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The Mafia King's substitute Husband what Evelyn Saw
CHAPTER 7 - WHAT EVELYN SAWLUCIANEvelyn came to my room on Monday night, and she did not knock.I was sitting at the desk with the window open a crack, trying to read the same page of a book for the third time. The rain had stopped. The house had gone quiet in the way it did after a bad day, when everyone was too tired to be cruel and too proud to be kind. I heard her footsteps on the back stairs, light and uneven, and then the handle turned."Don't say anything," she said.She stood in the doorway in a grey dressing gown, her hair down for the first time I could remember. Without the diamonds and the careful pins she looked almost like the girl who used to follow Vivienne around the garden, begging to be allowed to hold the other end of the skipping rope."I wasn't going to," I said."You were. You had your face doing the thing." She came in and closed the door behind her, very quietly, and then she sat on the end of my bed as though she had been doing it all her life. "The thing w
The Mafia King's substitute Husband Sunday
CHAPTER 6 - SUNDAYLUCIANMy father had never once set a table for six.He set it for five, on Sunday, in the long dining room with the good silver and the candles nobody lit unless there were guests. There were four Laurent chairs and one at the far end, past the salt, where Elias would sit because he had asked for it. I noticed that before I noticed anything else. Someone had moved the chair so it faced the door."He'll be late," my father said, pacing the length of the room. "Men like that are always late. It's a kind of weapon.""He said he'd come.""He said a great many things." He stopped pacing, looked at the empty chair, then at me. "Sit down, Lucian. You're making the room nervous."It was the same sentence Elias had used, in almost the same tone, and for a moment I didn't know which of them I was more annoyed with.I sat. My place was where it had always been, halfway down the left-hand side, between the sideboard and a footman who never looked at me. My cheek had healed. My
The Mafia King's substitute Husband THE CORNER
CHAPTER 5 - THE CORNERLUCIANI asked him on the third day.I had meant to ask on the first, and the second, and each time I had got as far as the threshold of the study and lost my nerve. It isn't easy to walk into a room and ask a man what he saw in a corner. It sounds like the start of a joke, or a threat.But on the third morning Marcus drove me up Halloway Hill, and the gates opened before we'd slowed, and the house sat grey and quiet against a sky the colour of pewter. I climbed the three flights of stairs. The man in the dark suit knocked once and opened the door without waiting.Elias was at the window again. The books were stacked differently, I noticed. Someone had been reading one of them and left it open face down on the sill."You've been thinking," he said, without turning."How can you tell?""You stand differently when you've been thinking. Your weight goes back onto your heels." He turned. "Sit down, Lucian. You're making the carpet nervous."I sat. I didn't speak yet
The Mafia King's substitute Husband Terms
CHAPTER 4 - TERMSLUCIANThe contract was forty-three pages long, and I read every one of them.I read the way I had learned to do everything in that house: slowly, without moving my face, and without letting anyone see which lines had hurt. The fire burned lower. A clock somewhere below us struck the half hour, and I didn't look up. Elias sat across from me with a cup of coffee going cold on the desk and a newspaper he had stopped pretending to read, and he did not say a single word the whole time.I think that was the worst part. Being watched while I worked, and knowing he had decided it was worth his morning.On page nineteen I found a clause about my name.The party known as Lucian Laurent shall retain the surname Laurent for all civil and private purposes, unless he elects otherwise in writing.I read it twice. Then I read it a third time, because I didn't trust it.It was the first thing in four pages that had been written for me and not for the arrangement. Someone had thought
The Mafia King's substitute Husband Bond
CHAPTER 3 - BONDLUCIAN Evelyn was waiting at the foot of the stairs.I don't know when Evelyn had doubled back. My father had sent her to bed, but Evelyn had never been the sort of person a command could actually reach… it just passed through her and came out the other side as a grievance. So there she stood, one hand on the banister, dress still on, the diamonds still on, and the second she saw me come out of the drawing room she stopped pretending to be calm."Him?" she said again, like she was still trying to find a version of the word that made sense. "Him. Of all the people in this house. Of all the people in this city."I kept walking trying to ignore her "Don't you dare walk past me, Lucian–" she shouts the minute she saw meSo I stopped walking…that was my first mistake."Do you know what you've done?" she said tapping her feet on the floor in annoyance – which I'd never seen from her, because Evelyn's whole personality was built on never letting anyone see her sweat. "Do yo
The Mafia King's substitute Husband Lucian and Elias
CHAPTER 2 - LUCIAN AND ELIASLUCIAN"Him?" Father exclaimed in shock Elias didn't look at her…he was still looking at me, and that was the strangest part, that a man like that should have any reason to keep his eyes on the furniture."You can't be serious," Evelyn said. She had gone very still, and then very loud, which is what happens to people who have rehearsed their whole lives for a moment and watch it be handed to someone else. "Mr. Lawrence, you can't… he's adopted. He's got no position in this family, he's not –" She gestured at me... "And he's a man.""Does that matter?" Elias asked."It's not usua .""I don't care about usual." He said it flatly, the way you'd correct a fact and Evelyn's mouth opened and then closed, because there was nothing to argue with. You couldn't argue with a man who had simply decided that the rules didn't apply to him.My father was still standing there with both hands half-raised, the smile frozen on his face like a photograph of a smile and
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