I Hid a Mob Boss in the Stacks, So He Claimed My Nights novel · Chapter 20 of 24

Chapter 20: Christmas Eve at Noon

The long room on Mayfield Road smelled of frying cod and garlic and hot oil, and fifty men sat down to it at noon.

Somewhere behind the kitchen door, women I would never meet were putting out the first of seven fishes.

The table had been lengthened with planks and white cloths.

There was a chair at the head with nobody in it.

Salvatore's photograph hung above the bar with a sprig of holly in the frame.

Lucio sat at the right of the empty chair.

The baker sat on his left, as he had promised, with his big scarred hands flat on the cloth.

I sat across from them, in my green dress, between the produce broker and a man whose name I did not know.

Pia stood behind her brother's chair in a black dress with her hair pinned up, and she did not sit.

Nunzio sat at the foot of the table, where he could see all of us.

The driver stood against the wall behind his chair with his hands folded.

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