I Called It a Drunk Mistake, So the Mob Boss Made It Permanent novel · Chapter 21 of 24
Chapter 21: Say It
Leandros woke at six, as he always did, and lay and listened to the man next to him pretend to sleep.
Linus was a terrible liar.
His breathing was too even.
His eyelids twitched, and the corner of his mouth kept turning up, and one bare foot rested against Leandros's calf with a stillness no sleeping man could manage.
Grey February light came through the glass.
The harbor was white with frost, and a tugboat pushed a barge down the channel with a long low horn.
Leandros did not move.
He had been awake for an hour already, in the dark, rehearsing.
He had tried it in English in his head, and in Greek, and in the language of the dockworkers he had grown up with.
He had tried it in a whisper, and then in his ordinary voice.
Each time it stuck.
For thirty-one years he had been a man who could say anything to anyone.
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