Indebted To The Cruel Mafia Boss のすべてのチャプター: チャプター 161 - チャプター 170

Chapter 161Katie's POVIt was lucky for me that my hands were already occupied with holding up his jacket, or I might have made some embarrassing concession to my sudden desire to get closer to the action.And what did it matter if he knew? He probably did know that women fell over themselves the instant he took his clothes off. And the whole point of our encounter was that he intended to convince me to marry him… or to play along with intending to marry him, which was more or less the same thing these days, at least physically. On some level, he was making an offer of intimacy. Surely he’d be happy to hear that I wanted to be intimate with him, considering how offended he got about any notions of sexual assault.Well maybe it wouldn’t matter to him, but it mattered to me. I didn’t want to end up overwhelmed by sexual feelings for a man, it was much more comfortable when it worked in the other direction. I just didn’t know if I had any way to escape it.Cephus slid the shirt off, f

Chapter 163Cephus’ POVThey had no idea that I kept seeing Steven on and off after the order was in place, but the order itself was something spearheaded by me, on the public record.”Cephus was nodding. “They would have had a lot of pride in you after that.”“Well, I wouldn’t go quite that far. I think it amused them while they were thinking about it, that’s it.”I shifted my feet under the table to ease the strain on my knees, bunched up in an awkward position thanks to those stupid shoes. I was about to change the subject, because my parents’ utter disinterest in me was not something I ever wanted to discuss with anyone, but Cephus was already moving forward with his next question. “You handled the situation well yourself, but it still must have been a frightening experience for you. Were you more wary about leaving the house after that?”Oh, I saw exactly what he was trying to do there. “I’m still not talking to you about—”“Cephus!”We both turned as someone stopped by our tab

Chapter 165Katie's POVI needed to get it together before he saw me like this. I put in a tremendous effort and got myself to a more appropriate level of uprightness, but I could tell when I turned to face him coming in that he had a pretty clear idea of my mental state. It figured he would have some experience with fractured women.He steered me into the kitchen, sat me down on one of the stools at the island bench, and prepared another tea for me, selecting something herbal from my mother’s wooden tea bag box. It was unsettling watching him move with such ease around our kitchen at first like he’d been there enough times to know where everything was, but after I’d seen enough I was certain that wasn’t the case. Cephus was just very good at feeling his way around a situation, working out where everything was quickly enough that it just seemed natural.I shouldn’t… but there I was again wondering how he would be working his hands around a woman. If it would feel different to the ki

Chapter 167Katie's POVI woke to shout, which wasn’t unusual around my house… but there was an extra male voice in the mix, and that dragged me through the dozing state to the other side.I was hearing my parents’ voices. That couldn’t be possible, they should have still been in Europe. Even if that man at the restaurant had called them directly, there was no way they could have…It turned out I didn't do what my parents were capable of. But as more memories of the past twenty-seven hours or so came back to mind completely out of order, I realized the really important detail was that I couldn’t leave Cephus out there to deal with them unless I wanted more trouble to brew.I pulled on my more modest dressing gown, stepped into my slippers and kept going from there straight out the door… and stopped fast as I almost collided with my parents in full professional attire, plus Cephus looking like he’d managed to put on a fresh suit and easily outclass them.When all of them turned to star

Chapter 169Katie's POVI smirked and shimmied my shoulders a little. “Oh, Daddy, I’m pretty well aware of what Cephus can do if I let him close to me.”“Have some dignity, Katie,” Mum snapped.“Like you do when you’re getting a man’s kneecaps smashed up because he had ideas about planning for the future of our neighborhood that didn’t align with yours?”She rolled her eyes, and then her whole head as well. “Rocky Halloran had it coming, trust me.”Something about that pushed my buttons in a way no other part of this mess had yet. “Trust you, Mum? Why should I trust anything that comes out of your mouth when you’ve done nothing but lie to me and sit on everything you know about me for your e I was born, probably?”Daddy stepped in between the two of us, so I had to recoil even as I was lunging to get in her face. “Don’t you be histrionic, Katie, and show your mother the respect due her.”That was how it always worked with the two of them. Mum would blow up about something, and look t