Texting My Mafia Savior: An Possessive Alpha Romance by Flora Ferrari

Author:Flora Ferrari [Ferrari, Flora]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2025-01-28T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 16

NICO

“I’m not blind,” Rocco barks, staring at me across the table. “I know what I saw between you and my daughter.”

Somehow, I hadn’t even stopped to think what her father’s response to us would be. I’ve been so concerned with the mob, so worried about putting her in danger. This layer of impossibility didn’t even occur to me. Talk about misguided… But it’s hit me now, and I have to accept it.

Arria and I will never work. She needs to let her savior go.

“You don’t need to confirm it,” he snaps. “I can see you want to tell me, but I guess Arria doesn’t want to. I bet she thinks it’s not real if you don’t bring it out into the open. But it is real. Whatever. I meant what I said. It ends now, understand?”

I take another sip of coffee, then nod. That’s enough for Rocco. I’ve just agreed to end things with his daughter, my niece. It’s for the best, anyway. Hell, not the best. It’s the only course of action that makes any goddamn sense. It’s the only path we have out of this.

“It’s clear something’s happening, anyway,” he says. “Otherwise, you wouldn’t have overreacted and told us to leave.”

“You can’t call it an overreaction,” I growl. “You’re right. Dominic wouldn’t usually risk doing something drastic like going after a civilian woman. But that was before he thought I stole Lucy from him. He’s unhinged.”

“How are you going to stop him?” Rocco snaps. When I don’t answer right away, he says, “It seems to me that the only actual course of action is to go on like everything’s normal. It’s making sure he believes in you and Lucy. It’s making sure that he never, not even for a second, suspects anything’s happening between you and my daughter.”

“He made me do a lie detector tonight test, Rocco,” I say.

He closes his eyes. “Fuck.”

“I cheated the test. I made myself so full of adrenaline that he couldn’t confirm or deny anything. But you’re a good example of why a man doesn’t need to confirm or deny anything to show what the truth is.”

“You think he knows, then?”

“We didn’t leave things on good terms. Don’t you get it? That’s why you have to leave.”

“Don’t you get it?” he barks. “What I said is true. If I leave, it’s obvious. It’s suspicious. Less so if the ladies go on a trip together.”

“But that’s just a short-term solution. When they come back, then what?”

He sighs, shaking his head. “You might have to become the person you were, Nico.”

“You want me to become the Nightmare again?” I snarl. “You want me to sacrifice my practice, my pro bono work, bloody my hands again, and even then, it might not work? Even then, I might end up dead. Lucy will be in his hands, and maybe Dominic’s rage will get worse and worse. He’ll hate your daughter just because I…”

“No more of that,” Rocco growls. “Never again. I know what you’re hinting at it.

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