THE CALLAHANS (A Mafia Romance): The Complete 5 Books Series by Glenna Sinclair

Author:Glenna Sinclair [Sinclair, Glenna]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-07-11T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Delaney

Alex walked into my office and pointed straight at my face.

“She’s back!”

I ignored him, focusing on my computer screen and the email I’d read three times and still hadn’t fully comprehended.

“What happened? Did Mr. Perfect turn out to have warts?”

“Don’t you have something better to do than to tease me?”

“Tease you? Is that what I’m doing?” Alex settled in one of the chairs carefully positioned at front of my desk for optimal negotiations and studied my face for a long second. “Okay. Tell me what happened.”

“Nothing happened. He just wasn’t who I thought he was.”

“No one ever is, darling. Who did you think he was?”

I shrugged, sitting back in my chair as I realized that I wasn’t getting any work done in the foreseeable future.

“I thought he was a lawyer. A clean cut, little rough around the edges, but straight-laced sort of guy. But it turns out that his family is as deep into this city’s dark side as anyone can get.”

“And that’s a bad thing?”

I shot him a look that told him he was insane and he laughed a little.

“Sometimes being a little dark isn’t as bad as it seems, Delaney. Besides, who wants a guy who is perfect? Isn’t perfect kind of boring?”

“Maybe. But I’ve had enough of the bad guys, you know? Wasn’t Claude enough?”

“But this guy’s a lawyer. How truly bad can he be?”

“You’d be surprised.”

“You love him?”

I looked up, unable to hide it from the one guy who knew me better than almost anyone. He smiled, his expression soft and affectionate.

“If you love him, you have to accept him completely, warts and all. Besides, if it’s just a family connection, maybe it’s not as bad as you think it is.”

“He admitted to lying to me.”

“At least he admitted it. Do you think Claude would have done that?”

He had a point. There was no way that Claude ever would have admitted to doing anything wrong, let alone admit to lying outright to me. And he’d lied to me many times, sometimes so blatantly that we both knew it was a lie the moment it came out of his mouth. Yet, he never admitted it.

Sean did. He was actually quite brutally honest with me. But did that change the fact that he lied to me?

“But he lied to me. Everything I thought I knew about him was wrong.”

“Does that change the way you feel about him?”

I shrugged. “I don’t know to be honest. But I don’t like the lies.”

Alex got up and came around the desk, resting his hand on my shoulder.

“I adore you, Delaney, but sometimes you are hard on the people around you. I think you were hurt so much by your mother’s lack of interest and her distraction, that you don’t trust anyone. And you hold the few people you do trust up to an impossible standard. But no one is truly perfect.”

“I know that. I just…”

“You just need to give yourself a break. You were happy with this guy, whoever he was. Maybe that’s more important than whatever he lied to you about.

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