I Hid a Mob Boss in the Stacks, So He Claimed My Nights novel · Chapter 22 of 24

Chapter 22: The Empty Place

Lucio's POV

The baker called the vote with his hand flat on the cloth.

Fifty hands went up for the chair, and I counted them by the sound of the sleeves, as I had learned to.

Pia took the folder from the foot of the table, where Nunzio had left it, and held it against her chest with both arms.

By two o'clock the Lincoln had gone to the station with my uncle in the back and the baker's nephews on either side of him.

He had a ticket to Pittsburgh, where his late wife's sister lives, and a letter from the old men that said he would not be received in Cleveland again.

The driver went somewhere else.

I did not ask where, and the baker did not say.

At four I stood in my study with a card in my hand.

I had written it myself, over three nights at the kitchen table, with Pia checking each letter and refusing to tell me which ones were wrong.

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