My Mafia Husband Called Me Unfaithful Then I Married His Enemy novel · Chapter 17 of 24

Chapter 17: Nobody Owes

Elisa's POV

Dario took three steps up the table, and every man in that room leaned to see which way he'd go.

He walked past his father.

He walked past Vittoria, who had crouched with her arms already open.

He climbed into Alberto's lap, put his face in the old man's jacket, and said, "My shoe hurts."

Nobody laughed.

Alberto looked down at the wrong shoe, and something in his face gave way.

"Take it off, then," he said, very low, and he did it himself, with big careful fingers.

Then he looked up at the table.

"The boy sleeps in my house tonight, in the room beside mine, with my nurse. Neri, you will not come near him."

"Don Galli, I have raised him."

"You have taught him. I heard what he says about his grandmother."

Vittoria's mouth closed.

"Your books go to my accountant at nine tomorrow. Every client account. Tommaso, you will sit in this house and not leave it." Alberto's voice cracked on the last word. "Elisa, you may see your son at breakfast."

Tommaso didn't lift his eyes.

Massimo stood where he was with his hands still on the table.

"You can leave, Montanari," Alberto said. "Take her. I would not have her go alone tonight."

I looked at Dario's bare foot.

He was already asleep against the old man's shirt, his face turned away from me.

I did not cry in that room.

I walked out through the front hall with Massimo half a step behind me, past the housekeeper who held my coat and didn't meet my eyes.

The cold hit my face at the door.

I stopped on the gravel and put both hands over my mouth, and the sound that came out wasn't a word.

Massimo didn't touch me.

"The car's at the gate," he said. "Whenever you can walk."

"Give me a minute."

"Take ten."

I took four.

I drove myself, and he followed my taillights all the way to the lake.

The house was dark except for the kitchen lamp he'd left on.

I walked in, dropped the file on the table, and turned around.

He stood just inside the door with his coat still on.

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