They Called Me a Fraud, So I Walked Into the Don's House novel · Chapter 14 of 24
Chapter 14: What He Can Bear
The cars left at first light.
Salerno's men carried their wounded to the trunks, and nobody on the wall fired at them, because Alessio had said not to.
"Let them take their dead," he told Rocco. "I want them to remember who let them."
By then he lay in his own bed with a clean line in his arm and a fresh pad on the bridge of his nose.
I sat on the edge of the mattress with the empty platelet bag in my lap.
His color had come back a little.
"Three men hurt," Rocco said from the door. "None will die. The gate man needs stitches."
"And Schultz?"
"Rode off in Salerno's car, waving." Rocco's jaw tightened. "The old man drove him himself."
"Go and sleep."
"Boss."
"Go."
Rocco went, and shut the door softly.
I stood up and set the bag on the dresser.
"I owe you the rest," I said.
Alessio did not move.
"Before the window broke, you asked if I'd told you everything. I hadn't."
"I remember."
"Gregory didn't only put L-1 in your supplement." My throat felt tight, and I made myself say it plainly. "He sold the formula. He needed money and a place to hide it, and the only man in the city with a reason to want you sick was Salerno."
"The dusted glass."
"Salerno's. The powder on the rim was the same compound, dried. It's why I knocked it out of your hand before I thought."
"You knew that at the table."
"I knew it in the second I saw the waiter's face."
"And you didn't say it to me in the car."
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