He Loved Me in Secret, Until I Became Someone He Could Never Have novel · Chapter 23 of 32
Chapter 23: Ledger Day
Dario didn't move from the brick.
"Did he say it to you himself?" he asked.
"He said it to a captain," Ennio said. "The captain said it to me. He wanted it to reach you."
"Then it reached me."
Ennio looked at me across the dark pier.
"Tell him not to do it, Renata."
"I already did," I said. "He doesn't listen."
I stepped away from the wall and fixed my sweater.
My hands had stopped shaking.
"Where would he do it?" I asked. "If Dario stood up."
"At the table," Ennio said. "Wherever the table sits."
"And where does the table sit?"
"In the Mazzola back room," he said slowly. "It always has."
"Then it's my room," I said. "Guns go in a laundry basket at my door. Nobody bleeds at the Keeper's table. My great-grandmother wrote that line too."
"Your back room is a black hole with a tarp over it."
"Then I'll build it back."
Dario turned to me.
"Nata."
"You told me before you did it," I said. "So I'm telling you. You can stand up at that table. You can ask for anything you want. But my business goes first."
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