“Go spend some time with your girl. I’ll be in touch as soon as I know the next move.”
With that, he and Santino left.
I took ten minutes to give Luca a much-needed update.
Then, finally, I made my way into the bedroom.
“Everything okay?” Roe asked, turning onto her back where she’d been staring out the window.
“Yeah. I might have to leave for a few hours later, but you’ll be safe. Until then, though, we’re alone.”
“Oh, really?” she asked, her eyes warming. “I can think of a way to spend our alone time,” she added, sitting up, reaching to frame my face, then pressing her lips to mine.
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
Roe
“Yeah, I see you, you traitorous brat, you,” I said to my cat through the phone screen of one of Remo’s brother’s phones.
He wanted to show me that Alley was being well taken care of while I was away from her.
“She ate all her dinner,” the voice on the other end of the phone assured me.
“Even the dry food?”
“Yep.”
I rarely ever got her to eat her kibble.
“She’s getting better care with you than she did with me,” I said, shaking my head as my reserved cat, who hated being touched, rolled over and stretched as the guy’s hand petted her. “Thanks for checking in,” I said. “Thanks,” I said to Santino as he tucked his phone away.
“Figured you might want a little distraction.”
“This is taking a long time, isn’t it?” I asked, looking out the darkened window.
“Business can take some… finesse. And Frank is likely paranoid right now, so he’s going to be extra difficult.”
“Do you think they’re in danger?”
“His henchmen are nothing to be worried about. And Remo has a bunch of his guys around. They’re as safe as they can be.”
That didn’t feel like enough.
But if I was going to be with a man in the mafia, I guess I had to be comfortable with ‘as safe as they can be.’
“Want a distraction? I can scrounge up some cards.”
“I don’t know how to play poker.”
“I was going to suggest Go Fish,” he said, shooting me a smile.
“I don’t think I could even concentrate on that.”
“Food? You didn’t get dinner.”
“I usually eat after work. I guess I’m going to have to start adjusting my schedule now.”
“You sad to leave it behind?”
