In Debt to the Mafia: A Dark Mafia Second Chance Romance by Rosa Milano

Author:Rosa Milano [Milano, Rosa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-05-03T22:00:00+00:00

20

Amelia

I wake up to the sound of something downstairs. I take a minute to work out what it is. It's dark outside and there's still no sign of Leo. I sit up and listen.

I relax, laughing at myself. It's my cellphone. I left it down there on the sofa when he appeared.

It hits me in a second. Everything that we did together. At once I know it was a mistake. There's no way anything good can come from what we did together. I guess I should be grateful for my birth control.

If I wasn't sure about my feelings before, I've been hit with a sledgehammer of emotions since he was inside me. I want him so badly; it causes me physical pain.

I climb out of bed and wrap a dressing gown around me. For a moment I look for the cord and then I remember. It's on the floor like a dead snake.

I pick it up and tie a knot, heading downstairs to find my phone. As I walk into the living room, I get a flash of memory. Me waking up and him standing there over me.

I can put my life into two distinct parts. Before I slept with him and afterward. I feel like a different person. I know why, but I don't want to think about it.

I don't want to think about getting attached to him, about falling for him. I want to forget him. He's going in less than a day. I don't even know if he'll ever be back again. He's only here to find his snitch.

I pick up the cellphone, wondering who's going to be calling me at ten past three in the morning. The only person I can think of is Molly.

It's not her.

It's Leo.

"Amelia," he says when I answer. His voice is warm honey and I want to drown in it. "Come to the lighthouse. Make sure you're not followed."

"Leo? What's happening? What's going on?"

He's already hung up. This is what it would be like living with him. All the questions and none of the answers. He's not an average person.

He's not going to the office each day and then coming home again. He's in the mafia. He's a criminal. His life is like this. Out in the dark, up to God alone knows what.

I have to decide whether to go. I'm still deciding when there's a knock on the door that makes me jump. I head into the hallway and call out. "Who is it?"

"Louie," the voice on the other side calls back. "Open up, Amelia. I need to speak to you."

I look through the spyhole and it is him, the sheriff's patrol car parked on the edge of the street behind him. I unlock the door and he glances straight past me. "Is Leo here?"

"No, why?"

"I need to speak to him. Where is he?"

I almost don't tell him. A little voice in the back of my mind says I should keep things to myself. But it's only the sheriff. I've known him since I was a little child.

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