I Told the Mob Boss I Would Not Be Bought, So He Offered to Be Sold novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: The Watch
Anson's POV
I could not sleep, so I sat on the piazza of my aunt's house with the harbor air coming up Tradd Street.
It was one in the morning on the night before the benefit.
Detty was asleep upstairs in my bed.
She had gone out like a light with her hand fisted in my pillow, the way a woman sleeps who has been carrying a gavel for twelve years.
I had stood in the door a long time and looked at her.
Then I had come out here with a glass of water I did not drink.
The judge's card lay on the piazza table where she had left it.
*I am told you have one.*
He knew.
He had known since the barn, when I stood in the road and he saw me standing there and did not dare drive in.
He did not know what she would do.
He thought she would sell it back to him.
He thought everyone sold.
I turned the card over and over under my thumb.
Eight years ago, on the Thursday after Luc's funeral, I had stood in the front room of this house with a shotgun.
My aunt had taken it out of my hands in her housecoat and told me that if I went to South Battery I would be the second Gaillard in the Folly River by morning.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–6 of I Told the Mob Boss I Would Not Be Bought, So He Offered to Be Sold are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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