Marcelli Sisters 5 - The Marcelli Princess by Susan Mallery

Author:Susan Mallery
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Children of Presidents, Single Mothers, Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, Sagas, Wineries, Bodyguards, General, Princes, Love Stories
ISBN: 0743499581
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Published: 2006-12-31T16:00:00+00:00

11

M ia found herself unable to breathe. White-hot fury poured through her until she felt sure she could melt steel simply by touching it. She stood as if nailed to the floor, unable to move as Rafael finished his conversation with his father. A conversation that revealed everything.

When he’d hung up, she forced herself to walk into her bedroom, where she picked up the phone and called Joe’s cell.

“Get to the house now,” she said, her voice low and thick. “Bring a gun.”

She hung up before he could ask anything; then she stalked into Rafael’s bedroom and wondered if she was truly capable of murder.

At that moment it seemed more than possible—it seemed likely. She wanted him dead. No, she wanted him in pain. She wanted to see blood and bone jutting through flesh. She wanted him writhing and begging, and she wanted to watch him disappear into a puddle of green slime.

He turned and smiled at her. “Mia. I was just speaking with my father and we were—” He stared at her. “What is wrong?”

She could feel the scream building, but as it hadn’t reached the surface yet, she spoke in a quiet voice, one laced with so much anger, it practically snapped.

“Did you think I was so fucking stupid that I didn’t speak Portuguese?”

He paled slightly. “What do you mean?”

“Just what I said, you bastard. I heard and understood every damned word. Ironically, I wasn’t paying attention when you were speaking Italian. I wasn’t even listening. But you switched. I guess you thought I could be Grandma Tessa, who also speaks Italian. You sure as hell wouldn’t want her hearing your little plan for my future.”

She felt as angry about his assumption that she wouldn’t understand him as she did about what he’d said. That bothered her for a second until she realized it was safe to be furious about the language he’d chosen. She wouldn’t kill him over that.

“I heard you,” she told him. “I heard every word. You lied. You deliberately lied. How dare you? You’re not here to marry me, you’re here to take my son.”

The scream built and built until it finally burst free. She reached for the lamp on the dresser by the door and threw it at him.

“You fucking bastard. You tricked us all. You came here with your stories and your princely manners and the whole thing was a scam.”

He’d sidestepped the lamp easily. Now he walked around the mess on the floor and moved toward her.

“Mia, calm down. You have misunderstood.”

“Get away from me. I swear, if I had a gun I’d shoot you right now. Right in the gut. Or the balls. You didn’t come here for me. You don’t care about me or my family or anything. You want your son. You want to kidnap him.”

“You’re being ridiculous. Daniel is my heir. It is reasonable for me to—”

“Don’t talk to me about reasonable,” she screamed. “Don’t you dare. You lied. It was all a lie.”

“Daniel is my son.”

“His name is Danny.

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