Never Cross the Mafia Don's Hidden Lover novel · Chapter 18 of 32
Chapter 18: A Week Before
Nobody else in the room noticed.
Nonna was wrapping cake in foil.
Dina was standing very close to me.
Elio put his glass down on the windowsill.
"Not here," he said.
"Then where?"
"At the house. Please."
It was the first time I'd ever heard him say please.
Nobody spoke in the car.
Dina held Pope's carrier and looked straight ahead.
At the lake house Elio's men were in the front hall, three of them, playing cards on a crate.
They stood up when we came in.
I didn't go upstairs.
I put the envelope on the hall table under the lamp, where everybody could see it.
"Tell me it's a lie," I said. "Tell me his lawyer made it up."
Elio looked at the envelope.
"It's not a lie."
One of the men put his cards down very quietly.
"How long?"
"A week before the wedding." He kept his eyes on mine. "One of my men came to me on a Friday. He said Vittore had bought a homicide detective. Fifteen thousand a month. He said the detective was a man named Brophy."
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