Vicious Pleasure: Dark Mafia Romance (The MacCarrick Mafia Book 1) by Kat Logan

Author:Kat Logan [Logan, Kat]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-01-04T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER EIGHT

SOFIA

“They’re all very close,” Mrs. MacCarrick said as I watched her cut up potatoes for a roast she was about to put in the oven. “I’m glad he brought you today. I don’t get to see the boys together often enough. And I don’t get enough guests.”

“I’m sorry we showed up unannounced,” I said for what felt like the thousandth time. She laughed and waved off my apology again. Strangely enough, I felt as if I were the one at fault for breaking some social norm, even though I’d been hauled here by Leon.

Or maybe I was trying to apologize for my family’s role in her losing a child. I held my breath, struggling to control my emotions, the heavy feeling of guilt, and the burn of tears behind my eyes.

I managed to keep myself under control, despite being an exhausted wreck. Leon and his two brothers were still out on the deck. Leon had growled at me that it was “family business.” Meaning that I wasn’t invited. Things were so fraught and tense between us that even my curiosity didn’t urge me to find out what they were talking about.

Me, most likely.

Before I’d wandered into the kitchen to keep his mom company, I’d changed the television to a news channel. There was nothing about a med school student whose family was rumored to be connected to the New York mafia missing her flight and vanishing from the Earth. It was a national news channel, so I guess that made sense. It was sobering to be reminded of where you stood in the world—below budget negotiations and the latest dumb thing some politician said out loud. The local news might have something on the shooting at the motel, even if no one had found the bodies in my penthouse yet.

Everything that had happened in the past twenty-four hours had taken on the qualities of a nightmare in my memory. None of it felt completely real anymore, even though I’d lived through it.

“I’ve been chatting away without even asking you anything about yourself,” Mrs. MacCarrick said as she drained off water from the boiled potatoes and steam billowed up from the sink. “Forgive me for that. Are you working or in school?”

“Med school. NYU. I’m studying to be a general practitioner.”

“How exciting! I always wanted to have a child who went to med school. Things didn’t work out that way. Is it as stressful as they say it is?”

“Worse.” Sometimes my brain felt so crammed full of information on the human body and biochemistry that I was sure it was going to melt. That was the main reason my friends and I had jumped at the chance to leave the icy New York winter behind and head to several island paradises. We needed to blow off steam.

“Well, it will all be worth it someday. The world can always use more doctors.”

I expected her to make some comment about me not having time to have children and raise a family—which was a common theme from my mother—but she didn’t.

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