The Don's Surprise Baby : An Enemies to Lovers Mafia Romance by Amber Row

Author:Amber Row [Row, Amber]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: anonymous
Published: 2023-02-07T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

"I remember how the last three years had been," I talked to Mrs. Ricci who was already in tears from everything I had told her. She already threatened earlier to strangle her son till he apologized to me and had I not insisted she didn't, she was very willing to make good her promise.

"Those years, I've never felt so alone," I hugged myself. "It was only when Artemis became an integral part in my life, did the feeling start to wear off. When I could talk, she'd talk back. It felt surreal to have that so often."

"You never really had friends, even in school," she chuckled amidst her tears and sniffles.

"Yeah...old habits die hard, I guess," I smiled wishfully.

"Living without a lifeline has helped me though. I don't gamble anymore."

"You used to gamble?" The look of shock was unhidden in her face. I only giggled at her oblivion. "Some wild kid you are!" she rebuked me, though not with full seriousness.

"I stopped because, especially after giving birth to Artemis, I realized that there was no one I had in this world to turn to if I ever got completely broke. The thought of being fully responsible for myself was a terror I just barely got over. Imagine my dismay when another mouth was added to my shopping list." I laughed. "That was kind of like the shock treatment I needed."

I recalled the memory of my liveliest nights in Fauxwood. Most of them were at the casino where I felt really alive and like I was using my brain to the maximum capacity.

Screw college graduates! I had thought. They probably knew more about any scholarly topic than I did but on that table, I was God.

Come to think of it, if gambling was a full-time job, it'd probably be one of the most unproductive on earth. If I totaled what I won against what I lost, the margin wasn't wide. This is over a space of five years. Imagine living on twenty-five thousand dollars for five years! And that was me - the gambling professional. I was indeed lucky I didn't do it as often as most other people I met there and grateful altogether for having dropped the sport. Did I stop going to Fauxwood? Of course not. Not when there was lots of my favorite bourbon whiskey and upbeat nightlife to keep me going.

And let's not even get started on the men.

Mrs. Ricci still expressed her disappointment in me not having gone to college and I had to promise her that I'd put some thought into it before she finally let me off the hook on the topic.

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Now, I had only one person apart from Mrs. Ricci that I could confide in inside the mob house.

"Ricardo!" I screamed his name loud enough for not only him to hear, just to be sure the sound traveled to him. I didn't even mind the awkward stares given to me by some other men living in the house, almost all perpetually wearing corporate tuxedos.

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