett right.
Worse, Damiano would believe me.
I already knew what a man like him did with a threat he believed in.
He went and stood in front of it.
He was waiting at the bottom of the stairs with a plate of cold eggs.
"You don't have to tell me," he said. "But you have to eat."
I ate the eggs standing up, like his sister.
He watched me the whole time and didn't ask once.
That night I took my pillow back across the hall to my own room.
I heard him come up at midnight.
His footsteps stopped outside my door.
They stayed there a long time.
Then they went away, and I lay in the dark hating myself in a very organized way.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–16 of This Time I Choose Mr. Mafia are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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