Reckless Sinner by Erika Wilde

Author:Erika Wilde
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Erika Wilde

CHAPTER 14

Delaney

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I had to move fast. My father would never accept any dawdling on my part now. If he’d been impatient before, that was nothing compared to today after losing out on his plans to get Marco in on murder charges.

After breakfast, I went into the kitchen to bake something. I didn’t like cooking or baking, never had, but my father had insisted I learn. You’ll be rich enough you won’t ever have to cook if you don’t want to, but it’s important to know what’s quality, he would say. And even if you never actually do it, men like knowing a woman can cook.

He did sometimes ask me to cook or bake when a couple of people were coming over—it was one of his ways of showing me off. And I was good at it. It was one of the few talents I had. Of course he wanted me to show people my accomplishments.

But boy, did I hate it. I had never been fond of it and the idea of doing it to impress people irked me even further. I thought Dante would appreciate the gesture, though, so I went in to bake some cookies.

I didn’t know his favorites but everyone liked chocolate chip, right? Couldn’t go wrong with a classic. When was the last time a high-powered lawyer had something as fun and simple as homemade chocolate chip cookies?

After making them I spent the rest of the day doing as much research on the Russos as I could. I even went to the local library and pulled up their microfilms from old papers so that I could view articles on Antonio Russo’s activities years ago.

By the time I finished, I was sure that my father was right. Antonio Russo had been a ruthless but clever man, suspected in manipulating other families, although a lot of what he’d supposedly done could never be proven. His son Vincent seemed to be much the same.

Did Dante know what his brother was planning? Or had already planned and executed? He’d sounded genuinely surprised and confused on the phone last night but he could’ve been acting for my sake.

My girlfriend, dickhead. I hadn’t been able to hear anything Vincent had said on the other end of the line, but the response made it pretty clear he’d been asking who was with Dante. And Dante had snapped at him, been protective of me.

He’d called me his girlfriend.

Did he mean that? Did he really like me that much?

Between my task and my own insecurities, I felt like I might throw up by the time the clock ticked over to five in the afternoon. I got home, changed into a cute outfit, and texted my father to confirm from him that Dante had left the office.

Then I went to his apartment.

My heart thundered in my chest as I rode the elevator up. Was this a mistake? The doorman had smiled and winked at me as he’d let me in, and I wondered if the apartment staff were rooting for Dante to finally bring a girl home.

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