This Time I Choose Mr. Mafia novel · Chapter 22 of 32
Chapter 22: Midnight
"He took it," I said. "When he knocked into me. Rhett took my old phone."
Damiano had already turned around in his seat.
"What's on it?"
"Nothing. Texts from my father. Rhett's threat. Pictures of my gallery."
"Who has that number?"
My stomach dropped.
"My father," I said. "It's the only reason I kept it on."
Bruna was dialing before I finished.
My father picked up on the fourth ring, which was three rings too many.
"Dess? I'm in a cab. I can't stay in that house tonight."
"Why not?"
"Your stepmother sent movers at noon," he said. "Half the furniture's gone. So is every photograph of you and your mother she could find."
"Come to Oakley," I said. "Now. Don't answer any text from my old number. Not one. Even if it sounds like me."
He was quiet a second.
"Even if it sounds like you," he said slowly. "All right."
He came at seven with one suitcase and the brown bottle of pills in his pocket.
He stood in the front hall and looked up the staircase.
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