All Chapters of Bought By The Irish Mafia Boss: Chapter 211

Then — Ronan, seventeenI don’t sit down.I stand in the doorway of the study with the rain dripping off my hair onto the tiles, and I look at the photograph lying face up on my father’s blotter. The little grey shape. The flicker of a heartbeat frozen in black and white. Our daughter, the size of a bean, curled in the dark.My father turns my mother’s silver rosary case over in his fingers.“You should keep your mother’s things more carefully,” he says. “Mrs Doyle found this when she was changing your sheets. She brought it straight to me.” He clicks the lid shut. “She’s a very loyal woman, Mrs Doyle.”“Where is she?” I ask.“Sit down, Ronan.”“Where is she?”My father sighs, as if I’m being tiresome. He nudges the second glass of whiskey across the desk towards me with one finger.“She’s at Dr B