Boss by Liliana Rhodes

Author:Liliana Rhodes [Rhodes, Liliana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Jaded Speck Publishing
Published: 2014-08-18T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWELVE

Gia

I was sitting in the family room curled up on the couch reading a book when the front door slammed. It wasn't like Dante to come home in a huff, but as he stormed to the back of the house where I was I could see he was upset.

"Please just listen and don't ask any questions," he said. "I don't know how much time I have."

I nodded and he put his hand out to me. Placing my hand in his, he pulled me up from the couch and brought me outside. We hurried over to the small building his office was in and he pressed his security code into the keypad, unlocking the door.

Dante's office was a room with an attached bathroom and small kitchen. A smaller wood desk than the one he had in the house, faced the front door and the only window. Behind it was a long black leather couch with the tan cotton blanket I bought for him knowing he would sometimes sleep there. He had made some changes to the room since I was last in it, like adding a kitchen area with a sink, a microwave, and a small refrigerator, but otherwise it looked the same.

Still holding my hand, he brought me to the couch and we sat down. He sat on the edge of his seat and angled himself so he looked directly at me.

"Gia, you know I'm a bad man. You know I do things most people think are horrific. But I'm an honest man."

"I know all that. What's going on?" I asked.

"Vic Capuzzo is dead. I've been set up to take the fall."

"Oh no," I said, trying to take in everything.

Not only was Dante telling me he was going to jail, but I was learning yet another person connected to me was dead. Dante had spent the past week in his office, I didn't know what I would do with him locked away. I didn't want to even think about how long he would be gone.

"But you didn't do it," I said. "How can they do this?"

"Things happen, my angel. Not everything in life is fair. I need to put some calls in to some friends and see what I can do. When the police come they're going to do a search. I have some pull so they'll probably only search here and not the whole house. I want you to take a few things for me."

"Of course, anything," I said.

Dante got up and went over to his desk. He started pulling some items from the drawers. I expected him to hand over some secret files to me, maybe on a thumb drive like I had seen in the movies, but when he turned back towards me he was holding a stack of paper.

"This is all just in case things get really bad," he said as he sat next to me again. "Here's the deed to the house, the penthouse in Manhattan, and several other properties. They're all in your name.

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