The Italian by Lisa Marie Rice

Author:Lisa Marie Rice [Rice, Lisa Marie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Erotica
ISBN: 9781419943720
Published: 2012-12-19T06:00:00+00:00

He checked the corridor then slipped into the room, closing the door quietly behind him. There was no artificial light, only candles everywhere, a few of them still flickering, providing a dim light. The smell of hot wax rose above the smell of food.

There was another smell too.

He picked up a napkin off the floor and brought it to his nose. Ah yes. The smell of sex.

Everything about the room was fine, elegant beyond anything in his experience. The heavy linen tablecloth, the plates, the crystal glasses, the silverware. The room itself was a pure example of the things he would never have in his life. At home, he and his wife ate in the kitchen, just barely bigger than this table. There were no frescoes overhead, only damp stains from a leak he couldn’t afford to fix because it would require breaking the walls and putting in new tubing.

The fluttering curtains framed a view worthy of a prince—an ornate garden lit by torchlight. His kitchen window looked out onto a greasy courtyard and the wall of the building next door.

This was another world, the world he was risking his life to protect, even though he would never have access to it.

Or…maybe he would.

He pulled out a cellphone. A very basic Nokia. Like everyone, he wanted an iPhone but couldn’t afford it, though he did have a better phone than this. But this phone was a one-off. He could only make one call, then had to destroy it.

He punched a number and it was answered in a single ring.

“Sí.” The usual voice, low and deep with a strong Sicilian accent. He had no idea if this was the Big Man himself or a lieutenant.

“They had sex. At dinner.”

“You sure?”

He sniffed the napkin again. “Oh yeah.”

“Good.” The connection was broken.

Fine. He didn’t want to talk. The most important thing about the information was the package he’d find inside his mailbox. An envelope stuffed with €100 notes. Last time it had been €10,000. This time it would be more, because it was information about a weakness.

Judge Stefano Leone had a weakness, and it would be used—and when it was, the package would be much, much bigger.

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