Never Cross the Mafia Don's Hidden Lover novel · Chapter 26 of 32

Chapter 26: Heart Pills

The line went dead.

Elio was out of his car and at my side before I'd put the phone away.

"No," he said.

"He said alone."

"I don't care what he said."

"He'll see you. He'll see anybody but me." I held up my surgical bag. "He asked for this. He asked for me. I'm the only one who walks in there without a gun."

"That's why you're not going."

"That's why I am."

He took my face in both hands.

"I let you walk down an aisle once," he said. "I won't let you walk down this one."

"You're not letting me." I put my hands over his. "I'm going. And you swore on my father's stethoscope. No body."

"Viola."

"Not his. Not anybody's. Not tonight."

He shut his eyes.

Then he let go.

Tino opened the gate a foot, and I slipped through.

The boxer met me on the other side and walked beside me down the gravel, pressed against my leg.

The third trailer from the water had its back doors open.

A work light hung inside from a hook.

I climbed up.

Nonna was sitting on a wooden crate at the far end in her housecoat, with her cane across her knees.

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