I Bought His Love, Then He Became the Don novel · Chapter 38 of 76
Chapter 38: Eighty on the Edens
I stood up so fast the coffee went over the week's numbers.
"Which shop?"
"Bridal place in Lincoln Park. She's been there since August, sir. Under her own name."
"Since August."
"I only found out because I pulled the list of who'd be in that house today."
I was already past him.
I took my own car. My men piled into the second one and spent the whole drive trying to keep me in sight.
I hadn't gone over the limit in five years. Speeding is how a man in my work meets a cop.
I did eighty on the Edens.
Every speech I'd made up in five years came back to me on that road, all at once.
I looked for you. I kept your dress.
I paid it back, every cent.
I said them out loud to the windshield, and none of them were any good.
I found out later where she'd been.
Over a dry cleaner on Taylor Street, four blocks from my restaurant, under her mother's maiden name.
She walked past the red awning every morning for five weeks, to the bus.
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